March was a busy month for Garage Hive team. We managed to add around 25 features to the system while still leading to a successful start of the transition to Business Central. As usual, we introduced some great ideas from our community.
Here is a quick list of some of the features we introduced in March.
1. Making Tax Digital.
2. Added customer GDPR preferences to your customer data exports.
3. Refreshed the tile layout on business central, removed all Jobsheets, completed VHC & pending inspections.
4. Added Power BI datasets for the following.
5. Added heat-maps to Power BI reporting in Business Central.
6. Updated VHC printout to show authorised and none authorised work.
7. Added a mileage reminder for a technician when they haven’t entered a mileage but completed their allocation.
8. Added an [OptOut] tag to customer reminders, allowing customers to control their own contact preferences connected directly to their customer card. For more information on this please visit https://docs.garagehive.co.uk/docs/garagehive-customer-notifications.html.
9. Added the ability to add a payment method code to a cash receipt journal
10. Added a till report that includes cash receipt journals, meaning your end of day will now match even if you apply account payments.
11. Added the ability to SMS customers from a posted jobsheet.
12. Added the concept of reasons codes to Estimates and VHCs, allowing you to track lost sales.
13. Introduced various statuses to an Estimate, awaiting action, awaiting authorisation and complete.
14. Added Santander bank transaction import.
15. Greatly improved certain Power BI reports, introduced a colour scale for relative date reporting.
16. Added VHC and Inspection reports to Power BI.
To stay up to date and for our latest features please visit https://docs.garagehive.co.uk/docs/garagehive-whats-new.html.
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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