Expanding your business into multiple locations is exciting but can come with challenges. One of these challenges being, the ability to manage data and reports across all of your shops.
To simplify this process, Tekmetric has developed Multi-Shop, our most powerful set of tools and reports to easily manage multiple shops through custom shop comparison reporting, organization-level reports and centralized data management.
Multi-Shop allows you to gain back time, make better business decisions and maximize your margins.
Financial Intelligence
One of the most valuable tools for multi-shop owners, like you, is the ability to view, manage and understand how each of your shops are doing financially.
The Custom Shop Comparison Reporting tool allows you to create custom reports so they can compare and analyze over 50 different metrics for all of your shops.
You can use these reports to help decipher which shops are performing best and make key business decisions to stimulate growth in all of your shops.
Operational Insights
Typically, shop owners who run more than one shop are having to run multiple reports for each shop separately.
This can become a tedious task when you are trying to run multiple reports and compare them across your shops in order to make intelligent business choices.
Organization-Level Reports in Tekmetric Multi-Shop allows you to view a collection of data from all of your shops in one place, tremendously cutting down the time it takes for you to look over data and make decisions for all of your shops.
The three report categories are separated into financial reports, employee reports, and part reports. Under the financial report category, you can find the end of day report, which is the most commonly used feature for Organization-Level Reports.
The end of the day report gives you a daily view of your finances.
You can organize the data below into any combination you would like to give yourself a custom view of one shop or multiple shops of your choosing.
Centralized Data Management
There may come a time when you are trying to improve your customer’s experience through features such as discounts, digital vehicle inspections and payment types.
However, you can lose time in implementing these processes in your software and across all of your shops. Oftentimes these features fall to the back burner because you may not have the time to implement all of these features across your many shops.
The Centralized Data Management feature allows Multi-Shop users to create, edit, and delete data across all of their shops for the below categories:
Digital Vehicle Inspections
Canned Jobs
Discounts
Payment Types
Marketing Sources
Job Categories
Without the Multi-Shop tools, you have to view, create and edit the data for each of your businesses separately.
This can lower efficiency in your shops when you are attempting to create and publish data such as canned jobs or marketing sources across your shops.
Centralized Data Management allows you to get a bird's eye level view of all of their shops and allows you to manage them in one central location and publish any changes to any shops that you choose.
This can massively increase your productivity and cut out wasted time.
Tekmetric Multi-Shop Plan is the perfect solution for you to maximize productivity, profitability and process’ within your shop.
We’ve all fallen under a “fear of the unknown” spell—whether it stems from waiting for your doctor’s results to come back, or not hearing that check-in text alert from your kid while they’re out with friends. The waiting game can cause our imaginations to run wild with thoughts of “what-if’s.”
Similarly, auto repair customers like the ability to see what’s getting done to their car, if any additional issues were found, and exactly where their car is in the repair process. You can build customer loyalty and enhance your customer service by giving them the ability to see and confirm that everything is going smoothly and according to plan with their vehicle repairs.
Visibility and transparency go beyond just shop-to-customer; it also helps bridge imagination and productivity gaps within your shop.
Breast cancer is the most diagnosed cancer among women in the U.S. after skin cancer. In fact, there are currently more than four million women with a history of breast cancer in the U.S. Most, if not all of us know someone who has been greatly impacted by this disease.
Founded in 2011, Brakes for Breasts unites independent auto repair shops to support people affected by breast cancer and donate to ongoing research for a cure. You may have heard the saying, “prevention is better than cure.” Brakes for Breasts takes that to the next level through the belief that “prevention is the cure.” The organization offers participating shops a chance to raise money for the Cleveland Clinic Breast Cancer Vaccine Fund, supporting the creation of a vaccine that can prevent TNBC (triple negative breast cancer).
Today, Brakes for Breasts has expanded to work with hundreds of shops nation-wide, raising more than $2.1 million. Its founders, Leigh Ann Best and Laura Frank, are both powerhouses in the auto repair industry who established Brakes for Breasts to raise money for breast cancer research and provide a bigger voice to women in the auto repair industry.
In 2024, Tekmetric donated more than $16,000 to Brakes for Breasts. This year, our goal is to donate even more – and we need your help! There are multiple ways to participate:
Sign up with Tekmetric. During the month of October, Tekmetric will donate $50 to the Brakes for Breasts campaign for every new shop that signs up for Tekmetric.
Share the campaign with your customers. If you are a TechNet shop, make sure your customers know that when they come to you for a qualifying brake service between September 1 and October 31, you are offering a rebate on qualifying brake pads that they can choose to donate to the fund.
Donate with Tekmetric's fundraising link. If you want to go straight to Brakes for Breasts without any brakes, use this link to donate any dollar amount to Brakes for Breast. You can choose between a one-time donation or a monthly contribution.
Fundraise at your shop by joining the Tekmetric team. You can register your shop to fundraise for this cause in your community through Tekmetric’s campaign at this link. The shop that raises the most money during the campaign will win a trip to join Tekmetric at the check presentation ceremony in Cleveland in April 2026.
Participate directly. Participating independent repair shops can work directly with Brakes for Breasts by offering customers free brake pads on brake jobs in the month of October, then donating 10% of the labor from that brake service to the fund.
All proceeds will go towards The Cleveland Clinic Breast Cancer Vaccine Research Fund. The end goal is to create a vaccine that can create a world free of breast cancer.
Brakes for Breasts is a tremendous opportunity for your shop to partner with your local community to benefit people affected by breast cancer. Our customer Austin Blanton, owner of Import Auto Shop, experienced this phenomenon first-hand when his shop participated in previous years: “When you’re worried about money and busy dealing with operations stuff, you can lose sight of paying it forward. For example, one of the things we did last year was get involved with Brakes for Breasts.”
As we aim to focus on our customers, we are also happy to be part of initiatives that will transform lives for generations to come. For our customers who have been impacted by this disease, the month of October honors what you have overcome to be here. By promoting further research and support of your journey, we hope to support the creation of better cancer care for all who are impacted by this disease. Let’s hit the brakes on breast cancer and work towards a cure together!
Your auto repair labor revenue and parts margins are critical for enhancing your shop’s profitability. Adjusting your pricing on parts to make a profit is pretty straightforward.
But when it comes to labor times for auto repair shops…that’s where things can get a bit tricky.
Yes, you need competitive labor rates, but you also need to keep those rates reasonable so you don’t scare off your customers with sky-high prices.
3 ways your shop can make more money on labor:
By using a labor matrix
By creating custom labor rates
By applying a labor guide markup
Before we dive into the differences between these three methods for setting the best labor times at your shop, here’s a quick refresher on the one thing these methods have in common: the labor guide.
What is a Labor Guide?
A labor guide is like the gospel of labor times for auto repair shops. It tells you how long, on average, it takes to complete different types of repair work.
Remember that the times listed in auto repair labor guides are averages, so it’s best to treat them as a starting point.
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