One paid plan
Every worksheet on this site is free forever, worked figures and all, with no account and no trial clock: the answer is never behind a login because the car is on the lift whether or not the shop signed up. Defectbird Pro is the record behind the worksheet. It keeps each inspection against the vehicle it was run on, the customer who owns it and the technician who signed it, with the photos, the red and yellow findings and what was authorised, so a declined advisory is a follow-up list rather than a line on a sheet nobody kept.
Free
$0 Free to use. No account, no card, no trial clock.
- Work the inspection sheet on the page, free, as often as you like
- Print the walked sheet or the cost comparison, free
- Reuse your own wording for the advisory instead of retyping it
Defectbird Pro
$29 per seat, per month
- Everything in the free plan
- Download the defect list as a file to hand or send to the vehicle owner
- Your inspection sheets and defect lists without our name on them
- Save a walked inspection and open it again when the vehicle comes back
- Your shop name and logo on every sheet the customer sees
- Take every inspection, photo and defect line out at once
- Add a vehicle and start filing every inspection against it
- See every inspection, what it found and what was authorised in one list
- Every inspection kept with its date, its technician and the photos taken
- A seat for each technician, so the sheet carries who signed it
- Take the whole inspection record out whenever you want
- Send the defect list to the vehicle owner from inside the record
- Connect your own Stripe account and keep the money in it
- Take the authorised work's deposit on the defect list itself
- Connect QuickBooks or Xero once, from your account page
- Push the authorised work to your books instead of retyping it
Defectbird Pro is $29 per seat per month, billed monthly, and renews each month at the same price until you cancel. The price, the seat count and the renewal date are shown before you pay and again on every receipt from Ellul Solutions Ltd. Cancel from your account page in one click, no email and no phone call. Your plan runs to the end of the month you have paid for, your inspections stay readable and exportable after it ends, and we take no further payment.
Online payments: Stripe's processing fee plus a 1% platform fee per payment, deducted before your payout.
Should you just use your shop management system?
If your shop management system already does inspections the way your technicians will actually use them, keep it. Defectbird is not trying to run your bays, your parts or your invoicing, and a product that does all of that and inspections is a fair choice for a shop that wants one screen.
Defectbird does one thing: the inspection and its record. The free checklist is free forever and needs no account, and Pro is $29 per seat per month for the shops that want the inspections kept rather than the whole ticket moved.