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Locksmith Software: 24-Hour Dispatch, Mobile POS, and the Parking-Lot Signal Test

July 27, 2026 3 min read·Service Pro Suite Team
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Locksmith Software: 24-Hour Dispatch, Mobile POS, and the Parking-Lot Signal Test

Locksmith Software

Locksmith software has to work at 3 a.m. in a parking lot with one bar of signal — because that's when a car-lockout call rings. Everything else is dressing.

24-hour emergency lockout dispatch

The dispatch board keeps every tech's current location on a live map, SMS-pages the closest available truck, and gives the customer a link with a real-time ETA and the tech's photo before the caller even hangs up. That's the whole moat.

Key-code inventory per truck

Restricted keyways (Medeco, Mul-T-Lock, Assa Abloy, Schlage Primus), transponder chips (Toyota G-Chip, GM Passlock, Ford Tibbe), and physical key blanks tracked per truck with per-code reorder thresholds. Your locksmith software has to know what's in every van and what's on backorder — or you'll dispatch a tech to a job they can't finish.

Mobile POS on the tech's phone

Swipe a card, tap Apple Pay, or fire an SMS pay-link. Money hits your Stripe balance before the tech leaves the customer's driveway. Locksmith work is 100% same-day paid or 100% ghosted — modern locksmith software has to close the payment loop at the door.

After-hours rate schedules that auto-apply

Between 8 p.m. and 8 a.m., the invoice should auto-apply your after-hours rate schedule (typically 1.5-2x day rate). Manual overrides on a 2 a.m. invoice are how shops leave money on the table.

Signed invoice PDF + cash-drawer report per truck

Every completed job produces a signed invoice PDF (customer signature captured on the mobile app) and a per-truck end-of-shift cash-drawer report that reconciles the day.

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24-hour dispatch, key-code inventory, mobile POS, after-hours rate schedules, and per-truck cash-drawer reports all ship in the base plan. Start the 14-day free trial or see the locksmith page.

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