Booking for independent car detailers
A cancellation shouldn't mean an empty bay.
BookWavo is the booking calendar for detailing shops, with one bay or several. Customers book and reschedule online, and when someone cancels, the slot is held and offered to the next person on your waitlist, one at a time, until it's booked again.
All of it for only $49.99 a month, every bay included. Cancel any time.
What happens when someone cancels
You decide per cancellation: offer the time to your waitlist, leave it open, or block it. Online cancellations follow the default you set. Here's an example evening.
The text Morgan receives
Romeo Auto Detail: An opening for Interior Refresh is available on Tue, Oct 20 at 9:00 AM EDT. Review and book before 7:57 PM EDT: [booking link] Reply STOP to unsubscribe.
Only sent to customers who opted in to waitlist texts. Others get the same offer by email.
7:42 PM
Alex cancels Tuesday's 9:00 AM Interior Refresh
From the private link in their confirmation. Your online cancellation cutoff is enforced; after it, customers have to call you.
7:42 PM
The slot is held for Morgan, first on your waitlist
Morgan asked for an Interior Refresh on a weekday morning, and 9:00 AM plus the 15-minute cleanup buffer fits. Nobody else can book that time while the offer is open.
7:57 PM
No reply in 15 minutes, so the offer moves on
The hold is released and Riley, next in line, gets an email offer. Morgan is not offered this slot again.
8:03 PM
Riley books it
The appointment lands on your calendar marked “from waitlist”, with a confirmation and a reminder on the way. You didn't make a call.
The rest of your booking calendar
- A booking page with only real openings
- Customers pick a service and a time. Your hours, closed days, minimum notice and cleanup buffers decide what they can choose.
- Every bay, never double-booked
- Each bay takes one car at a time. Overlapping bookings in a bay are rejected by the database itself, even when two people click the same time at once.
- Changes without phone tag
- Every confirmation includes a private link to reschedule or cancel, up to your cutoff. No customer accounts or passwords.
- Reminders that respect consent
- Confirmations and a reminder the day before go out by email. Texts only go to customers who opted in, and STOP is honored.
- A calendar you run the day from
- Day and week views, bookings you add yourself, blocked time for errands, and closures for holidays.
- You keep the payment
- BookWavo shows your prices. Customers pay you at the shop; no cards are taken online.
Built for detailing shops, one bay or ten
Tell BookWavo how many bays you run. Each one takes one car at a time, and customers can book any time a bay is free.
- Add bays as you grow
- Start with one and add a second bay or an express station from Settings. Your booking page opens up the extra capacity right away.
- See every bay at a glance
- The calendar shows a lane per bay, so you can tell which car is where and when the next bay frees up.
- Bookings go to the right bay
- BookWavo puts each booking in the first free bay. You can still move a car to a specific bay yourself.
- Block one bay or the whole shop
- Taking a bay down for maintenance? Block just that bay. Closed for the day? Block them all.
One simple price
For only $49.99 a month, BookWavo keeps your bays booked. Refill a single cancelled detail and it has paid for itself.
BookWavo for your shop
$49.99/ month
- Your own online booking page
- Every bay, with a calendar lane for each
- Automatic waitlist refills when someone cancels
- Email confirmations and day-before reminders
- Unlimited bookings and customers
- Two-factor login to protect your account
Price in US dollars. Cancel any time from your billing page.
Stop losing cancelled bookings
Set up your shop in a few minutes. Only $49.99 a month.