Lot Board · in final testing
IT’S ON THE LOT.
SOMEWHERE.
Every car you take in already has a number hanging off the mirror. The Lot Board is the wall-mounted tablet that remembers where the porter put it — so nobody walks the back row twice, and the customer waiting at the desk gets their keys.
Included in Shop Route Board — $99 a month per rooftop. No separate licence.
FOUR THINGS.
THAT’S THE WHOLE JOB.
A porter has keys in one hand and a tag in the other. Anything that takes more than a few taps at a wall gets skipped by Thursday, and a board nobody updates is worse than no board. So the Lot Board does four things and stops.
Punch the tag. Say who. Tap where.
The number off the mirror goes in on a keypad — big keys, no on-screen keyboard, works with gloves on. Press Enter and the tablet asks who is parking it, then lights up your locations. Tap one and it’s down.
Type the tag. See the row.
Same keypad, the other direction. Type a number and the car comes back with where it is, who parked it, and how long it has been sitting. The count on every location is live, so the wall also answers “is the back row full?” at a glance.
Cars move. The board keeps up.
Pull a car up for a test drive or shuffle it off the wash line and Move takes two taps: the new location, then who moved it. The tablet asks every time rather than remembering the last porter — on a shared wall, that is almost never the same person.
The ones that have been sitting.
Set how long is too long for your store. Past that, the car turns amber — on the wall and in the app — so a unit waiting on a part since Tuesday stops being invisible until somebody goes looking for it.
A CAR NOBODY IS LOOKING FOR
IS THE ONE THAT COSTS YOU.
Nothing on the lot announces itself. A car waiting on a part, a declined estimate nobody called back on, a loaner that never came home — they all look the same from the dispatch window. Set a threshold and the board stops letting them blend in.
Your threshold, set by a manager under Lot → Settings → Board. Anything from 1 hour to 30 days; 72 hours is the default.
NOBODY LOGS A WALL IN
AT SEVEN IN THE MORNING.
Paired once, to your store
A manager generates a short pairing code in the app and types it into the tablet once. The device carries its own credential from then on — it opens straight onto the Park screen, and it can only ever write to your store.
Settings behind a PIN
Locations, porters, the tile layout and the aging threshold are all edited by a signed-in manager. Give the wall a PIN as well and a manager can rename the back row standing at it — without one, the tablet parks and finds cars but changes nothing, which is the safe default.
It runs in a pinned browser
No app store, no install, no separate device management. Any decent Android tablet on the wall outside the dispatch office, pinned to the one screen, is the whole hardware story.
THE WI-FI DROPS.
THE PORTER DOESN’T STOP.
Lots are the worst signal in the building. When the tablet loses the network it keeps taking parks and pulls and holds them on the device — through a reload, through a browser restart — then sends them in order the moment it is back. The porter never sees a spinner and never has to remember what the wall missed.
Written down, then sent
Each move is stored on the tablet the instant it is made and marked unsent until the server confirms it. Nothing is held only in memory, so a dropped connection costs you nothing but a few seconds of catching up.
THE WALL IS FOR PORTERS.
THE DESK GETS ITS OWN VIEW.
An advisor with a customer in front of them should not be squinting at a nine-box grid across the shop. Signed in to Shop Route Board, the Lot tab is a plain search: type the tag, get the car, see where it is and how long it has been there.
Advisors and porters both
Anyone who can move a car on your board can park, pull and move one on the lot. Viewers stay read-only.
Same board, one login
It is a tab in the product you already run — not another system with another password and another bill.
Your store only
Every read and write is scoped to your rooftop, tablet included. A paired device cannot reach another store’s lot.
WHERE IT ACTUALLY IS.
In final testing
The Lot Board is running on a real service drive today — parks, pulls and moves, on a wall-mounted tablet. It is in final testing, which means we are still shaking it out on live lots before we call it finished. If you turn it on now, expect us to be in touch about how it goes.
Not in it yet
There is no barcode or VIN scanning — tags are typed. There is no lot report or CSV export of lot history, and nothing emails you about a car that has been sitting; the aging flag lives on the board itself. Those are on the list, not in the box.
IT COMES WITH THE BOARD.
The Lot Board is part of Shop Route Board — $99 a month per rooftop, unlimited users, no contract. Turn it on from your settings when you want it, and hang a tablet on the wall.