Automotive repair
Two moments decide a garage’s margin, and both are communication problems rather than mechanical ones.
Where the money goes
Independent garages lose margin at two moments: getting approval for additional work while the car occupies a ramp, and getting the customer back for the next service. Both are communication problems — photograph-backed estimates approved from a phone, and reminders that generate their own booking links.
What gets in the way today
- Service and MOT reminders depending on memory
- Approval for extra work chased by phone while the car sits on a ramp
- Vehicle history scattered across paper job cards
- Bay time lost to no-shows
- Parts ordering disconnected from the job
What actually goes wrong
A car on a ramp waiting for a customer to return a voicemail is bay time you cannot sell. And a garage that does not bring cars back for the next service is buying every customer twice.
What good looks like
- Approval from the ramp. Photographs and a costed estimate to the customer’s phone, approved in a tap. Bay time stops being consumed by voicemail.
- History lives on the vehicle. Not on a job card in a filing cabinet.
- Reminders bring cars back. Service intervals and MOT dates generate their own reminders with a booking link, well ahead of expiry.
- Parts are attached to the job, so margin per job is a number rather than a guess.
Two ways we help
Buy it. Layer Field CRM handles bookings, vehicle records, estimates and reminders.
Build it. Multi-site groups, franchised dealerships and anyone needing DMS or parts-catalogue integration are a custom engagement.
The shortcut
Layer Field CRM
Dispatch, job sheets and maintenance contracts for field teams
From USD 69/month
Buy it, or have it built
Most garages are best served by the product. Some are not, and we would rather say so than sell you a subscription you will outgrow in a year.
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