Guides for your trade
MonkeyLio for auto detailing: setup and tips
How auto detailers get the most out of MonkeyLio.
Set up for your trade
- Pick Auto detailing as your trade in Settings to get the starter price list, checklist and equipment types.
- Review your starter prices, like Basic wash & vacuum (car), Basic wash & vacuum (SUV/truck), Full interior detail (car), and change them to your real prices.
- Edit the job checklist in Settings so it matches how your crew actually works.
- Connect Stripe so customers can pay from their link.
Your starter job checklist
- Vehicle inspected and pre-existing damage noted with photos
- Interior vacuumed: seats, carpets and trunk
- Interior wiped, glass cleaned and vents dusted
- Leather or upholstery treated and conditioned
- Wheels, tires and wheel wells cleaned
- Hand wash or foam wash top to bottom
- Paint polished and protected as quoted
- Final inspection and after photos taken
Equipment worth logging
Track Pressure washer, Wet/dry vacuum, Steam cleaner, Dual-action polisher, Foam cannon, Waterless wash kit at each customer's property, with a next service date so MonkeyLio reminds you and the customer.
A day with MonkeyLio
- 8:30 — Call: full detail on an SUV with pet hair.
- 9:00 — On site. Package quoted with pet hair removal and odor treatment, texted from the driveway.
- 9:08 — Approved and paid.
- Detailing — Start tapped, checklist ticked from vacuum to final wipe-down, before photos on the job.
- 2:00 — After photos attached, invoice paid from the same link. Next month's maintenance detail already booked.
