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🇨🇦 Built for Canadian & North American Auto Repair Shops

Made by Red Seals, for Red Seals.

The first AI-powered shop management system built by a Red Seal Master Technician with over 21 years of real bay floor experience. Stop leaking billable labor hours and start running a modern, automated shop.

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Red Seal
21+ Years Bay Experience

“Designed from the grease up to eliminate advisor admin stress and maximize technician flat-rate efficiency.”

Click through the real workflow

Four of the features shop owners ask about most, simulated right here — no signup.

app.baybuddy.ca — live product simulation
Scenario — 2019 Audi Q5, front brakes + front wheel bearings
Front brake service1.4 hrs
Front wheel bearings0.8 hrs
Overlapping labor detected (knuckle already off)- 1.3 hrs
Billed labor2.2 hrs · $330.00
Customer approval card

Because your wheel bearings are replaced while the brake job already has the knuckle apart, we save you 1.3 hours of labor ($195.00) by doing both today.

Separate visits$525.00
Bundled today$330.00

Watch an approval land in the bay

Tap Approve on the customer's phone and see the technician's tablet light up in real time.

Customer smartphone view
2019 Ford F-150 XLT
RO #1042 · Stock 4B21A7 · 128,402 km
Bearing play
Pad 3mm
Rotor lip
Front brake pads & rotors
2.4 hrs labor
$689
Front wheel bearings (both sides)
1.6 hrs labor
$512
Smart Bundle Savings — $168

Your brake job already has the wheel off the truck. Doing the wheel bearings at the same time skips 1.1 hours of repeat teardown, so you only pay for the work that doesn't overlap.

Total after bundle$1033
Technician bay tablet view
Waiting on customer authorization… the tablet stays quiet until they tap approve.
Bay 1
2021 RAV4 — Oil & DVI
In Progress
Bay 3
2019 F-150 — Brakes + Bearings
Waiting Authorization
Bay 4
2018 Civic — Timing belt
Waiting Parts

Time & money saved in your shop

Move the sliders to match your bays and see what BayBuddy is worth every month.

4
12
$140/hr
Hours saved per week
14.0 hrs

$8,487 of recovered labor value / month

Extra monthly revenue
$11,880

AI overlapping-labor upsells captured

Estimated annual ROI
$244,402

Recovered admin labor plus captured upsell revenue across 12 months.

Tech efficiency & pay calculator

Cut the admin friction and every tech flags more billable hours — here is what that is worth to your shop and to their paycheque.

4
$140/hr

Based on 1.5 additional flat-rate hours flagged per technician per day — recovered through priority auto-dispatch, zero unwritten tech notes and 1-tap labor clocking.

Extra billed hours / month
132 hrs

4 techs × 1.5 hrs × 22 days

Monthly gross revenue lift
$18,480

132 hrs × $140/hr

Technician pay impact

Estimated +$600 – $1,200/mo extra flat-rate commission per technician — the fastest way to keep your best Red Seals in your bays.

Built for real shop operations

Mandatory odometer & tech story gates

Zero missing test-drive mileages and no unwritten technician notes. An RO cannot close without both.

Real-time customer approval pop-ups

Persistent tablet alerts the instant a customer approves work on their phone, so the bay never waits.

5-stage Kanban workflow

Waiting Authorization, In Queue, In Progress, Waiting Parts, Completed — drag a card, the shop follows.

Canadian tax matrix

Native GST, PST and HST rules per province, with split liabilities on every estimate and invoice.

Customer online self-booking

Automated 24-hour SMS reminders with reply-C-to-confirm logic that cuts no-shows.

Technician role permissions

Decide exactly who can clock into parts runs, shop cleaning or admin time — and who cannot.

Simple pricing. No per-RO nickel and diming.

Every plan includes unlimited repair orders, unlimited customers and the full Canadian tax engine. Cancel any time.

Starter Plan

Essential digital shop management for solo bays and small operations.

$299 CAD / month

Billed monthly

Start 14-Day Free Trial
  • Digital ROs & invoice creation
  • Bay tablet clocking for every tech
  • Manual parts entry with automatic markup matrix
  • Standard text inspection checklists
  • Basic QuickBooks Online invoice & sales sync (A/R)
  • 4-stage Kanban workflow board
  • Customer approval portal with SMS link
  • Calendar & appointment scheduling
Red Seal Choice · Most Popular

Pro Plan

The complete AI-powered engine designed to maximize ARO and eliminate unbilled labor hours.

$449 CAD / month

Billed monthly

Upgrade to Pro (14-Day Free Trial)
  • Everything in Starter, plus:
  • 🤖 AI overlapping labor & predictive upsell engine
  • 🖼️ DVI photo / video capture & visual markup portal
  • 📈 Tech efficiency telemetry & flat-rate payroll leaderboard
  • 💳 Text-to-Pay SMS payment engine
  • 🔁 Automated 6-month maintenance re-engagement texts
  • 🚀 Priority auto-dispatch engine
  • 🛠️ Granular technician permissions & unlimited accounts
  • Priority 1-on-1 founder support (Red Seal Master Tech)

Prices in CAD. Tax is calculated at checkout based on your province. Payments are processed by Stripe, our merchant of record.

Red Seal
Certified
100% money-back guarantee

The 30-Day Red Seal Shop Guarantee

Run BayBuddy in your shop for 30 days. If your technicians aren't flagging more hours and your advisors aren't saving time, cancel anytime with one click. No long-term contracts, no lock-ins. Ever.

Ready to Modernize Your Shop Floor?

Book a quick 15-minute 1-on-1 walk-through with our founder (Red Seal Master Tech) to see how BayBuddy fits your existing workflow.

Prefer a new tab? Open the booking calendar.