A digital vehicle inspection is a photograph of the problem, sent to somebody who is not standing next to the car, with a price next to it. Everything else about the category follows from that sentence: if the customer cannot see the split boot, the deferred work stays deferred.
Which means the honest question is not who has an inspection feature. Six of the seven products on this page have something you could call one. The question is whether what they have is a vehicle inspection at all, and whether it is a product the vendor has actually built out or a checklist form with the fields renamed.
Fixty publishes this page and sits fourth on it. Three vendors above it run a dedicated digital vehicle inspection product with its own page and its own documentation. Fixty includes photo inspections on every plan and has never sold them as a product line. That is a real difference and the criteria below are written so that it shows.
Three of these inspections are not of vehicles
Put the four inspection sentences next to each other and the split is obvious. Tekmetric: create digital vehicle inspections in the mobile app and share the vehicle findings by text or email. Shopmonkey: replace paper checklists with digital vehicle inspections. AutoLeap: send vehicle inspection reports by text or email.
Then: Jobber, customisable job forms and checklists for site inspections and assessments. Housecall Pro, dropdowns, checkboxes, pass and fail flags and required steps. ServiceTitan, fire alarm inspection report software delivering digital NFPA inspections.
The second group is not worse software. It is software for a different job, and every one of those three companies says so on their own page without any prompting from us. If a comparison anywhere tells you all six do digital vehicle inspections, that comparison did not open the pages.
Why Fixty is fourth on its own list
Fixty's inspection works: photos, on a phone, sent to the customer, on every plan including the cheapest one, with nothing gated behind an upgrade. For one mechanic that is a fair deal and it is the entire claim being made.
What Fixty does not have is what criterion two is measuring. Tekmetric, Shopmonkey and AutoLeap each run a dedicated inspection page with its own explanation and its own answers to the questions shops ask, and shops have been running inspections through them for years. Depth of that kind does not show up in a feature grid and it shows up immediately when something goes wrong on a Friday afternoon.
The narrow place Fixty genuinely wins is also worth naming precisely, because it is narrow. One mechanic, working out of a van, doing the inspection and the selling from the same phone, on a published month to month price, with the inspection included rather than added. Outside that description, three products on this page are the better buy and this list puts them where they belong.
The question this page could not answer
For every one of the six competitors, the same question came up and could not be closed from their own pages: which plan does the inspection come with. Vendors commonly place inspections above the entry tier, and none of the pages we read stated where the line is.
That matters more than the headline price. An entry plan without inspections is not an entry plan for this category, and the difference between the cheapest tier and the one that carries the feature can be larger than the gap between two vendors.
So the practical advice is unglamorous. Take the published entry price from each entry above as a floor rather than a quote, and make the first question on any call be which plan includes the digital vehicle inspection and what that plan costs on a month to month basis.
If Fixty is the one that fits
Fixty is a CRM for one mobile mechanic: estimates approved by text, photo inspections, scheduling and card payments, all from a phone. Starter is $99/mo with a 14 day free trial, and if one of the products above suits your work better, buy that one instead.
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