The referral program · included in the system
Half your town already
sees the damage.
None of them fix it.
The car wash sees the scuffed bumper. The home inspector photographs the roof and repairs none of them. The handyman turns down the gas line every week. Every one of them is looking at your work and has no reason in the world to send it to you.
Give them a reason. You pick the fee, they get a link, and the system counts it to the dollar so the conversation is never “what do we owe Danny?” again.
Who is already sending your work somewhere else
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The car wash down the street
Sees every scuffed bumper in town, fixes none of them. Ticket holders, window clings, a link at the register.
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The mechanic who doesn't do body
Turns away dent and paint work every week. Now that work has somewhere to go — and it comes back to them.
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The fleet manager
Landscapers, plumbers, HVAC. A dozen vans, and one of them is always scraped.
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The used-car lot
Reconditions constantly and hates doing it in-house.
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The fleet or property manager
One relationship, a steady trickle of vehicles.
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Your own happy customers
The cheapest work you will ever buy — and the customer already told three people.
Twelve trades, twelve different networks
Who refers you, and which job pays for it
“You can pay for referrals” is the same sentence in every trade. Who sends them, and which work is allowed to carry a fee, is different in all of them — so here is yours.
Auto body & repair
The people who see damaged cars all day mostly are not body shops.
- The car washSees every scuffed bumper in town and fixes none of them.
- The mechanicTurns away dent and paint work every week. Now it has somewhere to go.
- The fleet managerLandscapers, plumbers, HVAC. A dozen vans, and one is always scraped.
What pays a fee hereCustomer-pay work only — the scuffs, the dings, the door dents, the bumpers somebody is paying for out of their own pocket. ⛔ An insurance claim pays a referral of nothing, ever, and the software will not let it.
What the app doesThe partner’s link opens on the phone at the register. Red while it is just a name, amber the second a repair order exists, green when the customer has paid — and the month totals itself off that job’s real numbers.
Everything we do for auto body & repair →Lawn & landscape
Everyone who walks a property notices the yard. Almost none of them cut grass.
- The property managerTwenty doors, twenty yards, and a phone that rings about all of them.
- The realtorA listing photographs better mown. They need it done this week, every week.
- The irrigation supplierSells the parts, does not run the routes. Sends the whole install on.
What pays a fee hereThe install, the clean-up and the contract that follows it — a referral that turns into a weekly route is worth more than the first cut, and it is the first cut that gets logged.
What the app doesOne link per property manager, and the referral goes amber the moment the job is scheduled rather than when somebody remembers. The month total is what you owe, computed from the jobs behind it.
Everything we do for lawn & landscape →Pressure washing
The dirtiest driveway in the street is seen by everyone and washed by nobody.
- The realtorEvery listing wants the drive and the elevation done before the photographs.
- The rooferUp there anyway, and asked about the black streaking on every single job.
- The painterCannot paint a chalky elevation. Needs it washed first, by somebody who will not wand it.
What pays a fee hereThe house wash, the driveway, the roof soft-wash, the commercial account. Every one is customer-pay, which is why this trade is one of the cleanest referral programs we run.
What the app doesA realtor sends a listing address from the curb. It is logged the moment it happens, and the same address cannot be sent twice by two different partners — the second one is refused as it is typed.
Everything we do for pressure washing →Pool service
A green pool is spotted by half a dozen trades before anyone tests it.
- The home inspectorLooks at the equipment pad on every sale and services none of them.
- The realtorA pool that is green on inspection day holds up a closing.
- The landscaperThere every week, sees the water, and does not want to touch the chemistry.
What pays a fee hereThe green-to-clean, the equipment swap, and the monthly service that follows. The recurring account is the real prize and the system keeps the referral attached to the job that started it.
What the app doesThe inspector sends the address from the equipment pad. Their board shows a first name, where it got to and what is coming — and nothing else about your business, your other partners or your totals.
Everything we do for pool service →Auto detailing
Everybody who handles a car for a living notices the interior. Almost none of them clean it.
- The used-car lotReconditions constantly and hates doing it in-house.
- The body shopFinishes a repair and the rest of the car does not match it.
- The fleet managerA dozen vans that are photographed for the website once a year.
What pays a fee hereEvery job in this trade is customer-pay, so every job can carry a referral — the recon, the ceramic, the lease-return interior, the boat before the season.
What the app doesThe lot manager sends a car from the row without ringing anyone. It goes green when the customer pays, and the month total is what you owe him — not what somebody remembered.
Everything we do for auto detailing →Mobile repair units
The trade is built on going to the car. Everyone who already has the car in front of them is a partner.
- The used-car lotRecons every trade-in and would rather not move the car to do it.
- The dealership service driveSees the wheel rash on every write-up and books none of it.
- The fleet managerA scraped van is off the road for a day. It does not have to be.
What pays a fee hereDent, wheel, bumper and glass work billed to the customer or the lot. ⛔ Anything running through a claim pays nothing — the same switch as the body shops.
What the app doesThe van is the shop, so the whole program lives on a phone. A service writer sends a car from the drive and the referral is logged before the van has moved.
Everything we do for mobile repair units →Plumbing & HVAC
Half the trades in town walk past the water heater and the air handler every week.
- The property managerTwenty doors, twenty water heaters, and a phone that rings about all of them.
- The handymanTurns down anything needing a license, every week, and has nowhere to send it.
- The realtorAn inspection report with an air handler on it holds up a closing.
What pays a fee hereThe service call, the repair and the replacement — all of it customer-pay, and the replacement is the one worth a real fee.
What the app doesA handyman sends the job the moment he decides it needs a license. It is logged from his phone, and he can see it move without ringing your office to ask.
Everything we do for plumbing & hvac →Tree service
Everyone who works on the property looks up at the same limb and none of them will climb it.
- The landscaperThere every week, looking at the limb over the roof, and does not do trees.
- The rooferCannot warranty a roof with a branch resting on it.
- The property managerOne storm hits every property at once and he needs one phone number.
What pays a fee hereThe removal, the trim, the storm clean-up and the stump. Customer-pay work, and the storm week is when the referrals actually arrive.
What the app doesA landscaper sends the address from the yard he is already standing in. It is logged there and then, and the month totals itself — which matters most in the week nobody has time to write anything down.
Everything we do for tree service →Garage door repair
A door that will not close is seen by the whole street and fixed by almost nobody on it.
- The home inspectorWrites the door up on the report and repairs none of them.
- The realtorA door that will not close is on every buyer’s repair request.
- The property managerDoors, literally. Twenty of them, and every one has a spring.
What pays a fee hereThe spring, the opener, the panel and the full replacement. It is customer-pay work, and it is usually wanted this week.
What the app doesThe inspector writes the door up and sends it in the same minute. Your office sees a real address instead of a name on a message that arrived at nine at night.
Everything we do for garage door repair →Roofing
The roof is the one part of the house everybody photographs and nobody touches.
- The home inspectorPhotographs the roof on every sale and repairs none of them.
- The pressure washerUp on the elevation, asked about the black streaking on every single job.
- The realtorA roof on the inspection report is the thing that stops a closing.
What pays a fee hereCustomer-pay repairs and replacements. ⛔ A job marked as an insurance claim pays a referral of nothing — the software returns zero and there is no override.
What the app doesThe washer sends the address from the driveway with the streaking still on his screen. It is logged as his, and it cannot be logged again by somebody else next week.
Everything we do for roofing →Screen enclosures & lanais
In Florida the cage is what everybody is standing under and nobody is looking after.
- The pool serviceUnder the cage every week and looking straight at the torn panel.
- The rooferSame storm, same house, and the cage is not his trade.
- The realtorA hanging panel is the first thing in the listing photographs.
What pays a fee hereRescreens, panel and door repairs, and the rebuild after a storm. ⛔ Where the rebuild goes through a claim, the referral pays nothing.
What the app doesThe pool tech sends two photos and the side of the house from the pad. That is the referral — no form, no login, and it is his the moment it lands.
Everything we do for screen enclosures & lanais →RV & trailer repair
Rigs sit for months where somebody else is watching them, and that somebody does not turn a wrench.
- The campground managerSees every rig that limps in, and has nobody to point them at.
- The storage yardRows of rigs sitting all winter, all of them needing something in March.
- The dealershipSells them happily and would rather not service them.
What pays a fee hereService, repair and the de-winterizing nobody wants to do themselves. Customer-pay work, and the season decides when it arrives.
What the app doesThe park manager carries one link on the phone he already answers the gate with. He sees what he sent and what is owed — and nothing else about your shop.
Everything we do for rv & trailer repair →One rule is the same in all twelve. The moment a job is marked as an insurance claim, the payout math returns zero — in every trade, with no manager override. Collision has a law behind it, which is the block further down this page. Everywhere else it is simply how the software is built, and it stays that way.
The same referrals, two screens
Flip it and see exactly what they get to look at.
This is the first question every owner asks before handing a car wash a link, so we made it the thing you can touch.
Referrals · Soapy Suds Car Wash
manager view
- Marcus WhitfieldBumper scuff · RO 4412 · $1,500 laborPaid$75
- Dana ReyesDoor ding · RO 4418 · $1,180 laborIn the shop$59
- Priya RamanRear-end hit · RO 4421 · $4,260 laborInsurance — no referral—
- Tom AlvarezNot booked yetNot a customer yetpending
Due this month
$75
$59 more once Dana pays · 5% of labor · resets the 1st
You see the full customer record, the RO, and every partner at once.
Illustrative board at a demo shop. The fee is a percentage of the job's LABOR — 5% by default, set per partner — and it locks the moment a manager accepts the referral, so it can't drift afterwards. Priya's row is the rule doing its job: her repair went to an insurer, so it pays nothing, and no one at the shop can override that.
The partner's side
No app to download. No password to forget.
Your partner gets one link. It opens on the phone in their apron pocket and shows four things: who they sent you, where each one got to, what's already earned, and what's coming. That's the entire product on their side.
It looks like almost nothing on purpose. A car wash manager on a Saturday will not create an account, install anything, or remember a password — and a referral program nobody opens is a referral program that quietly dies.
- ✓Turning them off kills the link the same second — that is the revoke.
- ✓First names only. No numbers, no addresses, no job totals, nothing about your other partners.
- ✓The month's total resets on the 1st, but the jobs behind every payment are kept.
Soapy Suds Car Wash
your board · no password
- MarcusPaid$75
- DanaIn the shop$75
- PriyaInsurance — no referral—
- TomNot a customer yet$75
Due this month
$75
$75 more once Dana pays · resets the 1st
Five steps, and you do one of them.
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You sign a partner up
A manager adds the car wash and picks their fee. They can also sign themselves up on your public join page — but they land inactive until someone at the shop approves them. Nobody adds themselves to your payroll.
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They get their own link
No password, no app to download, no account for them to forget. It is their board, and it opens on a phone at the register.
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They send you a customer
Logged the moment it happens. If that person is already your customer, or already referred, the system refuses it — a referral has to actually be new.
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The light changes on its own
Red while it's just a name. Amber the second an RO exists. Green when the customer has paid. Nobody updates a spreadsheet.
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The month totals itself
What you owe each partner, computed off real job numbers. It resets on the 1st. The jobs behind every payment are kept — the reset never erases the receipts.
⛔ The rule we will not let you break
Insurance jobs pay a referral fee of nothing. Ever.
Not cash. Not a gift card. Not a discount, not a free detail, not “just this once.” In California, paying or accepting anything of value for steering claim-related work to a repair shop is a crime under Insurance Code §750 — and there is no dollar amount small enough to be safe.
So the program does not ask you to remember that. The moment a job is marked as an insurance claim, the payout math returns zero, the light goes gray, the staff screen warns whoever is typing, and the partner's own board says it in plain English. It is enforced in five separate places in the software, and there is no manager override — because the version of this feature that has an override is the version that eventually gets someone prosecuted.
Customer-pay work — the scuffs, the dings, the door dents, the bumpers, the small jobs people pay for out of pocket — is where a referral program is both legal and lucrative. That is the whole game, and it's a bigger one than most shops think.
Not legal advice, and rules differ by state — your attorney has the final word on your market. We built to the strictest line we know.
The parts that keep it honest
A referral program without guardrails becomes an argument, then a leak, then a thing you quietly stop doing. These are why this one survives contact with a real shop.
It won't pay twice for one customer
Already in your contacts, or already referred by someone else? The system blocks the log at the moment it's entered — because once an RO attaches, a double-counted referral looks exactly like a real one.
Turning a partner off cuts the link instantly
Deactivate them and their board goes dark the same second. That is the revoke — one switch, no cleanup.
The partner can't see your business
Not your other partners, not your job totals, not a customer's phone number. Their link returns their own referrals and a first name. We tested it as an outsider: every other record comes back empty.
Whoever brought the partner in gets a cut
Sign up the car wash yourself and 1% follows you — so your GM has a reason to go build the network, not just run it.
The Reporter · your guide here
I keep the tally. You decide what a referral is worth, I make sure the number is right on the 1st — and I never let an insurance job near it.
Straight about what this does and doesn't do
- ✓It tracks every referral, computes what each partner is owed, and keeps the jobs behind the number.
- ✓It holds where the check goes and whether a 1099 went out — because paying people creates paperwork.
- —It does not send the money. You pay your partners the way you already pay people. The system tells you the exact figure and what it's made of; the payment itself is yours.
Included in the system
$349/mo · the whole staff, not just this
One car wash sending you two customer-pay jobs a month covers a good chunk of it.
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