Auto Repair Shop
Digital vehicle inspections that price declined work and keep it on a standing board.
The short answer
Auto Repair Shop is an Odoo app for independent workshops, tyre shops and service centres. It runs job cards from reception through to invoiced, and its multi-point digital inspections price every finding and record the customer's answer. Declined and deferred work then collects in a standing worklist attached to the plate, so the money a technician found but nobody sold stays visible after the ticket closes.
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What it is for
Our biggest untapped job list is work our own technicians already found and the customer said no to. Most repair software records that answer and then loses it. The ticket closes, the inspection is filed behind it, and the tyres nobody bought disappear from every screen a service manager looks at. Nothing brings them back except somebody who happens to remember the car. Meanwhile the shop chases new arrivals for revenue that is already sitting in the filing system, priced and quoted, waiting for a phone call nobody has made.
- Platform
- Odoo
- Category
- Field service
- Works with
- Odoo 18 · Odoo 19
- Technical name
auto_repair_shop- Status
- Direct from webbox
- Pricing
- Paid
What is inside it
- 01
The unsold work
Every declined or deferred finding collects in one standing worklist with the plate, the checkpoint, the category and the price. No date range bounds it, so the oldest recommendation stays live money instead of ageing off.
- 02
Inspections
A technician works a checkpoint list by category, marking pass, attention, fail or not applicable, with a photo and a note per point. Anything worth quoting is flagged, priced, and given the advisor's recorded decision.
- 03
The board
Job cards move reception, estimate, approved, in progress, ready, invoiced. Empty lanes stay visible on purpose, because an empty estimate column is news and a column that vanishes hides it.
- 04
Labour economics
Effective labour rate and labour efficiency are computed only over jobs that actually clocked time, so an unclocked job cannot flatter the divisor. Parts-to-labour sits beside them on the same board.
- 05
Dashboards
A shop cockpit led by the unsold pool, plus a weekly shop analysis split by bay and by technician. Every tile opens exactly the rows it counted.
What it looks like in practice
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A visit invoices small and leaves priced work standing
An inspection on one van finds work across several checkpoints and the customer approves only part of it. The job card closes on what was sold.
Each finding keeps its own estimated cost and the customer's answer, so the declined and deferred rows stay on the standing worklist with the plate against them. Declined rows render red, deferred amber, and the columns total at the foot.
- Work the inspection found
- $1,680
- Invoiced on the job card
- $513
- Brake pads deferred
- $420
- Tyres declined outright
- $760
Figures from the module's own demo data, on a fresh install. Install with demo data and open the Deferred Work list.
InspectionsThe unsold work
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A tile and the list behind it have to agree
A service manager clicks the tile reporting the unsold pool and expects to land on the rows that produced the number.
The tile's domain and the search filter behind the click are written once and read from the same place, and a test re-derives each tile from the rows the click actually opens. The footer total on the list matches the tile above it.
- Deferred and declined pool
- $3,035
Figures from the module's own demo data, on a fresh install. On a demo install, open the shop cockpit and click the first tile.
DashboardsThe unsold work
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A job nobody clocked is unmeasured, not inefficient
Two jobs closed on the same day. One has actual hours recorded against it and the other has none.
Labour efficiency divides estimated hours by actual hours and excludes jobs with no hours rather than counting them as zero. Effective labour rate is computed over jobs that clocked time only, so the divisor stays honest.
Behaviour of the shipped code.
Labour economics
What it deliberately does not do
- It does not invoice or take payment
- The primary button reads Create Quotation and means it: a draft sales quotation linked to the job, with the job moving to Invoiced. Confirming, invoicing and collecting all happen in Odoo Sales and Accounting.
- No parts inventory or purchasing
- A line carries a product, a quantity and a price. There is no stock move, no reservation and no supplier. Run Odoo Inventory alongside it if stock has to move.
- The customer never sees the inspection
- No portal, no shareable link, no approve-on-your-phone flow, no mail or SMS template anywhere in the module. Photos are internal attachments, and the decision is recorded by the advisor after the phone call.
- No bay scheduling or capacity model
- A bay is a field on the job, and nothing stops two live jobs sharing one. No calendar, no gantt, and no utilisation percentage, because that would need a capacity number the module does not hold.
- No time clock
- Actual hours is a number somebody types. There is no punch in and out and no timesheet integration, so labour efficiency is honest arithmetic over what technicians write down.
Questions
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