GARAGE AND BODYWORK
The quote is sent by message. The invoice is typed in the evening. In between, the margin evaporates.
You repair cars, not spreadsheets.
In a garage, the same information is entered four times: over the phone, on the quote, on the work order, and on the invoice. LYVIA connects your tools so that the accepted quote becomes the invoice without being retyped, that the ordered parts end up on the right car, and that the customer receives a QR-bill which they pay by scanning. From afar, from Fribourg. The diagnosis is free of charge.
Your week as it is
A customer calls. You estimate on the spot, then in writing. They accept. The car arrives, parts are ordered, time is blocked, work is done. Then one evening, the invoice. Each arrow below represents a re-entry.
What costs the garage is not the repair, it is the wait in the middle and the entries on either side of it.
Where does it break down? In a garage
The quote accepted by message
It lives in a phone. No one knows at night if it has been invoiced, or with the right parts.
Parts ordered separately
Ordered from the supplier, received, installed, and sometimes forgotten on the invoice. That's margin that goes away with the car.
Hours noted on the whiteboard
Erased on Friday. What was actually done on Tuesday is no longer found.
The evening invoice
Retyped after closing, sent without QR-bill, paid when the client remembers. Then chased manually.
This isn't an IT problem. It's your Saturday spent retyping your week.
What we connect first
The quote becomes the repair order, then the invoice, without re-entry. The ordered parts are linked to the vehicle. The QR-bill is sent on the same day and payment is reconciled automatically.
Your tools remain yours: the garage software, invoicing, banking. They share information without you.
What it changes in practice
The invoice is sent on the day of return.
With a QR-bill that the client scans. Payment comes in by itself; if necessary, the reminder goes out alone as well.
No missing parts
What is ordered for a car is billed to that car. No more margin lost in the trunk.
Knowledge no longer fits in one head
Rare tasks, closing procedures, special orders: filmed in three-minute capsules, stored at your place.
We find you
Updated Google listing, feedback requested after each return, website answering "how much does…". Clients search first, call afterward.
Frequently asked questions
What garagists ask us
Should we change our garage software?
Rarely. We connect what you have. If a change is necessary, it's the conclusion of the diagnosis, not the starting point.
And parts from multiple suppliers?
Each order is linked to the repair order, regardless of the supplier. What is installed is billed.
We are only three people. Is it worth it?
With three people, every hour of re-entry is visible on the margin, and it's the boss who does it in the evening. That's exactly where it pays off.
Show us an estimate and the invoice that came out of it
The diagnosis is free. We follow a real repair from the call to collection and show you where the information was re-entered, and what can run on its own.