Garage software that runs the whole workshop.
From the booking to the paid invoice - job cards, inspections, estimates, parts issued off stock at real cost, technicians, bays, and accounts that post themselves. One system, no spreadsheets bolted on the side.
- No credit card
- 14-day free trial
- Auto Garage module included
You already know where the money leaks.
Most workshops don’t lose money on the jobs they quote badly. They lose it on the jobs nobody can reconstruct afterwards.
A car comes in. The customer describes a noise. Someone writes it on a pad. A technician takes a look, calls the customer, gets a verbal yes for “around 1,200”.
Parts come off the shelf - some from stock, one bought in that morning. Nothing is costed against the job.
The job runs on because a part was late. Nobody records which technician did the work, or how long the car actually sat in the bay.
Typed up from memory and a couple of scribbled lines.
Multiply that by the jobs you run each week, and here’s what you can’t answer:
- ?Which jobs actually made money after the parts were costed properly?
- ?How much stock walked out of the store without landing on an invoice?
- ?Which technician is productive, and which one is busy?
- ?How long is a car really in your workshop, from arrival to handover?
- ?How many estimates turned into work, and how many quietly went elsewhere?
- ?Which customers are due a service right now - the ones you could call today?
None of that is a software problem in the abstract. It’s the direct result of the job living in three places - a pad, a spreadsheet, and someone’s head.
One document, from arrival to handover.
In VISIONS ERP the job card is the workshop. Everything hangs off it - the vehicle, the customer, the inspection, the estimate, the parts, the invoice.
Booking
The car is scheduled in before it arrives. Bookings feed the day’s workload and build a picture of what’s coming - which is what lets you staff a Saturday properly instead of guessing.
Job card opened
The vehicle is picked from the vehicle master, already tied to its customer and its full service history. You can see what you did to this car last time, and the time before. Complaints get logged as the customer describes them; a technician and a bay are assigned.
Inspection
The technician records findings against the job card - the same document the job lives on, not a separate form to reconcile later.
Estimate, and the customer’s approval
Labour and parts are quoted and sent to the customer, who approves - including by e-signature. That approval is the gate. The approved estimate converts straight into the job card’s billable lines, so what you quoted is what gets invoiced.
Work - parts and labour
Parts are issued from inventory through a store issue, and they leave stock at their real cost. Because consumption is a real inventory movement, job profitability is a fact rather than an estimate - and your stock figure means something. Labour is recorded against the job and the technician doing it.
Invoice
One click from job card to invoice, with advances and final settlement handled. Insurer-paid work runs as an insurance job with the claim tracked against it - so the customer portion and the insurer portion don’t get tangled.
Payment, and the books
The invoice posts to the general ledger - parts at cost, labour as revenue, receivable against the customer or the insurer. No separate books for the workshop, and no month-end re-typing.
Raise a real job card in the next ten minutes.
No card, no setup call. Bring one of your own jobs and see it run end to end.
Thirteen reports. Six of them you’ve never had.
Every one answers a question you’re currently guessing at. Grouped by what they actually tell you.
Where the money is
Time and capacity
Customers and pipeline
Estimate conversion and service-due reminders are the two most workshops have never had. The first tells you how much work you’re quietly losing at the quote. The second is a list of people you can phone this afternoon.
Your customers can check the job themselves.
They log in to see their vehicles and the status of their jobs. That’s fewer “is it ready yet?” calls interrupting the people who are trying to finish the car.
It’s a full ERP underneath.
The Auto Garage module isn’t a separate product - it’s a vertical on the same platform as everything else you run. That’s the difference between a workshop app and a business system.
See the full feature listStock is one stock
Parts, consumables and any retail lines you sell live in the same inventory, across multiple stores or warehouses.
Purchasing is connected
Parts bought in for a job run through requests, orders, receipts and vendor bills - and land at their real cost.
Real double-entry accounting
Chart of accounts, journals, AR and AP, post-dated cheques, bank reconciliation, fixed assets, audit trail.
CRM knows about vehicles
A lead or deal links to a specific vehicle, and you can raise a quotation or a job card straight from it.
HR & payroll, same place
The technicians whose productivity you measure sit in the same system as the payroll that pays them.
Grows with you
A second branch, counter parts sales, fleet contracts - you configure what you already have rather than re-buying.
It fits how a workshop here actually runs.
Not a generic tool with a currency switch bolted on.
Priced and taxed in AED
Estimates, invoices and reports are all in dirhams, with 5% VAT calculated on every invoice - no manual maths, no conversion step.
Insurance jobs, kept separate
Insurer-paid work runs as an insurance job with the claim tracked against it, so the customer’s share and the insurer’s never get tangled.
One branch or several
Run a single workshop or a group of them on the same platform, with stock, users and reporting that work across all of them.
Here’s where it doesn’t fit yet.
Every vendor page tells you what the software does. Fewer tell you where it doesn’t fit yet - so here are the two things worth knowing before you commit.
Permissions are module-level, not per-action
You can control who has access to the workshop, but not yet at the granularity of “this user can create a job card but not approve an estimate”.
The module is off by default
Auto Garage is switched on per company, so enabling it for your workshop doesn’t change anything for anyone else in your group.
Frequently asked questions.
Still unsure? Send us a message - a person replies, usually the same day.
How do parts get costed to a job?
Parts are issued from inventory to the job card and leave stock at their real cost. That’s what makes job profitability a fact rather than a guess - and it’s why your stock figure stays true.
Can I see a vehicle’s full service history?
Yes. Every vehicle sits in a vehicle master tied to its customer, and every job card raised against it becomes part of its history. When a car comes back in, the advisor can see everything you’ve done to it.
Does the customer have to approve the estimate before work starts?
That’s how it’s designed. Labour and parts are quoted on the estimate, the customer approves - e-signature included - and the approved estimate converts into the job card’s billable lines. What’s quoted is what’s invoiced.
Can I handle insurance work?
Yes - insurer-paid jobs run as insurance jobs with claim tracking against them, so the customer portion and the insurer portion stay separate.
Do I need separate accounting software?
No. Parts at cost and labour revenue post to the general ledger automatically. The workshop and the books are the same system.
Can I take a deposit before the work is finished?
Yes. Job-card invoicing supports advances and final settlement.
Can my customers check their job status themselves?
Yes, through the customer portal - they log in and see their vehicles and job status.
Can I manage more than one branch?
Yes. Stock, users and reporting work across multiple locations on the same platform.
How long does it take to get running?
You can register and start entering vehicles and jobs the same day. Bringing across existing stock, customers and opening balances is the part that takes planning - we’ll help you scope it on the demo.
What does it cost?
The Auto Garage module is included from Professional, at AED 899 a month including 5% VAT - or as one of the industry modules on Enterprise. 14-day free trial, no card required.
See it running on your own jobs.
Start a free trial and raise a real job card in the next ten minutes - or book a demo and bring us a job you already ran, and we’ll put it through in front of you.