Admin
The owner
Full access. Workbench, profitability, calibration, tech performance, shop fees, user management, parts catalog, imports.
Case Study · Point of Sale
Studs Cycles POS
A shop-floor POS built around how a motorcycle shop actually runs. One screen to see every repair order in flight, a fast ticket builder, per-technician time tracking, and live profitability math — designed from the owner's daily workflow up.
PocketBase · Go backend · SvelteKit · Svelte 5 · SQLite, single-binary deploy
Client
Independent motorcycle shop
Engagement
Port & rebuild from Go prototype
Outcome
Live, single-binary deploy
Daily triage
The Workbench
One screen, one glance. Every repair order in flight, grouped by lifecycle status, with the numbers that matter visible without a click.
- Five status lanes — Needs Approval, Ready to Work, In the Shop, Collect Payment, Ready for Pickup
- One-click advance on every card — approve, start, complete, release — each with a 5-second undo toast
- Stacked avatars show which technicians are on each RO's labor lines
- Opened date vs. last activity shown separately, so closed tickets don't look like they just updated
The workhorse
Repair-order builder
Parts, labor, and fees as line items. Per-labor-line technician assignments and timer controls. Live totals plus gross profit % visible the whole time. Payment panel inline — no navigation needed.
- Quick-job bar — common services are one tap to add as a template of labor + parts
- Per-line technician pickers plus start/stop timers that clock real work to labor_time_logs
- Live gross profit + margin — the owner sees profitability while quoting, not after
- Pay-balance shortcut prefills the full outstanding amount with one click
Owner-facing dashboard
Parts Orders
Sees what techs have queued, records the real PO + ETA when placed, and surfaces a "call these customers" list when shipments arrive.
- Needs Ordering — unordered parts grouped by vendor; multi-select across ROs and record a single PO
- In Flight — overdue orders highlighted; one-click mark-arrived
- Ready to Contact — when every part on an RO arrives, the customer surfaces with a tap-to-dial phone number
Is the shop making money?
Profitability dashboard
Five headline numbers and a per-RO table. Filter by date and technician. Every column header explains itself on hover — Parts Differential, Labor Cost, Gross Profit, Margin.
Tune your quotes
Labor calibration
Clocked time diverges from quoted over time. The calibration page surfaces that drift with a suggested new default per labor item — one-click to apply, every change audit-logged.
Who's hitting targets?
Technician performance
Weekly, monthly, and 90-day clocked hours alongside quoted, efficiency ratio, and per-tech template drift. If Slow Sam is +23% on diagnostics over 5 jobs, you see it here.
The small stuff that matters
Built out, end to end
Wage rates visible at a glance. Fee catalog with auto-apply. A unified customer+bike+RO intake that turns a phone call into a booked ticket without leaving one screen.
Everyone sees what they need
Three roles, three tailored views
Every user sees exactly the tools their job needs — no more, no less. Same database, same app, different surface.
Staff
Front-desk / manager
Same workbench and customer tools, no admin sidebar. Approve estimates, record payments, pick up parts, answer phones.
Technician
The wrench
Auto-routed to their own bench — just their assigned ROs. Clock in/out on labor lines. Minimal UI, touch-friendly.
Under the hood
Small, boring, reliable
One Go binary. One SQLite file. One static SvelteKit bundle. No Redis, no Postgres, no message queues. Deploys to any machine that runs Go.
Backend
PocketBase · Go
Frontend
SvelteKit · Svelte 5
UI
shadcn-svelte · Tailwind
Database
SQLite (embedded)
Auth
Role-based
Testing
Go · Vitest · Playwright
Hosting
Single binary · macOS
Public access
Cloudflare Tunnel
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