Feature · Smart Scheduling

A calendar that fits the way your shop runs.

Knows your business hours, your lunch break, and your bays. Your techs get a simple Tech View on their phone or tablet — just today's jobs, with clock-in built in.

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Smart Scheduling for Auto Repair Shops screenshot
  • Drag an appointment — SMS fires to the customer automatically
  • Tech View: no menus, no sidebars — just today's jobs
  • Clock-in / clock-out feeds the performance report
  • Knows your hours, your lunch break, your bay count
Why shops switch

A calendar that thinks like a service writer.

01

Set up once. Works forever.

Plug in your hours, your bays, your lunch, your holidays. The scheduler never double-books, never books over your break, never gives away a slot you can't actually do.

02

Tech View on any tablet.

Your techs see only today's work. No menus. No sidebars. Just the next car, the customer, and the job. Clock-in is built into the same screen.

03

Auto-SMS on every change.

Reschedule a job — the customer gets a text. Confirm tomorrow's first appointment — they get a text. You never type one manually.

How it works

Drag, drop, done — the schedule runs itself.

Drag an appointment to a new slot. The customer gets an SMS. The RO updates. The tech sees the change on their Tech View. Nothing else has to happen.

  • Day / week / month views — pick the one that fits
  • Color-coded by tech, by job type, or by status
  • Tech assignment from one drag — no separate dispatch screen
  • Customer reply-to-confirm — appointments land back in the schedule
  • Performance report ties clock-in time to billable labor automatically
See it live
Smart Scheduling for Auto Repair Shops detail
Schedule · Wednesday 04 / 15
Flat $150 / mo · no contract

Your day, your bays, your way.

Need for Service's scheduler was built for shops that actually run a shop — not for software demos. Hours, breaks, bays, techs, recurring slots, holiday handling, and clock-in all live in one place.

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