How pricing works

The price for a package is set by Dripbase, not the detailer, and it's the same no matter which detailer takes your job. What you pay comes from three things: the package you choose, the size of your vehicle, and any add-ons.

What sets the price

Every package — Interior Detail, Full Service Detail, the Lux Package, and so on — has a base price. Some packages cost more for a larger vehicle: a size like SUV/Van or Truck can add a surcharge on top of the base price for a package where a bigger vehicle means more work. A package with no surcharge listed for your vehicle size costs the base price, full stop. Add-ons, if you choose any, are priced the same way and added on top.

Because the price is a property of the package and your vehicle, not of the person doing the work, two customers booking the same package on the same size vehicle pay the same amount — and a detailer never quotes you something different.

What's included

Each package lists what's included. Some of what's on a detailer's checklist for a job is internal — a step they're expected to complete but that isn't shown to you as a selling point. What you see on the package listing is the customer-facing subset of that checklist.

The higher-tier packages — paint correction and ceramic coating work, for example — are only offered by detailers who've reached a certain standing on the platform. That's a restriction on who can take the job, not a difference in what you're quoted.

Your price is locked in when you book

The package name, what's included, and the total price are all captured at the moment you book — not looked up again later. If the catalog changes after you've booked — a price update, a change to what's included — it never rewrites a job you've already booked or completed. What you agreed to is what you're charged.

Written against how Dripbase works today. Rules like pricing, timing, and what we require of a detailer are settings we can change, so this describes the current behaviour rather than a permanent guarantee.