Get the job booked, billed and reminded — without the front desk chasing paper.

A car comes in, a job card gets written up, parts get ordered by phone, and the invoice waits for someone to remember it once the customer has already driven off. Service and WOF reminders go out when there is a spare ten minutes, which most weeks there is not.

Calculate Your Savings

Where the week goes now

  • ✕Bookings, WOF and service due dates tracked across a diary, a spreadsheet and memory
  • ✕Job cards written on paper, then re-typed into the workshop system
  • ✕Parts ordered from suppliers by phone, matched to the invoice by hand
  • ✕Invoices raised once the job is finished and someone remembers to do it
  • ✕Workshop hours re-entered from the clock into payroll separately
  • ✕Service and WOF reminders sent only when someone has time

What happens instead

  • ✓A booking entered once, from quote through to invoice
  • ✓Parts ordered and matched to the job automatically
  • ✓Invoices raised the moment a job is marked complete
  • ✓Service and WOF reminders that go out on their own
  • ✓Payroll built from the hours actually clocked against jobs

Typical for a small team in this sector

~9 hours a week

Around 432 hours a year returned to the work you are actually paid for.

An estimate, not a measured result — based on a 48-week working year. Use the calculator for figures built on your own team.

Named work, not “admin”.

These are the specific end-to-end jobs we automate in mechanics businesses. If you recognise three of them as your week, there is a case to be made.

01Booking accepted, job card created and parts ordered without re-entering vehicle details
02Job marked complete raises the invoice straight from the workshop system into Xero
03Supplier parts invoices matched to the job, not just the ledger
04Workshop hours clocked to a job feed both payroll and job costing at once
05Service and WOF reminders sent on a fixed schedule, not when someone remembers
06Job costing: parts and labour reconciled against the quote while the car is still on the hoist

MechanicDesk + Xero + Crystal Payroll

Job complete raises the invoice, and workshop hours land in payroll. This is the scope we would normally propose first for a mechanics business — priced at our published rates, before we have seen your systems.

$3,000

setup, one time + GST

$447

per month + GST

3

integrations · discovery fee included

Open this in the pricing calculator →

Loads pre-filled, so you can add or remove systems and watch the price move.

Mechanics case study

We publish client results only when a client has put their name to them and the before-and-after numbers have been measured, not estimated. When a mechanics business does, this is where it goes. In the meantime the calculator gives you your own numbers rather than somebody else's.

Keep every system you already use.

MechanicDeskXeroCrystal PayrollReminders

Nothing is replaced and nobody retrains. If one of your systems is older or more awkward than the rest, that is usually the one hiding the biggest saving.

Accomplish more with the people you already have.

Half an hour with us and you will know which hours your firm is losing, what they cost you a year, and whether automating them is worth it.