How Tekmetric’s Auto Tech Software Scales With Your Team and Your Shop

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May 22, 2023

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Every mile you drive toward running your shop like a well-oiled machine is a mile in the right direction.

Choosing and optimizing the right technology to run your shop can lead to growth that accelerates into massive returns on your investment.

How will Tekmetric’s auto tech software grow my shop?

Selecting the right auto tech software is, at its core, a business decision. You’re looking for the right tool for your shop: something that can manage workflow efficiently, free you up to spend your time on important shop decisions, and grow your bottom line.

How do you know if a system is designed to grow your business? At the very least, it must measure your business. If a shop management system cannot accurately measure shop performance, it can’t tell you whether or not using that system has improved your business.

Any solid shop management system should at least measure:

  • Average Repair Order
  • Car Count
  • Close Ratio
  • Total Gross Sales
  • Total Gross Profits

However, a great shop management system will show you much more, and present the information in a way that is easy to view, analyze, and understand.

With Tekmetric’s real-time Reports, you can track key performance indicators, including:

  • Profits on parts and labor, so you know how to protect and increase margins as needed
  • All Declined Jobs, so you can run sales and marketing campaigns to re-engage customers and close more work
  • Lifetime Visits, Lifetime Spend, Lifetime Profit, Lifetime ARO, and Lifetime Close Ratio, so your service advisors can cater to the needs and tendencies of every customer
  • Customer Close Ratio broken down by service advisor, so you can analyze individual service advisor performance and coach your team as needed
  • Sold Work by each individual technician, and Technician Efficiency both individually and as a team, so you can coach technicians on inspections or other aspects of the job if needed
  • Customer leads broken down by marketing channels, so you know where to invest your marketing dollars.
  • Customer leads broken down by source, so you know precisely how customers heard about your shop
  • Total amount in discounts given across Parts, Labor, Sublets, Fees, or Fixed Discounts on ROs, for a clearer idea into how discounts impact shop performance and to cap discounts to protect your profits

A system that improves life for you, your team, and your customers will already lead to new growth for your auto repair shop. Real-time reports open up even more overlooked opportunities for growing shop performance.

Tekmetric Scales as You Grow

The decision to upgrade your auto tech software is a positive indicator that your shop is poised for growth in the near future. Your shop management system should be able to help you manage and encourage that growth without nickel-and-diming you every time you want to make an investment in your shop.

With Tekmetric, you can: 

  • Add new users without burdensome costs. Add service advisors, technicians, and other team members—such as a service manager or a parts foreman—to the system without having to do the math on whether or not each new addition is worth the cost
  • Pay a flat rate if you open another shop, too, which is a much more manageable way of paying than trying to figure out your costs for the future based on projected hiring patterns
  • See reports across all your shops in one place with Tekmetric Multi-Shop

Adding team members to your system and training them to take on different roles and responsibilities should put more money in the bank, not take money out. Tekmetric’s pay-per-roof model is available across multiple price points with specific sets of available features, making growth easier for your shop.

You work hard to grow your profits. You should be able to keep as much of your payoff as possible.

How will my team and I get the support we need with Tekmetric?

No auto tech software can be judged independently of the company that built it and the staff that supports it. It’s not just the system you are buying; it’s the service and support of the team that comes with it. Some systems provide top-tier support; others offer virtually none.

Our Co-Founder Sunil Patel and leaders throughout our company instill a shop-first philosophy.

Tekmetric’s industry-leading customer success, onboarding, and training teams have carefully designed an onboarding process that is seamless enough that any shop owner—no matter what type of shop they operate, or how many shops they run—can make the switch and stay running without major hiccups. We make sure your data can be moved easily, and offer training to shorten the learning curve for you and your team. 

Tekmetric is Always Evolving

Our development team drives toward the constant pursuit of innovation.

Tekmetric never stays static; our system dynamically evolves, keeping shops who use it at the forefront of the auto repair shop industry. We consistently communicate with our users, striving to achieve our max potential.

As you innovate as a shop owner and your team grows, we hope to fuel that growth and support you in your goals and ambitions.

👉 Ready to grow your automotive business? [Book a personalized Tekmetric Demo Here]

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Whereas traditional methods of payment require dipping a card in the same terminal as other customers or the hand to hand exchange of cash or check, the ability to pay by text message through SMS mobile payments takes the complexity and headaches out of the payment process for owners, service writers, and guests alike.

For auto repair shops in particular, giving guests the ability to pay by text not only streamlines the guest experience but also frees up service advisors from having to do a bunch of data entry, giving them more time to help other guests.

Here’s how text-to-pay works on our Integrated Payments, Tekmerchant. As you’ll see, we’ve built in opportunities to enhance efficiency while strengthening the relationship you have with your guests at each step of the process.

Step 1: Complete the Repair Order & Send the Invoice

By connecting Tekmerchant to Tekmetric, service advisors can quickly review the invoices of completed work and simply click a button to text the invoice to the guest.

Since the invoice is automatically generated from the repair order and is easy to edit within Tekmetric, the service advisor can reduce the time they would usually spend writing invoices.

Step 2: Collect Payment

Once the invoice is sent, the guest will receive a link that takes them directly to their invoice and pay screen. From there, they can review the work that was completed and make their payment, prompting them to input their billing information.

The customer inputs their card information, including their billing address, making it a verified payment.

At this point, all the service writer has to do is make sure that the payment has been approved and that everything checks out.

Pro Tip: Enhance Guest Service with a Call or Personal Text

Because service advisors and guests both have access to a digital invoice, it gives service advisors the opportunity to add a human touch to the payment process without the guest coming into the shop.

Consider having service advisors give guests a call or send a personal text message at this part of the process.

While this may seem like an extra step, it gives service advisors a chance to check-in with the guest to ensure all approved work was completed, which is a big step towards avoiding chargebacks.

Calling the guest is also a good chance to remind them of any maintenance that may need to be taken care of in the future and any upcoming deals or events. If the guest is too busy to take a call, Integrated Payments has a Text-to-Pay feature giving them the freedom to pay when they have time.

If everything looks good on the invoice, the guest can easily pay and move on with their day. You get paid fast and the guest is able to pay at their convenience.

Step 3: Return Vehicle to Customer

Once the payment has been processed, all that’s left to do is to return the vehicle.

Pro Tip: Add a Key Drop-Box for Convenience

Some auto repair shops use a key drop-box or locker to make vehicle returns more convenient for their guests and service advisors.

Most contactless drop boxes use programmable codes, so you can put the guest’s keys in a locker, send them the code, and let them pick up their car when they’re ready.

With a key drop-box, everyone wins: service advisors don’t have to worry about staying late; shop owners don’t have to worry about paying a service writer overtime, and your guests don’t have to feel rushed to make it back to the repair shop before closing time.

Turbo-charge Your Payments Processing

The Integrated Payment text-to-pay feature makes life easy for your guests and service advisors, and can potentially save you time, money, and headaches.

The holiday season is now in full swing, and as a shop owner, you’re probably thinking about how to best lead your team during this time.

Between the hot chocolate and the carols, there will be a lot you’ll have to navigate, including holiday pay and time-off requests.

By preparing and leveraging auto repair shop management software, all of this can be a piece of cake (or pie, if that’s your holiday dessert of choice).

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  • Features that enable you and your team to work more efficiently
  • Features that enable you and your team to enhance the customer experience

Ultimately, the modern features we’re about to dive into will free up your time as a shop owner. Instead of stressing over small day-to-day details, you’ll be able to focus more on the high-level aspects of advancing your business.

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