Garage booking software and MOT reminders: A full ramp, less phone tag

Customers book services and MOTs online by registration, you quote extra work and take payment and reminders bring them back when the next MOT is due.

Garage Pro adds vehicle records, MOT and service reminders and workshop job management on top of bookings, quotes, invoices and card payments. Registration lookups and MOT history are for UK garages only. The AI assistant is inside the product. Quotes and invoices include the VAT figures. Youzse does not file the VAT return. The trial is 30 days and does not need a card. Youzse does not take a commission on new clients. Facts, pricing and limits

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The Youzse diary for a garage on a Tuesday in day view, with 20 jobs across three mechanics, including a cambelt and a clutch replacement
One column per mechanicCambelts, clutches and services in one diary

What garages see in Youzse

Real screens from Motorworks Garage, our demo garage, with the numbers it shows today. Number plates are blurred.

The workshop job board, with three booked cars waiting to be checked in, each with its mechanic and bay; number plates are blurredCheck cars in from the board

A live board for the floor

Every car booked in today waits on the job board with its mechanic and bay, ready to check in when the keys arrive.

The MOT history on a vehicle record, listing five passes with the mileage and expiry date of eachMileage and expiry for every test

MOT history on the record

Each vehicle keeps its MOT results, mileage and expiry dates. MOT reminders go out before the next one is due.

Part requests from the workshop, with 4 pending, 3 approved and 3 on order out of 174 waiting for your approval

Parts asked for, not shouted for

Mechanics request parts from the job and you approve, order and track them from one list.

Fill the ramp, book the next MOT

Customers book services and MOTs online by registration, so you know the vehicle before it arrives. Quote extra work, take a deposit and send an automatic reminder when the next MOT is due.

No commission on new customers. No per job charges.

One monthly subscription. 2.5% + 35p only when you take a card payment.

A registration lookup on the Youzse mobile app

Money in before the keys go out

Every garage has a ledger of people who said they would settle up next week. Take a deposit when the parts are ordered, send a payment link the moment the job is done and take the balance on the phone at the counter so nothing leaves on account.

9 box VAT figures.

Labour, parts and VAT separated on every job, ready for your accountant.

Payouts on the Youzse mobile app

The MOT reminder that pays for itself

Repeat MOT work goes to whoever contacts the customer first. Youzse reads the due date from the registration and sends the reminder for you, so recovering that work does not depend on someone running a report on a Monday morning.

Unlimited customers and vehicles on every plan.

History follows the registration when a car changes hands.

The customer list on the Youzse mobile app

Running an independent garage

A garage sells ramp hours. There is a fixed number of them in a week, none can be stored and the difference between a workshop that thrives and one that survives is almost entirely how many of those hours were sold rather than merely attended.

Where the ramp hours go in a typical week

What is on the rampWhat it does for the weekThe catch
MOT testingBrings the whole book back on a known cyclePriced keenly everywhere, so it earns through what it finds
ServicingPredictable, bookable weeks ahead, easy to scheduleFixed price menus that ignore how long the car took
Repairs from old advisoriesThe most profitable work in the buildingOnly happens where somebody follows the advisory up
DiagnosticsHigh skill, high value, very little parts costHardest to price, so most often given away
Warranty and account workFills quiet weeks and pays without chasingPays on their terms, thirty days at best

The bay that tests is not the bay that earns. Testing pays for itself by putting the whole customer book in front of you with a list attached.

Sold hours and attended hours are two different numbers

A technician is in the building for forty hours. The only question that matters is how many of them reached an invoice. Between the two sit road tests, parts collection, authorisation waits, moving cars around the yard and twenty minutes looking for a fitting.

Most workshops have never measured that gap. Recovering two hours per technician per week across three technicians is roughly three hundred billable hours a year, with no extra staff and no extra customers.

The biggest single cause is the authorisation wait. You find worn discs, you ring the owner, they are in a meeting and a ramp holds a car that nobody is allowed to work on.

The advisory list is next year's diary, already written

Every inspection produces a list of things not urgent yet. It has a rough date attached and it is the only forward order book a garage gets for nothing.

Hardly anybody works it. The advisory gets written down, the customer collects the car and nine months later the job is done elsewhere by whoever made contact first. The same goes for service intervals and test dates on vehicles you have already had in.

Where ramp hours quietly disappear

  • A customer who does not pick up while the car waits for approval
  • A part ordered wrong because nobody recorded the engine variant
  • A no show on a booked service, on a fully committed morning
  • A job quoted from memory and invoiced below the parts and hours
  • Courtesy cars returned empty and charged to nobody
  • Waiting appointments taken all morning, which feel like service and wreck the bay plan

What a well run garage does

  • Measures sold hours against attended hours per technician
  • Sends extra work as a quote with a photograph, approvable from a phone
  • Turns last visit advisories into this visit quotes, every time
  • Sends service and test reminders automatically rather than by report
  • Takes a deposit before ordering a part specific to one vehicle
  • Carries an approved quote through to job and invoice without retyping
  • Tracks parts cost against sell price per job to see the real margin
  • Takes payment before the keys are handed back
  • Keeps a call list to refill a ramp a cancellation has just freed

The forecourt sets the price, the record sets the margin

Two garages a mile apart charge similar rates and earn very different money. The difference is rarely the rate. It is parts margin, how much of the week was billed and how much work came back unprompted.

All three are record keeping. A workshop that knows what it fitted, what it advised and when the next date falls due is running a book of customers. One that knows only today is running a queue.

Built for garages

Each of these sits in the same account, so a booking, its payment and the client record stay together.

  • Online booking by registration

    Customers enter their reg on your booking page and the make and model come back from the DVLA.

  • MOT reminders and service nudges

    MOT reminders go automatically from the expiry date with a link that books the test. A rebooking nudge follows a service at the interval you set.

  • Quotes and job approval

    Send a quote for the extra work found and the customer accepts or declines it online.

  • Deposits and card payments

    Deposits at booking and card payment at collection, with the deposit taken off the bill.

  • Customer and vehicle history

    Every vehicle has its own record with MOT history from the DVSA, past work, notes and files.

  • Automated reminders

    Booking reminders and job status updates sent to the customer as the car moves through the workshop.

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Garage Pro adds vehicle records, MOT and service reminders and workshop job management on top of bookings, quotes, invoices and card payments. Registration lookups and MOT history are for UK garages only. The AI assistant is inside the product. Quotes and invoices include the VAT figures. Youzse does not file the VAT return. The trial is 30 days and does not need a card. Youzse does not take a commission on new clients.

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