The big platforms were built a decade ago — before AI could read a photo of a leak, remember a conversation, or learn from your shop’s own fixes. Mech Correct was built after. Every ticket, text, part, and dollar lives in one connected system — and the busywork runs itself.

We studied Tekmetric, Shopmonkey, AutoLeap, Shop-Ware, Fullbay, and Mitchell 1 — then built past them. Here's the arsenal, all included in one subscription.
Your tech snaps a photo of the leak, talks to it hands-free, reports test results back, and it updates the diagnosis. Grounded in federal recall data and your own shop's past fixes — real outcomes, not theory. Standalone AI tools charge $179/month for less, in a separate app.
A car rolls in that another member shop serviced — your writer sees the sanitized service history at VIN scan, before write-up. Names, prices, and private notes never cross shops. The more shops join, the smarter every shop gets. No one else has this.
Appointment reminders the day before. "You declined the brakes — still happy to help" two weeks after. Maintenance nudges at six months, a win-back at twelve, and a birthday text on the day — all in your own words, from an editable template library with auto-filling tags. All automatic, all guardrailed, every send in your inbox thread. The incumbents sell this as a marketing add-on.
Text customers one link. They watch their car move — checked in → estimate → in the bay → ready — with your estimate approval and inspection photos one tap away, and the balance once invoiced. The "any update on my car?" phone call, gone.
Connect once. Every invoice pushes customer, invoice, and payment straight into your books — RO number as the invoice number, no re-typing, no duplicates on re-sync. Plus free .IIF and CSV exports for QuickBooks Desktop.
Your work is saved instantly and syncs across every device the moment the connection comes back. And for shops that want it, a fully offline standalone mode is available — ask us about it.
| Feature | Mech Correct | The incumbents* |
|---|---|---|
| AI diagnostics with photo analysis & fix memory, inside the RO | ✓ Included | ✗ separate app, ~$179/mo |
| Cross-shop VIN service history network | ✓ Included | ✗ Doesn't exist |
| Automated reminders & declined-work follow-up texts | ✓ Included | Paid marketing add-on |
| Editable template library (SMS + email) with tag autofill | ✓ Included | Partial / add-on |
| Self-serve guided onboarding — set up in ~10 minutes, no sales call | ✓ Included | ✗ Demo-gated |
| Live customer status tracker | ✓ Included | Extra / partial |
| Two-way texting with live shop-wide inbox | ✓ Included | ✓ |
| QuickBooks Online direct sync | ✓ Included | ✓ often tier-gated |
| Deposits, split payments & refunds ledger + drawer report | ✓ Included | ✓ |
| Signed check-in walk-arounds (dispute protection) | ✓ Included | Partial |
| Towing & wrecker dispatch, in the same app | ✓ Included | ✗ |
| Standalone offline mode available | ✓ Available | ✗ |
| Every feature in one price — no modules, no sales call | ✓ | ✗ Modular pricing |
*Tekmetric, Shopmonkey, AutoLeap, Shop-Ware — based on public feature pages and pricing, July 2026. Verify current offerings with each vendor.
This is the part the old platforms can't do. Every step below talks to the next one automatically — the chips show what the system did on its own while your people did the actual work.
One VIN scan and the writer is looking at the owner, the tag, the mileage-due services, the full spec sheet — and what other shops on the network did to this exact car. New customer? The file builds itself from the scan.
Every ding documented before a wrench comes out. The customer e-signs the condition report from their phone — and gets their live status link in the same text.
P0301, rough idle. The tech snaps the plug, talks to the copilot hands-free, and gets a ranked diagnostic plan — grounded in federal recall data, this car's history, and the last time your shop fixed the same thing. Test results go back in; the diagnosis updates. No forum-digging, no leaving the bay.
Findings become estimate lines in one tap. The customer gets it by text with the inspection photos — approves the brakes, holds the wipers, from the parking lot at work. The board shows "viewed" the moment they open it.
Checked lines become a purchase order; the job flips to "waiting on parts" on its own. When the parts land, the real cost syncs onto the ticket, your pricing matrix sets retail, and the job flips back to ready — the tech never chased a delivery.
Text-to-pay closes the balance from the customer's phone; the ticket marks itself paid at zero. The invoice and payment post to QuickBooks with one tap. A review request follows. Two weeks from now, the declined wipers text goes out — by itself.
One video: what it is, what it does, and the AI advisor nobody else has — narrated over the real product.
Take the call, assign a driver and truck, move the job from requested to delivered, and price it by the mile — hook fee, mileage, wait and storage, totaled as you type. Then bill it by text, or bring the vehicle in as a repair order with the tow fee already on it. Your tow and your shop, finally in one place.
Every call on one board — new, on the road, delivered, done — with driver, truck, pickup → drop-off, and priority calls up top.
Hook fee + per-mile + wait + storage + extras, calculated live. Set your default rates and driver roster once in Settings.
Text a card-payment link for a pure tow, or one-click bring it into the shop as a repair order with the tow fee already on it.
Every plan includes the tools a real shop runs on every day. Here is the complete list — nothing hidden behind a sales call.
Ask in plain English — or snap a photo of the leak and talk to it hands-free. Codes decoded, recalls checked, and the answer is grounded in your own shop's past fixes. Report test results back and the diagnosis updates. Nobody else in shop software has this.
See it in action ↓Run your wrecker inside the shop: a live dispatch board, driver & truck assignment, per-mile pricing, and billing by text or straight onto a repair order.
Labor + parts lines, live totals with tax and profit, status from estimate to paid, printable branded invoices.
One click texts the customer a secure card-payment link for their balance. They pay from their phone; the repair order marks itself paid.
Your own booking page to share anywhere. Customers request a time from their phone; it lands on your schedule tagged as an online request.
After a paid ticket, one tap texts the customer your Google review link — the cheapest marketing a shop has.
Customers approve or decline each line from a link — approve the brakes, hold the tires — and the RO updates itself.
Every customer conversation in one live inbox — replies land the second they arrive, unread count on every page, and each thread links to its repair order.
Every job on one board — by stage or by technician — with work states, promised times, and inspection flags.
One-tap clock in per job. Reports show car count, sales, average ticket, and billed-vs-clocked hours per tech.
30-point inspections with photos on every finding and a customer-facing link — no app for them to install.
A clean CRM with full vehicle service history, fast lookup at the counter, one click into a new RO.
Scan the barcode on the door jamb — year, make, model, and engine fill in automatically.
Every vehicle is checked against open NHTSA safety recalls, right on the repair order. The fix might be free.
Stock, cost, vendors, bins. Selling a part auto-decrements stock; low stock surfaces on the dashboard.
Low stock becomes a PO in a click. Send it, receive it back into inventory — parts stay honest end to end.
A day board built for a busy service counter, tied to customers and vehicles.
Customer, warranty, insurance, internal & fleet pay types — claim numbers, payers, deductible splits.
Declined work and failed inspection findings become one callback list — the easiest revenue in the shop.
Status changes, clock-ins, approvals, POs — everything happening across the shop, in real time.
Tech notes stay with the vehicle across every visit. State safety & emissions inspections tracked with expiry.
Opt in to see sanitized service history other member shops logged for the same VIN. Private by default.
Invite advisors and techs with roles. Run multiple locations with one login.
Every shop you own, rolled up on one screen — open ROs, car count, and billed work per location, with totals.
Connect once — every invoice pushes customer, invoice, and payment into QuickBooks with one tap, no re-typing and no duplicates. IIF/CSV exports included for Desktop.
14-day free trial for every shop, subscribe by card in the app, and your data stays yours no matter what.
Document the vehicle's condition the moment it arrives — photos of every ding — and the customer e-signs the record from their phone. Dispute-grade protection for your techs.
Unbilled tech time, inspection findings that never got quoted, declined work waiting to be re-sold, and your close ratio — the money already in the building, surfaced automatically.
The daily close-out: ROs posted, hours presented vs sold, close ratio, effective labor rate, profit per hour, and collections — filterable by service writer, printable for the drawer.
Save your bread-and-butter jobs — oil change, mount & balance, front brakes — and drop the whole bundle onto an estimate in one click, categorized automatically.
Business customers with fleet IDs, tax-exempt billing that applies itself, and unit numbers on every truck — because the fleet manager says "unit 12," not the plate.
Overpayments and deposits live on the customer's account with a full paper trail, and apply to their next ticket in one click.
Show customers a fully itemized estimate, keep the lines but hide the per-line math, or send one clean lump sum — your pricing, your presentation.
Techs clock into the exact labor line. Every line shows quoted vs actual hours — so you know which jobs eat the day, not just which tickets.
Technician logins see the job, tech time, and specs — never prices, totals, or invoices. Automatic by role, and dispatch stays with the front desk.
Every tech sees their credited hours per job, week by week — with a Paid ✓ once the ticket closes, CSV export, and a printable statement. No more paper notebook.
From under the hood: need parts, need approval, or a question — one tap sends it to the desk, lands on the dashboard, and stays on the RO until it's handled.
One tap turns the board into a big-text wall display — work states, promised times, late jobs in red. No customer names or dollars, so it's safe on the shop wall.
Text customers one link and they watch the job move — checked in, estimate, in the bay, ready — with approvals and inspection photos one tap away.
Five rules on autopilot: appointment reminders, declined-work follow-ups, 6-month maintenance nudges, birthday texts, and 12-month win-backs — each one your wording (it uses your edited templates), each one toggleable, capped and logged with replies landing in your inbox.
Take a deposit up front, split cash and card at pickup, refund cleanly after — the ticket closes itself at zero and End of Day reconciles the drawer by method.
One tap from any part line searches NAPA, O'Reilly, Advance, AutoZone, RockAuto, and PartsTech — pre-filled with the part and vehicle. Your wholesale login shows commercial pricing and which local store has it on the shelf.
Tiered markup applies itself the moment a part's cost is known — consistent margins with zero mental math, and it never overwrites a price you typed.
17 built-in texts and emails for the messages every shop sends — oil change due, vehicle ready, recall notice, happy birthday. Tags like [customer first name] and [vehicle] fill themselves; edit any template and your wording wins, everywhere.
A progress-tracked setup guide takes a new shop from empty to running in about ten minutes — profile, team, customers, first repair order, texting, payments — with a feature tour at the end. No sales call required.
An "on the clock" pill follows the tech on every screen, and timers left running past closing end themselves at closing time — flagged for manager review before payroll ever sees them.
One keystroke searches customers, vehicles, plates, VINs, phone numbers, and repair orders — and the vehicle quick-view slides in with history, warranty flags, and a start-repair-order button.
The board on the counter tablet, the RO on the tech's phone, the reports in the office — one change and every screen updates itself. No refresh button anywhere.
Open a repair order and the app warns you first: this vehicle was here 3 weeks ago, and that line carried a warranty. Awkward surprises become informed conversations.
Tech hours per day as a payroll-ready CSV, and parts purchasing rolled up by vendor — where the money went, which vendors creep on price, what to negotiate.
Real screens from the live product — and the moments around them where Mech Correct pays for itself.
Illustrative scenarios — real product screens, scripted captions.
7:58 AM · WALK-INplan in ~9sP0171 decoded, 17 open recalls checked, a five-step diagnostic sequence — before the coffee is poured. That's the AI Service Advisor, built into every plan.
See the advisor →
TRUST BUILDER27✓ · 2! · 1✕Customers approve work they can see. Digital inspections with photos turn a walk-around into booked hours.
Try the live inspection →
photo → approved
8:04 AM · DISPATCHpromised 11:11 AMLanes by stage, a live column per technician, promised times and inspection flags right on the card. Clock in with one tap.
See the board →Estimates go to the customer's phone. They answer line by line — and the repair order updates itself.
NEXT WEEK'S REVENUE$0 left behindEvery declined line and failed finding lands in one callback list with the vehicle, the customer, and the tech's note.
How follow-ups work →
show, don't tell
5 rules · autopilot
5:30 PM · CLOSE-OUTbilled vs clockedCar count, sales, average ticket, and true technician efficiency — billed hours against clocked hours, per tech.
Run your numbers →
WHILE YOU SLEEP5 rules · your wordsBirthday texts, oil-change reminders, 12-month win-backs — pre-written, personalized by tags, sent automatically in your shop's voice.
See templates →The AI Service Advisor lives inside your shop software — one click from any vehicle. It reasons over the exact truck in your bay, not a generic forum answer.
Unedited captures of the live product doing real work — the same bright, clean app you get when you sign up.
Click through the real product. Fresh screenshots, straight from the live app.
Build estimates with labor and parts, watch totals update live, move the job through a clean status workflow, and hand the customer a printable invoice they understand.

A 30-point inspection with pass / attention / fail, tech notes, and photos on every flagged item — then a shareable link the customer opens on their phone.

A day-by-day board so the whole team knows what's in the shop and what's coming next — with status at a glance.

Track stock, cost, price, vendor and bin location. Selling a stocked part on a job decrements inventory automatically, and low stock surfaces on the dashboard.

A tidy CRM: every customer, their vehicles (VIN, plate, mileage, engine), and the full service history in one place — plus vehicle notes that follow the VIN across every visit.

Point your phone at the VIN barcode on the door jamb or windshield. Mech Correct reads it and pulls the year, make, model, and engine automatically — a new vehicle takes seconds, not minutes.

Not every job is customer-pay. Flag a repair order as warranty, insurance, internal, or fleet — and Mech Correct tracks the claim number, the payer, and the customer's deductible, then splits the invoice so everyone sees who owes what.

Every message the shop sends — written once, personalized automatically. 17 built-ins from "oil change due" to "happy birthday," a picker one tap from any compose box, and five automation rules the manager toggles individually.

The guided Getting Started page walks a brand-new shop through everything: profile, team, customers, first repair order, texting, payments, and your public booking link — with progress tracked and steps that check themselves off.

The front counter is only half the job. Mech Correct runs dispatch, technician time, and the follow-up work that used to slip through the cracks — all in the same app.
Every job in the shop on one board — estimate, approved, in the bay, ready. Flip to the By-Tech view to see exactly what each technician is on and what state their work is in. Promised times and inspection fails surface right on the card.


Flip the Shop Board into TV mode and it becomes a big-text wall display a tech can read from under the hood — RO number, vehicle, work state, and promised time, with late jobs impossible to miss. No customer names, no dollars — it's safe for everyone in the shop to see.
Designed with a working flat-rate tech: a technician login gets its own app — the job, the tech time in hours, parts and specs. No prices, no totals, no invoices, anywhere. Techs land in My Bay with their assigned work, and dispatch stays with the front desk.


Technicians clock on and off each job right from the shop board. Reports turn that into the numbers that run the business — car count, sales, average ticket, and billed-vs-clocked efficiency for every tech.
Every item a customer declines and every inspection line marked fail or attention rolls into one Follow-ups list — with the vehicle, the customer, and what was found. It's the easiest revenue in the shop, and it stops falling through the cracks.

Paper sheets hit the trash. Tap the buttons on the right to build an inspection the way a tech does — the summary updates live, just like the real app. Then it goes to the customer as a link, with photos.
| Description | Qty/Hrs | Rate | Amount |
|---|
Add labor and parts, change a quantity, and watch the subtotal, tax, and total recalculate instantly — exactly how it works when you're writing a real estimate at the counter. Edit the numbers and see.
A car you've never touched rolls in. With the opt-in Shared VIN History Network, you can see the sanitized service record other Mech Correct shops have logged for that exact VIN — what was done, when, and at what mileage. You diagnose with the full story, not a blank slate.
Press play for a narrated, chaptered walkthrough — or jump to any section, at your own pace.

Straight from the Mech Correct launch feed — follow along on Facebook and Instagram, and lock founding pricing before the doors close.
Illustrative campaign posts — real product screens, scripted captions.






Everything included at every tier — the AI Tech Copilot, texting, inspections, QuickBooks sync, the board, all of it. Less than half what the big platforms charge. Founding shops lock launch pricing for life.
For comparison: Tekmetric's mid tier runs $349/mo before texting. Shopmonkey's is $399 before add-ons. Standalone AI diagnostic tools run $60–$200/mo on top. Mech Correct includes all of it — one price, no modules, no sales call. AI copilot included in every plan with generous fair use.
Go to mechcorrect.app, create an account, and you're in your own shop in about 60 seconds — no card, no sales call. Load the sample shop to explore, or add your first customer and go.
A diagnostic assistant built into the app. Pick a vehicle (or type one in), paste the trouble codes from your scan tool, and ask a plain-English question. Codes are decoded instantly, the vehicle's open NHTSA safety recalls and complaint history are pulled in as sources, and you get an ordered diagnostic plan in about ten seconds. It never invents OEM specs — every answer ends with a reminder to verify against OEM service data before the repair.
No. Digital inspections, estimate approvals, payment links, and online booking are all just links — your customer taps and sees everything in their phone's browser.
Yes. From any repair order, one click texts the customer a secure Stripe payment link for their balance. They pay on their phone, and the repair order marks itself paid.
Yes. Every shop gets its own booking page to link from a website, Google profile, or social page. Requests land on your schedule marked as online requests, and you confirm by text.
Yes — and it installs as an app. On Android and desktop Chrome you'll see an "Install app" button right in the sidebar; on iPhone use Share → Add to Home Screen. Full-screen, its own icon, same live data for the whole team. A Google Play listing is on the way.
Yes. Invite advisors and technicians with roles that control what they can see and change. Technician logins automatically get the money-free tech view.
Technician logins get a money-free view of the shop: the job, tech time in hours, parts and specs — never prices, totals, or invoices. Techs land in My Bay with their assigned work, can flag the front desk in one tap (need parts, need approval, question), and get their own My Hours page — credited hours per job with a Paid ✓ once the ticket closes, plus a printable statement. Assignment and dispatch stay with the front desk, and owners can preview the app as a technician anytime.
Yes. Flag any repair order as customer, warranty, insurance, internal, or fleet. Mech Correct tracks the claim or authorization number and payer, splits an insurance deductible between the customer and insurer, and lets you mark individual parts and labor as warranty-covered.
An optional, private network of Mech Correct shops. When you opt in, a car you've never serviced can show you the sanitized service history other member shops logged for that same VIN — the services performed, the date, and the mileage. It shares only that: never customer names or contact info, never pricing, never your private notes. It's off until you turn it on, and you can turn it off anytime.
Each shop's data is fully isolated at the database level, encrypted, and backed up. Export everything to JSON anytime — your data is yours.
Plans start at $199/mo per shop, everything included — no modules, no add-ons, and the AI Service Advisor is in every plan. Comparable platforms start at $179–$239 before add-ons pile up. Annual billing is one month free. Every shop gets 14 days free with no card. When you subscribe, checkout includes a 7-day trial period before your first charge. Shops that join the founding list lock launch pricing for life.
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