Web-based garage management software, CarVue has announced a number of new features that allow users to manage parts inventory, speed up adding repair lines to jobs and a new job export feature means CarVue job history can now be downloaded in an Excel spreadsheet.
CarVue’s ‘products’ module has been upgraded with new features in stock inventory that will save users time managing parts.
A CarVue spokesperson said: “Now when you add in a product into CarVue and select that you want it to have a trackable inventory, you can add in values for min and max levels that you want to have in stock.
“If your stock level goes outside of the min and max levels you’ve chosen for a product, you now get helpful visual cues to give you better visibility of your stock levels at-a-glance.
“You can now select your preferred suppliers for products.
“So when it’s time to re-order any of your products, you have quick access to your preferred suppliers.”
Improvements have also been made to the job details pages to give workshops insight into how long jobs are taking.
The spokesperson added: “We’ve sped up adding jobs so when you add in a new repair to a job card, you get to input an ‘estimated hours’ time.
“Now when you save the repair, you’ll automatically get a labour line with the estimated hours, saving you time adding the line separately.
“When the repair is complete, you can select how much labour to charge your customer in the new ‘billable hours’ field.
“This usefully allows you to compare your original labour estimate to the time you’re billing the customer for on all your repairs.
“We’ve been asked by lots of users for access to their job history, so we’re really pleased to present this new feature to you today.
“Head to ‘export’ in settings now and you’ll find that as well as being able to download your contacts and vehicles, there’s a new option to export your CarVue job history.
“Click the button and you’ll get a full Excel-friendly spreadsheet downloaded with all of your job data, including repairs, repair lines, contacts and vehicles.”
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