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Prepaid service plans for mobile mechanics

Sell the routine work as a plan — the oil changes and the checks people put off. Recorded from a driveway or the second level of a car park, signal or not.

  • Five passes free, no card required
  • Works with no signal
  • Cancel any time — clients keep their visits

Your business

Three-visit year
2

2 visits left

One routine service — oil, filters, checks

An example visit package. Your business name, colours and wording — you write what a visit is.

A WORKED EXAMPLE

Three-visit year

Example figures, not research — put your own in the calculator below. What matters is the shape: a block priced a little under the sum of its parts, paid for on day one.

One visit

$140your normal price

3 visits separately

$420paid one at a time

As a package

$37012% off, paid up front

Prepaid beats reminding

Routine servicing is the work customers postpone, and chasing it is most of your admin. A plan already paid for turns a reminder into a booking.

There is no workshop and often no signal

You work at the kerb, in a driveway, underground. The visit records on your phone and syncs later, and a queued visit can never overdraw the plan.

Routine work is not the same as repairs

A plan should cover the predictable services only. Anything you find while you are there is quoted separately — which is clearer for the customer than a plan that implies repairs are included.

YOUR SIDE OF IT

One screen. Who is owed what.

Every client, every remaining visit, every package you have sold. Search by name, phone number, pet or vehicle when there is no code to scan — for the client who turned up without their phone.

The Returnpass dashboard showing client passes and visits remaining

WORK IT OUT

What would prepaid be worth to you?

Your own numbers, in whatever currency you price in. Nothing is sent anywhere — this runs in your browser.

Collected up front

2,640

20 customers buying a package at 132.

Still owed as service

2,640

100 visits you have been paid for and not yet delivered. This is not profit until you do the work.

You give away 360 in discount against 3,000 at single-visit prices. The gain is the cash arriving first, and the visits that would otherwise not have been booked.

Start with five free passes.

No card required. Create your Three-visit year, issue the first pass, and see it land in a client’s wallet in about two minutes.