What features does car service software have?
A car service program has to cover the cycle of an intervention: from the car coming in and the client's complaint, to the finished job and its history. Below are the core features and what stays outside the program.
Short answer
- Vehicles: registration number, VIN, make, model, year, mileage and the client's name.
- Work orders: the complaint, the status (scheduled, received, in progress, ready, delivered) and the labour and parts lines.
- Operations catalogue: default prices for typical jobs, so orders don't start from zero.
- Service reminders: the next service date, calculated from the last job, for your team.
- Daily summary: how many cars are active, in progress, ready and scheduled today, plus revenue from delivered orders.
What a service program does not cover
- Parts stock with quantities and reorder alerts.
- Invoicing and issuing invoices.
- Automatic messages to clients: SMS, WhatsApp or email.
- Productivity figures per mechanic, unless you record hours.
Practical example
A service with three mechanics keeps work orders in a notebook. With a service program, each car has its own file, each intervention has its own order with labour and parts, and in the morning the summary shows what is scheduled and what is ready. What does not change: you still contact your clients yourself, through your own channel.
How 4mygarage helps
- Vehicles and work orders in a single app, with a history for each car.
- The order total is calculated automatically from the labour and parts lines.
- Reminders and a daily summary, for your team.