GarageNest – Auto Repair & Garage Booking Script (Laravel, Single Garage or Marketplace, Live Job Tracker, PWA)

GarageNest - book the bay, track the repair, approve every line

GarageNest is a complete auto repair and garage booking script. Drivers book a service in a real free bay slot, follow the repair in a live job tracker with photos from the technician, approve or decline the estimate line by line on their phone and pay online or at the counter. The workshop runs everything from one panel: job board, bays calendar, digital inspection, estimate builder, invoices with US sales tax, parts and purchase orders, mechanics and clock in.

Run it as a Single garage website or as a Marketplace where garages apply, you approve them, keep a commission and record their payouts - switch at any time. Payments are one-time (booking deposits, estimate deposits, invoices) with Stripe, PayPal, Paystack, Razorpay, bank transfer or pay at the garage - no auto-renew. Light and dark theme, installable app (PWA), social networks and languages.

Live demo

• Website demo (Marketplace): https://garagenest.anowhosting.com/
• One-click customer demo (Megan Foster): https://garagenest.anowhosting.com/demo-login/customer
• One-click garage owner demo (Luis Ortega, Redline Auto Care): https://garagenest.anowhosting.com/demo-login/garage
• One-click staff demo (Chris Nguyen, service advisor): https://garagenest.anowhosting.com/demo-login/staff
• One-click admin demo (Sarah Adams): https://garagenest.anowhosting.com/demo-login/admin
• Demo overview page: https://garagenest.anowhosting.com/codester/index.html
• Documentation: https://garagenest.anowhosting.com/codester/docs/index.html

• Customer: megan.foster@example.com / password
• Garage owner (Redline Auto Care): luis.ortega@example.com / password
• Staff - service advisor: chris.nguyen@example.com / password
• Admin (everything): sarah.adams@example.com / password
• Admin team - manager: dana.brooks@example.com / password
• Technician: marco.ruiz@example.com / password

Marketplace or Single garage - your choice

• Single garage: one workshop website with its own Staff panel - no garage search, commission or payouts
• Marketplace: garage search by ZIP, service and vehicle on a map, garage profiles with prices, hours and the next free slot
• "List your garage" applications with documents; approve, reject, suspend
• Commission per paid job (default 12 %, per category or per garage) and payouts recorded every two weeks

A live job tracker drivers love

• Checked in, diagnosis, estimate, in progress, quality check, ready - every move on the job board shows at once
• Updates from the bay with photos and notes, the technician, messages with the garage
• Pickup time and pay link; bell, e-mail and optional text messages (Twilio / Vonage)
• Vehicles with service history by VIN / plate, health bars and service reminders by date and mileage

Estimates approved line by line

• Parts and labor per line, recommended and pre-approved lines, urgency, inspection photos
• The customer approves or declines each line; totals, sales tax on parts and shop supplies update live
• Deposit after the approval (fixed, percentage or none) - only approved work goes to the invoice
• Versions, reminders, expiry and PDF

Payments you can trust

• Booking deposit, estimate deposit and invoice balance - one-time payments, nothing renews
• Stripe, PayPal, Paystack, Razorpay and bank transfer with receipt + approval; card terminal, cash and check at the counter
• Amounts checked on the server, signed webhooks over the raw body, one completion per transaction
• US sales tax by state (parts and labor apart), receipts and PDF invoices

The whole shop at a glance

• Kanban job board by stage, list or by bay, filter by mechanic, drag cards
• Job card with complaint, digital inspection (good / soon / now) with photos, timers and the timeline
• Bays calendar with a now line, appointments and garage booking rules that override the global ones
• Real bay slots from hours, bays, booked work, slot length and buffer - never double-booked

Run the workshop from one panel

• Dashboard: revenue today, jobs in the shop, bay use, waiting approvals, parts low
• Parts stock with minimums, suppliers and purchase orders (order and receive)
• Staff roles (manager, advisor, technician), pay models, efficiency and clock in / out
• Customers and vehicles, invoices and counter payments, reports with Excel export

An admin that keeps the network in order

• Bookings, paid jobs, commission and rating for 7 days, 30 days or 12 months
• Garages and applications, customers, bookings and jobs, services catalog and one-time packages
• Reviews only after a paid job, with moderation and garage replies
• Admin team with per-section permissions

Your brand on every page

• 6 colour presets plus custom colours - the button text stays readable automatically (AA)
• Light and dark theme, default theme, logos, favicon and font
• Every text, photo and number of the website editable; languages with auto-translate
• Social networks with your own icons (also for each garage) and an installable app (PWA)

What you get

• The complete script with the vendor folder and a browser installer (MySQL / MariaDB or SQLite, Single garage or Marketplace) with optional demo data
• Demo data in Phoenix, AZ: Redline Auto Care with 6 bays and its team, 38 more garages in the Marketplace, two years of bookings, jobs, estimates, invoices, payments, reviews and payouts, a live job board at any hour and one-click demo logins
• Illustrated HTML documentation: installation (cPanel, VPS, Windows), cron, both modes, the full job flow, the garage panel, payments with webhook URLs, sales tax, every settings area, demo mode, updates and FAQ
• Free updates of version 1.x

Built for real workshops

• USA defaults (USD, English, America/New_York, US date formats, sales tax by state) - every price, rate, deposit, limit and text is an admin setting
• Laravel 13, PHP 8.3+, own CSS and vanilla JavaScript - no build step, works on shared hosting
• Fast on phones: every page works from 360 px wide, panels turn into cards, the header keeps its icons at the right edge

Support and updates

Support covers installation questions and bugs. Updates come as a full package and a small update zip with a one-click update in the admin.

Version history

1.0.0 – November 2026 – Initial release

• PHP 8.3 or newer (8.3, 8.4)
• MySQL 5.7+ / 8.x or MariaDB 10.3+ (SQLite 3 for small sites and local tests)
• PHP extensions: pdo (pdo_mysql or pdo_sqlite), mbstring, openssl, tokenizer, xml, ctype, json, fileinfo, curl, gd, zip
• Apache with mod_rewrite (cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin), LiteSpeed or Nginx
• A cron job every minute and an SSL certificate (payments, installable app)
• No Composer, Node or SSH needed - the vendor folder is included
• Your own merchant accounts for online payments (Stripe, PayPal, Paystack or Razorpay); Twilio or Vonage for text messages (optional)

Install

1. Create an empty MySQL / MariaDB database and user in your hosting panel and select PHP 8.3 or newer.
2. Upload the contents of the garagenest folder into the document root of your domain (the included .htaccess files route everything to the public folder) - or point the domain to its public folder.
3. Open your domain: the installer checks the server, connects the database, asks for Single garage or Marketplace, your business and the admin account (optionally with the demo data).
4. Sign in at /login. Set Business & accounts, Booking & workshop, Sales tax, Payment gateways, E-mail sending and Appearance; add your bays, staff and prices in the panel at /garage.
5. Add the cron job: * * * * * cd /path/to/garagenest && php artisan schedule:run

Payments

Paste your keys in Admin > Payment gateways and add the webhook URLs shown there to your gateway dashboard: /webhooks/stripe, /webhooks/paystack, /webhooks/razorpay (PayPal needs none).

Full guide: documentation/index.html in the download.

1.0.1 – November 2026

Demo data: an open estimate in the demo now always stays valid for 7 days, also late on Saturday evening.

1.0.0 – November 2026

Initial release.