Onyx Garage is Onyx Software's flagship product and is borne out of many years experience working both within the motor trade and the software industry. The design goal of Onyx was to make a complete yet simple to use invoicing system for independent motor repair garages, where the focus was on making the production of invoices and estimates as quick, easy, accurate and efficient as possible. We have resisted adding a multitude of additional features that experience has shown don't get used; you're in the business of selling and fixing cars, not data input and analysis, and we feel that we have got the balance right with Onyx.

At its heart, Onyx Garage is an invoice system that is tried and tested and is in daily use in hundreds of garages across the UK and even in some other countries. But it has lots more to offer, Onyx has an integrated visual diary that you can use to book jobs or allocate work between mechanics, it has a task diary so you can easily set it up to remind you to print account statements or so you don’t forget the meeting with the bank manager. Once you’ve created an estimate, you can convert it to a job in one click, then convert the job to an invoice when the work’s done with another click, no need to re-enter the same information multiple times.

Onyx is designed to work with customer accounts, but if you don’t want to use accounts, then you don’t have to. Using accounts allows you to capture your customer’s data so that you can write to them, see how much they’ve spent with you, offer discount, see their account balance, send them statements, remind them about upcoming MOTs and services. The list goes on.

We’ve also looked at how Onyx can help you, have you ever created an estimate for a customer, then when they come to have the work done you either forget that you’ve quoted, or you can’t find the quote? With Onyx, as soon as you enter the registration number of the vehicle, it looks for any current estimates and allows you to import the details into the new invoice, this way you don’t charge more than you said (or worse, less than you said), and you customer has one less thing to get upset about.

Do your mechanics forget to add common parts, like sundries for example? If so, you can set Onyx to automatically prompt you to add these common parts to all new invoices/estimates/jobs. You can then simply confirm you want them or ignore the prompt and carry on.

Do you send out reminder letters for MOTs and services? These are a valuable way of keeping in touch with customers but they only work if you remember to update the data. With Onyx you can assign an action, such as updating an MOT due date to an item of labour or a part. So, for example, you could add an action to update the vehicle’s MOT due date whenever you sell an MOT Test.

Then there are the "Bells and Whistles," Onyx lets you send SMS messages to remind customers of upcoming bookings or to let them know their car is ready. You can email invoices or quotes, or just information about promotions and the like. There’s an insurance invoice wizard and loads of different financial reports.

We currently provide all purchasers with free lifetime email based support and assistance and program updates. This means that you don’t have to worry about future costs. Although rarely needed, we will also call you and connect to your PC if you have a problem that cannot be resolved via email.

We can import data from many other systems at very reasonable rates, so if your current system is getting old or playing up, give us a copy of your data (we will deal with your data in the strictest confidence and will not release it to any one and we will not retain it for longer than necessary), and we will get back to you with a no-obligation quote on transferring the data.

So if you’re ready to try Onyx feel free to try our free trial version available from our downloads page, or if you’re ready to purchase then see our purchase page, and if you’re not sure but would like longer to see if Onyx is right for you then you might want to consider our start up offer.

SBE Edition. The Small Business Edition is the same great software but with a couple of restrictions that allow us to sell it at a discount to smaller businesses. The SBE Version cannot be networked and is only sold to garages with no more than 3 employees (including the owner).

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