CarVue, an innovative cloud-based garage management system designed to save time and money, has added technical data, promising to make life even simpler for its rapidly growing independent garage user-base.
The capability is being powered through a collaboration with TecAlliance, the originators of the leading aftermarket TecDoc CATALOG.
The German business provides diagnostic fault finding data, as well as service and repair schedules through its TecRMI system.
CarVue say adding parts and technical data significantly streamlines the process of creating accurate customer quotations and improves all the downstream activity that follows quote acceptance, including parts ordering and invoicing.
Rob Skidmore, product director at CarVue, said: “Technicians can now access valuable data like labour times, service schedules, detailed parts specification and images.
Car registration look-up
“The functionality is driven from our car registration look-up which pulls in this extra data seamlessly through the existing interface.”
The TecRMI database boasts a growing universe of over 6.5 million items of technical data, 21.5 million quoted repair times and 900,000 repair instructions.
Shaun Greasley, TecAlliance regional sales director, said: “One of the many strengths of TecAlliance is our ability to incorporate our data into third-party systems as we have with CarVue.
“This is only possible because the quality of the data we gather and process into our standardised format is so high.”
Compete with bigger businesses
Rob added: “What this really offers is the potential for any smaller business to be competing in just a few clicks with the big guys running extremely expensive legacy IT systems.
“It all helps to level the playing field and means garages can work more effectively on a wider range of vehicles without barriers.”
CarVue say independent garages moving to their online garage management system can be set-up and working in just a few minutes.
From there they can securely access the latest functionality and a single-set of business data anytime, anywhere and on any web-enabled device.
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