Working document
The digital vehicle inspection rollout checklist
Everything a shop has to decide, install and say out loud before the first inspection link goes to a customer, and what to check every week afterward.
Free resources
Resources for shops selling work with photos
Free tools, comparisons and a working checklist for independent repair shops that want more of their recommended work approved.
Everything on this page was written for the person who has to explain a two millimeter brake pad to somebody who has never looked under a car. The calculators size the money and the hours, the comparison pages answer where InspectBay fits next to the platforms shops evaluate, and the rollout checklist covers the decisions that make a photo program stick past week three.
None of it requires an account. Take the checklist to your Monday meeting, run the time planner with your lead technician before you promise anything, and use the approval calculator with your own recommended dollars rather than an average from somebody else's shop. If you want the long form articles on inspection photos, estimate law and shop numbers, they are in Bay Notes.
Free tools
Calculators for the numbers that run a repair shop
Two free tools for shop owners and service advisors who want to size the return on photo inspections and the bay time they actually cost.
Comparisons
InspectBay compared with the other tools on your shortlist
InspectBay is the photo inspection and approval layer for an independent repair shop that already has a shop management system it does not want to replace.
Main guide
How to Shoot Brake, Tire, and Fluid Photos a Customer Can Read
It settles how to shoot and caption every brake, tire and fluid photo so a customer looking at a phone can see the wear and decide without a phone call.
Magazine
Bay Notes
Inspections, estimates, parts, diagnostics and the working economics of an independent auto repair shop in the US.
About
Who writes all of this
A short page on who writes these inspection guides and shop calculators, the years they spent around independent repair bays and service counters, and why every page here comes back to a clear photo of a worn brake pad.
See an inspection land on a customer phone
The checklist and the calculators cover the decisions you make before the first photo. Watching a red graded rear brake item go out, priced line by line, covers the rest. Book a short walkthrough and we will use a vehicle and a price sheet that look like yours, and everything on this page stays free either way.