“Is my car ready yet?”
The same call, twenty times a day, pulling someone off the tools to walk to the bay and look.
For independent garages
You did not open a garage to spend your day answering “is it ready?”, hunting for a job card, and arguing about what was agreed. Auto Garage holds every vehicle, approval, part and payment in one place, so the work keeps moving whether or not you are standing over it.
Free while you set up · No card required · Your first vehicle can go through today
If this is your week
The same call, twenty times a day, pulling someone off the tools to walk to the bay and look.
Written on paper, left on a bonnet, gone by Thursday. Nobody can prove what was agreed.
“I never approved that.” No record of the call, no photo of the worn part, and you eat the difference.
Parts leave the shelf and never make it onto a bill. You only notice at stocktake, months later.
Two locations, two piles of paper, and a guess at which one is actually making money.
Work done, vehicle gone, invoice never raised. It happens more often than anyone admits.
We have been in the bay
Vehicles arrive without appointments. The person dropping the keys is not always the owner. Half a job gets approved and the rest does not. A part is fitted from the other branch. Every one of those is normal, and every one of them is handled here rather than worked around in a notebook.
The plan
Sign up and your workspace is already working, a flow to run vehicles through, your price structure, and a check-in form ready for the first car. Adjust it to match how your shop really works.
Check them in, record what you find, get the owner’s yes in writing, and bill from the work that was actually done. Your team picks it up in an afternoon.
The workshop keeps running when you are at the bank, at a supplier, or asleep. You get the numbers instead of the interruptions.
What changes
Every customer gets a link that shows exactly where their vehicle is and what it will cost. Send it once; it keeps working all week.
Recommended work goes to the owner with the evidence attached. Their yes is timestamped, and above a limit you set they confirm it is really them.
Build the steps your shop actually uses, a wash bay and a gearbox rebuild are not the same job. Vehicles already in progress keep the flow they started on.
Estimates become bills from the work recorded against the job. You can require a charge to be settled before a vehicle moves on.
Every movement recorded against the shelf it came from, reorder levels that warn you early, and a purchase list you can hand to a supplier.
Compare locations without exporting anything. Staff see where they work; you see all of it.
What standing still costs
Not dramatically. Quietly, one unbilled repair, one part nobody logged, one customer who took their next service somewhere that told them what was happening. None of it shows up as a crisis. All of it shows up in the year.
The garages that grow past the owner’s own two hands are the ones where the process lives somewhere other than the owner’s head.
And then
Customers who know what is happening. Work that was agreed before it started. Bills that match the job. Parts that add up. And an owner who can leave the building.
Sign up and it is waiting, ready to take the first vehicle through the door today.