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The move away from handwritten vehicle check-ins to digital vehicle inspections is well underway. Today, digital vehicle inspection solutions facilitate the entire inspection process at many shops, from checklist management to estimates, to the easy sharing of image-enriched reports with customers through SMS or email.    Digital vehicle inspections make shops more efficient and customer-friendly […]

Do you struggle to price your parts? Are you not sure how to create profitable parts margins, while remaining competitive? You are not alone.   Financially healthy shops typically sell parts for more than they paid for them – that much is obvious. But it can be a real challenge to determine how much each part

How Reporting Benefits Multi-Shop Auto Repair Businesses   Running a multi-shop auto repair business effectively means maintaining visibility across your entire enterprise.   To maximize revenue, support growth, and increase efficiency across all locations you need real-time reporting. This technology will help you review data about your business quickly and make the adjustments required to keep everything

What does the year ahead hold for auto repair shops like yours? We don’t have a crystal ball, but here are a few research-backed trends that the team at R.O. Writer, an industry-leading auto repair shop management system, think will affect shops like yours in the next twelve months. Read on to learn how to

There are already close to 2.5 million electric vehicles on the road in the US today, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. 38% of US adults indicate that they would consider an EV for their next vehicle purchase, and EVs are projected to make up 17% of the vehicle market as early as

Keeping an auto repair shop running smoothly means wearing a lot of hats. To run and grow your business, you need the support of reliable technology, so you can streamline processes across the whole enterprise. Too often, shop owners and managers find themselves handling processes manually, or juggling multiple, non-integrated software programs to conduct day-to-day