Your shop software stores estimates. Somebody still has to write them.
"We're already automated. It's all in the system."
The system stores the estimate once somebody has written it. Getting it written is the work. An advisor has to look up the labor time and call around for parts prices, then key the whole thing in by hand.
Your best advisor spends half the day on paperwork.
Estimates go out late, in whatever order was easiest to write. The jobs that were a pain to price tend to fall off, so cars leave with work they needed that nobody quoted.
Mechanica writes the estimate for them. The advisor reviews it and gets back to their customers.
Hiring somebody for the counter anyway?
Plenty of shops need a person up front, somebody to answer phones and check customers in. Hire that person. Mechanica takes the screen work off their plate, so whoever is at your counter can stay facing the lobby instead of the keyboard.
From the tech's findings to a priced estimate.
This is the same F-150 from the top of the page, rebuilt line by line while you watch.
The tech finishes the diagnosis
Your techs keep doing inspections the way they do them now. Once one is marked complete, Mechanica picks it up. If your techs write on paper, a photo of the sheet is enough.
Mechanica writes the whole estimate
It pulls labor times and parts prices for every job the findings call for, and it builds them straight onto the repair order in your shop software.
Your advisor reviews and sends
They can change anything before it goes out, and nothing reaches a customer until a person at your shop approves it. The review usually takes a few minutes.
Every line shows its work.
Open any estimate and each line says where its number came from. When a customer asks why the job costs what it costs, your advisor can answer from the screen in front of them.
It also prices the way your shop prices. The two habits on the right came straight from conversations with owners, because they're the difference between a draft your advisor trusts and one they redo.
The objections we hear on the phone, answered in writing.
For the brake jobs you sell every day, that setup is quick and it works. Mechanica is for everything else on the ticket. It reads the inspection itself and builds every line, with the cross-checks your advisor never has time to run.
Where the guide runs out, it prices from your own history and quotes the aftermarket suppliers you use, all twenty of them if that's what it takes. The odd jobs are where advisors lose whole afternoons, so that's where it earns its keep.
You shouldn't, yet. Before it touches a live RO, it rebuilds a stack of your recent estimates so you can grade its work against what your advisors wrote. It runs from a limited login your advisor controls, with no way to send or delete anything.
One flat rate per shop, billed monthly.
Every advisor at the shop is covered, and we never take a cut of your tickets. If it isn't saving your advisors hours every week, you shouldn't be paying for it.
We quote it on the demo once we see your car count, and a small shop gets a small number.
Straight answers
Does it send anything to my customers on its own?
No. Every estimate sits in a review queue until an advisor at your shop reads it and hits send.
Do my techs have to change how they write findings?
No. Mechanica reads the inspections they already write, and if they write on paper, a photo of the sheet works. Cleaner notes make for better estimates, but you can go live with what you have.
Our techs write their own estimates. What then?
Some shops route the draft to the tech instead of an advisor. Whoever reviews estimates today keeps reviewing them. The draft just shows up already built.
Will it price things the way we price things?
Yes. Before you go live we load in your labor rate and markups, plus the canned jobs and preferred brands your shop already uses.
Where do the parts prices come from?
Your suppliers. Mechanica quotes the same parts you'd order yourself, then applies your markup to the price your supplier is charging you.
What access does it need to my system?
A login with the same permissions you'd give a new advisor, and you can set it lower. It drafts on the repair order. That's the whole footprint.
How long does setup take?
About a week. Most of that time goes to learning how your shop likes to quote, and you grade its practice estimates before anything goes live.
Are you replacing my service advisors?
No. An advisor reviews every estimate and talks to every customer, same as now. Mechanica does the typing that used to fill their morning.
See it run on one of your own repair orders.
Bring an RO that would normally take an hour to quote. On a twenty minute call, we'll build it in front of you.
Pick a time on the calendar