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How it works

How ashdub. Garage runs the workshop day.

Six connected parts, one customer, vehicle and job record underneath. Here is what each one does, as it is today.

The six parts

What each part of Garage does.

The illustrations use sample data so no customer's details appear; the product screens on the home page are real.

  1. 01Diary

    Diary and planning

    Technician and courtesy-car lanes across the day, week and month, with an unassigned queue and needs-attention counts across the top.

    • Board, landscape, week and month views
    • Drag a booking onto a lane and time
    • Unassigned work waits in its own queue
    • Print a day's job cards as one PDF
  2. 02Jobs

    Job cards and technician progress

    Every job carries its customer, vehicle, status, technician, health check and notes, from booked to complete.

    • Quick-start services pre-fill the job card
    • Priority, lane and time set in one place
    • Print-ready job card with no prices
    • Select several jobs to change status, assign or schedule them
  3. 03Estimates

    Estimates and service templates

    Build estimates in sections of labour and parts, and start common services from saved service templates so they're quoted the same way every time.

    • Sections reconcile with VAT
    • Draft, sent, approved, invoiced and paid
    • Emailed with a secure approval link
    • Customers approve line by line and sign
  4. 04Records

    Customers and vehicles

    Each customer is linked to their vehicles and every job; add a vehicle by registration and decode its make and model.

    • One record per customer, with every vehicle
    • Each vehicle keeps its jobs, checks and estimates
    • Registration decode fills the make and model
    • Find any of it from the search bar
  5. 05History

    Messages and approvals

    Every job keeps one thread of the emails, texts and WhatsApp messages sent from it, plus the calls and notes your team logs.

    • Email, SMS and WhatsApp sent from the job
    • Calls and notes logged by your team
    • Approval recorded on the estimate
    • Health check report shared with the customer
  6. 06Phone

    Ready for the bay on a phone

    Technicians work from a phone: their day, health checks, notes and photos, with the board a tap away.

    • Dashboard, Calendar, Jobs and Messages in the bottom bar
    • Health checks rated good, advisory or urgent
    • Technicians land on their own view after signing in
    • The same jobs on tablet and desktop

One connected job

From booking to paid, without retyping a thing.

The customer, the vehicle and the work travel together, so each step starts where the last one finished.

  1. Book

    Drop the booking onto a lane, or let it wait in the unassigned queue until a bay is free.

  2. Check in

    The customer and vehicle records come with the job, along with their history.

  3. Inspect

    Record a good, advisory and urgent health check and share the report with the customer.

  4. Estimate

    Build the quote in sections of parts and labour, then email it with a secure approval link.

  5. Approve

    The customer approves line by line and signs on their phone; the decision is recorded on the estimate.

  6. Invoice

    Approved work hands off to invoicing and is tracked through to paid.

Your next step

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Existing workshops log in on auto.ashdub.com. If you're new, see the whole day first or tell us how your garage works today.