Live shop-floor management for independent service centres

A new work order is an open call.

The board chimes, reads the number out loud, and the first qualified technician on the clock claims it from the floor tablet. Nobody walks the bays with a clipboard, and nobody shouts across the shop.

Runs in the browser on the TVs and tablets you already own. Nothing to install.

YOUR SHOP 7 in · 3 out · 2 in line

4722 Brake Inspection — 0:04:38 OPEN CALL

4721 Oil & Filter, Tire Rotation TECH 04 0:12:04 IN PROGRESS

4723 Battery Replacement TECH 11 0:21:50 IN PROGRESS

4718 Safety Inspection TECH 02 1:02:11 DONE

NEXT UP — TECH 02 Fair Queue

The same board in

Try it

Press Claim on RO 4722 above, as Tech 02 — free, and next up. On the floor tablet that press is a number and a PIN. The row moves on the press, not on the round trip — and if the save never lands it puts the work back rather than telling the bay something that isn’t true.

Claimed
Saving
On the board

01 — The moment

Watch one work order go up and get claimed

One row, three states, and every screen in the shop agreeing on which one it is in.

WAITING

It goes up and speaks

A chime, then the number read out loud, digit by digit. It is said once for the whole shop — not five times over from five different TVs.

IN PROGRESS

A number and a PIN

The technician takes it from the floor tablet. The row is theirs the instant they press it, and the board carries who has the car and for how long.

COMPLETE

Marked done on the floor

The clock stops, and the day’s numbers already have it. Nobody stays behind to type it up.

The TV Board: eight work orders in rows, showing order number, services, bay, a
progress bar, the technician, elapsed time and status. Three are waiting as open
calls, three are in progress and two are complete.

An actual screenshot — a real shop signed into the real app, not an illustration. Post at the counter and the wall has it in about a second, on every screen in the building.

02 — The screens

Six screens, one shop, one account

Put the board on the wall, a tablet at the desk, a tablet on the floor. Everything else follows from the same account.

TV Board

The wall the whole shop reads: every open call, every car in a bay, and the clock running on each one.

Front Desk

Post a work order in a few taps — the number, the services from your own list, the bay.

Shop Floor

Claim, pause for parts, hand off mid-repair, complete. Big buttons, sized for a glove.

Customer Lobby

Checked in, in the bay, ready at the counter. No names, no plates and no phone numbers.

Owner’s Remote

The day so far, on your phone, wherever you happen to be standing.

Store Admin

Technicians, services, hours, report recipients and the archive.

The customer lobby screen: each car shown as a card reading checked in, in
progress or ready, with no customer name, plate or phone number.

The waiting room screen — the same shop, the same minute, with none of the shop floor’s language on it.

03 — Setting it up

Open a browser. That’s the install.

No server, no software, no visit from anybody. Every screen in the shop is a browser signed into the same account — including a screen you already own.

Nothing to install

No download, no licence key, no machine in a back room. A screen with a browser is a screen that can run the board, and that is the entire hardware requirement.

Sign in once, leave it

A wall screen gets a seat of its own: it shows the work, it cannot sign itself out, and it cannot reach the settings. Put it full screen, lock it, and nobody walks over to a TV in the morning.

Learned between two services

Post a work order: the number, the services, Post. Claim it: your number and your PIN. Finish it: one button. There is no fourth thing to learn.

Sign up and name the shop
Add the technicians and their PINs
Tick the services you sell
Point a screen at the board

There is nothing to import. No historical data to migrate, no spreadsheet to map, no implementation call. The first work order can go up the same afternoon — and it is a real one.

04 — The kit

Nothing in the room but the screens

What goes on the wall is a TV and a tablet. Whatever drives them is about the size of a paperback and lives behind the bracket, out of sight.

If it is touched,
it is a touchscreen.
If it is only read, it is a TV.

On the wall: a TV

The Board and the Lobby are read from across the floor and touched by nobody. Any TV with an HDMI input does it, including the one already up there.

Behind it: a small player

A mini PC or small media player, roughly paperback-sized, tucked on the bracket behind the screen. No rack, no cabinet, no machine in a back room.

Where work is entered: a touchscreen

A tablet on a wall mount, or a touch monitor on the counter. Posting a work order is tapping the services you sell; claiming one is a number and a PIN.

Full screen, then locked
A wall screen runs full screen: no address bar, no tabs, nothing around the edge — the Board fills the TV in the shop and the Lobby fills the one in the waiting room, and neither looks like a computer. Set a screen password in the settings and the controls go away as well, so what is on the wall is the work and only the work.
Reach the top edge to get the controls back
A touch at the top of the screen brings them down for whoever has the password, and they go back up on their own. Until then nothing on the screen does anything — which matters most on the waiting-room screen, where the nearest person to it is a customer.
Getting the picture to a far screen
A cable where one can run, and a wireless HDMI kit where one cannot — a leased unit, a finished wall, a waiting room on the other side of the building. Shops do it both ways, and the building decides which.
Two screens showing the same thing
A second screen carrying the same picture is a splitter, not a second computer. One player can also drive two screens showing two different things.
The screens you already own
The Owner’s Remote is your phone and Store Admin is any browser. Neither needs buying, mounting or switching on.

Where each screen goes, and whether it is touched
Screen	What it is	Touched?
Board	a TV, with a small player behind it	read only
Lobby	a TV — often off the same player	read only
Front Desk	a tablet, or a touch monitor on the counter	touched
Shop Floor	a tablet on a wall mount, on the charger	touched
Owner’s Remote	the phone already in your pocket	touched
Store Admin	any browser — the office computer is fine	either

We sell no hardware and take nothing from what you buy. These are the kinds of equipment shops use, not requirements and not a recommendation of any particular product — your own supplier will know what suits your building. Ask us what other shops did and we will happily tell you.

And none of it is specific to one trade. The board does not know what the work is — it knows a job, who has it, and how long it has been running. The services on the tiles are the ones you type in, so the same wall runs a tire shop, a quick lube, a body shop, a small-engine bench, an equipment yard or a service counter that has nothing to do with vehicles at all.

05 — Dispatch

Pick how work is handed out, and let the board defend it

Two modes. Change your mind any afternoon — it is one setting in Store Admin.

Open Claim

Every qualified technician on the clock can take the call. The fastest hands win, and the board records who took what, when they took it, and how long it ran.

Fair Queue

The turn goes to a technician who is free and qualified, in order. The order comes from who actually clocked in today, so it cannot be quietly edited in somebody’s favour.

ENFORCEDEvery service tile names its qualification; the floor tablet refuses a claim from anyone not qualified for it
ENFORCEDNobody signs out of a wall screen
ENFORCEDA shop-floor tablet cannot reach what an owner can
ENFORCEDThe day closes at your hour and reports itself

06 — End of day

The day closes itself out

Work orders in and out, what was done, who finished what and how long each took — written up at your end-of-day time, and the end-of-day report is emailed to whoever should have it.

Nobody stays late for it

The send is the server’s, so it does not depend on a screen being left on.

Two months of closed days

Every day you close is archived and stays readable for two months: completion times, return-visit rate, and which services come through most.

Offline is not lost

Work done while the signal is gone is held on the tablet and lands as soon as you are back.

Every report carries a code that anyone can check. See how reports work

07 — Before it reaches your wall

Built under test, and measured every time

This is a young product, and we would rather show you how it is built than tell you how it feels. Every change runs the whole battery before it goes anywhere, and the release is then driven on the live site by a real browser — signing in, posting a work order, claiming it and completing it — against the same database your shop would use.

A failing check is not re-run until it passes. It is a failure, and it stops the release.

3,580automated checks, run in full on every change

9suites that must all be green before anything ships

90work orders on one board, measured in a real browser

25orders arriving at once, folded into a single refresh

It is not a shop-management system, and it is not trying to be. It writes no invoice, orders no part and takes no payment. Whatever you use for that, keep it.

Every shop isolated at the database
Encrypted in transit and at rest
No customer names, addresses, plates or phone numbers
Nightly off-site backup