Admin eats your evenings
Confirming times, chasing deposits, writing the same message for the fortieth time. The work that pays finishes at five; the work that doesn't runs until ten.
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Built by detailers • Live and ready
Built by detailers. Not developers guessing.
We ran a valeting business before we wrote a line of code. DetailByte is the booking and operations system we wished we'd had: priced fairly, and built around problems only another detailer would think to solve.
14-day free trial. No card required.
Works with
Stripe
Twilio
VoodooSMS
SendPulse
Live control
Built to be used on a wet forecourt
Dark, high-contrast and touch-friendly, because you're using it standing up with cold hands, not sitting at a desk. Five real screens from a real DetailByte instance, running Finish Fanatics, not mockups.
Operations
Dashboard
08:42
01 / 05
UPTIME 00:00:00
Modules
13
Plans
3
Free trial
14 days, no card
Per-seat pricing
0%, never
Starting price
£29 / month
seriously
The problem
Running the jobs is the easy part
Most valeting businesses don't lose money on the detailing. They lose it on everything around the detailing.
Everything lives somewhere else
Bookings in WhatsApp, prices in a spreadsheet, addresses in a notebook, photos on your phone. Nothing joins up, and one dropped thread is one lost job.
Customers don't come back
Not because they were unhappy. Because nobody reminded them. Without follow-up, a six-month customer quietly becomes a one-off.
How we solve it
Five things nobody else in this trade quite gets right
Not a generic booking calendar with a valeting skin bolted on. Built around how this business actually runs, by people who've run one.
Priced the way you price
Per vehicle size, add-ons and travel fees: worked out automatically on every booking, not bolted on as an afterthought.
Knows what a job costs you
Chemical dilution and stock tracking show what a job actually cost in product, not just how long it took. Try the calculator.
Protects you
Photograph and pin a car's existing damage before you touch it. If a customer disputes it later, the record was made before you started, not after.
Runs itself once it's set up
Reminders, follow-ups, loyalty points and review requests happen without you remembering to trigger them.
Knows what a job is actually earning
Net profit per hour, ticking live while the job is still running, not a guess you make at month end. See Reporting & Job Tracker.
Why we built this
We're detailers. We just also write software.
We ran a valeting business first: booked jobs off WhatsApp, chased no-shows, and paid for software built for a completely different trade with the branding changed. So we built our own. Every feature in DetailByte exists because we needed it ourselves, not because a spec sheet said a competitor had it.
That's also why the pricing doesn't punish you for growing a team, and why two of our features (stock cost tracking and vehicle condition reports) barely exist anywhere else in this market yet. Nobody else needed them enough to build them properly.
Still get our hands dirty. Damian, Finish Fanatics
What that actually means for you
- No per-seat pricing: paying more for growing your own team never made sense to us either
- Vehicle-size pricing and travel fees that work the way this trade actually prices, not a generic calendar tool
- Support that understands the terminology without you explaining what a snow foam lance is
How it works
One system, start to finish
DetailByte follows a job through its whole life, and keeps talking to the customer at every stage without you having to remember to.
They book
Your public booking form takes the service, vehicle, address and time, priced live, including add-ons, coupons and travel. Embed it in your existing site as an iframe.
You schedule
Confirm it from the calendar and the confirmation goes out automatically. Reminders at 24 hours and 2 hours look after themselves.
You do the job
One tap for On my way (with a real drive-time ETA), then Start and Finish. Each one can message the customer as it happens.
They come back
Deliver a before/after photo package with the invoice, then let review requests, follow-ups and loyalty points do the returning-customer work.
What's inside
Everything the business needs
Every module built as one system rather than bolted together: the loyalty points know about the bookings, and the automations know about both. Your plan decides how many are switched on, and the ones that run your day are on every plan, including Shine.
Online booking
Customer-picked or built by you, priced live by vehicle size.
Stock & dilution
Mixed right first time, costed to the job as it goes.
Condition reports
Pin existing damage before you touch the car.
Customer portal
Self-service history, invoices and photos, in your branding.
Job packages
Before/after galleries and aftercare, handed over on delivery.
Invoicing
Branded and itemised, generated straight from the booking.
Quotes
A genuinely separate document from an invoice.
SMS messaging
The reminder that actually stops a no-show.
Marketing & Quick Send
One customer or a whole segment, on your terms.
Automations
Decides when a template gets sent, and to whom.
Loyalty
Turns a good job into the next booking.
Coupons & VIP
Discounts you control, recognition that's actually earned.
Reporting, Job Tracker & Payroll
Real net profit, a live per-job profit clock, and staff commission (Concours).
How you work
You travel to them, they come to you, or both
Most booking software assumes one way of working for the whole business. DetailByte decides per service, with the right pricing, checks and wording for whichever one applies.
MOBILE
You travel to them
- Travel fees charged by distance tier: up to 5 miles free, up to 10 miles £10, and so on
- Postcodes checked against your service area before the booking is taken
- Addresses beyond your furthest tier are guided towards drop-off instead
- On my way messages carry a real drive-time ETA, plus your prep buffer
DROP-OFF
They come to you
- Multiple drop-off locations, each with its own address and instructions
- No travel fee, no postcode check: the pricing simply skips it
- Separate message wording, so a drop-off customer is never told you're on your way
- Location details delivered by email, where a full address actually belongs
MIXED
Or both, per service
- Set mobile-only, drop-off-only, or let the customer choose: a decision per service, not per business
- The booking form only ever shows the option a given service actually supports
- Pricing, checks and message wording all switch automatically with what was picked
- Change a service's options later: nothing about a booking already made ever breaks
Plugs into what you've already got
Card payments through Stripe, email from your own inbox, texts through your own number: nothing here locks you into a provider you didn't already choose.
Stripe
Gmail, Outlook or any SMTP
Proton Mail
VoodooSMS
Twilio
SMTP2GO
SendPulse
MailerLite
Questions
The things people ask first
Do I need to install anything?
No. We host DetailByte for you, apply updates and take the backups. You get a web address, sign in, and start setting up your services. There is no server to rent, no software to install and nothing to keep patched.
Can I use it with my existing website?
Yes. The public booking form is designed to be embedded in your current site as an iframe, so customers never feel like they've been sent somewhere else. It picks up your logo and brand colours automatically.
Does it handle SMS as well as email?
Both, on every plan. Every message template can carry an email version, an SMS version, or both, and you switch each on independently. Texts go through your own VoodooSMS or Twilio account, or through ours, if you would rather not open one.
What happens to my data?
It's yours. Your customers, bookings, photos and history belong to you, and you can have an export of the lot whenever you ask, including if you decide to leave.
See it running on your own services
Start your 14-day free trial and we'll walk through a real booking end to end: request, confirmation, on my way, finished job, photo package, follow-up.