bigleo48
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So for a while now I've been wanting to roll out a 'conditional' unlimited washing program in my SS bays (I have a separate subscription for IBA) . However, the Gen 1 Unitec Washpay server wasn't able to do what I wanted. So about a year and a half ago, I started discussing what I wanted to do with Unitec. They listened and incorporated my ideas into their product. I now have the Gen 2 server and I have just rolled out my subscription plan. This is what I'm doing;
For $39.99/mth + tax, 3 month min (10% discount if after-hours is selected 6pm-6am), the person gets a card that allows them to redeem up to 10 mins of wash bay time, per day every day, in a selected SS bay (I choose the bay). Because of how the Washpay server works, I need to set up every SS bay as its own 'product', so that's why it can only be redeemed in a specific bay. But every customer can be assigned a different bay, so I don't load up one bay. This is fine with me as I can better distribute usage in my 8 bays and assign the program to the least used bays. Commercial vehicle prohibited.
Cards can be purchase & refilled online.
I haven't started advertising it yet, but it will be interesting to see how it does. As far as I know, I am the only carwash (with 1000 miles) that offers a subscription program like this. I have three competitors in my area, all are un-maned and none have the ability to do this.
One of the very important factors here is cost of delivery. As most of you realize, the cost of delivery is simply the cost of water, sewer, heat & elec, chemicals and finally equip wear and tear. Stuff, like lighting, floor heat, property taxes, etc are pretty much unchanged if you have customers washing or not. So I determined my cost of deliver and even if a customer uses the full 10min every day, I will still make a small profit. However, I would like to note that my switch to powered soaps (from $400 per 55 gal drum to $45) has allowed me to do this. Help from members like Waxman has helped greatly. Thanks!
For $39.99/mth + tax, 3 month min (10% discount if after-hours is selected 6pm-6am), the person gets a card that allows them to redeem up to 10 mins of wash bay time, per day every day, in a selected SS bay (I choose the bay). Because of how the Washpay server works, I need to set up every SS bay as its own 'product', so that's why it can only be redeemed in a specific bay. But every customer can be assigned a different bay, so I don't load up one bay. This is fine with me as I can better distribute usage in my 8 bays and assign the program to the least used bays. Commercial vehicle prohibited.
Cards can be purchase & refilled online.
I haven't started advertising it yet, but it will be interesting to see how it does. As far as I know, I am the only carwash (with 1000 miles) that offers a subscription program like this. I have three competitors in my area, all are un-maned and none have the ability to do this.
One of the very important factors here is cost of delivery. As most of you realize, the cost of delivery is simply the cost of water, sewer, heat & elec, chemicals and finally equip wear and tear. Stuff, like lighting, floor heat, property taxes, etc are pretty much unchanged if you have customers washing or not. So I determined my cost of deliver and even if a customer uses the full 10min every day, I will still make a small profit. However, I would like to note that my switch to powered soaps (from $400 per 55 gal drum to $45) has allowed me to do this. Help from members like Waxman has helped greatly. Thanks!
