PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

🔧 Meet Auto Repair Shop Manager The complete shop management system from ELDON-Digital. It installs on one computer in your shop and every counter PC, technician tablet, and phone on your network uses it through a browser. Your whole team works together on one live database, and your data never leaves your building.

⭐ Why shops choose it ✅ Unlimited users, one price, no monthly fees ✅ Works offline on your own network, internet optional ✅ Windows and Mac server, any browser as a client ✅ Real shop workflow from appointment to release, enforced the right way ✅ Your data stays on your computer with verified backups

👥 Multi-user by design • Every employee gets a personal login; managers see cost and profit, technicians see their work • Advisor, technician, parts, cashier, and owner work at the same moment • Row locking on stock, numbering, and payments, so nothing is double-booked, double-numbered, or double-paid • Edit-conflict protection warns before one person overwrites another • Every action is written to the audit log with user, time, and IP • Second location or home office access through your VPN

📅 Front office • Appointment calendar with capacity rules and double-booking protection • Customers, households, businesses, fleets, and government accounts • Purchase order requirements, credit limits, net terms, labor rate overrides, tax exemption • Vehicles with VIN check-digit validation and a permanent odometer history • Check-In with walk-around notes, keys, valuables, permissions, and a signed intake

🔍 Digital vehicle inspections • 30-point checklist with Good, Monitor, Needs Attention, and Unsafe results • Measurements, notes, and customer-visible flags • Findings become estimate jobs with one click • Customer report and internal report, both printable

📝 Estimates and authorization • Good, Better, Best option groups on any job • Estimate versions lock when presented and never change • Immutable authorization records by signature, PIN, documented phone call, email, text, or fleet approver • Supplemental estimates that show previously authorized plus new work equals revised maximum • Declined work list so you can follow up and win the work later

🛠️ Shop floor • Workflow board with 26 statuses • Dispatch board by technician and bay with backorder alerts • Technician Mode for tablets with large Start, Pause, and Complete buttons • Time clocks, billed vs actual hours, efficiency and productivity • Quality control checklist, road test odometer, and rework loop • Release gate that verifies jobs, posted invoice, and balance before the keys go out • Comebacks linked to the original repair order and technician

📦 Parts and inventory • Append-only stock ledger; on-hand can never go negative • Automatic allocation on approval and issue on invoicing • Purchase orders with partial receipts and backorders that re-allocate waiting jobs • Reorder report, cores, tires with DOT codes, batteries with CCA, hazardous materials log

🧾 Billing and cash • Invoices lock when posted; corrections are made by reversal with a full trail • Cash, check, card terminal reference, ACH, fleet terms, warranty payer, store credit • Refunds with manager approval • Cash drawer sessions with expected vs counted and variance explanation • Accounts receivable aging and customer statements

📈 32 reports with charts Sales by day and category, gross profit, AR aging, sales tax, payments by method, technician and advisor performance, estimate close rate, declined work, cycle time and promise performance, comebacks, QC results, bay utilization, appointments, inventory valuation, reorder, parts usage, slow-moving stock, open purchase orders, cores, hazardous materials, customer ranking, fleet accounts, service due, lapsed customers, sales by make, employee roster, audit activity. Every report prints to PDF and exports to Excel and CSV.

🖨️ 19 branded print documents Invoice, internal invoice, estimate, internal estimate, supplemental estimate, authorization record, check-in receipt, inspection report, repair order worksheet, payment receipt, cash reconciliation, customer statement, vehicle service history, appointment confirmation, purchase order, supplier record, part card, reorder report, employee record, client setup card. Your logo, your accent color, bold readable layouts, no cut-off words.

🎨 Beautiful and clear • 10 color themes, 7 light and 3 dark • Large Poppins typography, colorful section bands and KPI cards • Global search across customers, phones, VINs, plates, repair orders, invoices, and parts • Connection-lost banner that recovers automatically

🔐 Secure and private • Secure HTTPS on the LAN with a one-click certificate • Argon2 password hashing and per-user permissions • Verified backups, safe restore, and a clean update path • Card numbers are never stored

📦 What you receive (instant download, about 15 MB) • The full application for Windows 10/11 and macOS 12+ • Open Program launcher and desktop shortcut creator with the app icon • Sample shop (50 customers, 76 vehicles, 55 repair orders, 144 parts) to explore and clear in one click • 55-page illustrated Complete User Guide (PDF) • Quick Start, Administrator Guide, Multi-User Access Guide, KPI Dictionary • Lifetime license for one business, free updates for version 1.x

⚙️ Requirements • Windows 10/11 or macOS 12 or newer on the server computer • Python 3.12 or newer (free one-time install) • Chrome, Edge, Firefox, or Safari on client devices • PostgreSQL (free) recommended for larger teams; built-in single-workstation mode needs nothing extra

🚀 Up and running in four steps

1. Download and unzip
2. Double-click Open Program
3. Sign in, add your shop name, logo, tax rates, and labor rates
4. Print the Client Setup Card and hand out logins

💬 Support Questions before you buy or help during setup? Contact ELDON-Digital through the shop and we will get you running.

📌 Digital product. No physical item is shipped. Licensed for one business; resale or redistribution is not permitted. All sales are final due to the nature of digital downloads.