Mobile POS for car washes
The car wash POS that runs on a phone, not a pay station.
Take payments, sell memberships, and run every profit center on site, from a QR code to the customer's phone. No five-figure hardware to buy, finally an answer to rip and replace. Branded to your wash.
The problem
The most expensive box on your lot is the one taking the money.
Pay stations were built for a cash era that's already gone. As the industry goes cashless and mobile, that hardware is dead weight: expensive, inflexible, and slow to change.
Legacy pay stations are a five-figure capital expense, before maintenance, downtime, and the inevitable forced upgrade.
Incumbent hardware is being end-of-lifed, pushing operators into costly rip-and-replace cycles they never asked for.
Profit centers stay fragmented and your data stays hostage to a provider with little reason to innovate.
How it works
Scan. Pay. Wash. The whole transaction lives on the phone.
This is the real Phase 1 experience: a lightweight web checkout that starts a wash without a single piece of pay-station hardware.
Scan the QR
A code posted at the bay or lane opens the branded menu instantly. No app download, no login.
Pick a wash & add-ons
Tiered washes and upsells, priced and presented the way the operator sets them.
Pay in two taps
Apple Pay, Google Pay, or card via Stripe. Money hits the operator's account directly.
Drive through
Pivot signals the wash controller over IoT, the wash starts, and the green light comes on.
One platform
Every profit center on site, in one system of record.
Not a loyalty add-on bolted onto someone else's hardware: the POS itself, running the entire operation from a single branded platform.
Single washes
QR checkout for every drive-up customer, no account required.
Memberships
Sell and manage unlimited or limited plans, the recurring revenue that drives valuations.
Fleet accounts
Dedicated billing and access for commercial and fleet customers.
Loyalty
Customers earn points and bonus dollars on wallet reloads, great for the pay-as-you-go customer.
Self-serve bays
Start timers in self-service bays straight from the phone.
Pet & add-ons
Dog washes, detailing add-ons, and every other profit center on site.
Who it's for
Built for the way every kind of wash actually runs.
In-Bay Automatic
Add limited or capped subscriptions and bundle every profit center (vacuums, self-serve, pet washes) into memberships that finally compete with the tunnels.
Express Tunnels
Mobile-only lanes cut hardware and staffing. The smartphone becomes the membership credential, with no antiquated RFID or LPR required.
Full Service & Flex
An attendant app for a fast, friendly, Chick-fil-A-style line, plus limited memberships at premium pricing.
Self-Service
Start bay timers from the phone and roll self-serve, in-bay, vacuums, and pet washes into one bundled offer. No need for 3rd party swipe or tap to pay hardware.
How it connects
It wires into what you already run.
Pivot uses off-the-shelf industrial IoT modules that connect directly to your PLC, timers, or wash controller and your on-site internet. A successful payment sends the start signal. No proprietary pay station in the middle.
- Direct to PLC, timers, and wash controllers
- Standard, vendor-neutral hardware for business continuity
- Works across tunnels, in-bay, self-serve, and vacuums
- You own your customers' data, not a 3rd party
Signal path
Customer phone
QR scan + pay
Pivot cloud
POS + payments
IoT module
off-the-shelf
Wash controller
PLC / timers
Roadmap
Live today. Branded apps next.
QR-driven mobile checkout
A no-download progressive web app: scan, choose a wash, pay with Apple Pay, Google Pay, or card, and the wash starts over IoT. Live and validating at operator sites.
- No app, no login
- Stripe + Apple/Google Pay
- IoT wash activation
Branded native apps
Downloadable iOS and Android apps under the operator's own brand, with full subscriptions, fleet accounts, and customer wallets that drive recurring revenue and resale value.
- iOS + Android
- Subscriptions & fleet
- Branded wallet
Built with the Industry
We've built this before. This time it's independent, and it's not going anywhere.
Our founder built branded mobile apps for car washes once already. The product was good enough to get acquired, and then it was shelved. Operators who loved it were left without support.
Pivot is that idea, rebuilt independently and owned by the people who use it. We develop alongside an Operator Advisory Committee of working operators, so the roadmap is set by the industry, not by a hardware vendor's quarterly targets.
Mobile software, a servant mentality, and a roadmap the industry actually owns.
Get started
See Pivot running at a wash near you.
Tell us about your site and we'll set up a walkthrough and tailored pricing. Switching from another provider? We make migration painless.