Car inspection software
- Work the inspections get authorised, a week
- 7,031
- Points walked on one inspection
- 27
- Seconds a point gets, at that pace
- 40
Every figure on this site comes from the figures you enter and the method stated beside each output. The typical point counts on the checklist are starting points to change, not a standard: the only sheet that matters is the one your technicians sign.
Car inspection software, for the shop that already inspects rather than the one deciding whether to, is one question with a boring answer: where does the inspection go after the technician signs it. The walk itself does not change much between a paper sheet and a tablet. What changes is whether the red item photographed on a Tuesday is on the screen when the same vehicle comes back in six months, whether the advisory the customer declined is a follow-up list or a line nobody kept, and whether the foreman can say what the bay spends on inspecting against what it gets authorised. This page sets out what the record has to hold for those three questions to have answers, and what it costs to keep the inspection rather than the sheet.
Open the Vehicle inspection checklist Free to use. No account, no card, no trial clock.
Size the inspection before you buy software for it
Points walked, minutes a technician spends, vehicles a day and what the labour hour costs, against the share of inspections that come back red or yellow and how much of each the customer authorises: the free vehicle inspection checklist on this site puts those together and gives the week's cost and the week's authorised work side by side. A shop that knows those two figures buys differently to one that does not.
Keep the finding against the vehicle, with the photo on it
A finding is only worth what the owner can see. The record holds each red and yellow item against the vehicle it was found on, with the technician's photo and note beside it, so the counter conversation is a screen the customer looks at rather than a description they take on trust, and so the same item is still there at the next visit.
Keep what was declined, because that is the next visit's work
Declined work is work with a date on it. The record keeps the advisory the customer said no to against the vehicle, so the yellow belt declined in March is the first thing the counter sees when the car books in for an oil change in September. That single behaviour is most of the return on keeping inspections at all.
What a shop asks before running the Car inspection software
Does car inspection software replace my shop management system? No, and Defectbird does not try to. Your scheduling, parts, labour and invoicing stay where they are. What moves is the inspection: the points walked, the findings, the photos and the authorisation, kept against the vehicle. If you would rather run everything on one system, a full shop management product is the fair choice and we say so on the comparison above.
What does the technician actually do differently? They walk the same sheet and take the photos they were already taking on their phone, but on the vehicle's own record rather than into a camera roll. The saving is not in the bay, it is at the counter and at the next visit: the customer sees the finding, and six months later so does the shop.
Do I need an account to use the checklist? No. The vehicle inspection checklist on this site computes on the page, with no account, no card and no trial clock, and it stays that way. An account is for keeping inspections against vehicles, which is a different job to sizing them.
Will it keep your inspections, beyond the Car inspection software?
Tell us how you inspect today, how many bays and technicians you run, what your sheet covers and where the paper copy ends up, and we will tell you plainly whether Defectbird fits or does not.