As always our development was working closely with the Garage Hive community and is proud to present what’s new in Feb 2019. There are a short video and description below.
1 – Added optional “Awaiting Parts” and “Awaiting Authorisation” tile to Service Advisors role centre.
2 – Enhanced the ability to modify Resource Time Registration Entries, added the ability to modify start time as well as total time spent. You can read more about it from here – https://docs.garagehive.co.uk/docs/garagehive-time-registration-entries.html.
3 – Added “Vehicle staying overnight” feature, allowing Service Advisors to mark vehicles as staying overnight – populating a tile on the technician’s devices.
4 – Added the option of displaying the bill-to-customer or sell-to-customer on an invoice, this is particularly useful when you have Fleet customers or offer finance to customers.
5 – Created a warning for vehicles with VRM integrity issues, allowing users to override data import.
6 – Added ability to create work description templates.
7 – Added a “Schedule of Work” document, allowing users to print a non-financial document for Fleet Companies.
8 – Added extra fields to the “Brake Section” of a vehicle card.
9 – Added ability to automatically clock out users at the end of day at a specified time.
10 – Added SMS and Email preview functionality to customer notification setup (Reminders) View our video guide for Customer Notifications here.
11 – Added ability to refresh MOT data from MOT Notification bar in the Jobsheet.
12- Added BHP VRM Data to Vehicle Card.
Our developers are continually listening to the community and improving the software. Please check back in a couple of weeks for the 1st roundup of March.
The Penygroes Service Centre located in South Wales was founded in 2014 by Jonathan. He has extensive 17 years of experience in the industry. However, Jon found himself doing a lot of manual labour for data management to keep a finger on the pulse of the business. Therefore, joined Garage Hive's garage management software in March 2021 and has already seen a significant improvement in his garage, an increase in gross profit and has achieved a great NPS® Score.
Tom and Kayleigh runs their garage TR Autos in Yeovil, Somerset. They joined Garage Hive last year. Tom has two decades of industry experience , both practical and technician side and now business as TR Autos was founded in 2008; since then the team has grown, practices have moved away from paper diaries to garage management software, their productivity has increased and they also have moved into bigger premises.
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