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Auto repair shop management software

The smart operating system for auto shops.

Intake, diagnostics, estimates, scheduling, payments. Every step a shop runs, in one AI system.

2021 Ford F-1503.5L 6cyl · 38k mi
Ready for Quote
Recommended repair
92%
confidence

Replace the 12V AGM auxiliary battery, then re-register it to the BCM with Ford FDRS. Verify charging voltage at idle (13.5–14.8V) and clear P0A93, P1A0A, U0293.

Labor 0.5–1 hrs (estimated)
12V AGM Auxiliary Battery
Known Patterns & Field Data2
Accept and draft quote
Ask CarSignal anything…
Interactive product tour

Run a repair. Make the actual clicks.The full tour needs a bigger screen.

Open the job, send the quote, get approval, invoice the work, and mark it paid. About two minutes.

Here's the same open-to-paid workflow in a quick mobile preview.

Mobile preview

Watch one job move.

From the first complaint to a paid invoice, every handoff stays attached to the car.

  1. Checked in · 8:32 AM2018 BMW M3Bay 2
    Customer concern

    Brake vibration above 45 mph

    Advisor · Maya In shop
  2. Diagnosis & quoteFront brake serviceReady
    Customer-ready quoteParts + labor$684.20
    Plain-English explanationReady to send
  3. Approved from their phoneInvoice #1048Approved
    Payment receivedCard ···· 4242 $684.20 paid
    Receipt sent automatically9:47 AM
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Live demo
Vehicles
Setup progress44%
1on the floor
all caught up
$0ready to collect
0Incoming
1Needs quotequote needed
0Waiting approval
0In shop
0Ready

1 vehicle · sorted by urgency

Vehicle & customerWork & next stepEstimateTech
Interactive shop day2 min

Run one repair yourself.

This is the real CarSignal workspace with a sample shop day loaded. Open the job, build the quote, send it, collect approval, invoice it, and take payment. The actual clicks, not a slideshow.

Enter your email and you play the customer too: the quote, invoice, and receipt land in your real inbox, and you approve the job from your own phone.

Live demoYou are clicking the real product, not a video.
The system

Every handoff stays connected.

The complaint becomes the diagnosis, the diagnosis becomes the quote, and the approved quote becomes the job—without anyone retyping the story.

One job. One signal.

Every handoff updates the floor and the customer automatically, from check-in to collected payment.

Checked in
8:42 AM
Diagnosed
9:04 AM
Quoted
9:12 AM
Approved
9:17 AM
Repaired
2:21 PM
Paid
$561 collected

Diagnostic copilot

Reads the trouble codes, the customer's complaint, and the car's history, then recommends the repair with OEM-grounded reasoning and the exact steps to confirm it.

Slow crank after sitting overnight, battery light on. Codes P0A93, P1A0A, U0293.
CSDiagnostic copilot
On this truck that points to the 12V aux battery, not the starter. It's original at 38k, and field data shows two matching cases.
Recommended92%
Replace 12V AGM auxiliary battery
  1. Load-test the battery at rest. Expect a fail under load.
  2. Verify charging voltage 13.5–14.8V at idle.
  3. Re-register the new battery to the BCM, clear P0A93.

Customer-ready estimates

Every quote leads with a plain-English explanation, then itemizes parts and labor. The customer approves or declines each line from their phone.

Alternator replacementService$561.00

Your alternator isn't charging the battery reliably. The warning light and a slow crank point to it. Replacing it now avoids a no-start and a tow.

Parts
Alternator (reman)$350.00
Serpentine belt$28.00
Labor
Alternator R&R · 1.3h$183.00
ApproveDecline

Repair Buddy

AI chat grounded in OEM data for the car in front of you. Torque specs, fluid capacities, and component locations, on demand.

Front caliper bracket torque?
RBRepair Buddy
On the 2020 CR-V, the caliper bracket bolts are 80 lb-ft and the guide pins are 23 lb-ft. Torque to spec before you bleed the line.

Customers always in the loop

Every job gets a live status page that updates as the work moves, with a text at each step and two-way texting back to the shop.

2020 Honda CR-VUpdated 2m ago
Approved
Parts in
In repair
Ready
“Your CR-V is in the bay now. We’ll text you the moment it’s ready for pickup.”
Pricing

Your shop's software bill stays at $0.

A transparent 1% platform fee applies only to paid customer invoices — and you decide who covers it: pass it through to the customer, or absorb it as the shop. Either way it's capped every month, with the cap scaled to your shop's size. No required subscription, no locked features, and no charge on estimates or declined work.

Who covers it
Customer or shop
Platform fee
1% per paid invoice
Monthly cap
Scales with shop size
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Prefer a traditional flat monthly subscription? That option is available too.

Example customer invoice2019 Toyota Tacoma
Ready to pay
Repair subtotal$1,250.00
CarSignal platform fee 1% on customer$12.50
Customer total$1,262.50
Your cost on this repair$0

The 1% rides on the customer’s invoice, so this repair costs your shop nothing. Fees are capped monthly — the cap scales with your shop’s size, and once you reach it CarSignal is free for the rest of the month.

Everything included
BookingInspectionsQuotes & approvalsParts orderingTwo-way SMSAI diagnosticsPayments & financialsFree migration
Questions

The things shops ask first.

Straight answers. If yours isn't here, a real person will get back to you the same day.

Yes. CarSignal covers intake, diagnostics, estimates, scheduling, and payments in one place, so most shops retire two or three tools when they switch.

It reads the trouble codes, the customer's complaint, and the car's service history, then weighs them against patterns from similar jobs. You get a ranked list of likely causes, each with a confidence score and the specific test that confirms it. The tech always makes the call; the AI just gets them there faster.

Almost none. CarSignal walks new techs through the basics in a few minutes, and a built-in AI helper sits in the corner of every screen with full context of your shop and the app, ready to answer how-to questions as they come up.

Yes. Every shop runs in its own isolated workspace, data is encrypted in transit and at rest, and your customer records are never used to train shared models without your say-so.

We're two founders who grew up in mechanic shops. We've watched our families run the back office on paper, sticky notes, and a half-dozen apps that don't talk to each other.

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Run your whole shop
on one signal.

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