Client work
Real businesses.
Real connections.
These are named clients whose systems Autovibe has connected. Every hours figure below is a modelled estimate, not a measured result — the modelling basis is shown next to it.
Clients of PM International Limited
PM International Limited supports manufacturing and joinery businesses running Empower, the scheduling and production software. Working alongside them, Autovibe has connected Empower to the payroll and floor systems their client businesses already run, across New Zealand and Australia.
Timesheets straight into payroll
Before
Staff clocked hours against jobs in Empower, and someone then retyped those same hours into Crystal Payroll every pay run — repeated at every client business, each running anywhere from 10 to 100 staff.
Now
Approved hours now flow from Empower into Crystal Payroll automatically, so pay day starts from the timesheet instead of a re-keyed copy of it.
4–40 hrs / week
admin time returned, per business
Modelled at ~3 admin hours/employee/week on Empower + Crystal Payroll, scaled across the 10–100 employee range these businesses run.
Jobs synced from Empower to the floor
Before
Every accepted job and its product detail had to be copied by hand from Empower into Trinder, the manufacturing floor software, before production could start on it.
Now
Jobs and their product details now move from Empower into Trinder the moment a job is confirmed, with nobody re-typing the specification a second time.
~6 hrs / week
admin time returned
Modelled at roughly 20 minutes of manual re-entry per job, across an estimated 18 jobs a week.
Jobs, products and timesheets, both ways
Before
Australian manufacturers running JIM or KIM alongside Empower were keying job, product and timesheet detail into both systems separately, with no single source of truth for either.
Now
Jobs, product data and timesheets now flow between Empower and each client’s manufacturing system automatically, in both directions.
~24 hrs / week
admin time returned, typical mid-size business
Modelled for a ~30-employee manufacturer at 4 admin hours/employee/week across three connected data types (jobs, products, timesheets).
Forged Automotive Limited
A full-service mechanic shop handling servicing, WOFs and paint work. Bookings, reminders, invoicing and payroll ran across MechanicDesk, Xero, Crystal Payroll and a handful of separate reminder tools — kept in sync by hand.
One connected workshop
Before
New customers, service and WOF due dates, paint bay bookings, invoicing and payroll each lived in a different system, so keeping the workshop full and the books current meant constant manual cross-checking.
Now
New customer and vehicle details are entered once and reach every system that needs them. Service and WOF reminders go out on their own before they fall due, paint work is scheduled against workshop capacity, completed jobs invoice straight from MechanicDesk into Xero, and hours flow into Crystal Payroll for pay day.
~20 hrs / week
admin time returned
Modelled for a ~15-staff workshop at 5 admin hours/employee/week across four connected systems.
Euro Asia Autoworks
A European specialist workshop where invoicing and service reminders depended on someone remembering to start them once a job was done.
Invoicing and reminders, on their own
Before
Invoices were raised by hand once a job wrapped up, and service and WOF reminders went out only when someone had time to send them.
Now
An invoice now generates and sends the moment a job is marked complete, and service and WOF reminders go out on a fixed schedule without anyone starting them.
~5 hrs / week
admin time returned
Modelled for an 8-staff workshop at 4 admin hours/employee/week across two connected systems.
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Every business above started with the same conversation we'd have with you: what your team already runs, and where the hours actually go.