Locksmiths · for independent and mobile locksmiths
LockSlip is a work order app for independent and mobile locksmiths who have to record who they let in. On a lockout, rekey or key job you fill in the customer, the address or vehicle, the job and the price, photograph the front of the customer's ID, and hand them the phone to sign. That one slip becomes an invoice PDF for the customer and a dated record in a searchable ledger that stays on your phone. When a peace officer or your licensing bureau asks to see your work orders, you export the date range they want as a PDF or CSV.
At the door you type the customer's name and phone, the address or the vehicle, the job and the price. Then you photograph the front of their ID and hand them the phone to sign with a finger. Finishing the slip does two things at once: it builds the customer's invoice PDF and files a dated record in your ledger, with a reminder set for the day its two years are up.
The invoice carries your business name, phone and license number from Settings, the service address or vehicle, the service call, labor and parts on separate lines, the total, and the customer's signature. Send it from the phone's share sheet by text, email or any app that takes a PDF. The ID photo and ID number stay in the ledger and are never printed on the invoice.
Every finished slip lands in a ledger you can search by name, address or plate and filter by date range. Export the range someone asks for as a PDF to hand over, or as a CSV for your own files. When a slip passes its two-year mark the app tells you, and deleting it stays your decision.
Most mobile locksmiths keep the customer record one of three ways: a carbon-copy work order book on the passenger seat, a generic invoice app, or a photo of the customer's license in the camera roll between family pictures. Each covers part of the job. The book has a signature line but cannot be searched when someone asks about a job from last spring. The invoice app makes a tidy bill but has no place for a date of birth, an ID number or a VIN. And a driver's license photo is exactly the kind of file that should not sync to a shared family album.
LockSlip puts those pieces on one slip. The customer details, the ID photo, the job, the price and the signature are captured together, and the same slip produces the bill the customer keeps and the record you keep.
California spells out the record in its statutes. Penal Code section 466.8 covers making a key to a home or business by inspecting the lock on site, and Business and Professions Code section 6980.55 covers a locksmith opening a home or business. Both ask for the customer's name, address, telephone number, date of birth and driver's license or ID number on a work order, with the street address and the customer's signature. For a key that operates a vehicle's ignition, Penal Code section 466.6 asks for the same customer details plus the registration number, plate, year, make, model, color and VIN. Each work order is kept for two years, carries the locksmith's name and license number (section 6980.53), and is open to inspection by any peace officer or the bureau during business hours, or submitted to the bureau on request.
Texas Occupations Code section 1702.2865 works differently. A locksmith may not perform services for a customer seeking entry to a structure, vehicle or other property unless, in the course of the transaction, the customer shows a government-issued ID and provides a signed authorization stating that they own the property or are otherwise entitled to legal access to it. Cases of imminent threat to a person or property are exempt.
LockSlip has a preset for each state. The California preset puts the fields above on the slip and prints your name and license number on every record. The Texas preset puts the ownership statement right above the signature box. Choose Other and you get a general work order with the same ID photo, signature and ledger, without any state wording.
The phone rings at 9 p.m.: a homeowner is locked out and wants the locks rekeyed while you are there. You start a slip in the driveway, pick Residential lockout and Rekey, and type the address. No signal is needed, so a basement garage or a rural road does not matter.
You photograph the front of the customer's ID, type the ID number and date of birth, add the service call, the labor and two keys, and hand over the phone for a signature. Tap Finish, share the invoice by text, and the slip is in the ledger before you are back in the van.
ID photos are taken inside the app and kept in the app's own storage on your phone. They are not saved to your photo library and not uploaded anywhere, because LockSlip has no server and no account. You can put the app behind your phone's face, fingerprint or passcode lock.
The flip side: your phone holds the only copy until you export it. Exporting the ledger to wherever you keep business records is your backup, and it is worth doing on a schedule. Each slip also carries a two-year reminder, the California retention period, so old ID photos do not pile up unnoticed.
LockSlip is a work order and records tool, not a dispatch board. There is no job scheduling, no GPS tracking of technicians, no card payment processing and no customer database synced between phones. It does not read or check IDs either: the photo is a record of what the customer showed you, and judging whether the ID matches the person and the address is still your call at the door.
LockSlip is a record-keeping tool. It does not give legal advice and does not decide whether a job, a customer or an ID meets your state's requirements. Locksmith rules differ from state to state and change over time, and following them where you work is your responsibility. Check with your state licensing agency when you are unsure what you must record.
California and Texas, built from the statutes named above. Everywhere else, choose Other for a general work order with the same ID photo, signature and ledger, and check your own state's rules.
On your phone, inside the app. They are not added to your photo library and are not uploaded, since LockSlip has no account or server.
Open the ledger, set the date range they ask about, and export it as a PDF or CSV. In California, the statutes say work orders are open to inspection by any peace officer or the bureau during business hours, or submitted to the bureau on request.
Until you delete it. Each slip gets a reminder when it turns two years old, which matches the California retention period. The app never deletes a slip on its own.
No. Slips, ID photos and the ledger all stay on the phone, and there is no sign-in.
Anything you have not exported is lost with the phone, because nothing is copied to a server. Export the ledger as PDF or CSV regularly and keep those files with your other business records.
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