Prove what you found, and what they agreed to.

Bodyshop software for accident repair centres. Timestamped photographs, recorded customer authorisation and audit records for when the supplementary is queried.

Free plan to start. UK-built and UK-hosted. ICO registered.

Autera does not estimate, and it is not trying to take that off you. Keep the platform your work providers sit in, keep the way jobs come in, keep the relationships. What Autera covers is everything the estimate never sees: the corrosion behind the wing, the customer saying yes to the extra hours, how long the car really sat on the ramp, and the file you produce when any of it is questioned six weeks later. The estimate records what was agreed at the start. This records what actually happened.

FOR REPAIRERS

Built around the query, not the quote

Four things every accident repair centre has been caught out by.

Photographs that are still evidence in six weeks

Stamped with the time they were taken and attached to the job, not sitting in a gallery on a technician phone. Before and after on the same vehicle, shareable as a link when a work provider asks to see it.

Extra work approved before you touch it

Send the additional damage to the customer from the job. They approve or decline on their phone and the decision is recorded against the vehicle with the date. The argument about what was agreed stops being a memory test.

Real time on the vehicle, not a guess

Technicians clock on and off, so key-to-key reflects what happened rather than what was written up on Friday. The wall board puts every live job on a screen in the shop.

The audit file is a search, not an afternoon

Documents, certificates and photographs live on the vehicle record. Certificates carry your branding, and the trade account paying for the work can carry theirs.

THE REPAIR

From arrival to the query weeks later

1

Vehicle arrives and goes on the record

Reg lookup fills the vehicle in. The first photographs go on before anything is touched, stamped with the time.

2

Strip reveals what the estimate did not

Photograph the corrosion, the hidden damage, the part nobody could see. It attaches to the job rather than a camera roll.

3

The customer authorises the extra work

Sent from the job, approved or declined on their phone, recorded with the date and time against the vehicle.

4

The query arrives three weeks later

Open the job. Photographs, notes, authorisation and dates in one place. The answer takes seconds.

What changes

Now

  • Photographs on a technician phone that later gets wiped
  • Extra work agreed over the counter on a Tuesday
  • Key-to-key written up from memory on Friday
  • Audit file assembled from four places over an afternoon

With Autera

  • Timestamped images attached to the job and the vehicle
  • Approval or decline recorded on the job with the date
  • Clock-on and clock-off giving real time on the vehicle
  • Documents and certificates already on the vehicle record
WHY AUTERA

Every bodyshop has lost money on work it could not prove.

Not because the work was wrong. Because the photograph was on a phone that got wiped, the authorisation was a conversation at the counter, and by the time anyone asked, the only honest answer was that you were fairly sure.

Autera keeps the evidence as you go, on the job, without anyone stopping to file anything. It costs nothing to try and it does not touch how you estimate.

Try it on your next repair.
FAQ

Accident repair software FAQ

See how the photo side works on the document sharing page, check the pricing, or read our live backup and restore record.

No, and it does not try to. Estimating for insurer work belongs in the platform your work providers already sit in, and nothing about that changes. Autera covers the part the estimate does not: what your technicians found once the panel came off, what the customer agreed to, how long the car was actually on site, and the records you produce when any of it is questioned.

Every photograph is stamped with the time it was taken and attached to the job and the vehicle, not dropped into a shared gallery. When a query lands weeks later you open the job and the images are in order, alongside the notes and the authorisation record. No hunting through a technician camera roll or a WhatsApp thread that has long since scrolled away.

You send the additional work to the customer from the job. They approve or decline it on their phone and the decision is recorded with the date and time against that vehicle. If it later turns into a disagreement about what was agreed, the answer is on the record rather than in somebody recollection of a Tuesday conversation at the counter.

Yes. Technicians clock on and off jobs, so you get real time on the vehicle rather than a figure written up on Friday afternoon. The wall board puts every live job on a screen in the shop, so the office can see what is on the ramp without walking out to ask.

The documents, certificates and photographs for a vehicle live on that vehicle record, so producing a file for an audit is a search rather than an afternoon. Certificates carry your own branding, and where the payer is a bodyshop or an insurer, theirs as well.

Customers can be marked as insurance, bodyshop, dealer or garage accounts rather than individuals, which keeps trade work on longer payment terms separate from retail. The vehicle owner still gets the customer-facing updates and the paperwork goes where it is meant to go.

You export it. We also publish a live status page showing every backup and every restore test we run, counted from the system rather than typed into a marketing page. A repairer trusting years of job history to a supplier deserves evidence rather than a promise.

GET STARTED

Start with one repair.

Photograph the next strip-down through Autera and see what the file looks like when somebody asks.

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