SalesThumb Tint Shop Software
Coming soonThe operating system for auto service shops.
From the first customer inquiry to the final invoice — every part of your shop workflow in one clean, fast platform built specifically for tint, detailing, and PPF businesses.
What we've built
Running in production
at the founding shop.
These are screenshots of the live product — running daily at the founder's own window tint shop.
Operator dashboard
“Your shop at a glance” with at-a-glance KPIs, revenue trend, close rate, and the Run-the-shop sidebar — plus one-tap Sales Matrix, New Quote, New Invoice, and Book Appointment from the header.
Sales Matrix — pricing by vehicle type
Set tint and PPF pricing once per vehicle type — sedan, coupe, SUV, truck — and every quote, invoice, and kiosk package prices itself from the matrix. No recalculating film and labor on every job.
Quick Sale & self-serve kiosk
Price a job in seconds: pick the vehicle type, pick the package, see the price. A car-layout window picker lights up exactly which windows are included — the same picker your team uses on quotes and invoices.
Invoicing & payments
Tint-specific line items, deposit collection, balance-due payment links, and customer sign-off — all in one record. The invoice ledger pairs with audit logs so every dollar is traceable.
A closer look
More of the build,
page by page.
Six more screens from the live product — from marketing surfaces to the operator workspace to the Super Admin layer.
Build a quote from the Sales Matrix with the car-layout window picker — the same visual the kiosk uses, so the counter and the customer always see the same job.
Inbound leads on a drag-to-restage Kanban board, from new inquiry to booked job — with service-reminder automation that catches the leads most shops lose between texts.
Bay-aware scheduling and online booking that works around your real calendar — with automatic reminders to cut no-shows.
Every customer, every vehicle, every job in one record — full history, notes, and vehicle specs at the fingertips of whoever answers the phone.
Revenue by service type, close rate, and the numbers you actually need to run the shop — not a generic dashboard you have to configure.
Sales Matrix Catalog with kiosk toggles, QuickBooks & Stripe, AI Assistant, inspection templates, installers & bays, activity audit — one settings surface for the whole shop.
The problem
Most tint shops run on
spreadsheets and sticky notes
Generic small business tools were never designed around how a window tint, PPF, or detailing shop actually operates.
Appointment books, group texts, and phone calls. Double-bookings happen. Customers don't know when to show up. Technicians find out their day at the door.
Generic invoicing apps don't know what nano-ceramic or PPF is. Manual line items every time. No connection to the job record or the customer's vehicle history.
Fill-in PDFs or handwritten cards. No digital record. When a customer comes back two years later about their warranty, you're digging through a filing cabinet.
Vehicle specs, film preferences, previous jobs — all in someone's head or scattered across notes apps. Impossible to hand off to staff. Won't scale past one location.
How it works
From first call to
warranty cert in minutes.
SalesThumb runs the complete job lifecycle — so nothing falls through the cracks and your customer always knows exactly what's happening.
Book the job
Customer books online or you add it manually. Vehicle details, film type, install position, and deposit captured upfront — so the job is fully staged before the car arrives.
Run the job
Technicians see their assigned jobs on their phone, clock in, capture before/after photos, and log status updates in real time. You see everything from the dashboard without walking the floor.
Close it out
Customer signs off on their phone, pays by card or ACH, and receives a branded invoice plus a warranty certificate automatically — all before they leave the parking lot.
Features
Everything your shop needs.
Nothing it doesn't.
Built after spending real time in real shops. Every feature earns its place.
Customer & Vehicle CRM
Every customer, every vehicle, every job tracked in one place. Full history, notes, and vehicle specs always at your fingertips — no matter who answers the phone.
Scheduling & Online Booking
Online booking that works around your real calendar. Customers book themselves and get automatic reminders. No more phone tag, no more no-shows.
Professional Invoicing
Create detailed invoices in seconds with tint-specific line items. Film type, install position, labor, discounts. Send via SMS or email and get paid faster.
Stripe Payments & Deposits
Accept cards, Apple Pay, and ACH directly. Require a deposit at booking. Collect on pickup. Send a payment link. All payment flows built in — no third-party app.
Warranty Certificates
Branded tint film warranty certs auto-generate on job completion. PDF, digital record, stored permanently — the right film, install date, and customer attached automatically.
Multi-location & HQ Dashboard
Run multiple shops from one account. Per-location calendars, staff, inventory, and reporting — with a unified HQ dashboard. HQ-tier shops get a 12-page Super Admin layer: feature flags, audit log, plan + stage controls, and franchise sales pipeline.
AI Help, grounded in your shop
An AI Help popover on every page answers operator questions with citations from the SalesThumb knowledge base — powered by Claude Haiku 4.5. No hallucinated steps. Tier-gated AI spend caps ($5 / $20 / $75 for Starter / Pro / HQ) keep costs predictable.
Kanban leads pipeline
Inbound leads land on a drag-to-restage Kanban board — from new inquiry through booked job. Service-reminder automation and playbook-failure alerts catch the leads your team would otherwise lose between texts and missed callbacks.
Brand colors, end-to-end
Set primary, accent, and text-on-color tokens once. They flow through the customer portal, the warranty cert, and every one of the six email templates — automatically. White-label without a developer.
Mobile App for Technicians
Your techs update job status, capture before/after photos, add notes, and get customer sign-off on the spot — no paper, no clipboard, no running back to the desk.
Reporting & Analytics
Revenue by service type, job completion rates, technician performance. The numbers you actually need to run the business — not a generic dashboard you have to configure.
Sales Matrix — pricing by vehicle type
Set tint and PPF pricing once per vehicle type — sedan, coupe, SUV, truck — and every quote, invoice, and kiosk package prices itself from the matrix. No recalculating film and labor on every job, and no underpricing the big vehicles.
Self-serve pricing kiosk
A customer-facing kiosk prices a job in seconds: pick the vehicle type, pick the package, see the price. A car-layout window picker lights up exactly which windows are included — the same visual picker your team uses on quotes and invoices, so the counter and the kiosk always agree.
Guided teaching wizards
New hires learn by doing. Role-aware teaching wizards walk each person — front desk, technician, manager — through their real workflows step by step, tier-gated to what their plan includes. Onboarding takes a day, not a week.
Feature deep dive
10 features that change
how your shop operates.
Not just what SalesThumb does — but why each one matters for a tint, PPF, or detailing shop specifically.
The Job Board: your whole shop on one screen
Every active job — what it is, who owns it, and exactly where it stands — without asking anyone. The job board replaces your whiteboard, your group chat, and the daily "hey, where's that car?" conversation.
- Six live statuses (Pending → Accepted → Scheduled → In Progress → Completed → Released) update in real time as techs move jobs forward
- Filter by technician, service type, or date range — see only what's relevant to the next few hours without scrolling through noise
- One click opens the full job card — customer, vehicle, services, deposit status, photos, and notes all in one place
Scheduling built for bays, not boardrooms
Office scheduling tools don't know your bays, your average install time, or the fact that a full PPF job can't share a tech with a same-day ceramic coat. SalesThumb's calendar knows your shop — and customers can book themselves while you're in the bay.
- Day, week, and month views with per-technician lanes — see bay utilization at a glance and fill open slots before they cost you
- Online booking widget captures service type, vehicle, and deposit before the customer ever calls — your calendar fills 24/7 without staff involvement
- Automatic text and email reminders cut no-shows without any extra work from your team
AI Photo-to-Quote: a price from a photo
A customer texts a photo of their car and asks "how much?" — in most shops that means manually looking up the vehicle, counting windows, pulling your film menu, and doing the math. SalesThumb does all of it in under 10 seconds.
- Upload any vehicle photo and the AI identifies year, make, model, and approximate window count automatically — no VIN, no searching
- Pulls your active film menu and labor rates to generate an accurate quote, pre-filled and ready to send via SMS or email
- Convert the quote to a booked job in one click — customer details pre-filled, deposit link attached, slot on the calendar
A CRM that remembers what your techs forget
When a customer calls back three years after their install and asks about their warranty — or wants to add PPF to the same car — you want to know exactly what film went in, what it cost, and what they preferred. That knowledge shouldn't live in a single employee's head.
- Every vehicle gets its own record — film type, window positions, installation notes, before/after photos, and full job history permanently attached
- Staff notes survive turnover — the new hire sees exactly what the last tech learned about that customer's preferences and quirks
- Search by name, phone number, VIN, or vehicle make/model — any customer found in under 2 seconds
Invoicing that speaks tint, PPF, and detail
Generic invoicing tools make you type "Window tint — front driver door" as a manual text field every single time. SalesThumb has film types, window positions, and labor rates pre-configured so a complete invoice takes under 60 seconds — and links directly to the job record.
- Dropdown line items for every window position, film brand, and service category — no free-typing, no inconsistency, no missed lines
- Deposit tracking built in — what was collected at booking automatically offsets the balance due at pickup
- Send via SMS or email with a one-tap payment link — customers pay before or at pickup, not a week later after they've forgotten
Warranty certs that generate themselves
A warranty certificate is one of the most important documents your shop produces — and one of the most commonly lost or incorrectly filled out. When a job closes in SalesThumb, the cert is done. No manual input, no PDF template, no "I'll email it later."
- Film brand, window positions, install date, and coverage terms pulled straight from the job record — no transcription, no errors
- PDF emailed to the customer the moment the job closes and stored permanently against their vehicle — visible the next time they call
- When a customer comes back two years later about a warranty claim, you have the documentation in two seconds, not a filing cabinet search
A mobile app techs will actually use
Your techs aren't going to log into a desktop app from the bay. SalesThumb's mobile app was built for people whose hands have tint film on them — big buttons, fast status taps, and photo capture that doesn't require a workflow to figure out.
- Techs see their assigned jobs for the day the moment they open the app — no morning briefing, no group chat, no printed schedule
- Before and after photo capture is one tap on the job card — photos attach to the permanent record automatically, no uploads, no naming
- Customer signs off on their phone at pickup — no paper, no clipboard, no "I'll send the invoice later" that never happens
Payments built in — no Square, no chasing
Every "I'll Venmo you" or "can I pay next time" is money you might not see. SalesThumb collects a deposit at booking and the balance at job close — built directly into the workflow so payment is part of the process, not an afterthought you have to chase.
- Cards, Apple Pay, and ACH all work natively — no third-party app, no separate reconciliation, no split-fee confusion
- Deposit at booking creates financial commitment and dramatically reduces no-shows — the slot is held because something was paid for it
- Send a payment link via SMS if a customer leaves before paying — they tap once, pay, and the invoice closes automatically
SMS blasts that actually get read
Email marketing for a tint shop gets ignored. A text to past customers about a spring PPF special gets opened in under 3 minutes. SalesThumb's blast tool lets you reach your own customer list — not a rented audience, the people who've already paid you and trust your work.
- Segment by service type — send PPF promos only to tint customers who might be ready to protect their paint next
- Automated review requests trigger 24 hours after a job closes — when the customer is still happy and the install is still fresh in their mind
- Full send, open, and click tracking so you can see which campaigns convert and run them again
Reports that actually run your business
Generic dashboards give you numbers without context. SalesThumb's reporting was designed around the questions shop owners actually ask — which service makes the most money, who's your best tech, are you trending up or down this month — and answers them without any configuration or setup.
- Revenue broken down by service type so you know whether to push tint, PPF, or detail in the next quarter — and where to price to protect margins
- Technician performance shows who's fast, who generates callbacks, and whose customers come back — so you can staff and incentivize intentionally
- Multi-location owners get a unified HQ view across all shops, all revenue, all jobs — run the portfolio, not just one store
How it stacks up
SalesThumb vs. what shops
are using right now
Most shops adapt general auto-repair platforms or light scheduling tools that were never designed around tint, PPF, or detailing. SalesThumb is purpose-built around the actual workflow.
| Capability | SalesThumb | TintWiz | ShopMonkey / Tekmetric |
Spreadsheet & phone |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Built for tint / PPF / detailing specifically | ✓ | Scheduling only | — (general auto repair) | — |
| Warranty certificate generation | ✓ | — | — | Manual PDF |
| Tint-specific invoice line items | ✓ | — | Custom fields only | Manual |
| Vehicle & film history per customer | ✓ | Basic | General vehicle records | Spreadsheet |
| Mobile app for technicians (photos, sign-off) | ✓ | — | Partial | — |
| Payments built in (no third-party app) | ✓ | — | ✓ | Square / Venmo |
| Online booking with automatic reminders | ✓ | Partial | ✓ | — |
| Multi-location HQ dashboard | ✓ | — | Add-on | — |
| Typical setup time | Hours | Hours | Days–weeks | — |
What's coming
The roadmap,
in plain sight.
Here's exactly where SalesThumb is and where it's going — no vague timelines, no marketing fluff.
Foundation
- Customer & vehicle CRM
- Scheduling & online booking
- Professional invoicing
- Stripe payments & deposits
- Job management dashboard
- Tint-specific line items
Full platform
- Warranty certificate generation
- Mobile app for technicians
- Multi-location & HQ dashboard
- Reporting & analytics
- Before/after photo capture
- Customer SMS notifications
Growth layer
- AI-powered job quoting
- Film inventory management
- Automated review requests
- Vizme visualizer integration
- API & third-party integrations
- Franchise & dealer network tools
Common questions
Things shop owners ask us.
What kinds of shops is SalesThumb built for?
Does SalesThumb generate tint warranty certificates?
Can technicians use SalesThumb on their phones?
How does SalesThumb compare to ShopMonkey or Tekmetric?
How does SalesThumb compare to TintWiz?
How does SalesThumb compare to OrbizX?
Can I run multiple shop locations on SalesThumb?
Does SalesThumb take payments?
When will SalesThumb launch?
What is the best shop management software for window tint businesses?
How do I manage multiple tint shop locations with one software?
Does SalesThumb work for mobile detailing businesses?
Founding cohort
The first shops in
help build the platform.
SalesThumb is being built alongside real shops. Founding access isn't a waitlist — it's a working relationship with the team building it.
Request founding accessLocked-in founding pricing
The rate you start at is the rate you keep — permanently. Pricing increases when SalesThumb opens to the public.
Direct line to the builders
Founders read every message and join monthly calls with the founding cohort. Your workflow gaps become the next sprint, not a support ticket.
Hands-on setup and migration
We help import your existing customer and vehicle records. The first setup call is with a builder — not an onboarding script.
Shape the roadmap
Founding shops vote on what ships each quarter. Your specific workflow problems become product features — not future feature requests.
Get early access to SalesThumb
SalesThumb is actively being built. Join the early access list to be among the first shops on the platform — and help shape what it ships with.