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How much is your customer worth?

How much is your customer worth?

Apart from a few, most workshop owner operate a single location workshop, unless you have been operated for a long time, most of your customers are probably around a certain distant from the workshop, with a limited number of customers, how do you maximize your profit? Then comes the question

Is your MechanicDesk running slow? 7 ways to boost MechanicDesk performance

Is your MechanicDesk running slow? 7 ways to boost MechanicDesk performance

In this blog post, we will talk briefly about MechanicDesk's overall design and share a few tips to help you boost its performance on your machine. Even though built to run on browsers, MechanicDesk is not just another website. To maximize MechanicDesk performance, MechanicDesk uses modern technology and

Weekly updates 5/2/2018

Weekly updates 5/2/2018

This week updates include better date format for South Africa customers, adding no charge flag to purchase order... Update 1. change South Africa date format to dd/MM/yyyy 2. Rename "Rego" to Registration Number in Courtesy vehicles New Features 1. Adding "no charge" for Purchase

Weekly Updates 28/01/2018

Weekly Updates 28/01/2018

This week updates include more attributes for data export, adding read only employees, adding download for stocks within a category, add bank account details for suppliers More attributes for data export 1. add tags for vehicle export 2. add Chassis number to vehicle export 3. add notes for customer export

Why go on the cloud?

Why go on the cloud?

You might have heard of cloud computing, SAAS (Software As A Service), in this post, we discuss the pros and cons of cloud computing and why we belive it is the way of the future. 1. Anywhere, anytime, from any device. 2. Collaborate in near real time, from anywhere. 3.

MechanicDesk Weekly Updates 21/01/2018

MechanicDesk Weekly Updates 21/01/2018

Updates and changes to MechanicDesk (21/01/2018) includes improvements to the digital signature, mobile app, stock export file and new filters for purchase orders. * Improve digital signature page: when you click on Sign from the job card, instead of then signing on that same page which may contain senstive

4 things to do to be more efficient

4 things to do to be more efficient

Running a workshop, our profits directly correlate with the number vehicles or pieces of equipment we service. It is utmost important that we run our business as efficient as possible. In this post, we look at ways you can improve your efficiency and increase your profit. 1. Organise, organise, organise.

More information/functionalities is always better - or is it?

More information/functionalities is always better - or is it?

Sometimes we cannot see all the information we need, or on the other hand we have too much information. Here is where we introduce Switches in MechanicDesk. Flicking the Switch Seeing too much information? Or not enough? Use Switches! In MechanicDesk we can show or hide additional information and functionalities

Attract and retain customers in 6 easy steps

Attract and retain customers in 6 easy steps

Gaining new customers as well as keeping existing ones are essential for your business to grow. We thought then to share with you a few simple steps we personally found useful in achieving those goals. 1. Appearance matters - make sure both your workshop front and website look clean and

Going Paperless

Going Paperless

Though not without its merits, workshop management with a paper based system can be time consuming depending on the scale of the workshop. We've all been there, waddling our way through tonnes of paperwork just to find an invoice or a job card. Often times, the only link

Getting Personal with Custom Attributes

Getting Personal with Custom Attributes

Over the years, we have had customers coming from multiple servicing industries, mostly automotive but we also have marine workshops, coffee machine and pool servicing businesses. Each requires a different set of attributes for the item they service and we have so far added over 100 attributes. However, adding new

Welcome To Our Blog

Welcome To Our Blog

We'd been going three years without a blog. Three years! It has been such a crazy ride for us, working around the clock to build MechanicDesk into what it is today as well as getting to know and supporting our customers better. With the team now growing to