August was another busy month for the Garage Hive team, several community requested features have been added to the product, Power BI saw it’s largest ever update releasing 18 new reports and Irish localisation was added.
View what’s new in the Garage Hive product here.
1. Added Extended Labour Descriptions to Jobsheets & Estimates and Labour Cards, allowing upto 10,000 characters per description – Video
2. Added ability for Service Advisors to Assign jobs to themselves
3. Added ability to have tiles filtered to particular Service Advisors – Video
4. Added ability to attach external documents when emailing customers documents Improved Vehicle Inspection print out.
5. Improved Vehicle Inspection print out – Video
5. Added ability to print signatures with Vehicle Inspection.
6. Added the ability when emailing a VHC, the Vehicle Inspection will automatically be attached.
7. Added “Total Jobsheets” tile to Service Financial Controller Roll Centre
Irish Localisation
Power BI Reports added
The following reports were added to the Garage Hive Power BI application, all of the reports also now have mobile support.
Full documentation can be viewed here – https://docs.garagehive.co.uk/docs/garagehive-whats-new.html
We’re really looking forward to announcing our two large feature releases next month at our annual conference.
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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