The operating system for an intentional service day

Make every service-day decision intentional.

BaySync connects booking, dispatch, repair progress, parts, approvals, and customer commitments — so every team knows what should happen next, why it matters, and whether it improved the day.

One workday shared by
AdvisorsTechniciansPartsBDCManagersCustomers
Today's operating picture
Lanes · promises · parts · handoffs
Illustrative example
ExpressL1
RAV4 · lounge waiter
LOF · ROT
Camry
BR-FR · WI
Sienna
DIAG · A/C
MaintL2
Tacoma
COMPLETE
4Runner
30K SVC
Corolla
BR-RR
HeavyL3
Highlander
RECALL
Tundra
TRANS-SVC
DiagL4
Prius
HV-BATT
Camry
TIRES
Sequoia
PARTS WAIT
InternalL5
GR86
ALIGN
bZ4X
PDI
Tundra
INT/RECON
Sample data showing real BaySync workflows — not live production numbers.
The operating problem

The plan changes all day. Your operating picture should change with it.

The 7am plan is fiction by 9:15. What separates a good day from a bad one isn't the plan — it's how deliberately the department responds each time the day moves.

A technician calls outSix booked hours suddenly need new homes — and every promise on that tech just moved.
Work gets added mid-dayAn approval lands three more hours on a queue that was already full at 2pm.
Parts arriveA vehicle that's been sitting can restart right now — if anyone notices.
A waiter's promise slipsThe customer in the lounge was told 10:30. The plan changed; the promise didn't.
A customer decidesApproved two lines, declined one, forty minutes ago. Who acted on it?
What needs attention now

Not a dashboard. A decision queue.

BaySync turns each change in shop conditions into a card: what changed, why it matters, and the recommended next action — ranked, owned, and cleared by a person.

Illustrative example — real BaySync workflows, sample data
UNMAPPED SKILL
New op code from your DMS: DIAG1
Two repair orders can't route to any technician until the code is mapped to a skill.
Map it in the service menu
WAITER PROMISE RISK
Lounge waiter promised 10:30 · 25 min of slack left
The customer is in the building. Miss this quietly and you've taught them not to trust the next promise.
Re-sequence the queue, or reset the expectation now
PARTS RECEIVED
Last special-order part received for a parts-hold RO
The vehicle is on the lot and the work can restart the moment it's re-dispatched.
Send it back to the diagnosing technician
TECHNICIAN ABSENCE
Today's attendance sheet marks one technician out
Their booked work still shows healthy on paper. It isn't.
Review reassignments for their queue
CUSTOMER DECISION
Estimate decision in — approved 2 of 3 lines, 40 min ago
An unacknowledged approval is paid work standing still.
Acknowledge and get it back on a bay
QUEUE-DRIVEN PROMISE RISK
A large approval grew one technician's queue
Three other promises on that technician just recalculated — the advisors relaying them should know.
Review the recalculated ready-by times
How BaySync guides the day

From booking through closeout, on one rail.

Five commitments the system holds all day, for every role on the drive.

Plan achievable work
booking · capacity

Appointments are booked against real technician capacity and published schedules — not an advisor calendar and hope.

Put work in the right hands
dispatch

Every dispatch decision is scored, explained, and either auto-assigned above a threshold or handed to the manager with the reasoning attached.

Keep commitments current
promises

Ready-by times recalculate when real events change the day, so the team relays truth instead of the morning's guess.

Close every handoff
decisions · parts

Approvals, parts arrivals, and reassignments stay visible until a person acts on them. Nothing clears itself.

Measure the result
closeout · learning

Actual completion times, signed rechecks, and captured follow-ups measure whether today was better than yesterday.

Operational decision engines

Deterministic engines. Human judgment. Logged decisions.

BaySync's engines are rule-based and explainable — you can always see why a recommendation was made, and a person always has the final word.

Dispatch decisions

Every dispatchable repair order is scored against every available technician — weighing each tech's measured efficiency on that operation, remaining capacity, and quality history. Hard rules run first: skill and certification, the published roster, today's attendance sheet, PTO, parts status, bay limits, and lane policy. Auto-assignment only happens above a configured score threshold; everything else waits for the manager, with the full score breakdown shown. Every override is logged with who and why.

DETERMINISTIC · EXPLAINABLE

Promise decisions

Ready-by times recalculate when something real happens: an approval, a parts arrival, an hours change, reduced scope, verified blocked time, or a technician's queue growing. The original promise is frozen as the baseline, so accuracy is always measured against what the customer was first told. A learned padding model exists — and stays off until it's reviewed against real data.

EVENT-DRIVEN

Parts & slot recovery

Special orders are tracked from request to received. When the last part lands, the repair order routes back to the technician who diagnosed it — or round-robins within the skill if they're unavailable. No-show appointment slots trigger recovery offers with expiry windows and a strike limit.

NOTHING WAITS QUIETLY

Technician performance

Per-operation efficiency is measured from actual clock time, and no technician is scored on an operation until there's a minimum sample behind the number. Comebacks count only from manager-signed recheck reports — never from hearsay. Manager adjustments are separate dials that never rewrite the measured record.

MEASURED · FAIR

Customer & sales follow-up

Estimate decisions land in an inbox until a person acknowledges them. Declined work becomes a follow-up list that de-duplicates repeat quotes and clears itself when the customer later approves the same work. Next visits get proposed before the vehicle leaves the lane.

DECISIONS GET CLOSED
Prove the operation improved

If the day got better, you should be able to see it.

BaySync ships a measurement framework, not invented benchmarks. Every number in the product shows its source and freshness — and until a measure is trustworthy, it's labeled that way instead of estimated.

Measuring nowPromise accuracypromised vs. actual completion, measured against the original promise
Measuring nowShow rate & no-showsarrived vs. due, from appointment status
Measuring nowAppointment capturenext-visit accept rate and who's booking
Measuring nowNo-show slot recoveryrecovered appointments and backfill rate
Measuring nowComeback ratecounted only from manager-signed recheck reports
Being builtSold hours per technician-daythe throughput number the whole model serves
Being builtEffective labor rate (realized)door-rate reality, not menu theory
Being builtDeclined-work recapturethe follow-up queue exists; the rate is being built
PlannedCustomer-experience trendbaseline promise data recorded now; trend reporting to come

We publish no performance statistics on this page on purpose: BaySync is measuring its first store now, and we'd rather show you your own numbers than someone else's.

One shared workday

Five roles. One operating picture. Handoffs that close.

Most service-department software gives each role a silo. BaySync gives each role its own view of the sameday — so a handoff is a state change everyone sees, not a sticky note.

Advisors

Own the customer conversation: arrival, the estimate, relaying every promise change, and closing each decision the customer makes.

Technicians

Own the wrench time and the story: clock-verified work, inspection findings, and the block flags that explain a stalled vehicle.

Parts

Own request → ordered → received. The moment the last part lands, dispatch gets the vehicle moving again — no hallway relay required.

Managers

Own the exceptions: escalations the engine wouldn't auto-assign, absences, promise risks, and the overrides that are theirs to make — and to have logged.

Customers

Own their decisions. Approvals and declines flow into the same operating picture the shop runs on, so a decision never sits unseen.

Integration & trust

What's connected, and what's honestly not yet.

Today BaySync runs on CDK through a certified Fortellis integration, alongside the Xtime workflows your team already uses. Other DMS platforms are on the roadmap — we don't claim them until they're real.

CDK, through Fortellis — live today

A certified Fortellis integration reads appointments, repair orders, op codes, parts sales, customers, and service history from CDK at our pilot store. Read-only, on an hourly business-window schedule.

Xtime workflows, mirrored

BaySync mirrors what your team already records in Xtime Inspect — stages, tech stories, inspections, and customer decisions — into the shared operating picture. One direction: into BaySync.

Writeback: built, and off

DMS writeback exists in the codebase and is disabled behind multiple independent gates. It stays off until the write API is live, field mapping is dealer-approved, and the confirm flow is proven. Nothing writes to your DMS today.

Customer messaging: off until cutover

Every SMS and email path ships behind a hard kill switch, and suppressed sends are recorded so you can audit what would have gone out. Nothing reaches a customer until your go-live cutover throws the switch.

Role-scoped access, logged actions

Eight staff roles, each seeing only its own surface. Dispatches, overrides, estimate changes, and notification attempts are logged with the actor and the reason.

Honestly: one store today

BaySync is running a hardened single-store pilot right now. We'll tell you exactly what's live, what's gated, and what's still being built — this page was written from that audit.

Request pilot access

Run tomorrow with greater intention than today.

See how BaySync can connect the decisions, commitments, and results across your service department. We respond to every request within one business day.

  • Read-only DMS discovery first — nothing writes to your systems.
  • Single-rooftop pilot alongside your current process — that's how we run it today.
  • Feature-flagged rollout: every automation ships off until your store arms it.
  • Direct line to the founding team for the whole pilot.
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