Valet software built around the crew, not the cars
Scheduling, on-call cover, GPS-verified clock-in, tip distribution and crew chat for valet companies — in one iOS app, at a flat per-location price.
Built for: Valet companies running crews across one venue or two hundred
Every valet app is built around the vehicle
The existing software in this category solves guest ticketing — key tags, SMS notifications, retrieval requests. All of that matters, and none of it touches the part that actually breaks on a Friday night: knowing who is working, whether they showed up, and what everyone gets paid.
So that half of the job happens in a group chat and a spreadsheet. Coverage is confirmed by text and then forgotten. Hours are whatever someone remembers. Tip splits get worked out on a phone calculator at 2am, which is both slow and the single easiest way for a valet company to end up on the wrong side of a wage complaint.
What it does instead
Shifts are built on a phone and pushed to the crew the moment they publish. If the primary bails, the on-call cascade pings the next person automatically — the night stays covered without the owner sending a single text.
Valets clock in at the venue with GPS verification, so hours are a record rather than a recollection, and they export to a payroll-ready CSV at the end of the pay period. Tip distribution handles pooled or per-valet splits and keeps managers out of the pool, which is what the Department of Labor requires and what most spreadsheets quietly get wrong.
Crew chat lives inside the app on a shift channel that archives itself when the night ends. Nobody hands out a personal number, and there is no permanent group text that outlives the shift it was created for.
Built by someone who works the shifts
CurbCrew was not designed from a market analysis. It came out of running valet nights and wanting the tool to exist — which is why the end-of-night report takes ninety seconds rather than being a form nobody fills in, and why the whole thing is operable one-handed on a phone in a parking garage.
The rule it is built against is simple: if it does not survive a Friday night rush, it does not ship.
Priced so a two-venue operator can use it
Flat per-location pricing — a solo operator and a two-hundred-venue chain pay the same rate per location, with no tier that unlocks the features you actually need. One-off event locations do not count toward the bill at all.
There is a free trial with no card required, and the founder cohort locks its rate permanently. It sits at a fraction of what the incumbent tools charge, and it is designed to run alongside your existing guest ticketing rather than replacing it — you keep what works and drop the group chat.
Everything it does
- Build and publish the night’s lineup from your phone, pushed to the crew instantly
- On-call cascade — primary bails, the next valet is pinged automatically
- GPS-verified clock-in at the venue, exported to a payroll-ready CSV
- Tip distribution, pooled or per-valet, with managers kept out of the pool per DOL rules
- In-app crew chat on a shift channel that auto-archives when the night ends
- End-of-night reports filed in 90 seconds — cars, tips and incident notes
- Bulk roster import by CSV, and event locations that do not count toward your bill
CurbCrew — questions
How is CurbCrew priced?
Flat per location — the same rate whether you run one venue or two hundred, with no feature tiers that hold back the parts you actually need. One-off event locations do not count toward the bill. There is a free trial and no card is required to start; current pricing is on curbcrew.app.
Do I have to replace my current valet software?
No, and most operators should not. CurbCrew deliberately does not do guest ticketing — keep whatever you use for that. What it replaces is the group chat and the spreadsheet sitting alongside it: scheduling, clock-in, tip math and crew comms.
Is it iOS only?
Today, yes — it is live on the iOS App Store. That was a deliberate call to ship something that works properly on the phone valets actually carry, rather than something mediocre on two platforms at once.
How does the tip distribution stay legal?
Pooled and per-valet splits are both handled, and managers are structurally excluded from the pool, which is the rule most manual splits get wrong. Every distribution is recorded, so there is a record if anyone ever asks — which is the part a phone calculator can never give you.
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