How do I digitalize my car service?
Digitalising a service starts with one decision: a single place for your records. Below is the order of the steps and what stays outside the app.
Short answer
- Start with the vehicles due over the next two weeks, with registration number, VIN and mileage.
- Fill the catalogue with the operations you do most often, with their default price.
- Open a work order for every new car, with labour and parts on separate lines.
- Check the daily summary every morning, to see what is scheduled and what is ready.
- Do not keep two records in parallel: after two weeks, paper-only jobs no longer appear in the car's history.
What stays outside the app
- Client communication: messages and confirmations are done by you, through your own channel.
- Physical parts stock: 4mygarage does not keep quantities.
- Invoicing, which stays in your invoicing program.
How to choose a vendor
Ask what the product actually does, not what it promises. Does it send messages to clients? Does it keep stock? Does it issue invoices? The answers save you from a wrong purchase.