Booking software for mobile services

Mobile businesses — detailing, grooming, physio, beauty, repairs — sell time at the customer's address, which makes travel the hidden constraint.

What usually goes wrong

Bookings arrive by phone with no view of whether the day is geographically possible. Two jobs across town at back-to-back times is a lost afternoon, and deposits are rare so cancellations cost the travel too.

What changes when booking lives in the checkout

Slots account for the time a job actually takes, and deposits are collected at booking rather than argued about afterwards.

• One payment rail. Deposits and full payments settle through the provider you already use. No second checkout, no month-end reconciliation between two systems.
• One customer record. The person who has booked nine times stops looking like a stranger, so you can reward them, segment them and follow up.
• Deposits that actually reduce no-shows. A deposit is just a price, so it works like any other line item.
• Abandoned-booking recovery. A half-finished booking is an abandoned cart, and Shopify already knows how to chase those.
• Products and time in one basket. A service and the products used on it are one sale.

What it takes

Three to five working days on an existing Shopify store. Two to three weeks if the store gets built at the same time. The slow part is almost never the software — it is deciding exactly what you sell, at what price, in what length of session.

Fun Life Media builds Shopify stores with booking built into the checkout. Installs from R4,500 once-off plus R850 a month. Book a free fifteen-minute audit.