Claim Process

Mike,

Everything comes through corporate. It’s pretty easy IMO. Schedule job and notify Perma Plate, go out and take before/after photos and fill out the warranty paperwork that corporate forwards to you with all the contact info. When you’re finished, scan and email pics and filled out paperwork back to them. I haven’t worked with other warranty companies due to horror stories from the process/price involved, but so far I haven’t had any issues with Perma Plate. I realize that the warranty companies have to make a buck, but so do I, so if it isn’t worth my time, I’ll turn them down. These have been so far. Payment has usually been within 30 days and I have charged at least my minimum ($100) for every job and not heard a complaint. That said, most have been our minimum charge, so it’s not like you are going to retire off these jobs, but most of the work is pretty easy and often times you are done in 15-30 mins. Only had one take an hour and two of us cleaned all of the interior (2 front seats and whole back seat in an SUV-see pics of back seats below) on a Saturday and charged $175 for it because it had a LOT of spots/spills/water marks and we basically had to “detail” the whole interior. Find me a car wash that will charge you less AND come to your house to do it. Only downside so far is that you’re dealing with upholstery and may need extraction, which can be tough to do if a power source isn’t near to the vehicle (i.e. cleaning car at customer’s work location or large apt complex), so just keep that in mind if you get any of these jobs. We have actually been contemplating getting a power inverter installed in our van, which would allow us to run the Spot Plus Extractor, and possibly Ninja minus heat, off the van. We have one of these jobs today and one tomorrow, and have probably done about 10-15 total so far. We haven’t gotten any additional work out of these yet, but we’ll see.

Cody,

PermaPlate claims have been fantastic. I have been doing a bunch of them every week. Not only is it work to fill in the gaps on your schedule, but make sure to let these people know what else we can do for them. I have been able to pick up some other work from these claims. These customers think we are auto detailers, so be sure to ask for the work. PermaPlate has paid me on some of the claims in less than two weeks. These claims are a great opportunity to grow your business without paying for advertising while getting paid for the work. For the most part these claims are easy work.

Chad Cohen

Yeah,

I started receiving Permaplate jobs the last two months, and have done eight jobs. Most of the work has taken me 40 minutes from the time I set up and finish. I have been charging 85.00, but two the the jobs required an hour and half so we had to charge 125.00, but I feel it is easy money. The carpet, and seats in the vehicles clean up easy for the most part. It is the car mat on the drivers side that takes a little work.(used fast acting enzyme on the car mats).