Mechanics: booking mobile and workshop services side by side

Offer mobile visits and workshop appointments as separate services, each with its own slots, length, price and description. Drivers choose where the work happens when they book, you know in advance whether you'll be on the road or in the bay, and you can plan travel time around mobile jobs without blocking your workshop. Group mobile visits by area on given days, and keep longer or heavier jobs, the ones that need a lift or special tools, for the workshop.

A tyre change on a driveway and a tyre change in your workshop aren't the same job: one includes driving there, setting up and working outdoors, the other uses your machines and takes less time. If both share one service, you can't price the difference or plan the travel. Two services make the choice explicit for the driver and keep your days predictable.

On Book, each service has a name, a price and an optional description shown on your public page, and each slot belongs to one service, sits within one day and has its own capacity. Name each service by the job and the place, so drivers see at a glance what they're choosing.

Durations and prices are examples: set your own. Mobile slots include the time on site, not the drive; plan travel in the gaps between slots.

Mixing a driveway job across town with workshop bookings in the same morning costs you time on the road. A simpler rhythm is to open mobile slots on some weekdays and workshop slots on others, or mobile in the morning and workshop in the afternoon. On Book, slots repeat each week on the weekdays you choose until an end date, so a fixed pattern takes a few minutes to set up.

Say in each mobile service description which towns or postcodes you cover, and whether a supplement applies further out. If you work different areas on different days, you can create one mobile service per area, such as "Mobile service, north side", and open its slots only on the days you're there. Leave enough time between mobile slots for the longest drive within that area.

The booking form takes first name, last name, email and phone, plus an optional note that reaches you in the new booking email and appears in the client's calendar file. Ask in the description for:

Say in the description what you can't do on site, such as jobs that need a lift, so drivers book the workshop instead.

Sometimes a visit shows the job can't be finished on the driveway. Agree with the driver on the spot, create a workshop slot and book them in yourself from your calendar. First and last name are required, email and phone optional; enter the driver's email so they receive a confirmation with a calendar file for the new date. Rescheduling works across services, so you can also move an existing mobile booking to a workshop slot from your bookings list.

Rain or frost can make outdoor work impossible. Say in the mobile service description what happens then: you move the visit, or the driver can bring the car to the workshop on the same day. When you move a booking, tell the driver yourself, since Book doesn't email clients about changes, and drivers can't move bookings online: they contact you. Your bookings sync with Google, iPhone or Mac calendars, so mobile and workshop jobs sit in one view.

Book costs €5/month, everything included: unlimited services and bookings, no commission, no contract.