Win the lockout, get paid curbside

Locksmith CRM software

Locksmith CRM software for a job decided in the first ninety seconds. Missed calls get an instant text back, robocalls are screened before the phone rings, and payment is taken at the curb.

From $19/month|7-day free trial|Same-day US support
Smarfle · Locksmith dashboard
Jobs Today

19

Emergency Lockouts

4

Collected Today

$2,310

Active Commercial Accounts

28

Recent Jobs

Darnell Washington

Residential Lockout

In Progress

Clearview Office Park

Master Key System Rekey

Scheduled

Paula and Jeff Simons

Deadbolt Installation

Completed

Software a locksmith business runs on

The lockout goes to whoever answers. The job is won or lost before you ever quote. Smarfle texts back the calls you miss and screens the robocalls before your phone rings. Payment is taken at the curb with the key record saved to the customer, on one van or ten.

The growth side, built in

Locksmith call tracking

Lockout callers dial down the search results until someone answers. Tracking shows exactly which listing produced the call, and missed ones get an instant text-back.

Reviews and Google Business Profile

Reviews are how customers separate real local locksmiths from lead-gen imposters. Automatic requests after each job build the proof you're the real one.

Website and lead follow-ups

Rekey and install quotes from your website feed the CRM, and follow-ups convert the 'how much for 3 locks' shoppers who didn't book on the call.

CRM plans that grow with your locksmith business

All plans include a 7-day free trial. No credit card required.

Solo

Sole operators getting started

$19/mo
  • 1 user
  • Up to 100 clients
  • 1 GB storage
  • Public booking link + calendar
  • Client management
  • Work orders with photos
  • Invoices + Stripe payments
  • Activity log, tags, custom fields
  • Mobile PWA + CSV import/export
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Starter

Small teams adding tools and growth

$99/mo
  • Up to 5 users (1 owner + 4 techs)
  • Up to 200 clients
  • 1 GB storage
  • Everything in Solo
  • Voice AI receptionist (usage-based)
  • GMB rank tracking
  • Search Console integration
  • API access + webhooks
  • Branded client portal
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Professional

Growing service businesses

$199/mo
  • Up to 10 users
  • Up to 500 clients
  • 3 branch locations
  • 5 GB storage
  • Everything in Starter
  • AI email & SMS drafts
  • AI work order summaries
  • GBP Posts + Dashboard
  • Workflows automation
  • Website builder + AI content
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Business

Multi-location operations

$349/mo
  • Up to 30 users
  • Up to 1,000 clients
  • 10 branch locations
  • 20 GB storage
  • Everything in Professional
  • Priority support
  • Higher AI credit limits
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SMS, email, AI, and voice are billed pay-as-you-go. See full pricing breakdown →

Best locksmith software compared

Locksmith software is a small field, and half the recommendations you will read are general tools wearing a locksmith landing page. Here is what each actually does for lockout work.

PlatformStarting priceBuilt forWhat that means for a locksmith business
Smarfle7-day free trialFrom $19/moSpeed to the door is the whole product here. Missed calls get an instant text back and robocalls are screened before your phone rings, so the lockout reaches you and not your voicemail. The nearest tech is dispatched, the trip fee is quoted up front, and the invoice is paid at the curb.
WorkizFull comparison$225+ /mo (teams)Field-service platform popular with locksmiths, strong on dispatch and phone tracking.Team pricing starts steep for a one-or-two-van operation. Smarfle's Solo plan covers dispatch, invoicing, and the client history, with call tracking and missed-call text back on top.
JobberFull comparison$35+ /moGeneral scheduling and invoicing, easy to learn.Nothing about it is emergency-shaped. Smarfle's dispatch view is built around the who-is-closest-right-now question that decides which locksmith wins the lockout.
FieldPulseFull comparisonCustom quoteBroad field-service suite with a locksmith vertical page.Pricing is demo-gated. Smarfle publishes its pricing, and the trial takes minutes, worth knowing before you book a sales call for a two-person shop.
OrcatecCustom quoteNewer field-service tool ranking well for trades, dispatch-centric.Thin locksmith-specific record keeping. Smarfle stores key codes, cylinder types, and access notes per commercial client, the memory a growing locksmith business cannot keep in one person's head.

Published starting prices as of August 2026. Most vendors bill these rates annually and add per-user or per-route fees; always confirm on the vendor's own pricing page.

What an inefficient locksmith business looks like

Locksmith work is decided in the time it takes to answer, and everything else about the job matters less than being the one who picked up.

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Emergency lockouts need instant response

When someone is locked out, they call three locksmiths and go with whoever answers and dispatches first. Without a fast dispatch system, you lose emergency jobs to competitors who respond in minutes.

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Key and lock records are stored in your head

Commercial clients expect you to know which keys, cylinders, and access codes belong to their property. When that information lives in memory or a notebook, it is impossible to scale and easy to lose.

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Invoicing in the field is slow and inconsistent

Writing invoices by hand or on paper forms takes time at the end of each job and makes pricing inconsistent across technicians. Clients hold up payment, and your records are hard to reconcile at month end.

Improve your locksmith operations

Dispatch built for the lockout clock

A lockout is a race. The caller is standing outside dialing down a list, and the first locksmith who answers and names an arrival window gets the job. Smarfle texts that caller back the instant the line rings out, so the conversation is still open while your hands are inside a mortise lock, and their answer arrives as a lead with the number attached.

  • The dispatch board answers who is closest right now
  • Missed calls text back around the clock
  • Customer gets an on-my-way text with the tech's ETA

Key codes and hardware records that scale

Commercial accounts expect you to know their keyways, cylinder types, and master system without asking twice. Custom fields keep key codes and access notes on each client record, and the inventory module tracks blanks, cylinders, and lock stock with per-job deduction so the van count stays honest.

  • Key codes and cylinder details stored per commercial client
  • Blanks and hardware tracked with low-stock alerts
  • Every past job at the property two taps away in the field

Paid on the curb, reviewed by dinner

The job ends at the door, so the paperwork should too. The work order becomes an invoice on your phone, the customer pays by card or link on the spot, and a review request goes out after completion, which is how a locksmith builds the Google profile that wins the next lockout.

  • One-tap invoice from the completed work order
  • Card and payment-link collection at the door
  • Automatic review requests after every completed job

Every locksmith call, handled your way

Screening removes automated dialers from the line entirely, and text-back covers anything you cannot take. Every call is logged either way.

Plain forwarding

$0.04/min

Just rings your phone. Every call logged as answered or missed.

Forward with call tracking

$0.10/min

Rings your phone. Recorded, transcribed, summarized, and logged to the customer record.

Busy message + text-back

~$0.05/call

Plays your message, hangs up, and texts the caller. Replies land in your Inbox as leads.

AI receptionist

$0.25/min

The AI answers, qualifies the caller, and books the job. Great after hours if you want it.

Spam screening is included in every mode

Turn it on and unknown callers hear one sentence and press a key before the call connects. Dialer software does not press keys, so it never reaches you. How screening works

  • Your customers skip it. Known clients and callers on mobile numbers are never screened.
  • You are not billed for it. Screened, silent, and blocked calls cost nothing.
  • One blocklist. Block a number once and it stops calling and texting.

Curious how the AI option sounds? Call (866) 355-9645 and try booking a consultation with it.

Clear workflow every time

How a locksmith call flows through Smarfle

A lockout is a fast job with a real record behind it. Five steps from the call to the card being taken at the kerb.

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    Lockout call comes in 24/7

    After-hours and overflow calls are captured by whichever mode you set, with location, vehicle or door type, and urgency all recorded.

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    Nearest tech dispatched

    Calendar shows tech availability and ETA. Work order captures the lock type, customer ID verification process, and any custom-field requirements.

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    Tech navigates to the customer

    Route optimization or direct ETA, tech sees address, vehicle/door details, and ID requirements before pulling up.

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    Service logged on the spot

    Photos of locks before/after, time tracking, parts used (drawn from inventory), and a job checklist enforcing ID-verification and key-handover steps.

  5. 5

    Invoice + payment via Stripe link

    Auto-invoice the moment the work order closes; Stripe payment link sent via SMS so the customer pays before the tech leaves the curb. Review request fires automatically.

Same flow for every locksmith business, only the terminology and details change.

The locksmiths Smarfle suits

Speed to the door and consistent pricing are the dividing line, so shop-only key cutting needs a good deal less.

We built this for you if...

Tap the ones that resonate

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This probably isn't for you if...

And that's okay

Everything Smarfle does for a locksmith

Speed wins the job. Then it has to be billed, and then somebody has to find you next time. Everything here covers one of those.

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Emergency dispatch

Log a lockout call and assign the nearest technician in under sixty seconds. Job details, address, and client contact go straight to their phone.

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Lock and key records

Store key codes, cylinder types, and access levels in the client record. Any technician servicing that property has the full lock profile before arriving.

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Service catalog with preset pricing

Build standard prices for lockouts, rekeying, and installations. Technicians select the service and pricing populates automatically.

Photos from the phone camera

Locksmith software proves what the tech did

Photographing the hardware, working out how long you were on site and taking a card number are all still somebody's job once the work is finished. Each one has somewhere to land as soon as the job closes instead.

Proof of what happened on a job is worth as much to a locksmith as the money collected for it.

Hardware documented from the van

Damaged strike plates, the door before you touch it and the finished install all go up from the phone camera while you are on site. Every frame enlarges on the job, which is what ends a later argument about what was already broken.

Rekey steps saved to the job type

Pinning the cylinder, cutting keys, testing function and cleaning up hardware belong in a set order, and you record that order against the service a single time. Anyone dispatched on it opens the same list to work through, your newest hire included.

An entry written the moment you close

Lockouts and rekeys run short enough that logging them feels like more work than doing them, so finishing the call creates the entry without you touching it. The minutes sit there with a chargeable marker and the rate from your profile, ready for billing.

Commercial accounts settle on their own

Property managers and facility accounts leave a card with Stripe once, and recurring service bills at the interval you agreed to. Every approved payment generates its invoice automatically, which keeps net terms from turning into a collections habit.

Get more calls for your locksmith business

Locksmith lead generation

A lockout is decided in the first ninety seconds. The slow phone loses. Smarfle puts your number in front of the person standing outside their car right now, with the situation already described. You see the job and the ZIP before you pay.

Flat pricing per accepted lead

Locksmith leads run about $20 each. You see the job and the ZIP first, then accept or pass free. No monthly lead budget, no bidding wars.

When leads start

We expand the directory around every business that joins, and Google needs time to rank new pages, so plan for up to two months before leads ramp up. You pay per lead, never for waiting. A Google Business Profile with real reviews brings them sooner.

Requests arrive pre-qualified

Every quote request already answers what do you need and where, so your callback quotes instead of interviews.

Fair by design

Your existing customers and repeat requests are always free, and a bad lead can be disputed with a refund to your wallet.

Locksmith owners, here is the honest version

The board answers who is free and the map answers who is near, so assigning takes a couple of taps. The service call lands on that technician's phone with the address and whatever the caller told you.
Codes, keyways and access notes go into custom fields defined on the account, visible to your own people and nobody outside. Something like a master key chart lives in that account's document folder, private until sharing is turned on for it, and released over links that expire on their own. Owner and manager sign ins can sit behind a time based code from an authenticator app.
No, and this is a hard no rather than a not yet. Inventory is a single company count with stock levels and a reorder point, dropping as hardware goes onto service calls. Per van stock does not exist, so a technician restocking from the shop is a conversation rather than a screen.
Workiz has been in this trade a long time and its phone and dispatch tooling is mature. Our argument is a different one, a single subscription that also carries your website, your posts to Google Business, the review chasing and the map rank tracking, rather than paying four bills. On dispatch alone Workiz is a fair competitor and the table above says so.
No. Nothing in Smarfle is a hardware asset record, there is no per door entry and no warranty field anywhere. The account holds your own fields plus every service call ever logged there, which for most shops answers what is on that building. A locksmith who wants a keying database per opening needs specialist software.
Count the people who will sign in, then look at how big your customer list has got. Service call volume never enters it. Text messages, mail and phone minutes are counted as used and added after. The level comparison on the page shows where a shop your size sits.
Not on the technician role. That one deliberately stops at assigned service calls and the customers attached, with no path to invoicing or your price list. Shops that want field billing put those people on manager instead, which opens customers, jobs and invoices but leaves your billing page and your team roster untouched.
Every trip stands as its own service call beneath that account, and at month end a single invoice can pull lines from all of them together. Give the manager a login and they see those calls, what is owed, any file you shared across and a way to settle up. Late bills mark themselves and a breakdown by age tells you how far each account has drifted.

Switching to Smarfle from other locksmith software?

Accounts you serve and the hardware you price are drawn out of an export of the software you run today, and your locksmiths get logins opened one by one. Both halves are our work rather than a support article left with you, and the people doing it are in the US.

Why businesses stay

Who you are buying from

We answer requests the same day. If your business needs a new feature, or an existing one changed, it gets built fast, often by the next day. Ihor Lavrenenko puts his name on this product: he has helped hundreds of local businesses grow, and Smarfle is how that experience shows up in your operation every morning.

Based in Orlando, Florida|Same-day support answers|Feature requests shipped fast
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