At most time’s garages do not maintain a garage/ workshop management software system thinking it would be "expensive" and that it would require "special skills". Even if they do have "some" software system, the limitations are numerous as they never meet the company’s key information and cost control needs. Thus what could be a profitable or a very profitable business turns out at best, to be mediocre in profitability. In the absence of a garage/ workshop software system, costs cannot be controlled and thus efficiency, effectiveness and economy are always an issue.

CbizS Auto Garage/ Workshop Software Solution (CbizS GMS) has been developed by CoreBiz Technology Solutions FZ LLC a Dubai UAE based Software Solution company. The Garage/ Workshop Software Solution takes care of all the essential needs of a workshop – making them more profitable and customer orientated. The system is developed on Microsoft.Net technology and can be integrated with any backend system and is a GUI (Graphical User Interface) based software.

The key issues in a Auto Garage / Workshop Software Solution and why a “Focused” Software is required

Any good Auto Garage / Workshop software solution or system should identify and target the following areas, at the very least but most garages / workshops do not do the following:

• Technicians’ time is not properly used or recorded. Result: excessive uncharged technicians’ time.
• Parts used on a job but not charged.
• Delay in returning delivered parts and surcharges.
• Delayed or missed invoicing and/or disputes about invoices.
• Poor access to maintenance records (or poor records).
• Duplicating a job.

Key questions to ask on a best fit Auto Garage / Workshop Software Solution

The basic point is to make sure the software solution will let you work the way that you do and what’s best for you. The software solution should support your staff in doing their work not burden them with a new method of doing things.

Other factors to check include:

• How will it grow with your business and your demand for information?
• Is it easy to produce a variety of variable reports to print or use elsewhere?
• Will it let you print any report as you want?
• Can you easily pass data to other systems such as Excel and Word?
• Does it work in offices, stores, and workshops, for managers, store staff and fitters?
• Will it work both on a network linking numerous staff and as a stand alone system?

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