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Quoting a Yearly Tune-Up Plan Alongside the Repair

The best time to offer a yearly tune-up is when the customer is already thinking about their garage door, and nothing makes them think about it like a repair. A broken spring, a noisy opener, a door off its track. Put the tune-up plan on the same estimate as the repair, and a one-time customer has a reason to come back every year.

The Quote That Brings Them Back

Many tune-up plan conversations start in the back-and-forth covered in Texting Customers About a Garage Door Quote: Questions, Answers and a Record of Both. A customer asks, “How do I keep this from happening again?” The honest answer is regular service by a trained tech, and the plan is how you offer it.

How Tune-Up Plans Work

In GarageDoorBossPro, recurring work is set by minimum days between visits. A yearly tune-up plan uses 365. After each completed visit, the next one comes due on its own once those days have passed.

When a visit comes due, it shows up on the Waiting List, a live map and list of every visit that came due plus new requests. Pins are colored by status: not due yet, due now, or overdue past a 7-day grace. The office picks them up, puts them on the tune-up van's days and auto-routes them.

Putting the Plan on the Repair Estimate

On the estimate, the tune-up plan is a separate line item from your service list. A repair estimate might look like:

• Service Call — $89
• Torsion Spring Replacement (Pair) — $295
• Roller Replacement (full set) — $129
• Option: Yearly Tune-Up Plan — $129 per year

Those prices are examples; yours come from your own list. Keep the plan as its own line so the customer can approve the repair and decide on the plan separately.

What to Say About the Plan

The estimate note on the tune-up line should say what the visit includes, in plain words, without promises you cannot keep. For example:

“Yearly visit includes our door safety inspection: springs, cables and drums, rollers, hinges and brackets, tracks, door balance, the auto-reverse safety test, photo-eye sensors, opener force and limits, lubrication, seals and weatherstripping, the emergency release, and keypad and remotes. You get a printed safety inspection report after each visit.”

That is a factual description of what the tech does. Avoid claims about how long the door will last or how much the customer will save. You can say the tech checks each item and tells them what they found.

Plan Members and Your Pricing

Many companies give tune-up plan members something extra: a reduced service call on repair visits, priority scheduling, or a discount on parts. That is your policy to set. If you do, write it into the plan line's note so the customer sees the benefit, and set up any member pricing as its own services so the office quotes it consistently.

Signing Up Through the Customer App

Not every customer decides on the plan at the time of the repair. The customer app lets customers sign up for services and pricing, such as a yearly tune-up plan, on their own later. They can also update their card there, so the yearly visit can be charged to the card on file when the tech completes it.

The website sign-up form works the same way for new customers: it captures a card, lands in Form Responses, and one click converts the sign-up into a client.

The Plan Feeds Future Quotes

Every tune-up visit produces a fresh door safety inspection, with readings like door age, opener age and spring turns, a condition and the tech's recommendations. When something needs attention, the office has what it needs to write a repair estimate, as covered in Quoting After a Failed Safety Inspection: Turning the Checklist Into an Estimate.

Over a few years, the house record fills in: every visit, every finding, every repair. Quotes for that house get more accurate, and the customer gets a company that knows their door.

Commercial Maintenance Plans

Commercial accounts often want more frequent visits. A warehouse with dock doors might be on commercial door maintenance every 90 days. Quote it the same way: a separate maintenance line, priced per door if that is how you price it, with the schedule in the note. Commercial quotes are covered next.

Repairs Today, Visits Every Year

A tune-up plan on the repair estimate costs nothing to offer and turns a single call into a yearly relationship. Keep it as its own line, describe it honestly, and let the Waiting List bring the customer back each year. For more on quoting, visit the GarageDoorBossPro garage door estimate software page.