Repair Shop Calendar

Repair Shop Calendar is a calendar for repair shops, dealing with cars, bikes, bicycles, home equipment, cloths and shoes. It`s perfect to plan working hours, keep track of scheduled appointments and what service bay technicians will be using.

Pros: Basically a calendar synchronizing program that lets to do lists of teams to be synchronized. Teams work on work-orders, coordinated by masters. Then at the top level of a chief and his masters. To do actions are related to specific work orders based on customer requirements. As work orders are closed customers can comment on the work and viewed by the head of the repair shop. Customer contacts are managed by the program too as is the income from the repair jobs completed.

Work order data base, customer database and the appointment schedules are maintained in an internal database. Back up of which can be specified as required, multiple times a day too. One click restore is available to recover from any problems due to hardware failure or virus attacks on the machines.

Consolidated view of the order status, completion etc can be obtained several different ways for any time period. Two views are possible horizontal or vertical time lines or a table view for a top level look.

Export of data can be done in several formats including Excel, text, html or xml. It’s possible to sync data from Outlook. Output to USB devices also is built in. A networked version of the application is also available.

Cons: Whenever one switches over to any such new packages, usually, there is a need for using existing data that was in a older application. Thus import of legacy data is fairly important in most cases. No import facilities are available, assumption being all new starts will be from scratch or from a older version of the same program thus obviating the need for data import.

Generally a well designed application, reasonably easy to use. Actually, could be used by teams, other than repair teams too, that need to coordinate their work. Overall the package is at 4 star level.

Repair Shop Calendar is a calendar for repair shops, dealing with cars, bikes, bicycles, home equipment, cloths and shoes. It's perfect for repair technicians to plan their working hours so that the orders do not overlap, keep track of scheduled appointments and what service bay technicians will be using. It'll store the information about the clients, such as their address, telephone, email and comments about a done repair job or a problem. There are two viewing modes in the program: calendar with a vertical and horizontal timeline and a table view to help you get the general overview of the jobs. It's possible to create reminders to alert technicians about the things they should do. Available is an automatic search and auto-field filling for a client, who has already been entered to the database. You can view the information about payments, daily income for any day at any moment when you need it. For those people, who work in Microsoft Outlook, it's possible to synch data. Export of data is available to different formats: iCal, XLS, TXT, HTML, XML, PDF for its adaptation for other programs. The software simplifies information transmission between different platforms by implementing iCalendar RFC 2445 standard support. This format allows you to exchange scheduling data between your application and the following calendars - Apple iCal, Google Calendar, Windows Calendar, Microsoft Exchange Server and Novell GroupWise. In case of crashes or virus attacks, there is an auto backup function with a possibility to remove old archives automatically. There is an inexpensive version of the program for workgroups, allowing unlimited number of users to work simultaneously over the network. You pay for the program only the first time and get all new versions of this program for FREE and for a lifetime!