The field, priced honestly

Car detailing CRM in the UK: what one person actually pays

Prices below are the cheapest plan that gives a one-person detailer online booking and card deposits, because that is the job you are buying. Dollar prices are converted at $1 = £0.75.

Side by side

What you get, and at what price

	AutoBook	Others
AutoBook Solo	£25, or free under 3 quotes / 5 bookings / 10 clients	Deposits, VAT invoices, plans, WhatsApp, 6 languages, iOS + Android
Smart Booker (valetbooker.uk)	£29	Up to 5 team, 50 SMS, card on file
HiveSuite	£34.99 incl. VAT	1 admin + 2 team, Stripe, Android app, web on iPhone
Automate	£49 + £5 per technician	Deposits, SMS, VAT invoicing, postcode zones, routing
DetailBook Pro	£50 (Essentials £25 has no deposits or invoicing)	Stripe deposits, SMS, VAT invoicing, photo quotes
Jobber Connect	From $99 (about £74), billed in dollars	Generalist field-service tool, online booking starts here
Urable Pro	$110 (about £83)	Unlimited users, PPF visualiser, US shop model
Fresha	£14.95 + 20% of each new marketplace client	Salon software, no vehicle or mobile-job logic
Square Appointments	£0 to £69	Assumes a fixed premises, no-show fees only on Premium

Rival details checked 3 September 2026 from their public pages: DetailBook pricing · Automate · Urable pricing · HiveSuite · Smart Booker · Jobber UK pricing · Fresha pricing · Square Appointments UK. Spotted something out of date? Email info@autobook.pro and we will fix it.

Straight answer

Where each one is the better pick

Where the others win

Automate has postcode pricing zones and technician routing.
DetailBook has condition reports and service-area rules on every plan.
Urable has unlimited users and the PPF tooling shops want.
Fresha and Square are cheap if you are a fixed premises with walk-ins and never take a deposit.

Where AutoBook wins

The only detailing tool in the UK with a permanent free plan you can run jobs on.
The cheapest plan in the field that includes deposits, VAT invoices and photo quotes: £25.
The only one that says it is built for one person, and prices that way.
The only one in six languages with euro pricing, for detailers in Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany.
Quotes and follow-ups over WhatsApp, apps in both stores, accounting in the same app.

The price, in your maths

For one person who wants deposits and invoices, the field runs from £25 (AutoBook) through £29 to £35 (Smart Booker, HiveSuite), £49 to £50 (Automate, DetailBook Pro), and £74 to £83 for the American tools billed in dollars.

Only one of them is free before that: AutoBook, up to 3 quotes, 5 bookings and 10 clients a month, no card, no time limit.

Pick one of the others if you run several vans, price by postcode, sell PPF, or work from a fixed unit with walk-in trade. Pick AutoBook if you are one person in a van who wants to get paid and stop doing admin at 10pm.

Try it without deciding

Free means free

The free plan does 3 quotes, 5 booked jobs and 10 clients a month, with deposits included and no commission ever. No card, no time limit. When you outgrow it, Solo is £25 a month and Business is £60. That is the whole price list.

Start free — no card See the maths behind £25

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