AutoSync

For independent auto repair shops

Shop management from the booking page to the paid invoice — and the customer answers from their phone.

Customers request a time, approve each job from a link, and get a reminder that confirms itself. Your shop runs the inspection, the parts, the timer, the invoice and the books in one system — every feature in every plan, as good on a technician's phone as at the counter.

14 days free, no card. Records and photos stored in Canada, full export any time. · Plans from $59.99 CAD/mo

  • Online booking
  • Reminders
  • Check-in
  • Inspections & photos
  • Customer approval by link
  • Job board
  • Canned jobs
  • Labour timer
  • Parts & purchase orders
  • Invoicing & Canadian tax
  • QuickBooks sync
  • 80+ permissions
  • Full data export
An AutoSyncHQ work order: the seven-step progress bar from estimate to paid, with the next step shown
The customer's approval page on their phone

14 days

Free trial, no card taken

1 tier

Every feature, at every price

0 apps

For your customers to install, ever

GST · HST · PST · QST

Canadian tax, plus US state rates

The daily friction

You didn’t get into this business to fight a whiteboard.

A job’s status lives in someone’s head until you catch them at the counter.

Status is derived from the facts — jobs authorised, work done, invoice paid — and can never be stale, because nobody types it.

A customer declines a repair in April and nobody remembers it in October.

Declined and advisory work stays on file against the vehicle and comes back on the deferred work report.

A part comes off the shelf and the count is wrong until the next stock take.

Parts reserve when they’re quoted and leave stock when the work starts — every movement is a ledger row.

A car gets moved for a road test and the next person starts walking the lot.

Every vehicle has a location — bay, lot, road test, off-site — and the floor view is the same for everyone.

How it works

One car, seven steps, one record.

This is the progress bar on every work order in the product. Two of the seven steps happen on the customer’s own phone, with nothing to install.

  1. 1

    Booked

    Customer, or the counter

    A request from your booking page, accepted in one step — or a phone call typed into the calendar. The day before, the customer gets a reminder in your name and confirms with one tap.

  2. 2

    Checked in

    Advisor

    Odometer, complaint, a condition map with photos at the door. The appointment becomes a work order without re-typing, booked services already priced from your catalogue.

  3. 3

    Inspected

    Technician, on a phone

    Pass, advisory, fail or N/A on every point, with the measurement, a note and photos. A failed point converts to a priced job — with its parts — in one tap.

  4. 4

    Approved

    Customer, from their phone

    The estimate email carries a link. They approve some jobs, decline others, type their name. Your board moves as they submit; both of you get a PDF of what was agreed.

  5. 5

    Worked

    Technician

    Start runs the timer and takes the parts off the shelf. Switch to the next job with one tap. Completing the last job moves the work order on by itself.

  6. 6

    Invoiced

    Advisor

    Authorised lines only, every tax on its own line, your registration numbers on your letterhead. Print it or email it — one PDF, with delivery shown.

  7. 7

    Paid

    Counter, or on account

    Record the payment from the invoice list or the work order’s next step. A dealer’s cheque spreads oldest invoice first. QuickBooks is updated without a CSV.

  8. And the declined work

    Every declined or advisory line stays on the vehicle with the technician’s note, the measurement and its age, and comes back on the deferred work report at the next visit. That is the difference between a customer who comes back and one who doesn’t.

The product

Everything the shop actually runs on

Every screen below is a real one, from the demo shop’s data — not a mockup. Each card opens the page for that part of the product.

A work order that knows its next step — a real screen from AutoSyncHQ

Work orders

A work order that knows its next step

Seven steps from estimate to paid, derived from the facts underneath — jobs approved, work done, invoice paid — with one clear next action under the bar. Nobody re-types a status onto a whiteboard, and it can never be out of date.

The estimate goes to their phone — a real screen from AutoSyncHQ

Customer approval

The estimate goes to their phone

A link in the estimate email. They approve some jobs, decline others, type their name — no account, no app. Your board updates as they submit, and both of you get a PDF of what was agreed.

A booking page of your own — a real screen from AutoSyncHQ

Online booking

A booking page of your own

Customers request a time your shop actually has free, from a page you link from your website or Google listing. Nothing is booked until you accept it, in one step.

Findings with photos, that become quotes — a real screen from AutoSyncHQ

Inspections

Findings with photos, that become quotes

A technician photographs any point from the bay. A failed point converts to a priced job line in one tap — measurement, note, photos and the service’s parts carried across.

The hours a job really took — a real screen from AutoSyncHQ

Labour timer

The hours a job really took

Start, Switch, Stop on a technician’s phone. Each job shows actual against estimated; the report shows efficiency per technician. It never changes a price and customers never see it.

Services that bring their parts — a real screen from AutoSyncHQ

Canned jobs

Services that bring their parts

“Front brake pads” carries the pads, the hardware kit and the cleaner. Add the job and the parts come with it, reserved and priced — charged on top, or included in one menu price.

Books that update themselves — a real screen from AutoSyncHQ

Accounting

Books that update themselves

Connect QuickBooks Online once: customers, invoices, payments, voids, vendors and purchase orders sync — with a failure list you can retry, not a silent drop.

Purchase orders end to end — a real screen from AutoSyncHQ

Purchasing

Purchase orders end to end

Draft, approved against a spending limit, sent, part-received, received — with stock booking itself in as each delivery lands, and a cancellation that says who and why.

Stock that stays honest — a real screen from AutoSyncHQ

Inventory

Stock that stays honest

A part reserves when it’s quoted and leaves the shelf when the work starts — never from a count nobody trusts. Shortfall and low-stock lists lead straight into a purchase order.

One cheque, many invoices — a real screen from AutoSyncHQ

Dealer accounts

One cheque, many invoices

A trade customer settles the account: the payment fills the oldest open invoice, then the next. What it doesn’t cover is held as credit and applied to invoices raised later.

Everyone sees exactly what you decide — a real screen from AutoSyncHQ

Security

Everyone sees exactly what you decide

Over eighty permissions, six role presets. A technician limited to their own work orders sees no prices and no customer contact details — on the inspection, the photos or the invoice.

No tiers, no add-ons

Every screen above is in every plan

Including the $59.99 one. The four plans differ by how many people can sign in — nothing on this page is held back for a higher tier, and nothing is sold as a module.

Every feature, every plan

The whole list, so you don’t have to book a demo to read it.

Nothing below is an add-on, an upgrade tier or a paid module. The four plans differ by how many people can sign in — nothing else.

Front desk & customers

From the phone ringing to the car on the ramp.

  • Calendar of bookings with the services and estimated hours attached
  • A booking page of your own, where customers request a time you actually have free
  • Accept a request in one step, or decline it; nothing is booked until you do
  • Day-by-day capacity, so you see the load before you promise a date
  • Confirmations, cancellations and no-shows, each with a reason
  • A reminder email a day or two ahead, which the customer confirms with one tap
  • The calendar marks who confirmed, and whose reminder didn’t reach them
  • Check-in that records odometer, complaint and arrival condition
  • An appointment becomes a work order without re-typing anything
  • Walk-ins raised at the counter through the same flow
  • Customer and vehicle records with full service history
  • VIN scanned from the door sticker and decoded — year, make, model, engine, trim
  • A warning when the vehicle already has an open job
  • Dealer and fleet accounts flagged apart from retail customers

Work orders & authorisation

The board the whole shop works from.

  • A seven-step bar on every work order — estimate to paid — with status derived, never typed, and the next step shown
  • Job lines priced from your service catalogue, or written one-off
  • Canned jobs: a service bundles its parts, charged on top or included in one menu price
  • A labour timer per job — Start, Switch, Stop on a phone — with actual hours shown against estimated
  • Approve and decline recorded per job, with the name and the time
  • An approval link in the estimate email; the customer answers each job on their phone
  • Links expire, are revoked when the estimate changes, and show when they were opened
  • A PDF of every customer answer kept with the work order, and a copy sent to them
  • Declined and advisory work kept against the vehicle for next visit
  • Parts reserved against the job; a shortfall list of what’s blocking work
  • Progress per job, reopen, stage override, and a void that returns parts to stock and records who and why
  • Work order labels you define — warranty, comeback, internal, whatever you use
  • Printed on your own letterhead, logo and registration numbers included

Inspections & condition

What the technician found, in evidence.

  • Inspection templates you build — sections, points, units of measure
  • Run on a phone in the bay: pass, advisory, fail or N/A, with a reading, a note and up to eight photos a point
  • A finding converts to a priced job line in one tap, its photos travelling to the customer’s approval page
  • Photos stored privately in Canada, location data stripped; condition photos protected as dispute evidence
  • Inspection history kept against the vehicle, not just the visit
  • Condition map templates per vehicle shape, marked zone by zone
  • Arrival and handover compared on the same diagram, arrival photos alongside
  • A standard inspection template seeded on day one, ready to edit

Parts, purchasing & the floor

Stock you can trust and a floor you can see.

  • Parts with categories, suppliers, bin locations and reorder levels
  • Cost and margin visible only to the people you grant it to, and marked in every list and export
  • Stock adjustments that always carry a reason and write a ledger row
  • Low stock and shortfall lists that lead straight into a purchase order
  • Purchase orders raised, approved against a spending limit, then received
  • Partial receiving, with stock booked in as it lands
  • Reconciliation: stock value, movement and variance in one view
  • Suppliers synced to QuickBooks as vendors; a cancelled PO closed there too
  • Bays and vehicle areas named the way your shop names them
  • Vehicle location tracked bay to lot to road test, shared by everyone
  • Bay utilisation reporting over any date range

Invoicing, payments & books

Billing only what was authorised, taxed correctly.

  • Invoice generated from the work order — authorised lines only
  • GST, HST, PST, QST and US state rates, per line, shown separately
  • Tax registration numbers printed on the documents that need them
  • Discounts with a ceiling you set, and an override for whoever you trust with it
  • Payments, part payments, refunds as their own record, voids with who, when and why; only drafts can be deleted
  • Dealer pay-on-account: one cheque spread oldest invoice first
  • Unapplied credit held on the account and spent against later invoices
  • A statement per account customer
  • QuickBooks Online sync for customers, invoices, payments, voids, vendors and POs
  • A sync failure list you can retry, rather than a silent drop
  • Invoice, work order and purchase order printing on your letterhead
  • Estimates and invoices emailed to the customer as a PDF, with delivery shown

Your shop, people & data

Set up once, controlled to the person.

  • Over eighty permissions across eleven areas, set per person
  • Six role presets — advisor, foreman, technician, parts, bookkeeper, full access
  • Prerequisites resolved for you, so a permission set can’t be half-granted
  • A home screen that shows each role what they need first
  • Users created, deactivated and password-reset by an administrator
  • One login across several shops, if you run more than one
  • Shop profile and logo, used on every printed document
  • Service catalogue, tax rates and codes, labels and templates, all yours to edit
  • CSV import of customers, vehicles and parts, previewed before it commits
  • A full export of everything, any time: every record as spreadsheet files, with a guide to every column
  • Export CSV on every list and report — exactly what’s on the screen, filtered and sorted
  • One customer’s data exported in a click, when they ask what you hold about them
  • Customer anonymisation that strips identity and keeps the financial record
  • Reports: deferred work, invoices and revenue, purchasing, technician work with clocked, booked and efficiency

What it deliberately doesn’t do: there’s no customer login (the link, the booking page and emailed PDFs cover it without an account), no hourly labour rate (a service carries a price with the labour already in it — the timer measures, it never bills), no card processing, and nothing promotional is ever sent to your customers. So if your shop bills labour by the hour, wants cards taken inside its shop software, or sends marketing to customers, AutoSyncHQ isn’t the right fit. Saying so up front is cheaper for both of us than finding out in week two.

Pricing

One product, priced by team size

Every tier gets the entire product. The only thing that changes between them is how many people can sign in.

Most shops start here

Starter

1–5 seats

$59.99 CAD/mo

An owner, an advisor and a couple of technicians

Everything the big-name systems gate behind $399 USD/mo tiers, from $59.99, in Canadian dollars with the tax handled.

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14 days free · no card

Small Team

6–20 seats

$149.99 CAD/mo

A counter, a parts desk and a full bay crew

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14 days free · no card

Medium Team

21–50 seats

$299.99 CAD/mo

Multiple advisors and a large floor

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14 days free · no card

Large Team

51–100 seats

$599.99 CAD/mo

Big operations, or several sites on one login

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14 days free · no card

Enterprise — 100+ seats

Priced for your team specifically rather than a fixed tier. Same product, same features.

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In every plan, including the $59.99 one

Read the full feature list →
  • Appointments, online booking, reminders & check-in
  • Work order board, canned jobs & labour timer
  • Digital inspections with photos
  • Condition maps
  • Customer approval by link
  • Estimates & invoices emailed as PDF
  • Inventory & purchase orders
  • Invoicing & payments
  • Dealer accounts
  • GST/HST/PST/QST & US tax
  • QuickBooks Online sync
  • Reports
  • 80+ permissions
  • CSV import & a full data export
  • Phone, tablet and desktop

Billed monthly in Canadian dollars, with payments handled by Stripe. Change tier or cancel yourself at any time. Records and photos are stored in Canada, and the full export works any time. If the trial ends without a subscription your workspace turns read-only rather than being deleted — everything you entered stays viewable and exportable, and subscribing brings it straight back.

Questions

Questions shop owners actually ask

Something not here? Call +1 647 951 1712 — a person answers.

Do I need a credit card to start the trial?

No. The trial runs 14 days with no card taken. If you decide to subscribe, you pick a plan and add payment then — not before.

What happens to my data if I don't subscribe after the trial?

Your workspace goes read-only — nothing is deleted. Everything you entered stays viewable and exportable, and subscribing unlocks it again. A shop that hesitated for a week doesn't lose two weeks of real work.

Can I bring in my existing customers and vehicles?

Yes — bulk CSV import for customers, vehicles and parts, with a preview before anything is committed. Work order and invoice history isn’t part of that import; those start fresh.

Can I get my data out?

Yes, all of it, any time. One button downloads every record your shop has — customers, vehicles, appointments, work orders, inspections, estimate approvals, invoices, payments, parts and purchase orders, and your settings — as spreadsheet (CSV) files that open in Excel, with a guide to every file and column. Photos and PDFs are listed but not included. Your owners get an email each time it’s downloaded. If you cancel, your workspace stays readable for 30 days so you can take it with you; after that, no one can sign in.

Does it actually work on a technician's phone, or just the desk?

It works on the phone, not a cut-down version of it — the same job board, inspections, parts and vehicle moves, laid out for a touch screen in a bay instead of a mouse at a desk.

Can the customer approve the estimate themselves?

Yes. The estimate email carries a link, and they approve or decline each job on their phone and type their name — no account, no app, no login. The work order updates as soon as they submit, they get a PDF of what they agreed to, and the link expires after seven days or the moment you change the estimate.

Does it handle booking as well as the work?

Yes — a calendar with the services attached to each booking, the day’s capacity in front of you before you promise a date, confirmations, cancellations and no-shows, and a check-in that turns the arrival into a work order.

Can customers book online?

They can request an appointment, if you turn it on. Your shop gets its own booking page, to link from your website, Google listing or Facebook page: the customer picks the services you choose to offer and a time your shop actually has free, or a drop-off, and leaves their name, phone, email and vehicle. Nothing is booked until someone at your shop accepts the request, in one step; then the customer gets a booking email. You set your opening hours and how many requests a time slot and a day can take, so the page never offers more than you can do. No prices are shown and nothing is paid online.

Does it remind customers of their appointment?

Yes, if you turn it on. A day or two before, your choice, the customer gets an email in your shop’s name with the time, the vehicle, your address and phone, and a button to confirm. Opening the email confirms nothing; the tap does, and the booking shows as confirmed by the customer. Reminders carry no prices and no promotions. If one can’t go — no email on file, or it bounced — the booking tells you to call instead.

Are inventory and purchase orders extra?

No. Parts, stock movements, suppliers, reorder levels, purchase orders with approval limits, partial receiving and stock reconciliation are all in every plan, including the $59.99 one.

We invoice dealers and body shops monthly. Does that work?

Yes. A customer marked as a dealer can settle on account: one payment is spread across their open invoices, oldest first, and whatever it doesn’t cover is held as credit against invoices that haven’t been raised yet. Each account has its own statement.

Can I stop staff seeing cost, margin or other people’s jobs?

Yes — over eighty separate permissions, set per person, with six role presets to start from. Part cost, margin, discounts, valuation, technician reporting and "all work orders" versus "only mine" are each their own switch.

What tax does it handle?

GST, HST, PST and QST for Canadian provinces, and state rates for the US — applied correctly for where the shop operates, shown separately on every invoice, with your registration numbers on the printed document.

Does it connect to QuickBooks Online?

Yes — connect once and customers, invoices, payments, vendors and purchase orders sync automatically, in every plan. No add-on, no upgrade tier. Anything that fails to sync lands in a list you can retry rather than disappearing quietly.

Can I email estimates and invoices to customers?

Yes. From the work order or the invoice, send the customer the same PDF you would print, in your shop’s name, with replies coming to your shop’s email. You can see whether it was delivered or bounced, and customers can stop the emails with one click.

Can inspections include photos?

Yes. A technician can photograph any inspection point or damage mark straight from their phone, up to eight each, and at handover the arrival photos sit beside the new condition report. Photos are stored privately in Canada, and the camera’s location data is removed before they’re saved.

Does it track how long a job actually took?

Yes. A technician taps Start on a job and Stop when done, or switches to the next job with one tap. Each job line shows actual hours against the estimate, and the technician report shows clocked hours, booked hours and efficiency per person. It is management information: it never changes a price, and customers never see it.

Can a service carry its parts, like an oil change at one price?

Yes — that is a canned job. Build the service once with its parts and quantities, and choose whether the parts are charged on top at their own price or included in the service price. Every time the job is added — by hand, from an inspection finding or at check-in — the parts come with it, reserved and priced like any other.

Does it text customers?

Not yet. Approval links and reminders go by email today. Text delivery to customers who agreed to it at check-in is built and switches on once carrier verification completes; STOP replies are honoured. There is no two-way texting inbox, by design.

I run more than one shop. Can I use one login?

Yes — one email can belong to several workspaces, and you pick which shop you’re working in when you sign in. Each shop keeps its own data, staff and permissions.

What if my team grows past 100 people?

That's Enterprise — priced for your team specifically rather than a fixed tier. Contact us and we'll set it up.

Can I change plans later?

Yes, at any time — the four tiers differ only by how many seats they include, not by feature. Move up or down as your team changes.

Run a real day through it before you decide.

Import your customers and vehicles, book a car in, run the inspection, invoice it — and judge it on your own numbers rather than a sales call.

14 days free. No card required. Cancel yourself, any time.