Business Management Software for Mobile Sharpeners
Scheduling that thinks in routes. Billing that breaks out by person.
Scott sharpens. Ingra runs the routes, the schedule, and the books. We built Rideline Pro because nothing else understood a sharpening route — and losing track of clients was costing us clients.
Built for shear sharpeners; useful across mobile sharpening routes.
14-day free trial. Month to month. Cancel anytime.
Still deciding? Watch the 80-second demo first.
Built and used every day by the team behind Shear Craftsman Sharpening.
Mobile day view
- Are you losing track of your clients?
- Are you missing visits?
- How are you handling your customer management?
- How are you doing your time management?
The one that costs: a stylist posts it in the groups — my sharpener was good, then I could not reach him, then he stopped showing up. They do not wait. They ask who else sharpens in town, and somebody answers.
We were never the no-show kind either. We just did not have a system built for the route. We ran on Square, then paid a scheduling company nearly $1,000 for onboarding, and lived on Google Calendar and our phones in between. None of it understood a sharpening route — one stop, several people inside it, each with their own bill and next visit.
Every sharpener calls himself the good one. Rideline Pro makes you the organized one — the one salons can set their watch by.
One saved client covers the month.
One new client pays for it several times over. Here is what Rideline Pro gives back:
Evenings back.
Tomorrow's route is already in drive order when you open the phone. No more rebuilding it at the kitchen table.
One system, not five.
The stop, the people, the money, and the calendar live together. Square plus Calendar plus phone notes plus a spreadsheet becomes one place.
Clients who stay.
Overdue flags before anyone quietly goes overdue, and the next visit booked before you leave, so nobody drifts off to whoever answers first.
Every dollar billed.
Every person at the stop gets their own bill, so no one's work ever goes unbilled. Missed bills and missed visits stop leaking money.
That is a better quality of life today, not someday: evenings back, routes that follow a plan, clients who stay because you show up when you said you would, and bills that stop slipping through the cracks.
One salon stop isn't one customer.
The salon is the stop. The groomers and stylists inside it are the customers. One visit may include four or five people, each with different serviced items, totals, payment methods, discounts, and receipts.
ONE SALON STOP
- Stylist 1: Individual bill and receipt
- Stylist 2: Individual bill and receipt
- Stylist 3: Individual bill and receipt
- Stylist 4: Individual bill and receipt
Most programs force this into one customer record or one bill. RIDELINE PRO was designed around the actual sharpening workflow.
This is where clients get lost in other systems — one bill for four people, one name on the account, and the quiet ones slip away.
And if your stops are restaurants, farms, or shops, the same stop holds every item serviced, every price, and the next visit.
See how it works →See a sharpening day in RIDELINE PRO.
Follow the route, open a salon stop, bill each stylist separately, record payments, issue receipts, and rebook — all from the phone experience used in the field.
Plan on desktop. Run the day on your phone.
Desktop monthly planning
Build the route before you drive it.
Use the desktop planning board (Pro and Ultimate) to see the month, group stops by territory, move visits between days, hold tentative stops, and commit the route when it is ready.
The day, the route, the stop, the bill
Carry the working day in your pocket.
On the phone, see the day's stops in drive order, open the route map (Pro and Ultimate), access customer information, manage the salon visit, bill each professional, record payments, issue receipts, and rebook.
The whole business, in one system.
Real screens from the system Shear Craftsman runs on every day. Names are softened for privacy — everything else is exactly as it works.
The week at a glance
Every stop in order, confirmed or flagged, Monday through Friday.
Billing that breaks out by person
One salon stop, three professionals, three separate itemized bills — each with their own total, payment method, and receipt.
Every client, every cycle
Visit history, service cycles, overdue flags, and lifetime value for every salon — so nobody quietly goes overdue.
Your services and pricing, organized.
Your full price list by category — 241 items here — with stock counts and low-stock flags one tap over, and categories you control.
How it works
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Mobile day view
Step 1
See the day
Open the day's route and see each salon stop in working order.
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Step 2
Follow the route
View numbered stops, mileage, drive time, and the information needed before arrival.
Route map (Pro and Ultimate)
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Salon stop
Step 3
Open the salon
Keep the physical location and the individual professionals connected without treating everyone as one customer.
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Step 4
Bill each professional
Create a separate itemized bill, payment record, and receipt for every person at the stop.
One stop, billed per person -
Client cycles & next visits Step 5
Rebook
Schedule the next visits at the appropriate service interval before the route is forgotten.
Features built for the sharpening trade
Route Management
- Geographic route scheduling and rescheduling
- Day and week scheduling
- Desktop monthly planning board
- Area-based organization
- Route map and stop order
- Drive-time and mileage visibility
- Recurring visit planning
Salon and Customer Management
- One salon location with multiple individual customers
- Customer profiles and visit history
- Separate serviced items for each professional
- Individual discounts and account information
- Searchable customer records
Billing and Payments
- Individual itemized billing
- Separate receipts
- Cash, Venmo, and card payment records
- Fees and discounts applied to the correct customer
- Automated receipt generation
- Invoices and unpaid-balance tracking for pay-later accounts
Business Management
- Revenue, tax, tip, and fee reporting
- Inventory management
- QuickBooks export
- Team access and account permissions
- Business and customer history in one system
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Built around the workflow other systems make you piece together.
- Designed for mobile sharpeners — Rideline Pro is purpose-built for the trade, not adapted to it.
- One salon with several paying professionals — a single stop holds every customer inside it, each with their own account.
- Separate billing inside one physical stop — itemized bills, payments, and receipts per person, per visit.
- Geographic sharpening-route planning — stops organized by territory, month view on desktop, drive order on the phone.
- Recurring sharpening cycles — rebook visits at the right service interval so routes stay full.
- Connected customer, billing, and route history — the stop, the people, the money, and the calendar in one system.
General-purpose products may offer calendars, recurring jobs, maps, or invoicing. They are not purpose-built around one salon stop containing several independently paying professionals.
Built for sharpeners first.
Rideline Pro was made specifically for mobile sharpeners — every kind of sharpener. Shear sharpeners on salon routes, and knife, clipper-blade, and tool sharpeners on restaurant, farm, and shop routes today. As it grows, the same system will serve other route-based service businesses — starting with the ones closest to the trade:
We built it because we needed it.
RIDELINE PRO was created by Ingra Aamodt and Scott Lankford of Shear Craftsman Sharpening after existing software failed to match the way their mobile sharpening business actually operated. It is not a theoretical workflow or a generic program adapted with workarounds. Shear Craftsman uses RIDELINE PRO to run its own routes, customers, billing, receipts, inventory, reporting, and day-to-day operations.
Scott Lankford
Sharpener, co-owner of Shear Craftsman Sharpening
Ingra Aamodt
Operations, co-owner of Shear Craftsman Sharpening
Ingra runs the routes, schedules, and books — and shows terriers in the same grooming world Shear Craftsman serves, so Rideline Pro is built by someone who lives on both sides of a salon visit.
What Rideline Pro is
Rideline Pro is business management software for mobile sharpeners. It plans geographic sharpening routes, manages salon stops, and bills each stylist at a stop separately — with individual itemized bills, payment records, and receipts.
Its two core differentiators are route-based scheduling built for the sharpening trade and per-person billing inside a single salon stop. Rideline Pro runs on desktop for monthly route planning and on phones for the working day. New sharpeners start with a 14-day free trial at ridelinepro.com/signup.html. Need more help deciding first? Watch the 80-second demo or schedule a 30-minute demo.
Choose the plan that fits the way you work.
Basic
For the solo sharpener.
$49/mo
$49/mo for the first 10 founding members — locked for life. Then $79/mo standard. No setup fee.
- Breakout billing
- Individual payment records and receipts
- Customer management
- Day and week scheduling
- Reports and basic-level Insights
- Ordered stop list plus a tappable address for directions in the phone's regular maps app
- Solo — one sharpener, one route
- Two logins included
Pro
For routes that are ready to grow.
$99/mo
1 route included · +$39/mo per additional route. $299 done-for-you setup (import up to 100 salons; 1,000 for $499). Five logins included; additional logins $10 each per month.
- Everything in Basic
- Desktop monthly planning board
- In-app driving route: map, pins, and optimize
- Business groups
- Deeper Insights: runnable reports, period comparisons, and coach recommendations
- Team time clock and roles
- Customer-list import
- 30-minute setup walkthrough
Ultimate
The complete package.
$149/mo
+$39/mo per additional route. $999 one-time setup, incl. import up to 1,000 salons.
- Everything in Pro
- All Pro Kits
- Website built with your branding
- Logo, colors, approved photos
- Customer-facing website and app under one brand
- Custom domain — you own your domain
Pro Kits, any plan: Messaging — automated texts, launching soon.
One recovered visit may cover the cost of the month.
Try it free for 14 days. If it saves you one client, it has already paid for itself.
Why send your money to a subscription service that barely meets the need? Those programs were made for other trades and adapted to sharpening. Rideline Pro was built by a sharpener, for sharpeners. Supporting it supports the sharpening community itself.
You don't have to rebuild your business to change systems.
We help import your customer list.
Send a spreadsheet or CSV and the list is brought in for you — up to 100 salons on Pro setup, up to 1,000 on the $499 setup or Ultimate. Paper records are hand transcription, quoted separately. Your account itself is never capped — add as many salons as you like on your own, any time.
We organize customers under the correct salon locations.
One physical stop, each stylist with their own account and history.
We walk through the system using your actual workflow.
The setup walkthrough runs on your real route, not a generic demo.
Your customer information remains your business data.
It is your list, your history, your business.
Month-to-month service · No long-term contract · Cancel anytime · Annual option — pay 11 months, get 12 · Pro-rata refund on annual plans after the first 30 days
Read the full terms →Frequently asked questions
Is Rideline Pro only for shear sharpeners?
It was built by shear sharpeners first. Rideline Pro was developed inside a mobile shear-sharpening business, and its signature workflow — one stop, several professionals who each need their own bill and receipt — comes straight from salon routes. But the core of the system is specialty-neutral: route scheduling, customer history, itemized billing, inventory, and recurring visits work the same whatever you sharpen, and the service categories are yours to define — salons, restaurants, landscapers, farms, or equipment shops.
Will Rideline Pro work for knife, clipper-blade, or lawn and garden tool sharpening?
Yes. Rideline Pro was developed inside a mobile shear-sharpening business, but its route scheduling, customer management, service history, itemized billing, inventory and recurring-visit features can support many types of mobile sharpening businesses. Whether you service salons, restaurants, landscapers, farms or equipment shops, Rideline Pro keeps the stop, the serviced items, the billing and the next visit connected.
What can I do from my phone?
From the phone you see the day's stops in drive order, view the route map (Pro and Ultimate), access customer information, manage the salon visit, bill each stylist separately, record payments, issue receipts, rebook visits, and review reports. The phone carries the working day.
What requires the desktop?
The desktop monthly planning board (Pro and Ultimate) is where you see the whole month, group stops by territory, move visits between days, hold tentative stops, and commit the route when it is ready. Planning happens on desktop; running the day happens on the phone.
Does Rideline Pro work offline?
No. Rideline Pro requires cellular connectivity and does not have an offline mode. If you work in shops or rural areas with weak service, your route, billing, and records need a connection to load and save.
Can I keep one salon location with several separate stylist accounts?
Yes. One salon is one location in Rideline Pro, and each professional inside it is their own customer with their own profile, serviced items, payment records, and visit history.
Can each stylist get a separate bill and receipt?
Yes. Every stylist at a stop gets a separate itemized bill, payment record, and receipt. You can mix cash, Venmo, and card payments across stylists, and fees and discounts are applied to the correct person.
Can I import my existing customer list?
Yes. Pro setup includes importing up to 100 salons from a spreadsheet or CSV (up to 1,000 salons on the $499 setup), and Ultimate setup includes up to 1,000 salons. Everyone inside each salon comes along — we count salons, not people. Paper records and photos are hand transcription, quoted separately. And there is no limit on how many salons your account can hold — you can always add more yourself; the numbers are only about how much we import for you. Basic subscribers enter their own customer information.
I'm a solo sharpener. Which plan fits?
Basic is built for solo sharpeners: one sharpener, one route. It includes per-person breakout billing, payment records and receipts, customer management, day and week scheduling, and your own Rideline Pro subdomain.
Can I add employees or additional routes?
Yes. Pro and Ultimate include five logins — you pay per route, not per user, for the included logins — and team time clock and roles. Additional logins are $10 each per month. Basic includes two logins, for the sharpener and one teammate. An extra route is $39 per month on Pro and Ultimate — another employee on the road, with their own day's run.
Does Rideline Pro export to QuickBooks?
Yes. Rideline Pro produces QuickBooks-ready exports so your billing and business data move straight into your bookkeeping.
Is there a long-term contract?
No. Service is month-to-month with no long-term contract. Cancel anytime; service runs through the paid term. An annual option pays for 11 months and gets 12, and annual plan subscribers get a pro-rata refund of the remaining unused months when canceling after the first 30 days. Month-to-month plans are not refunded; service runs through the paid month.
Who provides support?
Real people at Shear Craftsman — the same team that uses Rideline Pro every day. Ingra Aamodt, Operations, (854) 429-2060.
What if I need more help deciding?
You do not have to decide today. Watch the 80-second demo, or schedule a 30-minute demo and talk it through with us — every request gets a personal reply. When you are ready, signup takes minutes and the trial is free for 14 days.
Start today. Your route, your clients, your evenings back.
Start your 14-day free trial. Run your route, your stops, your billing, and your rebooking on the same system we use to run Shear Craftsman every day — and feel the difference on the first route, not someday.
14 days free, month to month, cancel anytime. Setup fees, where they apply, are charged at checkout and are never refundable. One new or saved client is worth it.
Need more help deciding? Watch the 80-second demo or schedule a 30-minute demo.
