Software for mobile mechanics

GoFolio is built around how a mobile mechanic works: the booking arrives with the job address, the job card lives on your phone, and the invoice with a pay link goes out before you leave the kerb. It costs A$99.99 a month including GST, on one plan, with no per-job or per-user pricing.

A day on the road, job by job

The night before

At 5pm your time, on days you’re open, you get a text saying how many jobs are booked for tomorrow, so you can plan the run before bed. It’s on from day one, and we’ll move it to whatever hour suits you.

When a booking lands

The customer books from your link: service, day, then their details. Every booking captures make, model, year, rego and odometer, plus the job address with Google address lookup, so you know where you’re driving before you call. You get an email and a text alert for each new booking. The customer gets a confirmation by email and, in Australia, by SMS.

At the kerb

Open the booking on your phone. Tap the address for the map, tap the number to call or text. Everything for the job sits on that one screen: notes split into Work completed and Advisory, a parts editor (name, quantity, price), photos from the camera, the inspection checklist if the service uses one, and the draft invoice.

Before you drive off

Each booking already has a draft invoice, and the parts you entered are on it. Add your labour line, check the preview, and send it by email and SMS. If you’ve connected your own Stripe account, the customer can pay by card from the link and the invoice marks itself paid when Stripe confirms. Paid cash or by transfer on the day? Record how it was paid and snap a photo of the receipt or transfer screen as proof.

Later in the week

The Unpaid list shows how long each invoice has been out. When one needs a nudge, tap Send reminder and the customer gets a friendly reminder with the pay link by email and text. You pick who gets one and when, so a regular who always pays on Friday never gets chased on Wednesday.

Why customers pick a day, not a time

On the road, the second job of the day starts whenever the first one finishes. A seized bolt or a wrong part turns a promised 10:30 into 12:00. So customers choose a day, and the booking page tells them you’ll call to confirm the exact time. The booking shows “Time TBD” until you set one.

Your booking page knows how many jobs you take in a day. Once a day is full it greys out, so customers pick another one. You can still squeeze a job in yourself from New Booking with “Override and book anyway”. Each service can also carry a notice period, so nobody books a full service for tomorrow morning when you need a day to order parts.

What a 60-job month looks like

Here is the arithmetic for one mobile mechanic doing about 60 jobs a month, all paid by invoice, open about 22 days a month. The plan includes 500 texts a month, covering your own alerts as well as the customer’s, and every GoFolio text is written to fit in one.

Every message also goes by email, so the customer has the invoice in their inbox as well as their texts. Card fees are separate: Stripe charges them on your own account. Since 1 October 2026 eftpos, Mastercard and Visa rules no longer allow a card surcharge, according to the Reserve Bank , so build the fee into your prices.