Zaras for Locksmiths
Emergency calls, rekeys, and access-control work that has to survive the interruption.
There is not even a federal monthly employment series for this trade — ask BLS for it and the answer that comes back is that it does not exist. The one pattern people reach for instead, a summer burglary season, turns out to point in opposite directions depending on the region, so there is no national shape to plan against. What governs the book is whether an unscheduled call can be absorbed without wrecking the scheduled work.
What carries call to call: the verification the keyed record the slack in the book.
A two-in-the-morning lockout, a property manager’s rekey, and the access-control install the week’s callouts kept pushing — all on the same record.
Two in the morning
Location, access, and verification of authority to open — all established and on the record before anything is opened.
Building rekey
A property manager’s master system changed, with the keyed record updated so the next call is five minutes and not a guess.
Locksmith money comes from two engines — the work that arrives without asking, and what turns a callout into a five-minute job the next time. The key record is the difference between arriving at two in the morning knowing the building and arriving to start from nothing.
The work that arrives without asking.
What turns a callout into a five-minute job.
The record, not the memory: every callout and every keyed property, on the same book.
Unscheduled calls — logged with location and access before the tech rolls.
Verification of authority — recorded before anything is opened, not remembered after.
Response radius and assignment — the nearest tech who can actually make the window.
Keyed records by property — what was cut, what was keyed to what, and when.
Master systems and rekeys — changes tracked at the property, not on a sticky note.
Access-control projects — scheduled installs that don't get lost under callouts.
Deposits and scheduling — no crew goes out on the access-control job until the signed estimate is back — then the date holds.
Invoicing + QuickBooks — the invoice ties back to the verified call and the property's keyed record, not a fresh guess.
Call → verify → open → record → paid — every callout, one record.
Plans and prices are public on the pricing page — no sales call to get a number.
Yes. Invoices and payments flow straight into QuickBooks — no double entry, no bookkeeper fights.
It’s yours, both directions. Customers, keyed records, and open callouts come in with you when you join — and everything exports, any time.
Yes — property-manager and commercial access-control work with per-building keyed records and NET-terms billing live on the same record as your residential calls.
Locksmiths running 1–40 crews — from an owner-operator to a multi-truck shop.
We onboard a limited number of shops at a time. Request an invite, fit is reviewed within 24 hours with a reply either way, and accepted shops get guided onboarding — pricebook and customer list loaded with you, not dumped on you.
Private beta
Every plan runs the full operating system for locksmiths — lockout dispatch, verification, rekeys, access-control projects, invoicing, payments. Pick the size that fits the crews you run today.
$49/ month
One tech, one van. Log the call, verify authority, open it, and leave the keyed record straight for whoever answers next time.
from$149/ month
The call board and the key record on one screen — every tech logging what changed, the office watching what the week’s callouts pushed.
Free trial first, month-to-month after — cancel anytime. Full plan detail on the pricing page.
