The Google Calendar alternative built for the install bay

You can — most shops start there, and it beats the paper book. But a calendar event holds a time and whatever notes someone pastes in by hand. The vehicle history, the work order, the check-in photos, and the customer’s texts all live somewhere else. And most shops run it the quick way: one shared calendar login for the whole crew, where everyone sees and can change everything. The Toolbox keeps the shared calendar and adds the shop parts a calendar was never built for.

Google Calendar gives you building blocks — events, colors, notes and attachments you add by hand. The Toolbox gives you the finished shop workflow: photo check-in with a customer signature, digital work orders tied to each job, texting from one shop number, install-specific job statuses the whole team reads at a glance, and a separate login for every staff member. Nothing to rig up or remember to maintain.

No. Nothing forces a rip-and-replace. The Toolbox runs alongside the tools you already use — including your POS and QuickBooks Online — and gives the whole team one shared install-bay calendar built for the way a 12-volt shop actually runs.

Because the calendar is free, but running your bay on it isn’t: no-shows nobody reminded, damage claims you can’t disprove, and a customer list sitting in a shared login. The Toolbox is $30 per technician a month — counter staff free, no contract — and one avoided damage claim or a few saved no-shows covers it.

It’s $30 per technician a month, no contract. Sales and counter staff who don’t wrench are free. Automated reminder texts are included; real-time two-way texting is an optional add-on at $5/month plus $1 per tech, per location. There’s a 14-day free trial, no credit card required, so you can run it in your own bay before you pay a cent.

Safer than a shared calendar login the whole crew knows. Every person gets their own login you can shut off the day they leave, and there’s deliberately no self-serve export button — so nobody walks out with your customer list without you knowing. Your data is yours; ask and we’ll get it to you.