Car audio shop software for installs and restyling

Sell the add-ons. An audio ticket is rarely one item: a head unit brings a harness, a dash kit, a camera, sometimes fabrication and always labour. The quote builder holds tiers, a la carte lines and add-ons on one estimate, so the second speaker set is offered on the screen rather than remembered in the bay, and the customer approves the whole thing from their phone.

Yes. Work is held across bays and days on one calendar, and an overlapping hold is refused in the database rather than hidden in the interface, so a long fabrication job and a quick remote start cannot be dropped onto the same installer. A booking taken on your storefront arrives as a customer, a vehicle and a job already on the board.

Yes. The work authorisation is sent as a secure link the customer opens on their own phone and signs, and the signed document files against the job with the date on it. It is the same rail the warranty and service paperwork rides, so the record is one place rather than a photo of a clipboard.

Partly, and the honest answer is on this page rather than three screens into a trial. Film and material are tracked to the linear foot with real cost, and any part can be a priced line on the estimate and the invoice. What is missing is an on-hand count of discrete boxes and supplier ordering, so a shop running a real warehouse is buying an operation with a gap in it.

Yes. It answers the calls nobody reached, texts back the ones that ring out from your own number in seconds, and books from your real calendar rather than promising a callback. It answers from your actual services and prices, and quiet hours and opt-outs are enforced in code, so nothing goes out at eleven at night.

Yes, it is one product. Film and vinyl are bought by the roll and cut by the linear foot, and the same estimate can carry a tint package, a wrap and an audio build, each costed from what it actually consumes. Most restyling shops sell more than one of these, which is why there is no separate subscription for each.

A shop whose business is mostly selling boxes over a counter is running retail, and a point of sale with real stock control will serve it better. A one-person mobile installer who only needs to send an invoice will pay less elsewhere. And a general repair shop needs parts ordering and labour times, which we do not do.

Tax: your shop sets one rate and every line on an invoice is taxable or exempt against it, so GST at 5 percent or HST at 13 or 15 is a setting rather than a workaround, and the sales-tax report gives your bookkeeper the taxable base, the exempt base and the tax actually charged on an accrual or a cash basis. What it does not do is split one invoice across two provincial rates, because there is a single shop-wide rate and no per-line rate in the data; if you bill at two rates, check that first. CASL is not a switch somebody flips but a set of rails: service and appointment messages are treated separately from marketing, marketing is counted against a per-customer limit, quiet hours and opt-outs are enforced in code, and an opt-out applies across the whole shop. The SMS policy page sets out the rules the product follows, and nothing here is legal advice.