Take bookings, collect deposits and send automatic reminders from one simple diary. DetailBook is booking and CRM software built for the way UK mobile valeters actually work — on the road, between jobs, with your money landing straight in your own account.
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I’m Jamie, a mobile detailer and valeter based in Rotherham, South Yorkshire. I built DetailBook because I was fed up juggling bookings across texts, DMs and a paper diary — chasing deposits, forgetting who’d confirmed, and losing half a Saturday to no-shows. Nothing on the market fit the way a mobile round really runs, so I made something that does.
DetailBook is car valeting software built around a mobile round, not a bloated tool made for salons or big garages. It handles your online booking page, deposits, reminders and customer records in one place, so you can spend less time on your phone and more time on the vehicles. If you run a mobile valeting business or a mobile car wash anywhere in the UK, this was made for you.
Get your own booking link to drop in your Instagram and Facebook bio, WhatsApp status or Google profile. Customers pick their valet, choose a slot and book themselves in — no back-and-forth messages, no phone tag. Your diary fills up while you’re out working.
Ask for a deposit at the point of booking so only serious customers lock in a slot. Deposits are handled through Stripe and land in your own account with 0% commission from us. One of our valeters cut no-shows from around 15% to under 2% after switching deposits on.
DetailBook sends your customers a reminder by text and email before their appointment, automatically. No more manually messaging everyone the night before. Fewer forgotten bookings, fewer wasted trips, and a slicker experience that makes your valeting business look properly professional.
Price by vehicle size so a supermini and a seven-seater aren’t charged the same. Add extras like interior valets, exterior details, pet hair removal or a wax top-up as optional add-ons, and let customers build their own package. Your menu, your prices, your rules.
Ask exactly what you need before you turn up. Set custom questions for water access, a power supply, where to park, or a gate code for the drive. You arrive knowing the job’s workable — no surprises, no wasted journeys, no awkward doorstep conversations.
See every booking, deposit and customer in a single tidy diary. Full customer records mean you remember who has the black Golf, what they had last time and when they’re due again. Manage your round in one place instead of scrolling through months of messages.
Add your services, set vehicle-size pricing and add-ons, and choose your working hours. Only takes a few minutes, and you can tweak it whenever your prices or availability change.
Pop your booking link in your Instagram and Facebook bio, WhatsApp status and Google profile. Every enquiry now has one clear place to book instead of sliding into your DMs.
Customers choose their valet, pick a slot and pay a deposit through Stripe — including Apple Pay and Google Pay. The booking drops straight into your diary, fully confirmed.
Reminders go out by text and email automatically, so customers turn up on time. You just check your diary, load the van and get to work.
You’ll run your round from the van, and your customers will book from their phones. Before you commit to anything, send yourself the booking link and go through the whole thing: pick a valet, choose a slot, pay a test deposit, read the confirmation. If you wouldn’t finish that booking yourself, your customers won’t either.
The cheapest option isn’t always the cheapest. Three no-shows a month on £60 valets is £180 gone — far more than a monthly subscription. A system that takes deposits at the point of booking usually pays for itself in the first missed slot it prevents.
A lot of field-service software is built for the US market first. Look for pricing in pounds, Stripe payouts to a UK bank, UK mobile numbers for text reminders, and support that’s awake during your working day — not one that treats a UK valeter as an afterthought.
Mobile valeting isn’t a shop with a front desk. You’re travelling between jobs, working off a driveway or a car park, and half your day depends on things you can’t see until you arrive — is there an outside tap, a plug socket, somewhere to actually park the van? DetailBook lets you ask all of that up front, so every job on your round is one you can genuinely do.
It also puts an end to the WhatsApp chaos. Instead of confirming times across three different chats, hunting for a customer’s address at 7am, and manually chasing deposits, everything lives in one diary. Bookings, deposits, reminders and customer notes are all in the same place, whether you’re at home planning the week or stood on someone’s drive with a pressure washer running.
I run a mobile round myself, so DetailBook is shaped around real valeting days — not a generic appointment app with the word “car” bolted on. It handles the admin quietly in the background so you can focus on turning out clean, cared-for vehicles. Working from a unit instead of a van? See our detailing studio software. New to valeting? See our guide on how to start a mobile valeting business in the UK, or the difference between valeting and detailing.
Mobile valeting software is a tool that handles your bookings, deposits, reminders and customer records in one place, built for valeters who work on the road rather than from a fixed unit. DetailBook gives you an online booking page, a diary and a simple CRM designed around a mobile round.
Both. It’s the same software either way, and most UK operators use the two words for overlapping work. DetailBook handles vehicle-size pricing, add-ons, deposits and custom questions whether you’re booking in a £35 full valet or a multi-day paint correction — so it fits valeters, detailers and anyone who does both. If you want the distinction spelled out, see valeting vs detailing in the UK.
Yes — a lighter workload is exactly where no-shows and missed reminders hurt most, because every wasted slot is a bigger chunk of your week. DetailBook takes deposits and sends reminders automatically, so the few jobs you do book are far more likely to actually happen.
When you’re just starting out, Google Calendar, WhatsApp Business and a Stripe payment link will get you going. The catch is that none of them talk to each other, so you become the glue — sending the payment link, updating the diary, texting the reminder, checking who’s paid. Once you’re doing eight to ten jobs a week, that admin and the no-shows it lets through usually cost more than proper valeting software.
You get your own booking link to share on Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and Google. Customers open it, choose their valet and vehicle size, add any extras, pick a slot and confirm — with the option to pay a deposit there and then. The booking lands straight in your diary.
Yes, on the Pro plan. Deposits are taken through Stripe using your own account, so the money is yours — we charge 0% commission (standard Stripe fees of 1.5% + 20p apply on UK cards). Apple Pay and Google Pay are supported, which makes paying quick and painless for customers.
Essentials is £25/month and Pro is £50/month. Pro adds Stripe deposits, automated SMS reminders, invoicing, discount codes, Apple and Outlook calendar sync, and verify-first and photo-quote pricing; unlimited services, your own branded booking page and two-way Google Calendar sync come with both plans. Every plan starts with a 14-day free trial, no credit card needed, and it’s month-to-month — cancel anytime.
Start your 14-day free trial of DetailBook today — no credit card, no commitment, cancel anytime. Build your valet menu, share your booking link, and let the software handle the admin while you handle the vehicles.
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