CarVue has announced its biggest ever update to its online garage management software.
The update, which has been released this week, includes a new menu design for easier navigation.
A CarVue spokesperson said: “Our smarter navigation menu is pinned to the left side of the screen and is how you access all modules in CarVue.
“There is a new, simpler Accounts menu and the Customers and Vehicles modules have been combined.
“We’ve had lots of requests to make a prominent button available on every page to quickly create a new booking, so we’re really excited to introduce the new ‘create a new job’ button in the top left hand corner of every page.”
Other changes include improved job cards, to allow committed financial documents to be edited.
GDPR-compliant
Cade customer data collection is now GDPR-compliant and new parts bins and inventory tracking has been introduced while signing into CarVue itself has been made even more secure.
The spokesperson added: “You can now make changes to an invoice once it’s been committed and easily view historical changes made to any financial document.
“There are also dedicated new pages for purchase credits, credit notes, and quotes.
Repair templates
“We’ve introduced a great new workshop feature for you to bundle together common repair items.
“Using a repair template will increase your efficiency by saving time every time you need to set up a common repair on a job.
“Managing parts inventory is now easier in CarVue with the addition of two great new features: product bins and stock history.
“The location of parts stock can now be easily allocated so that they’re easier to find when you’re on a job, plus you get a rich history of any changes to the inventory level of any product.
T-cards
“Now when you’re looking at your workshop T-card control board, as well as being able to switch between onsite and offsite jobs and advisors, you’re able to pick one of your bays from the dropdown menu and the board will update to only show jobs assigned to that bay.
“We’ve added in new ‘opt-in’ checkboxes in customer records so that you can individually record how your customer has agreed to be contacted, from postal addresses to other communication methods you add to their record, such as landline phone or mobile numbers and email addresses.”
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