About
Built for the shop, not retrofitted for it
Most shop software started life as a generic field-service or appointment tool and got tint-and-wrap terminology bolted on later. Tint Shop App started from the other direction: film lines, coverage areas, installer commissions, and check-in terms are first-class concepts, not custom fields.
Who it’s for
Owner-operators and multi-location tint, PPF, and ceramic coating shops who currently juggle separate tools — or paper — for lead intake, scheduling, quoting, job intake, invoicing, and installer commissions. The goal is one system that the manager, scheduler, the installer, and the owner are all looking at at the same time, so everyone is on the same page.
From the install bay, not a boardroom
I started tinting cars in 2008 and worked my way through dealerships, large multi-location operators, and small mom-and-pop shops all over the country. I stepped away in 2014 to try to move into software full-time, and when that didn’t pan out, I went back to tinting — this time in Texas. Along the way I watched shop after shop run on verbal instructions, phone-call quotes, paper logs, whiteboards, and spreadsheets.
I found myself constantly walking across a large shop just to ask the scheduler what was going on with a vehicle, again and again. No board, no app, nothing to keep track of what every vehicle needed. I lost countless five-minute blocks to those trips, and I’m ready to take back that lost time. Installers can check their commission on every install and track everything going on a vehicle right from their phones — plus plenty of other features built to keep installers from losing time, and losing out on commission.
Built out of my own shop’s frustration
I started writing Tint Shop App in 2018, on the side. It sat half-finished for years — until I opened my own shop and found myself running the business across two or three different applications, copying and pasting the same job from one to the next. Checking a customer in took ten minutes. Checking them out took another ten. Warranty cards and roll IDs lived in a spreadsheet I’d built myself.
A few years ago I decided to get serious and put every spare evening and weekend into it. About a year in, I scrapped the stack I’d started with — one I loved, but couldn’t get to look, feel, and sync the way the job demanded — and rebuilt on what runs today. The stack today I can push updates and it hands off the writes to the database and users clean. This means I can update features continually throughout the day and no downtime for my subscribers. This version is now in closed beta, and I’m adding to it daily. I’ve spent my whole career on the install bay, not in a boardroom, so every feature in Tint Shop App is something I’ve personally needed and in many cases, never had. This is an essential tool for your shop to help you spend less time managing the shop and more time installing.