STEP 1
Your services and prices
Your services, at your prices and durations. Any offer you are running sits at the top of the list.
Online booking for UK garages
Take garage bookings online without double-booking a bay.
GarageCal is a booking page for your garage. It only offers a time when a bay that can do the job is free, and it takes bookings at any hour, while you are working.
✓Two minutes. Nothing to sign up to.
This is the real booking flow Have a go. Nothing to sign up to.
SE SCS Exmouth Online Booking
What do you need?
Choose a service to get started.
Wednesday 26 August
Pick a time that suits you.
Greyed slots are not free. Bay 1 is the only MOT bay and it is already booked.
Nearly done
Enter your registration and we will do the rest.
Try typing CAL 123
Booking confirmed
Reference #1071. Confirmation on its way by email.
- Job
- MOT, Class 4 (Car)
- Price
- £54.85
- Date
- Wed 26 Aug 2026
- Time
- 11:00
- Vehicle
- FORD FOCUS
Booking powered by GarageCal
How a booking gets made
Three steps on your customer’s phone. No account, no app, and no call to you.
STEP 2
Only free times are shown
Only times with a free bay that can do the job are shown. A two hour job holds two hours.
STEP 3
Vehicle details autofill
Make, model and engine fill in from the DVLA record. They confirm, and the reference goes to them by email.
If they need to move or cancel it later, they do that from a link in the email. The slot goes back on sale.
Why it will not double-book you
Most booking tools sell an hour because the calendar looked empty. GarageCal works out what is free from your bays.
- Services map to bays
- If Bay 1 is your only MOT bay, an MOT is offered only while Bay 1 is free. Bays 2 and 3 carry on taking servicing work.
- Opening hours apply
- Opening hours are set per weekday, with a lunch break and a buffer between jobs. Close one bay or the whole garage for a holiday.
- Server checks again
- Every booking is re-checked at the moment it is confirmed, so two customers cannot take the same slot at the same time.
What comes back to the workshop
A booking is no use until it reaches the person doing the job. Here is where it goes.
It goes on the day sheet
The day sheet lists today by time and bay, with the customer, vehicle, registration and phone number. Print it for the wall.
They get it in writing
A confirmation goes out when they book, and a reminder at 7am the day before. You can edit the wording of both.
They move it themselves
Each booking has a private link. The customer can move or cancel it there, and the diary updates as they do.
Who is searching for a garage right now
Each month in the UK, this many people search for what you already do.
201,000
“garage near me”
searches a month, UK
110,000
“MOT near me”
135,000 of them in March
110,000
“when is my MOT due”
a rebooking, waiting to happen
40,500
“book MOT”
ready to book, not to ring
Your booking page is open when your phone is not.
Put an offer up before the busy month
March is the busiest month
Searches for “MOT near me” rise from 110,000 to 135,000. Put an MOT and service bundle up in February.
Air con demand peaks in June
Air con regas searches range from 1,300 a month in December to 74,000 in June. Put that offer up in April.
How an offer is put together
Bundle two services, set the was-price, and the offer sits at the top of your booking page.
Google Ads search volumes, United Kingdom, twelve months to June 2026.
The price, on the page
Most booking systems in this trade make you ask before they will tell you what it costs. Ours is here.
One bay
For a single-bay workshop, or for trying it on a real week of work.
Free
one bay, unlimited bookings
- Unlimited online bookings
- One bay, unlimited services
- Confirmation and reminder emails
- Your logo and colours
Workshop
For a working garage with a few bays and offers to push.
£29
per month, plus VAT
- Unlimited bays and services
- Registration lookup, vehicle filled in
- Offers and bundle pricing
- Customers move and cancel their own bookings
- Printable day sheet and CSV export
- Google and Meta tracking, and webhooks
No setup fee. No contract. Registration lookups are included, not metered.
For comparison, as published by them in August 2026: Garage Hive from £145 a month, MOT Manager from £50, BOOKAR £39.99.
Why there is no commission
The comparison sites charge garages to reach drivers who were looking for a garage anyway. Two garage owners on how that feels.
These garage booking services are just middle men, taking a commission out the job. They are not garages, and know nothing about cars.
Honest John forum
It is a scam, they have no business relationship with the garages they advertise. The owner of my local place has been on the wrong end of it.
r/CarTalkUK
GarageCal charges the monthly price above and nothing per booking. The customer is yours.
What GarageCal is not
Three things to know before either of us gives up twenty minutes.
Not a garage system
Keep Autowork Online or Garage Hive for job cards, parts and accounts. GarageCal takes the booking and hands it to you.
Nothing written back
Bookings arrive by email, on the day sheet and by webhook. Nothing is written into Garage Hive or Autowork Online.
Nothing to download
It is a page on your website, or a link you share. No app, and no password for your customers to forget.
Common questions
Weighing this up against something specific? Read the comparisons
- Do I have to bin the system I already use?
- No. GarageCal is the booking layer. It is not trying to become your job cards, your parts catalogue or your accounts. Keep what you have and let this take the bookings.
- What if someone books a job I cannot do that day?
- They cannot. What is free comes from your bays, not from an empty square in a calendar. If no bay that can do the job is free, the time is not offered.
- I am not technical. How much setting up is there?
- Your bays, your services and your opening hours. If you can write your prices on a board, you can set this up. On the call we do it with you, on your own garage.
- How long until it is taking bookings?
- That depends on how many bays and services you run. You will get a straight answer on the call rather than a number promised on a web page.
- Can I try it before I commit?
- The booking flow at the top of this page is the real one. After that, the one-bay plan is free.
See it running on your own bays
Twenty minutes on a call. We set up your bays and services as they are, and you decide with a working booking page in front of you.