Torque360 alternative
Service VIN vs Torque360
Bring your customers and history across, keep Torque360 running while you evaluate, and price film by the foot with a live margin on every quote.
No credit card required, free for 14 days, no per-seat charge
Switching is a copy and paste, not a teardown
Torque360 is a capable general repair and body-shop platform, it is cheaper than Service VIN, and if you turn wrenches you should stay on it.
This page is for the film, wrap, tint or coating shop that ended up on repair software because it was the only automotive system anybody recommended.
If that is your shop: Torque360 is not one of Service VIN’s named import presets, so plan on a CSV export and the generic importer, which matches the columns you confirm. Customers, vehicles, invoice history, job history and open leads come across. Photos, quotes, notes and appointment history do not transfer yet, so plan to start those fresh. Nothing goes out to a customer when records land: importing never texts, emails or calls anyone, and a customers import can be undone in one click within 24 hours if a mapping looks off.
A CSV from the old tool, its columns matching themselves, a dry-run report listing every skipped row by number while the shop owner reads it, and the customers, vehicles and invoices counting in.
Keep Torque360 running while you evaluate. There is no switch-over day until you pick one. Prefer a hand? The concierge migration maps your file for you, with a 48-hour go-live target from the moment it lands with us. The mechanics are on the data import page.
- Importing never texts, emails or calls your customers
- Keep your current tool running while you evaluate
- Free for 14 days · no credit card required
- Built by the owner of a working PPF and detailing shop in Canada
The short answer
Is Service VIN a good Torque360 alternative for a film or detail shop?
Only if your revenue is film, wrap, tint, coatings or detailing, and only if the extra cost is worth it. Torque360 is cheaper, charges no setup fee, and ships parts ordering and inspections Service VIN has none of. Service VIN models coverage against a roll instead of parts against labor.
Torque360 has the cheapest published ladder in general repair: Starter at $99.99/month ($89.99 billed annually) and Turbo at $199.99/month ($179.99 annually), with Supercharged priced on request and no setup fee (torque360.co, capterra.com, checked 2026-09-11).
It covers scheduling, reminders, estimates, invoices, an automotive POS, vehicle inspection and repair-order management, with parts ordering through Nexpart, PartsTech and Epicor and payments via PayPal and Stripe.
Starter caps co-users at five; Turbo lifts that to unlimited. Service VIN never bills per seat, but it also has no rung as cheap as Starter.
Service VIN models the appearance trades instead: coverage zones and install positions, film and vinyl tracked to the linear foot, coating layers and cure windows, and film-warranty documents on the vehicle record.
The AI is the other real difference — a calling copilot plus draft-first texting agents in the plan, alongside Essentials $79, Growth $199, Operations $299, Command $399 in US dollars, two months free on annual and a 14-day free trial.
If you run Torque360 for the repair order, Service VIN is the front desk beside it: the missed call texted back, every call recorded, reviews and ads in the same place.
Bottom line: If you turn wrenches, choose Torque360 or another repair platform — it is cheaper than Service VIN and ships parts ordering and a DVI we do not have, so moving would cost you money and tooling at once. If your money comes from film and coatings, none of that machinery is doing anything for you.
Flat plans. Every number in public.
Four plans, one flat price per shop, and the seats are not metered from Growth up. Move up when the shop does.
Essentials
$79/mo
The whole shop, organized — quotes to invoices to inventory.
100 AI credits/mo, 3 team logins
Growth
$199/mo
AI agents work your pipeline around the clock.
500 AI credits/mo, unlimited team logins
The whole operation, phone line included
Operations
$299/mo
The whole operation, with your business number and the front desk that answers the calls you miss.
750 AI credits/mo, unlimited team logins
Command
$399/mo
Every call answered, every location covered.
1,500 AI credits/mo, unlimited team logins
- No per-seat tax — add your whole crew for free
- A typical month costs $0 extra
- Two months free on annual billing
- Prices in US dollars
Free for 14 days · no credit card required. Your 14 days run with every feature unlocked, and when the 14 days are up nothing happens automatically — pick a plan when you're ready, or don't.
The job: price film with your eyes open
See the margin before you send it
- Live profit margin on every quote line
- Margin in dollars and percent updates as you build the quote, so an underpriced full front is caught before it is sent rather than after the bay is booked. Repair software reports on a finished order, which answers the same question one decision too late.
- Costed from the roll you will actually cut
- The margin uses the real per-foot cost of the film or vinyl on your shelf, with remnants and lot numbers — not a list price typed in once. A parts integration cannot produce that number, because a roll is not a part.
- Coverage and panels, not line items
- Quote a full wrap, a track pack or a partial hood the way you sell it, with tiers and add-ons the customer can configure. A repair-order line is the wrong unit for work priced by how much of a car it covers.
- Approved and deposited online
- Customers approve the quote, pick add-ons and pay a deposit from a branded booking storefront that works while the bays are closed, and the slot is held the moment they commit.
The job: run the film side without guesswork
Rolls, bays and warranties under control
- Film and vinyl inventory to the linear foot
- Rolls, remnants, lot numbers and reorder alerts before a core runs dry, feeding real cost into every quote and true COGS onto every job. A parts integration counts discrete units; a roll is neither discrete nor a unit.
- Bay scheduling that cannot double-book
- Drag-and-drop bays with the protection enforced in the database rather than warned about in the interface, so two installs never land on one bay by accident.
- A VIN garage with warranties attached
- Scan a VIN to build a customer garage carrying every vehicle, film warranty and past install, so the paperwork a claim needs is on the record rather than in a folder.
- Documents that go out and come back signed
- Contracts, work authorizations and warranties send as secure expiring links, and every signed document files itself against the customer and the job.
The job: answer the phone while the bays are full
A front desk that never clocks out
- An AI calling copilot, in the plan
- Records, transcribes and summarizes every call, then drafts the estimate, text or booking it promised for one-tap send — part of the plan rather than a module bought separately.
- Draft-first texting agents
- Lead response, quote follow-up, win-back and review requests keep working when the bays are dark. Every agent is draft-first, with opt-outs and quiet hours enforced in code rather than remembered at 6pm on a Friday.
- One thread per customer
- Calls and texts live on one record tied to the vehicle and its history, so whoever picks it up next knows what was said. Torque360 publishes reminders and customer communication; a full two-way shop inbox was not verified as of 2026-09-11.
- Payments on your own merchant account
- Direct charges on your own Stripe Connect account, so the shop is the merchant of record and money lands in your account on Stripe's payout schedule. Torque360 publishes PayPal and Stripe too — this row is a difference in posture, not in vendor.
Run it beside Torque360 for a week
Start free and put one week of film work through both. Torque360 keeps running exactly as it is, and nothing goes out to a customer until you send it.
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The honest head-to-head
Every Torque360 claim below carries a numbered source note with the date we checked it. Where Torque360 is stronger, the row says so in the same ink we use for ourselves.
| What you are comparing | Service VIN | Torque360 |
|---|---|---|
| What the system is built for | Film, wrap, tint, coating and detail work — coverage, rolls and cure windows | General auto repair and body shops — repair orders, parts, inspections and POS1 |
| What you pay | Tiered flat pricing — Essentials $79, Growth $199, Operations $299, Command $399 in US dollars, two months free on annual | Yes: Starter $99.99/mo ($89.99 billed annually), Turbo $199.99/mo ($179.99 annually), Supercharged on request — the cheapest published ladder in general repair2 |
| Setup fee | Yes: None — the import is self-serve and free | Yes: None to get started, though data migration from a previous tool may be charged2 |
| Seats | Yes: No per-seat charge — unlimited logins on Growth and up | Partly: Starter caps co-users at five; Turbo adds unlimited co-users3 |
| Parts ordering | No: Not offered — Service VIN does not model parts at all | Yes: Integrations with Nexpart, PartsTech and Epicor1 |
| Digital vehicle inspections | Partly: Job photo phases and a customer-facing job tracker — not a repair DVI | Yes: Vehicle inspection software, with voice notes included in the standard plan4 |
| Film coverage, rolls and cure times | Yes: Coverage zones and install positions, rolls by the linear foot, coating layers and cure windows, film-warranty documents | No: Not verified as of 2026-09-11; Torque360's published materials describe repair and body-shop objects5 |
| Live profit margin while you quote | Yes: On every quote line, costed from the real per-foot cost of the roll being cut | Partly: Real-time reporting over repair-order data — the same idea about different inputs1 |
| AI on the calls and texts | Yes: Calling copilot plus draft-first texting agents, bundled in | Reminders and customer communication are published; a two-way inbox and an AI layer were not verified as of 2026-09-115 |
Sources & notes
Facts checked
- 1.Per torque360.co, web-search snippet 2026-09-11: scheduling, reminders, estimates, invoices, an automotive POS, vehicle inspection software, repair-order management and real-time reporting, with parts ordering integrations for Nexpart, PartsTech and Epicor. torque360.co
- 2.Per torque360.co/pricing and Capterra, web-search snippets 2026-09-11: Starter $99.99 per month or $89.99 billed annually, Turbo $199.99 per month or $179.99 billed annually, and Supercharged with customized pricing; “Torque360 does not charge any setup fee to get started, though there might be charges for data migration from the previous tool to the new one”; payments via PayPal and Stripe, with month-to-month options available. torque360.co/pricing
- 3.Per Capterra's Torque360 pricing listing, web-search snippet 2026-09-11: “Starter includes a 5 co-user limit, while Turbo adds unlimited co-users.” capterra.com
- 4.TORQUE360'S OWN CLAIM, reported as such: its pricing page states that job time clock, purchase order management, phone support and voice notes on DVI are included in its standard plan “while on competing platforms, these types of capabilities are often gated behind higher tiers or available as add-ons”. We have not verified that comparison against any third party and do not restate it as fact about them; what is used above is only that the DVI and its voice notes are in the standard plan. torque360.co/pricing
- 5.Not verified as of 2026-09-11: film coverage zones, roll inventory by the linear foot, coating cure windows, film-warranty registration, a full two-way shop inbox, an AI calling or texting layer, a native mobile app and free-trial terms in Torque360. Those are statements about what a search surfaced and about a repair platform's fit, not criticisms of it. torque360.co
Torque360's pricing was read through a search index on 2026-09-11 rather than fetched from the vendor — check torque360.co/pricing for the current word before you decide.
Which one fits your shop?
Both tools have shops running happily on them. They simply optimize for different work, and the two lists below are the decision rather than a description of it.
- You run general repair or body work, and your revenue is parts and labor.
- Price is the deciding factor — nothing in this comparison is cheaper, and there is no setup fee.
- You need parts ordering through Nexpart, PartsTech or Epicor, and a real vehicle inspection with voice notes.
- Coverage zones, rolls by the linear foot and film warranties are not things your shop tracks.
- Your money comes from film, wrap, tint, coatings or detailing, and repair-shop objects have never fitted your work.
- You want a live profit margin on every quote line, costed from the real per-foot cost of the roll you will cut.
- You want film and vinyl tracked to the foot, bays that cannot double-book, and film warranties on the vehicle record.
- You have more than five people who need a login, and you want the AI phone-and-text team included rather than sourced elsewhere.
Four differences that show up in the bank
Built for the appearance trades, not for repair
Coverage and panel quoting, rolls by the linear foot, coating layers and cure windows, and film-warranty documents are native here and absent there. The converse is equally true: parts ordering and a repair DVI are native there and absent here.
Margin while you quote, not reporting afterwards
The number arrives at the moment it can still change the price, costed from your actual roll cost rather than assembled from reporting over finished orders.
An AI team, in the plan
A calling copilot plus draft-first lead, quote-chase, win-back and review agents, included rather than bought. No AI calling or texting layer, and no full two-way inbox, surfaced in Torque360's published materials as of 2026-09-11.
Seats that never meter — but a higher floor
Unlimited logins on Growth and up, and Essentials includes three, against Torque360's five-co-user Starter cap. The honest other half: Torque360's Starter tier is cheaper than anything Service VIN sells, so this only pays back above about five people.
If the second list is your shop
Start free and price one real job before you decide anything. Nothing is charged, and Torque360 stays exactly as it is.
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First, credit where it is due
At that price it still integrates parts ordering with Nexpart, PartsTech and Epicor, and ships a vehicle inspection tool with voice notes in the standard plan rather than a tier up.
Gabriel, who runs a working PPF and detailing shop in Canada
Fair play
Where Torque360 is strong, and where Service VIN goes further
Torque360 does several things genuinely well, including being cheaper than us. Here is each, credited plainly, next to what Service VIN adds for an appearance shop. Details were read through a search index on 2026-09-11 — check their site for the current word.
The price
Torque360
Starter at $99.99/month ($89.99 billed annually) and Turbo at $199.99/month ($179.99 annually), with no setup fee — the cheapest published ladder in general repair.
Service VIN
Tiered flat pricing — Essentials $79, Growth $199, Operations $299, Command $399 in US dollars — with two months free on annual, no setup fee and no per-seat charge. There is no rung as cheap as Torque360's Starter, and pretending otherwise would be the easiest thing on this page to disprove.
Getting the parts
Torque360
Integrated parts ordering through Nexpart, PartsTech and Epicor, at the entry price.
Service VIN
Nothing. Service VIN does not model parts and is not building a parts pipeline. What it tracks instead is film, vinyl and coating consumed by the linear foot, with the real cost landing on the quote.
Inspecting the vehicle
Torque360
Vehicle inspection software with voice notes in the standard plan rather than a tier up.
Service VIN
Job photo phases and a customer-facing tracker, which answer a different question: what the car looked like at each stage of an install, not what a technician found wrong with it. A repair DVI this is not.
Knowing what a job earned
Torque360
Real-time reporting over repair-order data — parts and labor, after the order is written.
Service VIN
Live margin on the quote LINE, costed from the real per-foot cost of the roll being cut, with true COGS carried onto the job. Same idea, different inputs, and one decision earlier.
Where to start
It starts with the call you missed.
You don't have to move your shop onto a new system to stop losing calls. Start with the phone, and bring the rest over when you're ready.
It answers from your real services, your real prices and your real calendar — and writes the booking into them. No migration, no data to move — it runs beside whatever you use today.
A customer reading a text in her parked car, a shop owner at her laptop and at the shop's glass door, and the call, text-thread, quote, calendar and review panels drawn over the pictures.
Service VIN vs Torque360, answered
Is Service VIN a good Torque360 alternative for a film or detail shop?
Yes, and only for that shop — and only if the extra cost buys you something. If your revenue comes from paint protection film, vinyl, tint, coatings or detailing, Torque360 is a repair platform you are paying for and rarely opening: coverage zones, rolls by the linear foot, cure windows and film warranties are not things it models. Service VIN is built around exactly those. If you run general repair or body work, stay on Torque360 or compare it with Tekmetric, Shopmonkey, AutoLeap and Shop Boss.
Torque360 vs Service VIN pricing — which actually costs less?
Torque360, at the bottom of the ladder, and this page is not going to dress that up. It publishes Starter at $99.99/month ($89.99 billed annually) and Turbo at $199.99/month ($179.99 annually), with no setup fee and Supercharged priced on request (torque360.co, capterra.com, checked 2026-09-11). Service VIN is Essentials $79, Growth $199, Operations $299 and Command $399 in US dollars, with two months free on annual billing, no setup fee, no per-seat charge and a 14-day free trial. Torque360's Starter tier caps co-users at five where Service VIN never bills per seat, so the gap narrows as the crew grows — but at one or two logins, Torque360 is cheaper. The comparison is only meaningful for an appearance shop anyway: a repair shop on Service VIN would still need parts ordering and a DVI somewhere else.
I run a general repair or body shop. Should I switch to Service VIN?
No, and it would cost you twice. Service VIN has no parts catalogue, no Nexpart, PartsTech or Epicor ordering, no labor guides, no repair-order workflow and no digital vehicle inspection, and it is more expensive than Torque360's Starter tier — so you would pay more and lose tooling. Compare Torque360 with Tekmetric, Shopmonkey, AutoLeap and Shop Boss instead; the roundup on the Torque360 alternatives page lays that decision out.
What does Torque360 do that Service VIN does not?
Three things. It is cheaper — the cheapest published ladder in general repair, with no setup fee. It integrates parts ordering with Nexpart, PartsTech and Epicor at that price. And it ships a real vehicle inspection tool with voice notes in the standard plan. Service VIN has no version of the second or third, and no rung as cheap as the first. Torque360's own pricing page also argues that rivals gate features it includes; we have not verified that against any third party and are not restating it as fact about them.
Can I move my data from Torque360 to Service VIN?
Yes, though not through a preset. Torque360 is not one of Service VIN's named import presets today, so plan on a CSV export and the generic importer, which matches columns you confirm rather than ones we have pre-mapped. Customers, vehicles, invoice history, job history and open leads transfer; photos, quotes, notes and appointment history do not, so plan to start those fresh. Importing is silent — it never texts, emails or calls a customer — and a customers import can be undone in one click within 24 hours.
Will I pay per user as my team grows?
No — Service VIN never bills you per seat. Essentials $79, Growth $199, Operations $299 and Command $399 in US dollars, and annual billing gets two months free. Growth and Command carry unlimited team logins; Essentials includes three. Torque360's Starter tier caps co-users at five and Turbo lifts that to unlimited (capterra.com, checked 2026-09-11), so a six-person shop on Starter is a tier change there and no change here.
Is Service VIN better than Torque360?
Better at different work, worse at Torque360's, and more expensive. Torque360 is a stronger product for a general repair or body shop in every way that matters to one: parts ordering, a real DVI with voice notes, POS, repair orders — at a lower price with no setup fee. Service VIN is better when the job is coverage against a roll rather than parts against a labor guide: live margin from real film cost, film tracked to the foot, bay protection in the database, and an AI calling-and-texting team in the plan. Neither sentence is a knock on the other product.
See the margin in your own shop
Start free, import your book, and build one live-margin quote on the film work you actually sell. Essentials $79, Growth $199, Operations $299 and Command $399 in US dollars when you are ready — 14 days free before that, nothing charged for 14 days.
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