The operating system for the car wash industry.
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Karan Toor, Founder
Chirag Toor, Founder
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Hi, we’re Chirag and Karan, founders of Flex Wash, based in Temecula CA. We have decades of software development experience and ran a car wash ourselves.
Flex Wash is an operating system for the car wash industry. We help owners manage their operations and grow their revenue.
Car washing is an industry no one ever thinks about, especially software companies. But they should! This is a $15B industry that is rapidly evolving with publicly traded companies and franchises entering the space for the first time in history.
The Problem
Car washes have complex technology needs beyond just normal retail
- 🚗 License plate recognition and tracking
- 💰 Monthly subscription management
- 🧑 Customer retargeting
- ⚙️ Complex maintenance for equipment that costs up to $1M
Current solutions in this space are
- 💲 Costly, charge big upfront fees for custom hardware (up to $100K)
- 📟 Out of date, require ancient versions of Windows on-premise servers
- 🩼 Inflexible, software is sold in static licenses rather than as a service
The Solution
We offer car wash operators a system that is:
- 😺 Affordable, just a monthly SaaS fee
- 📱 Compatible with generic hardware (< $700)
- ☁️ Runs in the cloud, operators can focus on car washing, not servers
- 💰 Modern, we use vehicle wash history to funnel customers to high-margin subscriptions
We know this because we ran a car wash ourselves. We faced these issues first hand and that is why we got together to build FlexWash. Our solution not only saves operators money but helps them better manage operations and boost revenue.
The Ask
- Own a car wash? … We’d love to give you a demo
- Don’t own a car wash? … Refer anyone in your network, especially your favorite car wash, please.
- Car wash enthusiast? … We’d love to chat.
Reach us at karan@flexwashtech.com.
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How did your company get started? (i.e., How did the founders meet? How did you come up with the idea? How did you decide to be a founder?)
In 2019 I took over the family business, a 20 year old full service car wash. This business had no subscription program, which by this point had become a popular thing in the car wash industry. The site was also surrounded by several well established competitors.\Instead of offering an identical subscription model that gave customers a single wash unlimited I wanted to do something different. Our subscription gave customers more flexibility and combined multiple packages from our menu, allowing them to both clean the car themselves and take advantage of options where we cleaned the car for them all for a recurring monthly fee.\I searched the industry for a solution that would help me do this and found none. All existing solutions were inflexible and came with quotes over $100K. This wasn’t going to work for us, so I built a custom solution and shortly after other car washes were interested in using it as well.