How much does Piggles cost for a garage?

$99 a month, flat, with all sixteen apps included: bookings, invoices, parts, your website and the rest. That covers one business, one location, one main website and three people with their own sign-in, so you and two mechanics are covered. More seats, storage, customer records or email can be added in one tap. Try it free for 14 days, no card needed.

Can I keep a full service history for every car?

Yes. You set up a vehicle record with your own fields and link it to its owner, whose record holds every booking, invoice and note. Customers can say which car it is when they book. When the car comes back in a year, the history is where you left it.

What happens when the job changes once the car is apart?

Send a revised quote for the extra work and have the customer accept it, or sign it where that matters. The signed copy stays on the record, and the accepted quote becomes the invoice without anybody retyping it.

Can my mechanics use it without seeing the money?

Yes. Everyone signs in as themselves and sees only the apps you tick for them, so leave Money off a mechanic’s list and it is simply not there. Pay rates, wage costs and commission are for owners and admins only.

No, and it will not. My Team records the hours each person worked and their rates, and hands them to whoever runs your payroll. Once approved, those hours also arrive in Money as wages, so the profit figure counts what your people cost.

Will it work with my accountant?

Yes. Piggles is not accounting software, so your books stay with your accountant. Money hands them a spreadsheet of your spending with every column labeled and their account codes on each line, so they are not retyping a year.

The booking, the parts and the bill, all on one job.

Piggles books the car in, keeps track of the parts on the shelf, turns the approved quote into the invoice and remembers the car when it comes back next year. It is $99 a month with every app included, so the paperwork stops eating your evenings.

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Piggles for garages

BookingsA day that fills itself, one bay at a time.
InvoicesPaperwork that matches the work, and money that turns up.
CustomersEvery car, every owner, every visit, kept.

If this sounds like your week

The quote and the invoice never match

You quote for brake pads, find a seized caliper, and the invoice gets rewritten from memory at six o’clock. The parts you fitted and the parts you billed slowly drift apart.

The service history is in a filing cabinet

The same car comes back a year later and nobody can find what was done last time, which parts went on, or what the customer was told to keep an eye on.

Two cars booked onto one lift

The calendar on the wall does not know the second bay is out of action, or that your mechanic is off on Thursday. You find out when both customers are standing at the counter.

You cannot tell which jobs make money

Sales look fine. But nobody adds up the parts and the other costs against each job, so the jobs quietly losing money get quoted the same way next time.

A job is one record from the moment it is booked to the moment it is paid, and the car keeps its history after.

What most garages are juggling, and what takes its place

~~a wall calendar with the bays written in marker~~Bookings
Bookings knows how long each service takes, who is working and which bay is free, so the day fills up without anybody walking over to check the wall.
~~a carbon-copy estimate pad~~Invoices
Quotes, estimates, invoices and receipts come from one set of templates with your logo and terms, so every piece of paper looks like it came from the same business.
~~a filing cabinet of old job cards~~Customers
Every car has its own record linked to its owner, and each visit adds to it, so "what did we do last time" is a search instead of a rummage.
~~a notebook of who still owes for last month~~Invoices
The overdue list shows who is late and by how long, trade customers on agreed terms get a due date counted from the day they receive the bill, and part payments are recorded the day they arrive.
~~a sheet of paper for the parts on order~~Partners
Parts on order are purchase orders with a promised date. A part-delivery leaves the rest outstanding, and anything past its date is listed as late.
~~hours scribbled on the back of the job card~~My Team
Each mechanic clocks in and out, so the week’s labor is a timesheet you approve rather than a guess made at the end of the week.

A normal week for garages, on Piggles

Monday, 7:30am
Home shows the day before the shutter goes up: two bookings to confirm, a message somebody sent through your website over the weekend, an invoice that has gone late, and oil filters running low.
Home
Monday, 10am
A customer books a brake check from your website. Bookings only offers times when a bay and a mechanic are both free, so the lift you filled at nine cannot be booked twice.
Bookings
Tuesday, 11am
The car on the lift has its own record, linked to its owner, and the owner’s record holds last year’s invoice and the notes, so nobody starts from scratch.
Customers
Tuesday, 3pm
You scan the pads off the shelf. Stock knows there were four sets, and which bin the rest are sitting in.
Stock
Wednesday, 9am
Oil filters are running low at the rate you actually fit them. Partners suggests the order from real usage and real delivery times, you confirm it, and when the parts arrive you scan them in.
Partners
Thursday, 4pm
The customer approved the quote, with the signed copy kept on the record. Now it becomes the invoice without retyping, and you send a link to pay what is owed. Paid through Stripe, it records itself against the right invoice.
Invoices
Friday, 5pm
Money lists what each job left after its parts, its fees and the costs you charged to it, worst first. If the clutch jobs are busy but thin, you see it before you quote the next one.
Money

The apps garages use most, up close

Bookings

A day that fills itself, one bay at a time.

A garage books a lift, a person and a stretch of hours, not just a time. Bookings works all three out together, so the times a customer sees online are times you can actually deliver.

Everything Bookings does

Each service has its own length, so an oil change and a timing belt take the time they really take and the rest of the day arranges itself around them.
Buffers between jobs leave time to clear the bay and road-test a car before the next one rolls in.
A business customer whose vans come in every twelve weeks can have a repeating booking, made once and held every time.
Confirmations and reminders go out on their own, with a link the customer can use to move the booking rather than just not showing up.
For big jobs with parts ordered in specially, you can take a deposit up front, with a cancellation rule applied the same way to everybody.
When somebody cancels, the next person on the waiting list is offered the slot instead of the lift standing empty.

Invoices

Paperwork that matches the work, and money that turns up.

Invoices produces the document, sends it, records the payment and tells you who is late. It handles the one-off customer paying at pickup and the local business that runs an account with you in the same place.

Everything Invoices does

When the customer approves a quote, an exact copy is kept, so if the job changes once the car is apart, the version they agreed to still prints the way it stood.
Business customers, like a local delivery firm, pay on agreed terms, with the due date counted from the day they receive the bill and part payments recorded as they come in.
The overdue list shows who is late and by how long, and a firm, polite reminder goes out without you writing it each time.
Send a link to pay whatever is still owed, through the payment provider you connected. Paid through Stripe, it records itself against the right invoice.
Every invoice sits on the owner’s record, so a warranty question next spring starts with the paperwork already in front of you.

Customers

Every car, every owner, every visit, kept.

A garage has records no ordinary contact list has a name for. Customers lets you keep the car as its own thing, linked to the person who brings it in and the business that pays for it, with the whole history in one place.

Everything Customers does

A delivery firm with six vans is one company with six vehicles and the drivers who bring them in, not six unrelated customers.
Bigger jobs you are quoting for, like a clutch or an engine rebuild, sit on a board with their value and next step, so the follow-up call actually happens.
A complaint about a repair goes to one named person with a time it should be answered by, so it is dealt with before it turns into a review.
Connect your mailbox and emails from customers land on their record every few minutes, and a call made from their record is kept with who, when and how long, not typed up later.
The same customer entered twice is found and merged, and both histories join up rather than one being lost.
A group built from a rule keeps itself current, and a hand-picked list covers the customers no rule describes, both ready to write to about their next service.

Moving over

Bring in customers, parts and suppliers

Drop your customer list, your parts list and your supplier list into Move in, from any spreadsheet or from the system you use now. Piggles guesses what each column means, you correct it, and you see exactly what will be created before anything is saved.

Type in the cars and the open jobs

Vehicle records do not come across from a file today, and neither do unpaid invoices or future bookings. Add each car as it comes in, and enter open jobs and next week’s bookings by hand. The history builds from the first visit on.

Fix what did not fit

Any row that could not be read is listed with its row number from your own file. Download the list, fix it next to your data and drop the file in again. Every past move is kept, so you can check what came across and when.

Your first hour

Set your opening hours and add your bays and your mechanics, so a booking can only land where there is a lift and a person free.
Add the services you book most often, with how long each one takes.
Create a vehicle record with the fields you care about (make, model, year, plate, mileage) and link it to its owner. It gets its own place in the menu, next to everything else.
Import your customer list and your parts list from a spreadsheet, with a preview before anything is written.
Put your logo, terms and wording on your quote and invoice templates.

One price for the bays, the parts and the paperwork.

$99 a month

$99 a month covers bookings, invoices, parts, your website and every other app, sixteen in all. Taking on more jobs never moves you to a bigger plan, because there is only one.

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One business, one location, one main website and three people with their own sign-in, whether that is you and two mechanics or two mechanics and the front desk.
Bookings, invoices, orders and the parts on your shelves are unlimited.
Booking confirmations and reminders do not count toward the 5,000 emails a month included for your own announcements.
10,000 customer records and 10 GB of storage for photos of damage, signed quotes and other documents are included.
A fourth mechanic, more storage or a second location can be added in one tap with the price shown on the button, and removed the same way.
Fourteen days free with no card needed. If you do not carry on, nothing is charged.

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