For those who work or own your own garage/workshop what computer software do you use as im about to buy a computer or laptop for my business and was wondering what software anyone would recomend ?
Ideally I would like something that includes vehicle details, history and scheduling as well as invoicing etc.

all help would be much apprecited

 

i think autodata is pretty much all you will ever need tbh.

the only prob i know of is you're unable to save invoices generated on autodata into a seperate folder for viewing later/for records. Unless someone here knows different and i've been doing it wrong?

of course you can print an extra copy and keep it in a filing cabinent but thats not the point!

 

What sort of info can you store using Autodata ?

 

i thought autodata was more for looking up info, as aposing to storing info and invoicing

ive used both KDMS and Kerridge, which do what your after but i belive the licenses are horribly expensive

 

I use to use workshop 400 years ago when i was working for LEX transfleet and that was very good at the time but im only looking for something basic and cheap mainly for vehicle details and scheduling and odd bits of invoicing for cash work etc

 

what do you mean vehicle details and scheduling exactly?

 

My mates small garage uses some software run off Uniparts website.

The company I work for uses Evolution and before hat was Drive-In. We are looking into another software package but I can't remember what it is now.

I found this after a breif search... http://www.garagebase.com/GB_UK.htm

 

I mostly look after trucks vans and coach's, so a lot of my work is repeat buiness with most vehicles have to be serviced on between a 6 to 10 week rota hence the scheduling part and I need to keep the vehicle details eg chassis number etc for ordering parts etc

 

Yes I understand what you need. I can't remember what software will do that though as we haven't had a customer who wanted us to fleet manage their trucks for a while now (most of our work is now from fleet maintenance management companies like Lex (now Fraikin), TLG, Asset Co, NSN ect).

I think the EVO software will do it but I think it might be expensive for what you want.

If you want a cheap solution, Microsoft Outlook can flag up shedules...

 

Ive just checked out Garagebase and that doesnt seem to bad and I suppose £300 is not bad for the basic package too !

 

No, not when some are several grand!!

Have a flick through google. You might be able to find something more suitable.

 

Cheers mate let me know what you can !