Comparisons

Fixty compared with other shop software

One page per product, written against that product's own published pages, with the sentence we read and the date we read it.

Every product on this list is a reasonable thing for a mechanic to buy. Some of them are built for a shop with a front desk and a crew, some for a home service trade that happens to include cars, and one of them is built for one person working out of a van. The point of a comparison page is to tell you which of those you are, not to tell you that we win.

So each page here does the same three things. It states what the other product is genuinely for, in the words of the company that makes it. It puts Fixty next to it on the axes a mobile mechanic cares about, with the rows Fixty loses shown as losses. And it says plainly which of the two we would tell you to buy for the work you described.

A claim about somebody else on these pages carries a link to the page it came from, the sentence quoted verbatim, and the date it was read. Where we looked and could not confirm something, the cell says we looked and could not confirm it, because a blank cell reads as a no and a no we cannot support is the thing that got a false claim onto this site once already.

The comparisons

Each page answers one question and only that question.

6 pages

How to read one of these pages

Start at the table. Every row is one axis, every cell about the other product is either sourced or unfound, and there is no third state. A sourced cell prints the URL, the quote and the date under it, so you can check it in one click rather than trusting a tick.

An unfound cell says we looked and could not confirm this, and lists what we searched. That is a weaker statement than a no, deliberately, because most of the time it means the company does not publish the answer rather than that the answer is no. If a row matters enough to decide your purchase, ask them directly and take their answer over ours.

Then read the two sections below the table. They are the part that could not be moved to a different competitor without becoming false, and they are usually where the real difference lives: who the product assumes is standing at the counter, what happens when a job runs across three days, what you do on a Saturday when a customer wants to pay by card in a driveway.

What a comparison page here will never do

It will not quote a competitor price we did not read on that company's own site on a stated date. Prices move, plans get renamed, and a stale number in our favour is a lie with a friendly face on it.

It will not compare a monthly price against somebody else's annual price without saying so. If the only number a company publishes is the annual rate, the page says that is the basis it is quoting.

It will not use a star rating, an aggregate score or a badge we invented. There is no rating here to substantiate, so there is no rating markup on these pages either.

And it will not pretend the answer is always Fixty. Fixty is one mechanic, one workspace, run from a phone. A shop with three bays and a service writer is not the customer for it, and the comparison pages say so in the same words we would use on the phone.

The rows Fixty loses

These come straight out of the same feature registry the comparison tables are built from, so this list cannot flatter us without the tables changing too. If one of them is the thing your week depends on, buy the product that has it.

  • Route optimizationFixty does not do this. It was advertised once by mistake and the claim was retracted.
  • Parts inventory managementFixty tracks parts on a job, not stock on a shelf.
  • Multi technician teamsOne mechanic, one workspace. Built solo first on purpose.
  • Tire and wheel shop tools
  • Accounting syncNo QuickBooks or Xero integration today.

What is on the site today

Fixty is a CRM for one mobile mechanic. Estimates a customer approves by text, photo inspections, scheduling and card payments, all from a phone.