Built for Australian Car Detailers
Bank the deposit before the car turns up.
Online booking with deposits, before-and-after photo inspections, SMS upsell approval for paint correction and ceramic coats, recurring wash subscriptions and GST-ready invoicing — built for Australian detailers who live on Google reviews and Instagram. All-in-one for $0–$69/mo — replaces Calendly + Square + Xero.





The average detailer saves $140+/mo replacing Calendly + Square + NiceJob + Mailchimp with OneBookPlus.
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5Everything You Need
Bookings, photos, upsell, reviews — on one platform that doubles as your accounting.
Public booking page at /book/[your-slug] with package selection (express wash, full detail, paint correction, ceramic coat). Pre-charge a deposit via Stripe. SMS confirmation goes out automatically.
Tap-on-diagram pre-inspection captures every panel, swirl mark, paint defect, scratch and stone chip. After: matching photos for the customer to see — and for your Instagram.
Spot heavy oxidation, water spots or paint defects that need correction? Send a one-tap SMS with photos and a paint-correction quote. Most detailers convert 25-40% of routine details to add-ons.
After every paid invoice, an automated review request goes out at the right moment. The 1-3 star buffer routes negative drafts to you first. Detailers live and die by review count — this gets you there.
Monthly or fortnightly maintenance wash subscriptions. Customer pre-pays a year of monthly washes via Stripe; bookings auto-populate. Predictable revenue, zero chasing.
GST on every wash, detail and coating. Quarterly BAS export. Track per-service profitability — know whether the ceramic coat or the express wash actually makes you money.
Free plan available · No credit card · Cancel anytime
Free Website Included
Stop paying $30–80/mo to Wix or Squarespace — and skip the $1,500–3,000 up-front for a designer. Every OneBookPlus detailer gets a branded booking page on the free plan. Want it on your own domain like a proper business website? $15/mo and we host it for you.
your-business.onebookplus.com.auoronebookplus.com.au/book/your-businessyourbusiness.com.au— custom branded domain, we host the siteA customer books a Full Detail and ceramic coat at 10pm off your Instagram link while you're closed. The booking lands in your dashboard with the deposit already pre-charged via Stripe — ready for the morning's bay schedule.
Brand color picker in settings. Logo upload. Trade licence number shown on every page so customers know you're legit.
Full Detail $249. Two-stage paint correction from $650. Customers see prices before booking — kills the price-shopping phone calls.
70%+ of detailing searches happen on phones. Your booking page is built mobile-first; loads in under 2 seconds on 4G.
Already own yourbusiness.com.au? Add the Booking Website app ($15/mo) and point your domain at the booking page we host for you. We don't sell domains — keep yours wherever you registered it.
Schema.org markup for detailing services + suburbs you cover. Google finds you for 'car detailing in [suburb]' searches.
Detailers website cost — typical
Website builder
Wix, Squarespace or similar
Web hosting + SSL
Bundled in builders; separate if custom site
Designer (one-off)
Only if you want a custom-built site
Bookings on Calendly
Separate from your website
Typical recurring total
~$60–100/mo
+ $1,500–3,000 up-front if you hire a designer
With OneBookPlus
Your total
$0–15/mo
See it in action
Not mockups — the real product screens for a working day in the detailing bay.
Your /book/[slug] page lists Express Wash $79, Full Detail $249, Two-Stage Paint Correction from $650 and Gtechniq/Gyeon ceramic coats from $1,200. Customers pick a package, a time, and pre-pay a deposit through Stripe before the slot is held.

Tap each panel on the body diagram to log swirl marks, water spots, bird-etching and stone chips with photos. After the cut-and-polish, capture the matching shots — the comparison sells the next ceramic coat and feeds your Instagram reel.

Convert the booking to an invoice with 10% GST and your ABN on it, a Pay Now link, and an automatic Google review request. The dashboard rolls up which packages actually earn — express washes vs a full ceramic coat.

Simple Workflow
Books a Full Detail through your /book/[slug] page, picks a time, pre-pays a deposit via Stripe. SMS confirmation fires automatically.
Vehicle arrives; tap each panel on the inspection diagram, capture every swirl, scratch and stone chip. Customer gets the pre-inspection link.
Spot heavy swirls or water spots? Send a one-tap paint-correction quote with photos. Customer approves while you finish the wash stage.
Matching after photos, GST-compliant invoice, automated Google review request at the right moment. Repeat booking suggested in the same flow.
Most detailers take their first deposit-secured booking within an hour of signup
25-40%
Conversion of routine details to paint correction with SMS upsell
5×
More Google reviews with automated requests
100%
GST + ABN compliant on every invoice
$0
Free plan to get started — no card required
Detailing studio savings calculator
Adjust the numbers below to match your real monthly spend. The total updates live — and so does what you'd save by replacing the lot with OneBookPlus.
Accounting (Xero, MYOB, QuickBooks)
Monthly subscription
Jobs & quotes (Squeegee, Calendly, Square Appointments)
Per-user/mo for trade tools
Website + hosting (Wix, Squarespace)
Builder + hosting bundle
Bookings (Calendly, Acuity)
Separate online booking tool
CRM (HubSpot, Pipedrive)
Customer pipeline tracking
Email marketing (Mailchimp, Klaviyo)
Newsletter + campaigns
Your current stack
$176/mo
= $2,112/year
With OneBookPlus Starter
$29/mo
Replaces everything in the list. One bill.
Free plan available · No card required · Cancel anytime
Scroll through the day from morning to 5pm: the AI receptionist answers and books a missed call, the work runs from the app, the GST invoice is sent on the spot, payment lands and the books balance themselves, a five-star review is requested automatically, and the day closes with the ledger already written.
8:00am
While you're on the buffer
A black Model 3, swirl marks all over the bonnet. The owner calls the first detailer on Google — you.
AI Receptionist
The AI answers in two rings, books 9:30 am and takes a Stripe deposit — so the slot can't no-show.
In the bay
Booking card on your phone: car, package, walkaround photos. The deposit's already cleared.
From the bay
One tap converts the booking to a GST invoice with a pay link — the deposit's already deducted.
While you prep the next car
Card payment lands, the books update themselves, and $59.09 GST is set aside for BAS.
Reputation on autopilot
After pickup — the sweet spot — the AI asks for a review. The Model 3's owner leaves five stars.
The day closes itself
You corrected one car and booked another. The book did the rest.
$0
collected
0
admin tasks done by AI
0
evenings lost
Detailer pricing
Start free, upgrade when the bookings justify it. No contracts, no setup fees, no per-bay tax. Cancel any time.
Free
$0/forever
Take your first deposit-secured booking today — no credit card.
Starter
$29/mo
Replaces Calendly + Square + Xero + your reminder tool.
No card · Drops to Free if you don't upgrade
Growth
$69/mo
For studios chasing reviews, ceramic upsells and fleet contracts.
Prices in AUD inc. GST. Stripe processing fees apply to card payments (1.7% + 30¢ AU cards). Full plan comparison →
Already on another tool?
Most detailers move across in a single evening. Export your customers and past bookings as CSV from your current tool, import them into OneBookPlus with the bulk importer, and your booking page is live before Saturday's first car rolls in.
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Built-in AI
You're under a bonnet or mid-repair — you can't drop the tools for every call, and a missed call is a booking that drives off.
OneBookPlus
AI Receptionist · incoming call
“Car's grinding when I brake — can you look today?”
If you don't answer, the AI books it — Brake inspection · today 3:30pm — and texts a confirmation.
Built in Melbourne, AU
ATO-ready from day one
256-bit encryption
No credit card needed
Yes. Every OneBookPlus account includes a public booking page at /book/[your-slug]. You configure your service packages (express wash, full detail, paint correction, ceramic coat) with duration and price, set your availability, and customers book directly. Pre-charge a deposit via Stripe to reduce no-shows.
Yes — that's the core workflow. The Digital Vehicle Inspection app provides a tap-on-diagram body inspection where you capture pre-condition (swirls, scratches, stone chips, defects) with photos. After service, capture matching photos so the customer can see the difference — and you can post the comparison straight to your Instagram or Google Business profile.
When you spot heavy oxidation, water spots or paint defects during the wash, photograph them and tap 'Send upsell quote'. The customer receives an SMS with the photos, an explanation of why correction is needed, and a quote for paint correction or a ceramic coat. They approve while you finish the wash stage. Typical detailers convert 25-40% of routine details to add-ons this way.
Yes. Customers can pre-pay a yearly subscription via Stripe (12 monthly washes at a discounted rate), and OneBookPlus auto-populates the bookings each month. They get reminder SMS messages at the right interval. Predictable monthly revenue without chasing rebookings.
Yes. Every quote and invoice automatically calculates 10% GST and displays your ABN. Track per-service profitability — know whether the ceramic coat upsell or the express wash bread-and-butter actually makes you the most margin.
About the author
Founder & CEO, OneBookPlus
Bishal has over a decade of experience in digital marketing, web development, and small business consulting across Australia. He has worked with Australian car detailers on the booking-with-deposit flow that ends no-shows and on the SMS paint-correction upsell that turns a $200 wash booking into a $700 corrected-and-coated invoice — without leaving the car.
Most Australian detailers run their booking diary across three or four disconnected apps and lose money in the gaps. Bookings come in through Instagram DMs, a Facebook page and maybe a Calendly link; deposits — if you take them at all — go through Square; the “before” photos sit in your camera roll never to be seen again; and the invoice gets typed up later in Xero, by which time you can't remember whether the Mustang got the $650 paint correction or just the wash. The no-shows hurt the most: a Saturday Full Detail slot that vanishes is two hours of bay time and the express washes you turned away to hold it. And because nothing talks to anything else, you genuinely don't know whether the express wash or the ceramic coat is the package actually keeping the lights on.
OneBookPlus collapses that stack into one app built around the booking. Your public page at /book/your-studio lists every package — Express Wash, Full Detail, two-stage paint correction, Gtechniq or Gyeon ceramic coatings — with duration, price and a Stripe deposit that pre-charges before the slot is held, so the no-show problem largely solves itself. The photo inspection captures swirl marks, water spots, bird-etching and stone chips per panel; the matching after-shots justify the bill and become your next Instagram reel. When you spot defects mid-wash that need correcting, a one-tap SMS sends the customer the photos, the reason and a quote — and most detailers convert a solid share of routine washes into higher-margin corrected-and-coated jobs that way.
The day starts on the calendar — every booking already deposit-secured, so there's nobody to chase. A car arrives; you walk it with the photo inspection, tapping each panel. If it's a routine wash, you finish, capture the after photos, and convert to a GST-compliant invoice with your ABN and a Pay Now link before the customer's back from the café. If you spot heavy oxidation or swirls, you fire the SMS upsell and keep working while they approve. Multi-day ceramic jobs get a progress-photo evidence pack that backs up a $1,200 invoice. Every completed job queues an automatic Google review request timed for the evening, and your recurring monthly maintenance-wash subscribers auto-populate next week's diary with no rebooking phone calls.
Connect your business bank account via CDR Open Banking and transactions flow in daily. Stripe deposits and balance payments match against the right booking automatically; supplies — Bowden's Own, Gtechniq, Gyeon, Meguiar's, microfibre and pads from Just Car Care or Detailing Shed — categorise as cost of goods; fuel, van and equipment are classified by the AI engine that learns your patterns. Per-service margin reporting tells you the truth your spreadsheet never could: the $79 express wash is thin, the $1,200 ceramic coat is where Saturday's money is. Come BAS time the GST summary is already prepared — GST collected on washes and coatings, GST credits on supplies — exportable in one click or lodged direct to the ATO via the Tax Lodgement app.
Sign up free — no credit card, no lock-in. Choose “Car Detailer” as your business type and OneBookPlus pre-configures detailing packages (express wash, full detail, paint correction, ceramic coat), deposit rules, an AU chart of accounts and invoice templates with your ABN. Import your customers and past bookings via CSV from Calendly, Square Appointments, Squeegee or a spreadsheet, then publish your branded booking page. Connect your bank through the secure Open Banking flow. Most detailers take their first deposit-secured booking within the hour and have the Google review engine running by the end of the day.
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Get Started FreeLast reviewed and updated: by Bishal Shrestha
Authoritative sources
Australian car detailers operate as ABN-registered service businesses under Australian Consumer Law, GST law and water-use and trade-waste rules that apply to wash bays. We cite the primary bodies for the claims on this page so you can verify directly.
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From the blog
Practical guides and explainers from the OneBookPlus blog, grouped by topic.
A practical guide for Australian detailers on the photo-evidence workflow that converts routine wash bookings into paint correction and ceramic coat upsells — on average 25-40% of visits convert with the right SMS flow.
How Australian mobile mechanics, mobile auto electricians, and mobile detailers run a profitable van-based operation — pricing, routing, on-site invoicing, payments and the customer-comms cadence that builds repeat work.
A practical guide to using rego and CTP green-slip expiry dates as a reactivation channel — most independent workshops recover 2-4 service bookings per week from customers who would otherwise drift to the dealer.
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Booking platform, SMS upsell, Google reviews, photo inspections and more — install in a click.
Who it's for
From a mobile solo detailer to a fixed-site studio — OneBookPlus adapts.
Solo, van-based, customer-driveway work. Needs the booking page, deposits, on-site invoicing and the SMS upsell while still at the car.
One or two bays, appointment-based premium work. Needs the booking page, recurring subscriptions and paint-correction workflow.
Multi-day jobs, $1k+ invoices. Needs the photo evidence pack, multi-stage progress photos, and the deposit-via-Stripe flow.
Dealer prep, fleet contracts. Needs multi-vehicle accounts, capped-price plans, and the per-fleet profitability view.
Stop overpaying
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Real-world scenario
How a two-bay fixed-site detailer runs a typical Saturday on OneBookPlus
8:00am. Marco opens the dashboard at his Newstead unit. Three cars are booked through his /book/marcos-detailing page — a Full Detail on a black Tesla Model 3, an Express Wash on a HiLux, and a paint-correction-plus-Gtechniq-coat on a 2-year-old Mustang. All three pre-paid a deposit through Stripe overnight, so there are no morning no-shows to chase.
The Tesla arrives first. Marco walks it with the photo inspection, tapping each panel — heavy swirl marks across the bonnet from a service-station car wash, light bird-etching on the roof. He photographs them, taps 'Send upsell quote', and the owner gets an SMS: $650 for a two-stage cut and polish to remove the swirls, with the before photos attached. She approves from her phone before Marco's even mixed the snow foam.
11am. The Express Wash HiLux is in and out in 40 minutes — invoice sent with 10% GST and his ABN, Pay Now link tapped, paid on the spot. The dashboard shows the express wash margin is thin; the Tesla upsell is where Saturday's money is.
The Mustang is a full-day ceramic job. Marco captures multi-stage progress photos for the $1,200 Gtechniq Crystal Serum invoice — the evidence pack justifies the price and becomes Monday's Instagram reel.
End of day: 3 cars finished, $2,180 invoiced, all deposits cleared and two balances already settled. Every paid invoice queued a Google review request timed for that evening. The monthly maintenance-wash subscribers for next week auto-populated the calendar. Come BAS time, the GST summary exports in one click.
How we compare
How we compare to the tools Australian detailers typically stitch together.
| Feature | OneBookPlus | Calendly + Square | Squeegee | Xero |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Online booking page with packages | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Stripe deposit pre-charge | Yes | No |
| No |
| No |
| Before-and-after photo inspection | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| SMS paint-correction upsell approval | Yes | No | No | No |
| Recurring wash subscriptions | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| GST invoicing + BAS export | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Bank-feed reconciliation | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| Google review automation | Yes | No | No | No |
| Per-service margin reporting | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| Free plan available | Yes | No | No | No |
| Price | From $0/mo | $40+/mo | $33+/mo | $35+/mo |