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How to Charge a Travel Fee for Mobile Detailing

Charge a travel fee for mobile detailing jobs outside your usual area. In TwoBucket, save a flat travel fee once, mention it in your booking page policy, then add it to any quote from Saved items.

Steps

  1. In Services, open Saved items and click New item.
  2. Name it Travel fee, say where it applies, like Outside Austin, and set the price, for example $25.
  3. In Booking page, open Policies and add a line about the fee, so customers know before they ask.
  4. Open the customer's request and click Create quote.
  5. Click Add item, search for travel and pick Travel fee.
  6. Click Save and send. The fee shows on its own line on the customer's quote.
Transcript

0:00 Save a travel fee

In this video you’ll learn how to charge a travel fee for mobile detailing in TwoBucket. Many detailers add a flat travel fee for jobs outside their usual area. From the sidebar, click Services. Then click the Saved items tab. These go on your quotes and invoices, not on your booking page. Click New item. Call it Travel fee, with the description Outside Austin, and a price of twenty-five dollars. Click Save. Tell customers up front, too.

0:29 Tell customers up front

From the sidebar, click Booking page. Open the section called Policies. Customers read it before they send a request, and on their quote. Add a sentence at the end: Outside Austin, there’s a twenty-five dollar travel fee. Then click Save.

0:48 Add it to the quote

From the sidebar, click Requests. Ethan Brooks’s request is on top. He’s in Pflugerville, outside Austin. Click it. Click Create quote. His Full detailing is already in. Click Add item and type travel. Under Saved items, click Travel fee, then Done. The total is now two hundred five dollars. Click Save and send, then Send by email.

1:16 What Ethan sees

Here’s Ethan’s quote. The Travel fee is on its own line, and your policy explains it. Thanks for watching. You can change the fee for your next quotes under Services, in Saved items.

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