What moves and what stays behind
| Comes across | What to watch | |
|---|---|---|
| Customer records | Names, email addresses, phone numbers, full addresses and notes | There is no named column profile for Autowork Online, so you match the columns yourself on the mapping screen. Long standing lists carry dead records, so this is the moment to drop anyone who has not been near you in a decade |
| Trade and fleet accounts | Company name, registration number, VAT number, address and contact details, imported as companies | Import companies before people, so a contact attaches to an account that already exists |
| Registrations | As a working list rather than an import file | Youzse has no vehicle import. Vehicles are created from the plate, so the export that matters is registration against customer, sorted by MOT due date |
| MOT due dates | Read from the registration | Ten years of hand edited dates do not have to be right, because Youzse reads the current due date, the MOT status and the test history from the plate |
| Job and invoice history | As invoices, with number, issue date, due date, customer, totals, amount paid and status | Decide how far back to bring. Most garages import the last two or three years and keep a read only archive of the rest, because a customer record buried under a decade of lines is harder to use, not easier |
| Parts and stock | No | Autowork Online carries an integrated parts side and none of it exports into Youzse. Stock figures, supplier part numbers and buying prices are rebuilt for the lines you actually turn over |
| Estimates and quotes | As quotes, with number, customer, totals, valid until date and status | Old quotes are rarely worth carrying. Bring the live ones and leave the rest |
| Booked in work | As appointments with date, time, customer, service, technician and status | Upload appointments last, once customers, services and staff exist |
| Saved card details | No | Card details sit with the payment processor behind your old platform rather than in a spreadsheet, so customers enter a card again the first time they pay through Youzse |
Autowork Online is sold through a demo rather than a public price list, so no monthly figure for it appears anywhere on this page. Nothing in this table is a claim about what Autowork Online will hand over on any given day, so look at the export you actually get before you plan around it.
Autowork Online has been running UK workshops for a long time and it shows in the leavers. The typical one is not a garage that hated the software. It is a garage with fifteen years of job history, a wall of registrations and an MOT reminder queue that quietly pays for a fortnight of every month, wondering how much of that survives a move. The answer is most of what matters and less than all of it, and the difference is worth understanding before you start rather than after.
What the Youzse importer reads, and what it does not
Youzse imports customers, companies, services, staff, appointments, quotes and invoices from spreadsheet files. Each one goes through read the file, match the columns, preview, commit. Duplicate checking runs before the write and a whole batch can be rolled back after it, which is what makes it safe to have a first attempt.
There is no named column profile for Autowork Online, so you match the columns yourself. Youzse reads your headings, guesses the pairings it recognises and puts every guess in front of you to confirm or change. This is the honest description of the work. It is not a one click importer and nobody should sell you one.
Vehicles are not in that list at all, because they are not imported. You add a vehicle by typing its registration and Youzse fills the make, the model, the colour, the year, the fuel type, the engine size, the MOT status, the next due date and the test history from the plate. A decade of drift in your old vehicle data therefore does not follow you. For a lot of long tenured garages this is the single best thing about the move.
What genuinely does not survive
Job cards do not travel as job cards. The money side of a job arrives as an invoice against the customer, which is the part your accountant and your VAT return care about, but the labour lines, the technician notes, the times booked and the parts fitted to a specific job stay in Autowork Online. Take a read only export of the job history before the account closes, because that is not a file you can go back for later.
The parts side is the other real loss. Autowork Online carries an integrated parts and stock operation and Youzse offers a simpler shape: a parts catalogue, part requests that need approving and purchase orders raised against suppliers you set up yourself. If the buying side of your business is doing serious work, that is a step down and you should weigh it properly.
Everything that was a setting rather than a record is rebuilt too. Reminder timings and wording, labour rates, deposit rules, vehicle health check sheets and document layouts are configuration, so no export anywhere carries them. Screenshot the lot while the account is live.
What breaks on the day, and what to do about it
Booked in work is the visible one. Import the appointments so the board has something on it, then check the next fortnight by eye against a printout. A car turning up on a day nobody has a record of is the only part of this a customer ever experiences, and it is entirely preventable.
Parts already on order are the invisible one. A purchase order raised in the old system does not exist in Youzse, so the part arrives with nothing to attach it to. Keep a written list by the counter until every open order has landed and been fitted, and stop raising new ones in the old system a fortnight before you switch.
Courtesy cars have no record of their own in Youzse. Block the vehicle out in the diary as a booking against its own registration and it behaves like any other job on the board. That is a workaround rather than a feature and we would rather say so here than let you discover it in week two.
On payments, Youzse is 2.5% plus 35p per transaction with our platform fee inside that single rate. Autowork Online publishes no card rate, so there is no published comparison available and your own merchant statements are the only place the answer exists.
Your switching checklist
- Book the demo conversation with yourself first: decide how many years of history you are actually going to carry, because all of it is rarely the right answer
- Export customers, trade accounts, invoices and quotes while the Autowork Online account is still live and paid
- Pull one list of registration against customer, sorted with the soonest MOT due date first
- Take a read only export of job history, because job card detail does not import anywhere
- Screenshot labour rates, reminder wording, vehicle health check sheets and document layouts
- Write down stock on hand and every open purchase order
- Start the Youzse trial, which runs 30 days with no card, and import trade accounts, then customers
- Add vehicles by registration in MOT due date order, soonest first, before you touch anything else
- Import services, then staff, then invoices and quotes, then booked in work
- Keep both systems sending MOT reminders for one full cycle, then cancel once the last job booked under the old system has been and gone
Third-party pricing and features on this page were last checked on 10 August 2026. Rival platforms change their plans, so check their own site before you decide.
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