Same-day drop-offs go through the sign
On a Saturday the bottleneck is your counter, not your bays. The printable QR sign lets an owner start check-in from their own phone while your advisor is still writing the ticket.
For window tint shops
Window tint shop software for the Teslas parked in your lot.
Film jobs are fast and the counter is not. A Tesla arrives at nine, sits outside until a bay opens, gets cut and installed, then sits again while the customer finishes a phone call in your waiting room. GuestLot puts a clock on the keys for that whole stretch and hands the owner a receipt when it ends.
Saturday, 9:40 AM
Six cars, one advisor, and nobody knows where the key card went.
Two Model 3s are in the lot waiting on bays. A Model Y came in yesterday for a full front and stayed overnight because the customer could not get a ride. One owner handed over an NFC card, one gave a phone key to whoever was standing there, one just walked off — the car is unlocked and the app is on their phone in another state.
Nothing is going wrong. That is exactly the problem: there is no version of this Saturday that produces a record. If Monday brings a phone call about extra miles or a charge on a Supercharger statement, you will be reconstructing it out of three people’s memories and a paper intake sheet that says “35% all around.”
Film shops feel this harder than most because turnover is high, the ticket is small relative to the car, and heat-shrink work means somebody is genuinely moving the vehicle into sun and back. Legitimate movement is still movement, and only a timestamp tells the two apart.
Overnight · Model Y · full front
FRI 17:58shop closed · 2 cars in custody
FRI 22:14quiet · no lot events
SAT 01:12lot exit · AFTER HOURS · GM texted
SAT 01:31lot enter · odometer +4.1 mi
SAT 01:31odo threshold 3 mi exceeded · flagged
SAT 08:02advisor acknowledged · note added
A tint job’s odometer threshold is 3 miles, because a film car should be moving between the lot and the bay, not around the block.
How it maps to film work
The custody window is the length of the job, not the length of a subscription.
01 Drop-off
counter or QR sign
02 Lot + bay
3 mi threshold
03 Waiting room
customer sees receipt
01 Drop-off
counter or QR sign
02 Lot + bay
3 mi threshold
03 Waiting room
customer sees receipt
Waiting-room customers get the receipt in front of them
A tint customer often never leaves. When you hand back, the AccessReceipt hits their phone before they reach the car — which is the moment it does the most good.
Overnight cars stop being a blind spot
Cars that sit outside before install are the ones that generate Monday phone calls. After-hours exits are timestamped, texted, and counted on the receipt.
Defaults for tint
The policy that ships with a tint job.
Pick the job type at check-in and the thresholds set themselves. You can change any of them per job, but these are the shipped defaults and they were chosen for film work specifically.
- A 3-mile odometer threshold. Lot to bay and back is under a mile in most shops, so 3 is generous without being useless.
- A 50 mph speed cap — the lowest Tesla’s Speed Limit Mode allows, and the one job type where a cap makes sense. Nothing about film work requires highway speed.
- Any Supercharger session on the owner’s account texts the GM. On a two-hour ticket there is no legitimate reason for one.
- Valet Mode stays off by default even here. If you ever add PPF or wrap, Valet locks the frunk and breaks the job — see Valet Mode vs Service Mode.
Shipped defaults for a tint ticket. Editable per job at check-in.
Why it matters at a film shop
Small ticket, expensive car.
A $600 tint job on an $80,000 Model Y is an asymmetry that only shows up when something goes wrong. You are the bailee for that car all afternoon, and if a claim starts, the burden of showing what happened lands on you. A timestamped record of lot exits, miles, and the exact moment your access ended is the cheapest insurance in the building. Background: garage keepers liability.
Questions
From tint shop owners
Does GuestLot replace Tint Wiz or Urable?
No. Keep quoting, scheduling, and invoicing where they are. GuestLot handles the part your CRM was never built for: who has access to the customer's Tesla right now, what the car did while it sat on your lot, and proving both at pickup.
Is Valet Mode a good default for a tint job?
It is the only job type where it is even arguable, because film work rarely needs the frunk. GuestLot still leaves Valet off by default and lets you turn it on per job. Valet locks the frunk and glovebox, so it is wrong the moment a tint shop also does PPF.
What happens to cars that sit outside overnight before install?
That is the case the lot watch exists for. Any exit from your lot geofence outside your posted hours raises an alert and texts the GM that night, and the count lands on the owner's receipt at pickup — so an overnight car is documented rather than assumed.
Keep reading
For PPF shops
Most tint shops add film. The custody rules change when they do.
Printable check-in kit
The QR sign that unblocks a Saturday counter.
vs Urable and Tint Wiz
Why this sits next to your CRM instead of replacing it.
The key card at the shop
What that card in your drawer actually grants.
Pricing
$179 flat per location, whatever your car count.
How it works
Two minutes at check-in, one tap at hand-back.
Put a clock on the film jobs.
Fourteen days, no card. Check in the next Model 3 that pulls up and see what the owner receives at pickup.