Independent shops lose money in three quiet places: estimates waiting on approval, no-shows, and a thin Google profile. We set up the systems that fix them — fixed price, wired around the software you already use.
Every writer is with a customer, every tech is under a car — and the phone is ringing. Each system below is a fixed-price setup that handles the interruptions without hiring anyone.
Invoices out at pickup, polite reminders until they are paid — fewer awkward phone calls about money.
The costliest silence in a shop: a car on the lift waiting on a customer who has not approved the work. Automatic nudges chase every open estimate until it is approved or declined.
Every picked-up car triggers a compliant review request and one follow-up. Drivers pick shops by stars and recency — the shops that ask, win.
Online drop-off booking plus automatic reminders — fewer no-shows, fewer dead bays in the morning schedule.
"Is my car ready?" calls interrupt every tech. Automatic status texts at check-in, diagnosis, and pickup cut them to near zero.
Digital inspection sheets, parts-markup calculators, fleet-account reports — small custom software for how your shop actually runs.
Most independent shops do not have a work problem — the bays are full. They have a front-counter problem: the same one or two people are supposed to chase estimate approvals, remind tomorrow's appointments, update waiting customers, and ask happy ones for a review — between every handover and every ringing line. On a busy day, none of it happens.
That is why the automations that matter for a shop are boring ones: nudge the open estimate, remind the 8am drop-off, ask for the review at pickup. Drivers choose shops from Google by rating, review count, and recency — and the difference between 20 reviews and 200 is almost never the quality of the work; it is whether asking is automatic. Start free with our review request templates, or have us set up the automatic version that fires on every pickup.
Setup is remote, fixed-price, and wired around your existing management system — no migration, no new subscriptions you do not need, and everything in accounts your shop owns.
No. Whatever you run — Tekmetric, Shop-Ware, Mitchell, or a paper appointment book — we wire the automations around it. Nothing gets migrated or replaced unless you ask for it.
Estimate follow-up, for most independents — unapproved estimates are the single biggest pile of stuck revenue in a shop. Reviews are the close second, because drivers pick shops from Google. The intro call figures out which is bigger for you.
Fixed prices on the services page: a cheap audit with a written roadmap first, then a one-time setup fee per system including 30 days of support. No monthly contracts with us; everything lives in accounts your shop owns.
We serve the United States, Canada, and Australia remotely, and configure texting and review systems for the rules of your country.
Free intro call, your timezone. We'll tell you honestly what to automate first — and what not to bother with.