Garage Hive is the leading Garage Management Software (GMS) in the UK and Ireland. It is built on a platform called Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. For our users, this means periodically the system will receive updates to the platform that are developed by Microsoft, such as improvements in speed, stability, and new features.
We are extremely excited to release details of some of the features coming to Garage Hive as a result of our upgrade to the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2020 wave 1.
Watch the video below to see some of the new features and improvements in action.
Find a list of some of the new features of the platform below.
1. Full keyboard shortcut support.
2. Introduction of focus mode. From any document you can press the focus mode button to expand the document lines to full screen, adding more room to quickly add document lines.
3. In the top right-hand corner you can now see when documents have auto-saved.
4. Added the ability to explore your role centre, giving a new way to navigate Garage Hive.
5. No more loading screens when scrolling through large lists of data.
6. No more loading times when opening documents.
7. Added the ability to save filtered lists. Create any combination of a filtered list and save it as a view, meaning next time you view that list you can pick from the pre-defined views you previously created.
8. Added the ability to bookmark pages which will add a shortcut from the homepage of the current role centre.
9. Added the ability to resize columns on any document.
10. Added multi-tab support. Working in multiple tabs will no longer cause session/timeout issues.
11. Added the ability to pop out the current document you are working on into a new browser window.
12. Added the ability to personalise any screen or documents in Garage Hive. This gives you the ability to do the following
All of the above is just a fraction of the new features arriving with the new Business Central 16 platform update. Look out for more previews soon.
We hope you are as excited as we are 😃
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.
PW Auto Repairs was founded in 2015 by Paul Whetton, who has 23 years of industry experience and has always wanted to be a technician. Diana Whetton joined and, as she said in her own words, "came as temporary help but never left!" They found and started using Garage Hive in 2020. The business now has seven staff members, including Paul and Diana.
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