Introducing Plugixa Car Wash 1.0.0: Car Wash Bookings, Run from WordPress
Meet Plugixa Car Wash, version 1.0.0. It turns a WordPress site into a booking and operations system for car washes, detailing studios and mobile wash teams. Customers book a wash on your own site, and your staff run the day from one fast app.
What it does
Taking bookings by phone stops working the first Saturday two customers want the same bay at the same time. With Plugixa Car Wash, a visitor picks their vehicle, a package and any extras, sees the real price and the free time slots, and books in a few steps. The booking lands on the bay schedule and the job board, and both you and the customer get an email.
The engine was built around vehicles, bays and real durations. Every vehicle type has its own price and duration for each package and add-on, so a large SUV takes longer and costs more than a hatchback. Free times come from each booking’s real length and the bays or teams that are free, and the slot is locked in the database while it books, so two customers never take the same bay.
Highlights
- A booking form in five steps: vehicle, package, extras, time and details, placed with the
[plugixa_carwash_booking]shortcode or the Car wash booking form block. - Prices per vehicle type, with its own duration, for every package and add-on.
- Any number of locations, each with opening hours, breaks and closures, bays for a fixed site and teams for mobile work.
- A staff app with a bay schedule you can drag to reschedule, a job board, bookings, customers with their vehicles and visit history, and a dashboard.
- Pay at the wash or by bank transfer, with partial payments and an outstanding balance on every booking.
- Coupon codes with dates, usage limits, a minimum total and package restrictions.
- A customer account with no password, where customers see upcoming and past washes, cancel or book again.
- Booking emails to customers and staff, in your colours and with your business name.
The team works from a job board
Every wash moves from upcoming to in the bay to done, and each booking keeps its price, payment, job progress and history on one page.
Free and Pro
Everything above is in the free plugin, with no limit on locations, bays, vehicle types, packages or bookings. Nothing in it is time-limited or switched off pending payment, and it needs no outside service.
Pro adds what a busier operation needs: card payments through Stripe, reminders by email or text message, mobile service with a travel fee by distance and a dispatch board with checklists and before and after photos, memberships billed as Stripe subscriptions, gift cards, loyalty points, fleet accounts with monthly statements, reports, a calendar feed, signed webhooks, roles and permissions, an installable app and a dark theme. Pro costs €39 a year for one site or €59 a year for unlimited sites.
Plugixa Car Wash needs WordPress 6.5 and PHP 8.2 or later. Start with Getting Started, compare the editions in Free vs Pro, or see the Plugixa Car Wash page.