How to beat business rate rises

Workshop management system brings increased productivity and revenue, says TechMan

How to beat business rate rises
TechMan makes vehicle and customer data available alongside tools to streamline communications and workflow.

Cost challenges like the 2017 business rate revaluation present opportunities for garages to confront their inefficiencies and find the silver lining to any rate review clouds, according to garage workshop management system TechMan.

“Generally, garages realise their current systems aren’t perfect,” said Leo Freebairn, national sales manager.

“But there’s still then a resistance to change that has to be overcome.

“We sometimes find new cost increases like business rates can actually become the trigger for garages to make positive improvements immediately and not delay.”

Financial benefits

Leo believes garages often miss the ‘opportunity cost’ of hesitancy when considering a garage management system, even though they exist: “It’s easy for garages to focus on ‘the cost’ of a management system – it’s a figure that’s there in black and white,” he said.

“What seems harder to picture right away are the financial benefits that offset this.”

Garages also imagine implementing improvements will prove challenging, but Leo asserts that the right management system should be ‘profitable from month one’.

The return on investment case is stark; saving 30 minutes per technician per day across a three-technician business brings the possibility of £75 more revenue each day (at £50 per hour) – adding up to £18,000 a year into a typical independent garage.

Time savings

The time savings are achievable as TechMan makes vehicle and customer data available alongside tools to streamline communications and workflow.

TechMan Pro offers an easy single point view of the business.

Front-of-house service reception can view technician availability, to ensure initial work-loading is optimised.

As technicians then log on and off the jobs they’re working on, reliable management data is automatically generated to deliver insights on business efficiency and individual technician performance.

They also no longer need to leave jobs to find information, or work with bits of paper and notes.

“We’ve proven time and again that we can bring benefits garage owners just didn’t believe were possible, raising the amount of chargeable time and driving new revenue that drops straight to the bottom line.”

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