As your team grows, keeping quality consistent gets harder — and you have no proof that standards were actually met. Quality checks fix that. You build checklists for the work you do, decide where they apply, and your team completes them on the job — with photos as proof. Required checklists must be finished before a job can be marked complete.
Building a Checklist
Start by creating a template — a reusable checklist for a type of work, like "Interior QC," "Exterior QC," or "Ceramic Coating QC."
Navigate to the Quality Checks page.
Create a new template and give it a name.
Add the items your team should check off.
For any item, mark whether a photo is required — great for documenting condition or proof of work.
You can reorder and edit items anytime as your process evolves.
Deciding Where a Checklist Applies
Once you have a template, you create an assignment that tells DetailerMade when it should show up. You have flexible options:
Scope | Example |
Business-wide | "Ceramic Coating QC is required for the Ceramic Coating service." |
Per service | "Interior QC is required for Full Interior Detail." |
Per team | "Exterior QC is optional for Team Alpha." |
Per team + service | A specific checklist for a specific team on a specific service. |
Each assignment is set as required or optional:
Required — must be completed before the job can be marked complete.
Optional — shown to the employee, but can be skipped.
Completing Checks on a Job
When an employee opens a job, DetailerMade automatically figures out which checklists apply based on the job's services and the assigned team. The employee:
Sees the applicable checklists, each marked required or optional.
Works through the items, uploading photos where required.
Can save as they go and finish later.
Enforcement at Job Completion
This is the heart of the feature: a job with required checklists can't be marked complete until those checklists are finished. If an employee tries, they'll see exactly which checklists still need to be done. That guarantees your standards are met — and documented — on every job that calls for them.
Reviewing Quality
You can look back at completed checklists across your jobs, making it easy to spot trends, confirm completion rates, and see the photo record for any job.
Pro Tip: Build templates around your most important or most variable services first. That's where consistent standards — and photo proof — pay off the most.