See the whole floor. Move work with a drag.
GarageFlow's bay board puts every lift, stall, and open repair order on one screen. Drag a job onto a bay and it books the time slot for you — no separate scheduling step, no whiteboard to erase.
Built around bays, not tickets
Legacy shop software organizes around invoices and estimates. GarageFlow organizes around the physical floor — the bays your technicians actually work in.
BAY 1
'19 Tacoma
Front brakes
in progressBAY 2
'21 F-150
Oil + rotate
approvedBAY 3
'18 Civic
Diagnostics
inspectingBAY 4
Waiting
'22 Sierra
Check engine
queued'17 Camry
AC service
queuedHow the board works
A shop floor you can drag and drop
The bay board is the same drag-and-drop surface shown above. Here's exactly what happens on each action.
Create a bay for every lift or stall
Name bays to match your floor — Bay 1, Alignment Rack, Quick Lube — so the board reads the same way your team already talks about the shop.
Drag a repair order onto a bay
Pull any card from the waiting queue and drop it on an open bay. The drop books a two-hour schedule window for that bay right away.
The repair order status follows
If the job was just checked in, diagnosed, or approved, assigning it to a bay automatically advances its status to in-progress — one action instead of two.
Move it again, or send it back
Drag a card from one bay to another to relocate the vehicle, or drop it back on the waiting queue to clear the bay and return the order to unassigned.
Every card stays tied to the record
Each bay shows the repair order number, the vehicle, and the customer attached to it, with a link straight through to the full repair order.
Start and end times, per bay
Each schedule carries a start and end time for that bay, so you can see how long a vehicle has been sitting in a stall at a glance.
Capacity, stated honestly
What the board shows — and what it doesn't
Occupied bays
Bays with a repair order currently scheduled against them.
Idle bays
Active bays with nothing scheduled — floor capacity going unused right now.
Waiting queue
Open repair orders not yet in a bay, ready to drag in the moment a bay frees up.
What this page won't oversell
- The board doesn't check schedules against each other, so it won't warn you about a double-booked bay — that's on your team.
- There's no technician picker on the board itself. Technician assignment happens elsewhere in GarageFlow, such as labor clocking.
- The board does not refresh on its own. It updates after your own actions; reload to see a change a coworker just made.
- Each bay card shows one schedule at a time. If two jobs land on the same bay, only the most recent one is visible there.
We'd rather you know exactly what the board does before you switch to it than have you find the gaps after your team is depending on it.
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about the bay board
How do I move a repair order onto a bay?
Drag its card from the waiting queue and drop it on any bay. The drop books a two-hour schedule window for that bay, and if the order was created, diagnosed, or approved, the repair order automatically advances to in-progress.
Can I move a job from one bay to another?
Yes. Drag the card straight from its current bay to a different one, or drop it back on the waiting queue to clear the bay and return the order to unassigned.
Does the board stop me from double-booking a bay?
No. The board does not check schedules against each other for conflicts, so it is on you and your team to avoid dropping two jobs on the same bay at once.
Can I assign a technician from the board?
Not from the board itself. The board is built around bays, repair orders, customers, and vehicles; technician assignment happens elsewhere in GarageFlow, such as labor clocking on the repair order.
Does the board update on its own if a teammate makes a change?
No. The board does not sync between browsers. It refreshes after your own drag-and-drop actions; reload the page to pick up changes made by a coworker at another station.
What happens if I assign two repair orders to the same bay?
The board shows one active schedule per bay at a time, so only the most recent assignment is visible on that bay's card — another reason to treat the double-booking warning above seriously.
Put your floor on one screen.
Try the bay board in a pre-seeded demo shop, or start free and add your own bays in minutes.