Online booking · Auto service

Drivers book the 08:00 slot instead of turning up and waiting.

Your own booking page with every job you do — oil change, diagnostics, inspection — each with a duration and a price. The driver picks a free time, gets a confirmation email, and your phone stops ringing with the same three questions. From $39 a month, 14 days free.

14 days freeNo card requiredLive in 20 minutes

$39
a month, up to 3 mechanics and 10 services
14 days
free trial, no card required
24 h
before the car is due, a reminder email
0
apps for drivers to install

Try the booking page below

This is the real booking page and the calendar behind it, not a video. Pick a job and a slot.

Redline Auto Service Book an appointment
Service
With
Time
Team calendar Today
NNick SSam LLeo 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 Diagnostics scan Oil and filter change Inspection check Oil and filter change Oil and filter change

This is the real booking page and the calendar behind it, not a video. Pick a job and a slot.

How does online booking work for an auto repair shop?

Your shop publishes a booking page listing each job — oil change, diagnostics, inspection — with how long it takes and what it costs, and showing only the times still free. The driver picks a slot and a mechanic, or leaves it at anyone available, and gets a confirmation email. With TapTime the page opens in any phone browser, no app, and every booking lands in one list.

Wednesday, 08:00, at Redline Auto Service.

A day where nobody waits in the corridor and the phone stays on the desk.

  1. The first car is already booked in: oil and filter change, 45 minutes, Nick's bay. The keys are on the hook before the kettle boils.

  2. A driver calls about a rattle he cannot describe. You take the car and type the job into the same calendar, so the slot is blocked for everyone online too.

  3. You are locking up. Someone books a diagnostics scan for Thursday at 09:00 from his sofa and has the confirmation email before you reach the car park.

  4. Tomorrow's list is on your phone: five cars, each with a job, a time and a mechanic. No surprises waiting at nine.

Half the morning goes on the phone, the other half on cars that just showed up.

Nobody rang first. Three drivers arrive at nine, two of them for a fifteen-minute job, and the fourth call of the hour asks what an oil change costs.

  1. 1

    They just turn up and wait

    A driver parks outside with no appointment and expects a lift. Someone sits in the corridor for an hour and leaves annoyed, and the job you planned for ten slides to eleven.

  2. 2

    Every call is the same three questions

    How much, how long, when can you take the car. You answer them with oily hands twenty times a day, and half of those callers never come.

  3. 3

    The day is either empty or on fire

    Tuesday you have two cars and an idle lift. Thursday four arrive before nine. Nothing tells you the night before which day you are about to have.

Your jobs, your hours, and a link that takes the booking.

Set it up once. The page offers only the times you can really work, and every booking arrives in the same list as the cars you take at the counter.

01

Every job with a time and a price

Oil and filter change, 45 minutes. Diagnostics scan, 60. Inspection check, 90. The driver reads what it costs before booking and books the right amount of your time.

02

Only the slots you can actually take

Your opening hours, each mechanic's working week and their days off decide what the page shows. A booked slot disappears for everyone else the same second.

03

A buffer after every job

Give each service the minutes it needs afterwards for the test drive, the paperwork and clearing the bay. The next car cannot start before you are ready for it.

04

Confirmation now, reminder 24 hours before

The driver gets a confirmation email the moment he books and a reminder the day before, so fewer cars are simply forgotten. You text nobody.

05

Their mechanic, or anyone available

A driver who trusts one mechanic picks his name and sees only his free hours. Everyone else takes the first slot going, and the week fills evenly.

06

The phone rings for real questions only

How much, how long and when are answered on the page, day and night. What is left on the phone is the driver whose car will not start.

Set it up between two cars, take bookings tonight.

No onboarding call, no setup fee, nothing to install. Most shops have the page live in about twenty minutes.

  1. 01

    Create the account

    Your shop name and your first location. Two minutes, no card.

  2. 02

    Add the jobs and the mechanics

    Name, minutes, price and a buffer for each job. Each mechanic with a photo, a title and their working week. Ten services fit the entry plan.

  3. 03

    Put the link where drivers look

    Google Business profile, your website, your Instagram bio, your WhatsApp replies. The first booking can arrive the same evening.

Phone and drive-ins versus a booking page, honestly.

Phone and drive-ins versus a booking page, honestly. Phone calls and drive-ins TapTime online booking
A driver wants an oil change He calls, or simply turns up at nine He sees the job, the price and the 08:00 slot, and books it
The price question Asked and answered twenty times a day On the page, next to the job, before he books
A booking at 22:00 Nobody answers Booked and confirmed by email
Reminding the driver A call the day before, if there is time Reminder email 24 hours ahead, automatically
A driver who cannot make it He does not come and says nothing He reschedules from the link; the slot goes back online
What it costs The hour a day you spend on the phone From $39 a month

Every oil change booked online, credited to the ad that sold it and posted to your crew

Know which Google ad or listing filled the 08:00 slot, and tell the workshop the second a driver books. Conversion tracking, chat alerts, Zapier and the API come with online booking at no extra cost, with no per-event fee.

How conversions, webhooks and the API work
  • Google Ads
  • Meta
  • Google Analytics 4

The Google ad that filled Thursday’s 08:00

When a driver’s online booking is confirmed, Google Ads, Meta and GA4 get one conversion worth the job’s price, sent from the server with the click id. Cars you take at the counter never count.

  • Telegram
  • Slack
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Google Chat
  • Discord
  • Mattermost

A new car in the workshop group, not in your head

A diagnostics scan booked at 21:40 posts to your Telegram group or Slack in seconds: who, when and how much. A cancellation does too, so nobody keeps the lift free for a car that is not coming.

  • Zapier
  • Make
  • n8n
  • Pipedream

Each booking a row in Google Sheets, no code

Paste a Zapier or Make webhook address, press Send test, and every confirmed booking becomes a row: the driver, the time, the status and where he found you. No code, and n8n or Pipedream work the same way.

  • Webhooks
  • REST API

Your garage software hears it too

Signed webhooks post each booking and its attribution to your own system the moment it changes. The REST API reads appointments, and a read-write key can confirm, cancel or complete them. Open docs at /docs/api.

Priced by mechanics, not by cars.

From $39 a month. The entry plan covers up to 3 mechanics and 10 services, which is a two-bay shop with room to hire. Unlimited bookings, confirmation and reminder emails, the booking page and the calendar are all included. Fourteen days free, no card.

A second workshop across town gets its own booking page and its own subscription under the same account. Other TapTime modules are switched on separately when you want them.

Built for shops that have cars on the lift all day.

  • Car repair shops
  • Auto service centers
  • Oil and filter change services
  • Car diagnostics and electrics
  • Brake and suspension shops
  • Air conditioning service
  • Pre-inspection checks
  • Van and light truck servicing

What owners ask before they put the link on Google.

Do customers need an app?

No. The booking page opens in the phone's browser from the link, on any iPhone or Android. The driver picks a job, a time and a mechanic and confirms with a name and an email address.

What about drivers who just turn up?

Take them the way you always have and type the job into the calendar yourself. Bookings from the page and the ones you enter sit in one list, so the slot is blocked for everybody and the day is in one place.

Can I check a job before the booking is confirmed?

Yes. Switch on manual approval and the request waits in your list; the driver gets the confirmation email only after you accept it. Useful for jobs you want to look at before you promise a time.

What if the car turns out to need more work than booked?

The booking holds the minutes the service says it takes plus its buffer. If the car needs more, you talk to the owner as you always do and adjust the calendar. TapTime does not write estimates or invoices and does not keep parts stock.

Can drivers choose their mechanic?

Yes, if you want them to. They pick a name on the page or leave it at anyone available, and the page then shows only the hours that mechanic really has free.

How late can someone still book a slot for tomorrow?

You decide. Minimum notice sets how close to the start a slot can still be taken, and the booking horizon sets how far ahead the page opens. A shop that likes a day to prepare sets the notice to 24 hours.

What does it cost, and is there a contract?

From $39 a month for up to 3 mechanics and 10 services, paid monthly by card. No contract and no setup fee, and the first 14 days are free without entering a card.

What happens if I stop paying?

After a short grace period the booking page is paused and shows a brief “temporarily unavailable” note. Nothing is deleted: your services, mechanics, hours and bookings are waiting when you switch it back on.

Can I see whether my Google ads bring car service bookings?

Yes. TapTime saves the campaign, the ad click id and the referrer on every booking a driver makes online, and reports the confirmed ones to Google Ads with the job’s price as the value. Bookings you type in yourself for phone callers or drive-ins are never counted.

Put your booking link on Google tonight.

Fourteen days free, no card, cancel any time. The driver who would have called and given up can take the 08:00 slot instead.

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