Shop management, rebuilt
The board, estimates, inspections, technicians, parts and California-grade paperwork in one system — software that does the work, not software that talks about it. Built inside two working Southern California shops, not a demo lab, and everything on this page says plainly whether it runs today.
| Operation | Hrs | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Front brake pads & rotors Book time |
2.40 | $684.20 |
| Brake fluid flush Shop history — not book time |
0.60 | $132.00 |
| Front-end inspection Shop history — not book time |
0.50 | $110.00 |
Two editions · one system
Mechanical and collision are different businesses wearing the same coveralls. Auto Shop App ships as two editions on one backend — same customers, same money, different floor.
The whole operation
Every car banded by stage, with how long it has stood there and what it is waiting on. Change the stage, the tech or the promise on the row itself.
A link, the estimate as they will see it, a signature. No account, no app — and the shop can prove what was sent and when it was opened.
Clocked vs. flagged, by tech, by job — payroll export included.
One parts list per car, purchase orders to your vendors, cores and inventory. Live supplier pricing and in-app ordering In build
Invoices, payments, aging and statements. Only the people you name can take money and every action is logged. Card processing and text-to-pay In build
ARD numbers, part condition, signed authorizations before work starts — by construction, not by memory.
Invoiced, collected, outstanding, average RO, closing ratio and aging — and every figure opens the list it was counted from.
Every screen in both, per person. A tech switching to Spanish on the shop iPad does not change what a customer receives — that comes from the customer's own record.
AI · Automotive Intelligence
We call it AI — Automotive Intelligence. Not a chatbot bolted on: a second pair of hands on the jobs that leak time and money. What is running today is the part that makes it safe — the acceptance gate, the marking, the audit trail — plus a write-up drafted from your own catalog. The five below are what plugs into it, and each says where it is.
"Shakes over 60, grinding on left turns" becomes a structured concern, the diagnostics to run, and a draft estimate — before you're back at the desk.
Teardown photos compared against the carrier's estimate. Operations that aren't on it get flagged. One catch a month pays for the software.
A tech's photo of a worn part becomes the customer's plain-English explanation with priced options. Techs shouldn't have to be salespeople.
Answers when nobody can, books into real capacity, hands off anything it shouldn't handle. Missed calls are cars that went somewhere else.
"Which jobs have waited on parts more than three days?" "What did we write off last month, and who approved it?" Plain English in, answers out.
Nothing it writes reaches a customer or an insurance carrier without a human accepting it. Every AI-written line stays visibly marked until someone signs off, and every suggestion keeps its confidence score. A time a machine guessed can never be printed as licensed book time on a California invoice — the database refuses it. On a regulated invoice that isn't a feature, it's the foundation, which is why it is the part we built first.
Built for the floor
A collision center, a two-location operation and a European specialist don't run the same way, and shouldn't be forced through the same screens. Auto Shop App is one backend that changes what the floor sees.
Claims, adjusters and deductibles on one screen, storage that accrues by the day, and towing that carries its own California authorization — a tow cannot be marked loaded until the authorization or its exemption is on the record.
One board across both stores or either one alone, shared customers, parts and vendors, and a single set of numbers for the owner — without a phone call to find out where a car is.
Rates by work type and vehicle class, factory maintenance menus, and diagnostic time that actually makes it onto the invoice instead of being written off.
The California moat
The Bureau of Automotive Repair writes the strictest repair rules in the country. Auto Shop App generates paperwork that passes by construction — national vendors treat this as a form template, if they handle it at all.
Pricing
Unlimited users on every plan — a shop should not have to decide whether the new apprentice is worth a seat. Annual is two months free, and there is no setup fee, no per-user surcharge and no charge for the training call.
Auto Shop App for Service mechanical and general repair
Service — Starter
$199 /mo
or $1,990 a year — two months free.
One shop, the whole workflow, and Automotive Intelligence on the write-up.
Service — Pro
$399 /mo
or $3,990 a year — two months free.
Everything in Starter, without the meter, plus parts and payroll.
Auto Shop App for Auto Body collision, paint and insurance work
Auto Body
$499 /mo per location
or $4,990 a year per location — two months free.
Keep CCC. Own everything downstream of it.
Auto Body — Plus
$799 /mo per location
or $7,990 a year per location — two months free.
For the shop where the supplement is the business.
More than two stores
Multi-Shop
Let's talk
Priced on how many stores you run.
Three stores or more, one login, one set of numbers.
Get started
Twenty minutes on your own cars, not a slide deck. Tell us how the shop runs and we will show you the parts that would change Monday.
Launching with founding shops
Auto Shop App is in active development with its founding shops now, and this page draws the line where the software does: what is running is described in the present tense, and what is not carries a mark. Early access opens as we harden it on real cars and real money.
Early access — coming soon