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Keep the car, the coating date and the next wash due in one record, not in the bay's memory.

A CRM for a detailing studio holds each customer, each car and each job in one place so the next reminder is never a guess. GullySales sets up and fills a CRM that matches how your studio works, from the first enquiry to the maintenance visit.

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Scope, fee, reporting and term are agreed in writing after we have read your brief and spoken to you.

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What CRM means

A CRM is the record where every enquiry, call and quote is kept against a customer, replacing separate notebooks, spreadsheets and memory. GullySales sets up or cleans an existing CRM and reports from it by enquiry outcome rather than by activity logged.

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Sales and marketing for car detailing studios, the overview.

Last updated 5 Oct 2026.

For car detailing studios

Where it usually goes wrong, and what we would do.

  • “The customer is not the record, the car is”

    One owner may bring a hatchback, then a new SUV. The coating applied, the product used and the warranty terms belong to the car, and a contact list that holds only names loses what the next visit needs.

  • “A coating is a promise with a calendar”

    The maintenance wash the warranty asks for is a dated duty. If the date lives on a job card in a drawer, it is missed, and the customer who was never reminded is the one who tells others the studio forgot.

  • “Photographs of condition are protection”

    Pictures of the paint at drop-off settle later disputes about a scratch. Kept in a phone gallery they vanish, but attached to the job record they are the evidence you reach for when a complaint comes.

  • “Staff change, history should not”

    When a supervisor leaves, what they knew about repeat customers and their cars goes with them. A shared record means the new person on the desk can greet a returning owner by car and last service.

What we do

What we deliver for car detailing studios.

Every deliverable, what it covers for you, and the result it is there to produce. Nothing here is an extra.

  1. A car-first record structure

    Fields for owner, car make and model, registration, service history, products used and warranty terms.

    Result: Every job sits against the car it was done on.

  2. Job stages from enquiry to delivery

    Stages such as enquiry, quoted, booked, in the bay, ready and collected, visible to the whole team.

    Result: Anyone can tell where a car is in the process.

  3. Condition photographs attached to the job

    A step for dropping the before pictures into the record at intake and the after pictures at handover.

    Result: A disputed mark can be checked against a dated photograph.

  4. Reminder dates set on each coating

    The maintenance wash and any warranty check recorded as dates that trigger a message to the owner.

    Result: No coating customer depends on someone's memory.

  5. Imports from your old lists

    Contacts and job history moved from notebooks, sheets and phone chats into the record, cleaned for duplicates.

    Result: The first day's database is already useful.

  6. A short guide for the desk team

    One page on what to fill at each stage, written for the people who handle the car and the phone.

    Result: The record stays complete without extra effort.

How the result is measured

  • Enquiries logged in the CRM
  • Data completeness
  • Reports generated from CRM data

Recorded as a baseline before work starts, so every later report has an honest comparison.

Read the full CRM implementation and customisation page

Fields worth keeping

Keep a record for each car, with the fields a coating promise depends on.

Registration and model
The front desk enters them on first visit. They tie the job to the car, so a change of owner or phone number does not lose the history.
Coating or film product and job date
The technician fills it from the job sheet. It sets the maintenance schedule and shows what was applied if the owner returns with a question.
Condition photographs at drop-off
The desk takes and stores them. They protect the studio against a scratch claim and the owner against a missed one.
Next maintenance wash due
The system sets it from the schedule your studio gives. It drives the reminder, which brings back an owner who has already paid for a coating.
Referral source
The desk records dealer, repeat customer or search. It shows which partner sends cars that become paid jobs.
Consent to be messaged
The desk records it at handover. It decides who gets the maintenance reminder and who is left alone.

Who it is for

This is written for these car detailing studios.

  • Mobile car detailing services
  • Studio-based detailing centres
  • Ceramic coating and PPF specialists
  • Bike detailing and coating studios
  • Fleet and dealership detailing partners
  • Luxury and exotic car detailing specialists
  • Interior deep cleaning specialists
  • Car wash and quick service outlets

Not for

It is not the right fit if.

  • You keep the studio's history on paper and no one will enter it, so a tool would hold stale records.
  • You have few jobs and know every owner, and a notebook covers the maintenance dates.
  • The studio has not settled what maintenance it asks of coating owners, so the next-due field has nothing to hold.

How it works

How the CRM work runs

The work itself, in order. How an engagement starts, from your brief to a written scope, is set out on our method page.

  1. 1

    Map the sales process

    We sit with the people who sell and write down how a deal moves from enquiry to payment, including where it stalls.

  2. 2

    Agree stages, fields and owners

    Each stage gets a name your team already uses and a proof that the deal has left it. We agree which fields are required at which stage, and who may change what.

  3. 3

    Build on a copy

    Pipeline, fields and views are built on a trial copy where the CRM offers one, or in a separate pipeline where the plan allows. Live work stays untouched.

  4. 4

    Connect channels, then switch on automations

    Channels are connected first. Each automation is then switched on separately, so a misfiring rule is easy to find.

  5. 5

    Test with real deals

    The people who will use the CRM run open deals through it. Gaps are fixed before the whole team switches over.

  6. 6

    Switch over and trim

    Once real use shows which fields stay empty and which stages nobody uses, those are cut and the handover record is updated.

Where this fits

Three pieces of sales work, in this order.

This work sits inside sales management. A target, a review routine and someone who owns the number.

  1. Step 1

    Sales audit

    Find where deals are being lost and what to fix first.

    Start here if you cannot say where orders are lost.

  2. Step 2

    Sales process design

    One written way to sell, from first enquiry to repeat order.

    Start here if every salesperson sells differently.

  3. Step 3 · you are here

    Sales management

    A target, a review routine and someone who owns the number.

    Start here if the team has targets and no routine.

Tell us what you need Your brief is read before we call. Scope, fee and term in writing.

FAQ

Questions owners ask before they call.

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Tell us what you need
Is a CRM too heavy for a small studio?
Not if it holds only what you act on: the owner, the car, the service, the date and the photographs. Start with those fields and add more only when the team asks for them.
Which CRM should we use?
Pick the one your team will actually open each day, and check its current pricing and WhatsApp support yourself. We set up the fields and stages whatever tool you choose, so a change later does not mean starting again.
Who owns the customer data?
You do. We structure it and keep it tidy, and we ask only for what the studio needs to serve the car. Tell customers how you use their details, and check data rules with your own adviser.
How do condition photographs help the studio?
They settle a claim of damage with a record from the day of drop-off. A scratch that appears in a car group a week later is answered with the dated photographs. Store them against the car's record and tell the owner you take them.
How much does it cost?
There is no price list, because the work differs by business. The fee is scoped after we have read your brief and spoken to you, and put in writing before anything starts, split into our time, your media spend and production.
How long is the contract?
The term is agreed in writing after we have spoken, along with the fee and the reporting. It is never a default twelve months, and renewal is decided on the numbers against the baseline recorded at the start.
How soon will we see results?
It depends on the trade, the channel and what is already in place. After we have read your brief and spoken to you, we say what we would expect to move first and how it will be measured against the baseline. Nothing here is guaranteed.
Who will actually do the work?
The person you speak to before anything starts. We work from one office in Nagarbhavi, Bengaluru, with no account managers in between.
What do you need from us?
Your brief, and a conversation. After that, access to whatever this work touches, such as your website, your accounts or your enquiry record, and time with the people who handle your enquiries.
What if we are not happy with the work?
Tell us and the plan changes. Everything is reported against the baseline, so a number that is not moving is visible to both sides. The term is in your written scope, and the refund and cancellation policy sets out the rest.

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