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What a few approval points are worth in your shop
Enter your weekly ticket count, what your technicians typically write up per inspection and how much approval you expect photos to add.
Free tools
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.
Shop owners get sold on inspection software with averages from other people's shops. These calculators do the opposite: you put in your car count, your recommended dollars per ticket and your technician hours, and you see what the math says for your building. Both run in the browser, nothing is stored, and you can change a number and watch the result move.
The first one is about money, specifically what a few extra approval points are worth once you account for gross profit rather than sale price. The second is about time, because the fastest way to kill a photo inspection program is to add fifteen minutes of unpaid work to a technician who is already flat rate and already busy. Run both before you decide, and bring the second one to the conversation with your lead technician.
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Enter your weekly ticket count, what your technicians typically write up per inspection and how much approval you expect photos to add.
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Size the weekly hours a full digital inspection program takes before you promise your technicians it will only take a minute.
Working document
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.
Every owner reading this already does the arithmetic by hand, usually on the back of a parts invoice on a Friday afternoon. Car count times the recommended dollars a technician wrote up per inspection, a guess at the share that gets approved, then a haircut because the rotors cost eighty percent of what the customer pays for them. The same pencil work turns up when you divide hours billed by hours paid to get technician efficiency, or divide labor sales by hours sold to find your effective labor rate. Asking for an email address before showing you math you were going to scribble out anyway would be a strange way to start.
So both tools run in the browser, nothing is stored, and there is no account. They are worth something even if you never send an inspection link from your shop. The approval calculator tells you what a single point of approval on your recommended work is worth against your own blended parts and labor gross profit, and the time planner tells you how many technician hours a fifteen minute courtesy inspection with photos takes off your floor each week. Print both, take them to the Monday meeting, and let your lead technician argue with the minutes per vehicle. That argument is the useful part, and it does not cost anything.
A calculator gives you an estimate; your closed tickets give you the truth. Bring one month of recommended dollars and approved dollars to a short demo and we will show you where photo evidence moves the second number. You will also see what changes for the advisor sending the link, which is the part the spreadsheet leaves out.