Your bay
Hours a bay or van is actually working on a vehicle that you can staff, not opening hours.
Wages plus payroll costs for the people doing the work. Use your own hourly value if you do the work yourself.
Service 1
Your service, for example Interior deep clean.
Jobs you expect to sell for this service in a typical week.
What the customer pays, before tax and tip.
Chemicals, polish, coatings and pads as a share of the price.
Booking-app commission, card processing and discounts you fund.
Towels, tape, gloves and applicators used up per job. Blank means none.
Minutes the bay is tied up for one job, including prep and cleanup.
Special tools, certification, ads or software that exist only for this service. Blank means none.
Service 2
Your service, for example Interior deep clean.
Jobs you expect to sell for this service in a typical week.
What the customer pays, before tax and tip.
Chemicals, polish, coatings and pads as a share of the price.
Booking-app commission, card processing and discounts you fund.
Towels, tape, gloves and applicators used up per job. Blank means none.
Minutes the bay is tied up for one job, including prep and cleanup.
Special tools, certification, ads or software that exist only for this service. Blank means none.
Service 3
Your service, for example Interior deep clean.
Jobs you expect to sell for this service in a typical week.
What the customer pays, before tax and tip.
Chemicals, polish, coatings and pads as a share of the price.
Booking-app commission, card processing and discounts you fund.
Towels, tape, gloves and applicators used up per job. Blank means none.
Minutes the bay is tied up for one job, including prep and cleanup.
Special tools, certification, ads or software that exist only for this service. Blank means none.
Service 4
Your service, for example Interior deep clean.
Jobs you expect to sell for this service in a typical week.
What the customer pays, before tax and tip.
Chemicals, polish, coatings and pads as a share of the price.
Booking-app commission, card processing and discounts you fund.
Towels, tape, gloves and applicators used up per job. Blank means none.
Minutes the bay is tied up for one job, including prep and cleanup.
Special tools, certification, ads or software that exist only for this service. Blank means none.
Service 5
Your service, for example Interior deep clean.
Jobs you expect to sell for this service in a typical week.
What the customer pays, before tax and tip.
Chemicals, polish, coatings and pads as a share of the price.
Booking-app commission, card processing and discounts you fund.
Towels, tape, gloves and applicators used up per job. Blank means none.
Minutes the bay is tied up for one job, including prep and cleanup.
Special tools, certification, ads or software that exist only for this service. Blank means none.
Service 6
Your service, for example Interior deep clean.
Jobs you expect to sell for this service in a typical week.
What the customer pays, before tax and tip.
Chemicals, polish, coatings and pads as a share of the price.
Booking-app commission, card processing and discounts you fund.
Towels, tape, gloves and applicators used up per job. Blank means none.
Minutes the bay is tied up for one job, including prep and cleanup.
Special tools, certification, ads or software that exist only for this service. Blank means none.
Service 7
Your service, for example Interior deep clean.
Jobs you expect to sell for this service in a typical week.
What the customer pays, before tax and tip.
Chemicals, polish, coatings and pads as a share of the price.
Booking-app commission, card processing and discounts you fund.
Towels, tape, gloves and applicators used up per job. Blank means none.
Minutes the bay is tied up for one job, including prep and cleanup.
Special tools, certification, ads or software that exist only for this service. Blank means none.
Service 8
Your service, for example Interior deep clean.
Jobs you expect to sell for this service in a typical week.
What the customer pays, before tax and tip.
Chemicals, polish, coatings and pads as a share of the price.
Booking-app commission, card processing and discounts you fund.
Towels, tape, gloves and applicators used up per job. Blank means none.
Minutes the bay is tied up for one job, including prep and cleanup.
Special tools, certification, ads or software that exist only for this service. Blank means none.
Service 9
Your service, for example Interior deep clean.
Jobs you expect to sell for this service in a typical week.
What the customer pays, before tax and tip.
Chemicals, polish, coatings and pads as a share of the price.
Booking-app commission, card processing and discounts you fund.
Towels, tape, gloves and applicators used up per job. Blank means none.
Minutes the bay is tied up for one job, including prep and cleanup.
Special tools, certification, ads or software that exist only for this service. Blank means none.
Service 10
Your service, for example Interior deep clean.
Jobs you expect to sell for this service in a typical week.
What the customer pays, before tax and tip.
Chemicals, polish, coatings and pads as a share of the price.
Booking-app commission, card processing and discounts you fund.
Towels, tape, gloves and applicators used up per job. Blank means none.
Minutes the bay is tied up for one job, including prep and cleanup.
Special tools, certification, ads or software that exist only for this service. Blank means none.
Service 11
Your service, for example Interior deep clean.
Jobs you expect to sell for this service in a typical week.
What the customer pays, before tax and tip.
Chemicals, polish, coatings and pads as a share of the price.
Booking-app commission, card processing and discounts you fund.
Towels, tape, gloves and applicators used up per job. Blank means none.
Minutes the bay is tied up for one job, including prep and cleanup.
Special tools, certification, ads or software that exist only for this service. Blank means none.
Service 12
Your service, for example Interior deep clean.
Jobs you expect to sell for this service in a typical week.
What the customer pays, before tax and tip.
Chemicals, polish, coatings and pads as a share of the price.
Booking-app commission, card processing and discounts you fund.
Towels, tape, gloves and applicators used up per job. Blank means none.
Minutes the bay is tied up for one job, including prep and cleanup.
Special tools, certification, ads or software that exist only for this service. Blank means none.
Service 13
Your service, for example Interior deep clean.
Jobs you expect to sell for this service in a typical week.
What the customer pays, before tax and tip.
Chemicals, polish, coatings and pads as a share of the price.
Booking-app commission, card processing and discounts you fund.
Towels, tape, gloves and applicators used up per job. Blank means none.
Minutes the bay is tied up for one job, including prep and cleanup.
Special tools, certification, ads or software that exist only for this service. Blank means none.
Service 14
Your service, for example Interior deep clean.
Jobs you expect to sell for this service in a typical week.
What the customer pays, before tax and tip.
Chemicals, polish, coatings and pads as a share of the price.
Booking-app commission, card processing and discounts you fund.
Towels, tape, gloves and applicators used up per job. Blank means none.
Minutes the bay is tied up for one job, including prep and cleanup.
Special tools, certification, ads or software that exist only for this service. Blank means none.
A service needs jobs a week, a price, a product cost, fees and bay minutes. Leave a service blank to leave it out. Up to 14 services.
Result
Questions auto detailers ask
Can I sell every service I can do?
You can, but a day-long ceramic coating and a 45-minute wash and wax do not earn the same per bay hour. Past the hours you can actually work, every extra service pushes out a better one. This tool finds the set of services that earns the most inside the bay hours you really have.
How is a service's profit worked out here?
Per job: price less product cost, less booking-app and card fees, less consumables, less the labour to do it. Multiply by jobs a month, then subtract the service's own monthly cost. Services that lose money are never picked.
Why not just rank services by profit?
Profit per bay hour, biggest profit and best margin each miss some combinations. When the hours are tight, a service that looks best can crowd out two others that earn more together. The tool tries every set of up to 14 services and shows how far each rule falls short.
What are break-even jobs?
The weekly jobs at which a service covers its own monthly cost after products, fees, consumables and labour. Below it, the service loses money no matter how busy the bay feels.
Is this business or financial advice?
No. It is arithmetic on the figures you type. It does not model services taking bookings from each other, reviews, add-on upsells, weather, cure times that block a bay or ramp-up time.
Not decided
Whether services cannibalise each other, add-on upsells, reviews and repeat customers, cure or dwell time that blocks a bay, travel time for mobile work, certification or insurance requirements, equipment bottlenecks beyond total hours, tax, and seasonality. Every service is treated as independent and every hour as interchangeable.
Related tools: the auto repair effective labor rate tool and the service hourly yield analyzer.