Work that arrives already described, already approved.
If you repair, clean, alter, engrave or embroider, LOCKAZ is a second front door that never closes — without a second shopfront, a receptionist, or a single walk-in interrupting your bench.
Your best hours are spent on the counter, not the bench
Most independent trades lose the same things: customers who can only come in during working hours, quotes given over a counter and forgotten, and a rent bill that assumes foot traffic you no longer get.
Fixed hours, shrinking window
The customers who most need a shoe repairer or a tailor are exactly the ones who can't reach one between 9 and 5.
Rent for a waiting room
A shopfront charges you for retail frontage when what you actually need is a workshop and a way to receive items.
Quotes that leak
Verbal quotes, scribbled dockets and callbacks that never happen. Work walks out the door before it's approved.
A job is a ticket, not a conversation
Every item that reaches you arrives with a category, an item type, the customer's own description of the fault, and a ticket number. You quote in the portal, the customer approves by SMS, and only then do you start.
- Only the work you want. Routed by category, item type and the postcodes you actually cover.
- Never work unpaid. Nothing starts until the customer accepts your quote.
- Protected on condition. Photos at collection document the item before you touch it.
- No chasing. LOCKAZ collects the money and settles your share.
- No marketing spend. We advertise the network, sign the sites and fill the lockers. The work comes to you.
- We bring the customers. LOCKAZ does the marketing, runs the sites and fills the lockers. You never pay for a lead and never chase one.
- No lock-in. No joining fee, no subscription, no minimum you must accept.
Who this works for
Shoe repairers
Resoles, heel tips, stitching, stretching, bag and luggage repair.
Tailors
Hems, take-ins, zips, linings, garment repair and restyling.
Dry cleaners & laundries
Wash-and-fold, dry cleaning, press-only, specialty items.
Watch & jewellery
Batteries, straps, servicing, resizing, engraving and personalisation.
Computer technicians
Laptops, desktops, drives, consoles, phones and tablets.
Embroiderers
Monogramming, badges, club and uniform work at volume.
Engravers
Trophies, gifts, tools, plaques and personalised items.
Multi-trade workshops
If you cover more than one of these, you can take work across all of them.
What onboarding looks like
| Stage | What happens |
|---|---|
| 1. Apply | We talk through your trade, your capacity and the area you can realistically service. |
| 2. Set up | Your workshop is registered, and we agree which categories and items you take. |
| 3. Coverage | We set the suburbs you cover — including any you want left out. |
| 4. Go live | Jobs start arriving. You collect from the locker and quote from your phone. |
Commission rate, payment timing and service levels are agreed in writing before you go live. There is no joining fee and no subscription.
Bring LOCKAZ to your trade or your site
Whether you repair, clean, alter or engrave — or you have foot traffic and a spare corner — there's a place for you in the network.