How car workshops keep job cards in software
This site explains what a job card is and how workshop software records a car from booking-in to collection. It covers work lines, parts, technician notes, approvals, status boards and handover. It describes software from the makers' own help pages and never sells any.
Questions answered
- What a car workshop job card is and what goes on it
What a job card holds in a car workshop, what it's used for, and how it differs from a quote or an invoice.
- Paper job cards and software job cards compared
What changes when a car workshop moves job cards from paper to software, and what paper still does well.
- Booking in a vehicle: the details a job card starts with
Which customer, vehicle and fault details a car workshop records when a vehicle comes in, and where the software gets them.
- Work lines, parts and labour on a job card
How a car workshop's software records parts, labour time and extra work as separate lines on one job card.
- Technician notes, photos and checklists on a job
How technicians record findings, photos and inspection results against a car workshop job card in software.
- Getting approval for extra work and recording it
How job card software records that a customer agreed to added work on their car, and what one US regulator says to keep.
- Job status and the workshop board
How job statuses and a drag-and-drop workshop board show where each car is, with examples from two makers' help pages.
- Closing a job card, invoicing and handing the car back
What job card software does when car repairs finish: completing the card, creating the invoice and marking the car collected.