Take bookings on your website. Get paid online.
Add the AutoChain booking widget to your website and customers can book any time: they enter their reg, choose a service, pick a free slot and leave their details. Requests land in AutoChain for you to confirm. When the work is done, send the invoice with a secure Stripe payment link and it's marked paid when the customer pays.
Customers expect to book a garage the way they book everything else: online, at a time that suits them. AutoChain's booking widget adds a Book now button to your own website. The customer enters their registration, chooses from the services you offer, picks a date and a free slot, and leaves their name and contact details. The slots come from your opening hours and your technicians' availability, so you're only offered work you can take on. Each booking arrives in AutoChain as a request for you to confirm, and the customer is emailed when you do. Getting paid is just as simple: choose online payment when you raise the invoice and the email includes a secure Stripe payment link. When the customer pays by card, the invoice is marked paid automatically and the money goes to your own Stripe account.
- First month free on the core plan
- No card required
- Set up in about 10 minutes
- Cancel anytime
From independent bays to multi-site groups, built for the way you work.
Get started freeEvery capability, at a glance
Everything on this page is in the core plan (£69.99/mo + VAT) unless it's marked as an add-on. SMS (£15/mo, 200 credits included) and HaynesPro (£49.99/mo per site) are optional add-ons. Prices exclude VAT.
- Booking widget for your website, added with a short code snippet
- Customers enter their reg and the vehicle is looked up for them
- Your own list of services, with prices and durations
- Only offers slots in your opening hours when a technician is free
- Bookings arrive as requests for you to confirm, with email updates to the customer
- Customer portal where customers can book, see their vehicles and pay invoices
- Pay-online links on invoices through Stripe
- Invoices marked paid automatically when the customer pays
- Payments go to your own Stripe account
Simple from day one
Setup takes about 10 minutes and there's no training course to sit through. Built for busy garages.
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Set up Stripe and your services
Connect your own Stripe account from settings, then list the services you want customers to book online, with prices and how long each takes.
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Add the widget to your website
Copy the install code from the booking widget settings into your website and choose which web addresses may use it. A Book now button appears on your site.
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Customers book, you confirm
Customers enter their reg, choose a service and pick a free slot. The booking lands in AutoChain as a request, you confirm it, and the customer gets an email to say it is booked.
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Send a pay-online invoice
When the work is done, choose online payment on the invoice. The customer pays by card from the email or the customer portal, and the invoice is marked paid for you.
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The real impact on your garage
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Bookings while you sleep
Customers can book from your website in the evening or at the weekend, without waiting for you to answer the phone.
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Only slots you can deliver
Availability comes from your opening hours, closed dates and technicians' diaries, so customers can only pick times you can honour.
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You stay in charge of the diary
Online bookings arrive as requests for you to confirm, so nothing is locked in until you have checked it.
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Get paid faster
A pay-online link in the invoice email lets customers pay by card as soon as the job is done, instead of promising to pop in later.
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No manual reconciliation
Stripe tells AutoChain when a payment succeeds, so the invoice is marked paid and the payment recorded without anyone typing it in.
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A portal for your customers
Customers with a portal login can see their vehicles and bookings, book again and pay invoices online.
Online Booking & Payments: common questions
Straight answers to what garages ask us about this feature.
How do customers book online?
Through the AutoChain booking widget on your website. They enter their registration, choose a service, pick a date and a free time slot, and leave their name and email. The booking arrives in AutoChain as a request for you to confirm.
Do online bookings go straight into the diary?
They arrive as booking requests, so you can check and confirm them. The customer gets an email when the request is received and another when you confirm it.
How do customers pay invoices online?
Choose online payment when you raise the invoice. The invoice email includes a "Pay securely via Stripe" button, and customers with a portal login can pay from there too. The invoice is marked paid automatically.
Do I need a Stripe account?
Yes. Online payments and the booking widget use Stripe. AutoChain sets up a Stripe account for your garage and you complete Stripe's own onboarding from your settings. Card processing fees apply.
Can customers see prices when they book?
Yes. Each service you add to the widget has its own price and duration, and prices are shown to customers as they choose.
Run your garage smarter from today
Join 100+ UK garages, from single-bay workshops to multi-site groups, already streamlining jobs, customers, MOTs and online bookings with AutoChain from £69.99/mo + VAT.
- Set up in about 10 minutes
- No long-term contract
- Cancel anytime