In the workshop your hands are greasy and your attention is on the car up on the lift. Yet the phone never stops: someone wants a tyre swap, another asks how much new brakes will cost, a third wants to know if their car is ready. Enquiries arrive by email and Messenger, bookings go into a notebook on the counter, and the parts used on each job live in your head – until they’re forgotten on the invoice.
In the evening you piece invoices together from scraps of paper, work out how much oil went into which car, and try to remember whose roadworthiness test is due. A customer nobody reminds may well go to another garage next time.
No website? A free one for your garage
Homeearly builds a website for you in the admin from the details already in the system – at an address like homeearly.eu/firma/your-garage, with a design made for car repair shops.
- A price list with durations and prices: oil and filter change, test preparation, fault diagnostics, brake inspection and replacement, or general repairs.
- A gallery of your workshop, a map, contact details and opening hours.
- Terms and conditions and a GDPR notice generated automatically.
- Two buttons: “Book now” for routine servicing on a set date, and “Request a quote” for repairs where you first need to know what’s wrong – customers can even attach a photo.
You can easily point your own domain to the page.
Already have a website? Leave it as it is
Add the booking calendar or enquiry form to your existing site with one snippet of code. Or send the link to customers and put it on your Google Business Profile or Facebook page. The real relief comes behind the website: jobs, parts, quotes and invoices in one place.
Your workshop under control
- Online bookings and enquiries – an availability calendar shows free slots, and an enquiry becomes a quote the customer approves online, then a job in one click. More under enquiries and online booking.
- Email to enquiry: customer messages in your business inbox are offered as enquiries for approval, while newsletters and auto-replies are filtered out.
- Resources and team: lifts and mechanics in the calendar, so two cars never compete for the same bay.
- Parts and stock: oil, filters and parts are logged against the job and flow straight into the invoice.
- Customer records with vehicles and repair history; mechanics take before-and-after photos and notes on their phone.
- Test and service reminders by email, text or WhatsApp, plus a review request once the job is done.
- Invoices with QR payment, automatic matching of bank payments and reminders for overdue invoices.
A day in the workshop, as an example
As an illustration: in the morning you open the Today view and see which cars are coming in, which lift they’re on and which mechanic has them. Overnight, two oil-change bookings arrived along with an enquiry that includes a photo of a warning light. You turn the enquiry into a quote, the customer approves it on their phone, and the quote becomes a job.
During the day the mechanic adds the parts used and photos of the worn brake pads on his phone. When the car is ready, you issue an invoice with a QR code, and once the money arrives it is matched automatically. A year later the customer is reminded about the next service without you lifting a finger.
What you get out of it
Less phoning and searching, no parts forgotten on invoices, faster payment, and customers who come back thanks to reminders. Plus a garage that looks dependable online too. Everything for your trade is on the Homeearly for garages page.
Try Homeearly for free
Signing up takes a minute: 30 days free with every feature, no credit card and no commitment. We set it up for Car repair shop right away — services, menu and wording — and you can create your website straight after signing up.