The quote approved before the bonnet is opened.
The client approves on the phone with a signature, the parts go in from a photo of the invoice, and the margin on each repair is there in plain sight.
Pedro Faria · 2 hours ago
Signed on screen, with a record of who and when.
The app speaks your language.
No jargon from someone else's trade here: in your account, each piece of work is a Repair.
Types of work already set up in the catalogue:
The argument is never about the part. It's who said yes.
The quote goes to the client's phone and comes back signed, with a record of who approved it and when. The «go ahead» over the phone stops being the only proof you have.
«I never authorised that part.»
«You called, he said “go ahead”, and in the end you're arguing about the clutch he swears he never authorised.»
The quote goes to the phone and comes back signed, with a record of who approved it and when. The argument ends before it starts.
«The car came in with a scratch on the door. On the way out, the scratch is the garage's fault.»
The car's condition is recorded on arrival, with photos tied to the job and the client. It stays there for when it's needed.
«The part has gone up 14% since last time and you carried on charging last year's price.»
You photograph the supplier's invoice and the part goes into the catalogue with a price and a date. When it climbs from purchase to purchase, you find out while there's still time to change the price.
«That fleet's service was due in January. Nobody called, and the cars went to the garage next door.»
Services and maintenance sit as recurring work, and the client is told before the time comes. It's the cheapest work there is to win.
A repair is a client. A booked service is twelve years of client.
A garage lives off people coming back, and almost everyone does come back — somewhere else, because nobody reminded them. The two-year service, the oil change, the MOT coming up: these are dates known in advance that die for not being written down anywhere.
Services that rebook themselves
Each recurring intervention has an interval in months. You mark the service as done and the next is booked into the diary on the right date, tied to the car and the client — without depending on anyone remembering.
Fleets as a contract, not as a flood
A fleet sits as recurring work, with an interval, a value and an end date. The forecast normalises everything to a month so contracts can be added up: a quarterly contract of €900 counts as €300 a month, not €900.
The warranty that ends without warning
Parts and jobs under warranty have their expiry recorded. Before it runs out, someone ought to call the client — and it's one of the twenty-two rules that handles that, in your name.
The history tied to the car
Quotes, authorisations, photos of the condition on arrival and parts fitted stay tied to the client. When they come back two years later, the whole garage is one search away.
What an hour on the ramp has to pay for.
Example figures. The cost of an hour on the ramp isn't the mechanic's wage: it's the wage plus the rent, the tools, the insurance and the time the ramp stands idle.
Your next service quote gets made in Kwote. Free, no card.
Create a free accountHow many quotes die between the phone call and the «I'll let you know»?
A garage sends dozens of quotes a month. After six months, that's a real sample about your own business — and it stays shut in a drawer, because nobody ever added it up.
- Conversion rateHow many of the quotes sent end up authorised — drafts don't go into the sum
- Average ticketThe average value of what gets approved, which is the number that decides whether another ramp or higher prices pays off
- Time to approvalHow many hours pass between you sending the quote and the client authorising it
- Why you lose workThe reason for each rejection: price too high, client postponed, chose someone else, or another reason
- Margin by type of workBrakes, timing belts, bodywork, diagnostics — each with what it invoiced, what it spent and the margin left over
- Parts rising in priceParts bought three times or more in six weeks that have risen above eight per cent since the first purchase
The basic numbers appear as soon as there are decided quotes. The deeper cross-references — real cost of an hour on the ramp, margin by type of work, the price at which you win each part — belong to the Ultra plan. Where the sample isn't enough, Kwote writes no conclusion at all: a price verdict per item requires at least six decided quotes for that item.
What Kwote does for the garage.
- A quote dictated beside the carWith the bonnet up, you dictate what the repair involves and the draft builds itself from the parts and labour in your catalogue. The client gets the link before leaving the garage.
- Approval signed, not phonedThe client approves on the phone with a signature and a record of who approved it and when. Extra work is approved the same way — never in a call nobody keeps a record of.
- Warranty ending, client contactedThe warranty automation warns you before it runs out — the perfect excuse for the client to come back, or for you to sell the next service while the car is still your business.
- Reviews asked for at the right momentWhen the repair closes, the review request goes out by itself. It's on the day the car is running again that the client is happy — not two weeks later, when they've forgotten.
Some of these features depend on the plan you're on. See what's in each plan.
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Questions from people who live among repairs.
Can the client approve the quote without coming to the garage?
Yes. They get a link, see the lines and the prices on their phone, and approve with a signature. Who approved it and when is on record — and extra work, when it comes up, is approved the same way, in writing.
Can I prove the condition the car came in?
The diary photos carry a date and an author, tied to the repair. It isn't a formal survey, but it's a great deal better than the memories of two people disagreeing — and you decide which ones the client sees.
How do I keep track of parts prices?
You photograph the supplier's invoice and the parts go into the catalogue with a price and a date. Kwote keeps the history of each one and warns you when the price rises — before the margin on repairs disappears without anyone understanding why.
I do fleet maintenance. Is that a contract?
It's recurring work: you set the interval and the end date, and the value is normalised to a month so it adds to the rest. The upcoming-maintenance automation reminds you of each service without depending on the sheet pinned to the board.
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