The morning board
Springs, cables, off-track doors, and dead openers — a trapped car is a now job, not a callback.
Zaras for Garage Door
Same-day repairs, opener installs, and door-replacement estimates.
Cold mornings contract and embrittle hardened-steel torsion springs, and a trapped car turns the break into an emergency call — the winter high, per garage-door repair sources. Install season runs the other way, warm and even from April through October, as spring and fall recommended windows meet summer demand. Two lanes moving opposite ways, one record holding both.
What carries season to season: door history opener serials the open estimate.
A snapped spring, a scheduled opener install, and the replacement conversation the Monday call started — history for the tech, the estimate for the office, one thread for the customer.
Snapped spring, car trapped
The same-day slot goes to the trapped car first; the flat-rate spring swap closes fast, and the door’s age gets noted on the record before the tech leaves the driveway.
Door replacement closes
Monday’s repair is what started the conversation — the estimate gets approved, the deposit collected, and the new door ordered, all from the same thread the spring call opened.
Garage money comes from two engines — same-day break-fix that pays the week, and the replacement estimates the repair calls surface. Zaras runs both from the same record.
Springs, cables, off-track doors, and dead openers — a trapped car is a now job, not a callback.
Replacement estimates sold on the repair visit — the 2025 Cost vs. Value Report puts garage-door replacement at the top of the year’s home-improvement ROI list.
The record, not the whiteboard — every job from first call to paid, with nothing re-keyed into a second system.
Same-day dispatch — trapped-car calls slotted with a real ETA, door history at the door.
Flat-rate spring, cable, and opener pricebook — the book prices the repair on the tech’s phone. Consistent margins, no guessing at the curb.
Door and opener history per address — every spring, cable, and opener swap shows up before the tech knocks.
Replacement estimates with deposits — options, deposit, and door order built into the estimate the repair visit surfaces.
Install scheduling — crew and door arrival scheduled from the same record as the estimate that sold it.
Tune-up reminders — opener and hardware service scheduled before the next spring fails, not after.
Warranty tracking on doors and openers — install date and part serials attached to the address, not a filing cabinet.
Repair and install invoicing — repair, estimate, and install invoices all flow to the books with no double entry.
Call → swap → estimate → install → paid — every door job, 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, door and opener history, and open estimates come in with you when you join — and everything exports, any time.
Yes — property-manager and HOA accounts, per-address door history, and NET-terms billing run on the same record as your residential book.
Garage-door shops 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 Garage Door — dispatch, repair pricing, replacement estimates, install scheduling, payments. Pick the size that fits the trucks you run today.
$49/ month
One tech, one van. Swap the spring, quote the door, schedule the install — the record keeps the door’s history straight between visits.
from$149/ month
Dispatch at the desk, techs on the morning board. Same-day break-fix triaged from one board, every replacement estimate walking in with the door’s full history.
Free trial first, month-to-month after — cancel anytime. Full plan detail on the pricing page.