TintBay
shop software for specialty tint shops
Native iPhone and iPad software that runs a tint shop's day: check-in with VIN decoding, quotes, a window-by-window tint editor, the job queue, the calendar, payments and invoices.
- TintBay
- Automotive specialty shops
- Product, design and engineering
- Pilot build
- Software, Rule
Tint shops run on a whiteboard, a price sheet and the owner's memory. TintBay puts the whole day on the iPad at the counter and the iPhone in the owner's pocket — built with a working shop as the pilot, around one question for every screen: how does this help the person in front of it finish the job faster?
What we built
- Check-in. Find or add the customer, scan the VIN, and the vehicle fills itself in from the national vehicle database.
- Quotes. Flat or per-window pricing, add-ons, discounts and tax, repriced live as the job changes.
- The tint editor. A top-down car you tap window by window — film, shade and overrides — with the state's tint-law limits checked as you go.
- The queue and the calendar. Every job's status at a glance, installers assigned by what they can do, drag to reschedule.
- Payments and invoices. Deposits, balances, tips and refunds, and an invoice ready to share when the car leaves.
- Roles. Owner, manager, installer and front desk each see what they need and nothing they shouldn't.
Where AI is — and isn't
HOW THE WORK WAS ROUTED
- Pricing a jobRULEPrice math is tested code: per-vehicle or per-window, add-ons, discounts, tax.
- Is this shade legal on this window?RULEThe state's tint law is a rule. It's checked, not guessed.
- Decoding a VINSOFTWAREThe national vehicle database knows the car. Nothing to predict.
- Talking a customer through their optionsPERSONThat's the shop's craft. The app gets out of its way.
There's no model in TintBay's day-to-day, and that's deliberate. Every decision the app makes is a rule someone can point to — which is exactly what a shop owner needs when a customer asks why.
Bring us the messiest workflow you have.
An hour with the people who run it is usually enough to see where a rule, a model, software or a person belongs.



