Comparison
Fixty vs Tekmetric
Tekmetric is auto repair software rather than a home services tool, and its own FAQ names mobile mechanics among the businesses it supports. That makes this the comparison where the vocabulary matters more than the feature list.
Start with the part that is inconvenient for Fixty. Tekmetric’s estimate FAQ answers the question directly and says they support mobile mechanics alongside single shop businesses and franchises. It is their sentence, it is quoted in the table with its URL, and no honest comparison page can start anywhere else.
It also knows what a repair order is. Half the tools in this comparison are home services products where a car is an unusual kind of address. Tekmetric is not one of them.
What is left is the shape of the thing. Read enough of their site and the same room keeps appearing: bays, a front counter, a shop calendar, a board that splits one job across named technicians, tire racks. None of that is a criticism of Tekmetric. It is a description of the business it was drawn for, and whether it is your business is the actual question.
Tekmetric in their own words
How they position themselves
Auto repair shop management software, built by a former shop owner and sold as one platform for running the shop.
“Tekmetric is an auto repair shop software that helps shop owners provide a better customer experience and run their shop more efficiently. Built by a former shop owner, Tekmetric is your trusted business partner, not another Silicon Valley software.”
tekmetric.com/faq, read August 29, 2026
Who they say it is for
Auto repair shops of every size. Their own estimate FAQ says that set includes mobile mechanics alongside single shop businesses and franchises.
“Yes! We proudly support more than 15,000 shops including mobile mechanics, single shop businesses, and franchises. Tekmetric is cloud-based so you can access Tekmetric from anywhere on any device.”
tekmetric.com/feature/estimate-building, read August 29, 2026
Feature by feature
| Feature | Fixty | Tekmetric |
|---|---|---|
| Built for mobile mechanics The whole product assumes a van, not a front desk. | Yes | Partial “No. It’s a fully native mobile app, built for speed and simplicity on iOS and Android. While it doesn’t include every desktop feature, it’s designed to simplify key workflows, speed up check-ins, streamline inspections, and reduce back-and-forth between tools and workstations.” tekmetric.com/mobile-app, read August 29, 2026 |
| Runs entirely from a phone Estimate, inspection, schedule and payment all work in a phone browser. | Yes | Partial “Tekmetric Mobile is designed for service advisors and technicians, helping your whole team stay productive and focused, from the curb to the bay.” tekmetric.com/mobile-app, read August 29, 2026 |
| Job pipeline board | Yes | Yes “The Job Board lets you see work order cards under Estimates, Work-In-Progress, and Completed jobs columns.” tekmetric.com/post/streamline-mechanic-work-orders-and-workflow-with-tekmetrics-tech-board, read August 29, 2026 |
| Digital estimates and quotes | Yes | Yes “Create professional estimates and get approvals faster with Tekmetric's auto repair estimate software. Save time, boost productivity, and build customer trust with our all-in-one shop management software.” tekmetric.com/feature/estimate-building, read August 29, 2026 |
| Customer approves the estimate by text, line by line The customer opens a link, picks the lines they want, and signs. | Yes | Yes “With Tekmetric, shops can share estimates via text or email with their customers. From there, customers can approve or decline work from their device.” tekmetric.com/feature/estimate-building, read August 29, 2026 |
| Photo vehicle inspections Included on every plan, not an upgrade. | Yes | Yes “Yes! You can create DVIs within our Tekmetric mobile app and then share the vehicle findings via text or email with your customer.” tekmetric.com/feature/digital-vehicle-inspection, read August 29, 2026 |
| Two way SMS with the customer | Yes | Yes “Yes! You can send and receive customer text messages through Tekmetric.” tekmetric.com/feature/two-way-texting, read August 29, 2026 |
| Card payments Stripe, paid from the same link as the estimate. | Yes | Yes “Tekmetric Payments can process credit cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Text-to-Pay.” tekmetric.com/feature/payment-processing, read August 29, 2026 |
| Public booking page | Yes | Partial “Give customers the power to schedule appointments online 24/7. No phone calls required. Tekmetric Marketing connects appointments straight to your automotive shop calendar so you can maximize efficiency, prevent overbookings, and keep bays full without extra effort.” tekmetric.com/feature/scheduling, read August 29, 2026 |
| Route optimization Fixty does not do this. It was advertised once by mistake and the claim was retracted. | No | We looked and could not confirm this. What we looked for: route optimization on Tekmetric Searched on August 29, 2026: tekmetric.com, tekmetric.com/feature/shop-management, tekmetric.com/feature/scheduling, tekmetric.com/mobile-app, tekmetric.com/integrations, tekmetric.com/ai-info, tekmetric.com/post/streamline-mechanic-work-orders-and-workflow-with-tekmetrics-tech-board |
| Parts inventory management Fixty tracks parts on a job, not stock on a shelf. | No | Yes “Inventory management is a Tekmetric feature included in all of our plans.” tekmetric.com/faq, read August 29, 2026 |
| Multi technician teams One mechanic, one workspace. Built solo first on purpose. | No | Yes “As many as you want! Seriously. All your mechanics, technicians, service writers, and managers can access the platform.” tekmetric.com/faq, read August 29, 2026 |
| Tire and wheel shop tools | No | Yes “Yes! Tekmetric's tire software allows shops to track tire inventory and sales all from within the Tekmetric platform.” tekmetric.com/feature/tire-suite, read August 29, 2026 |
| Accounting sync No QuickBooks or Xero integration today. | No | Partial “Yes! The Back Office is a third-party company that partners with Tekmetric to provide accounting integration software called Accounting Link.” tekmetric.com/feature/payment-processing, read August 29, 2026 |
| Free trial A card is collected at signup and charged on day 14. Growth bills immediately. | 14 days on Starter | No “Tekmetric offers free demos but not free trials. However, you can test drive Tekmetric 24/7 with our self-guided tours.” tekmetric.com/faq, read August 29, 2026 |
| Price published without talking to sales | Yes | Yes “We don’t charge by user or by repair order. Every shop gets full access to Tekmetric. Unlimited users, unlimited RO's, unlimited support, no hidden fees.” tekmetric.com/pricing, read August 29, 2026 |
Every cell in the Tekmetric column was read from Tekmetric's own site and is quoted above with the page it came from. The whole record was last re-read on August 29, 2026. Where a cell says we could not confirm something, that means exactly that: we did not find it, which is not the same as it not existing.
What each one costs
Fixty
Starter: $99/mo
14 day free trial. A card is collected at signup and charged on day 14.
Growth: $149/mo
No trial. Billed in full at signup.
Growth + AI: $249/mo
Waitlist only, not purchasable today.
Cancel any time. Access runs to the end of the cycle you already paid for.
Tekmetric
Price published without talking to sales
Yes
“Tekmetric starts at $179 per month when billed annually. More advanced plans are available at $309 per month and $409 per month.”
tekmetric.com/ai-info, read August 29, 2026
Cheapest published plan
Cheapest published monthly price
$179 per month
“Tekmetric starts at $179 per month when billed annually.”
tekmetric.com/ai-info, read August 29, 2026
What you get to try before you buy
Free demo and self guided tours. No free trial.
“Tekmetric offers free demos but not free trials. However, you can test drive Tekmetric 24/7 with our self-guided tours.”
tekmetric.com/faq, read August 29, 2026
When Tekmetric is the better choice
- You work out of a building with a crew. Their Job Board moves work order cards through Estimates, Work in Progress and Completed columns, and the Tech Board splits the jobs inside one order across named technicians. Fixty has no equivalent for dividing a job between people.
- You stock parts. Inventory management is included on every Tekmetric plan rather than sold as an upgrade.
- You sell tires. Tire Suite covers tire inventory and sales inside the platform, which is an entire product line Fixty does not have.
- Your headcount is growing. Tekmetric puts every mechanic, technician, service writer and manager on the platform, with no cap they publish on how many people you add.
What Fixty does not do
Fixty answers no on 5 of the 16 rows above: route optimization, parts inventory management, multi technician teams, tire and wheel shop tools and accounting sync. They are collected here rather than left scattered through the table, because a row you have to hunt for is a row that was hidden.
Route optimization is the one worth saying out loud. Fixty does not plan the driving order of your day. It was advertised once by mistake and the claim was retracted, and 3 of the 6 products compared across this cluster publish a route optimization feature on their own sites: Jobber, Housecall Pro and ServiceTitan.
We looked for one on Tekmetric's own site and could not confirm it, so that cell lists the pages that were opened rather than guessing at an answer.
Tekmetric says yes to mobile mechanics in its own words
Their estimate page carries a plain question and a plain answer: yes, they support mobile mechanics, listed in the same sentence as single shop businesses and franchises, and they note the product is cloud based so it can be reached from anywhere on any device. That is quoted in the comparison table above with the page and the date it was read.
Take that seriously before reading anything else here. A competitor naming your trade on its own site is stronger evidence than any comparison page, including this one, and if the software fits then the fact that a different company wrote a page about you changes nothing.
What that sentence does not tell you is which parts of the product were built for the way you work, which is what the rest of this page is about.
The vocabulary is a building
Their Job Board moves work order cards through Estimates, Work In Progress and Completed columns, and their Tech Board splits the jobs inside one order across named technicians. Their scheduling product connects online bookings to a shop calendar so bays stay full. Their tire product tracks tire inventory and sales. Every one of those sentences is theirs and quoted in the table.
Their own mobile app page is the clearest statement of the split. They say the app does not include every desktop feature, and that it is designed for service advisors and technicians, from the curb to the bay. That is why the phone workflow row reads Partial: the phone is a companion to the platform rather than the whole of it, and both of the roles they name are roles in a building.
In a van the curb is the bay, the front counter is your phone, and the person splitting the job across technicians is you. Fixty is built for that arrangement and is genuinely worse than Tekmetric at every arrangement with more people in it.
Accounting is a third party product, and the trial is not offered
Tekmetric’s accounting link is provided by a third party company that partners with them, in their own description, which is why that row is recorded as Partial rather than Yes. It is still more than Fixty offers, because Fixty has no accounting integration at all today, first party or otherwise.
On trials their FAQ is unusually direct: they offer free demos but not free trials, and point instead at self guided tours available at any hour. That is a sourced no rather than a cell nobody could fill, and it is quoted in the table.
Fixty Starter at $99/mo runs a 14 day free trial: a card is collected at signup and charged on day 14, and you can cancel before then.
That is the trade. Tekmetric wants to show you the product; Fixty wants you to try it on the next job in your calendar and cancel if it does not hold up.
Questions people ask about Tekmetric
- Does Tekmetric work for mobile mechanics?
- By their own answer, yes. Their estimate FAQ says they support mobile mechanics alongside single shop businesses and franchises, and notes the product is cloud based and reachable from any device. That sentence is quoted with its URL in the table on this page. What their product assumes is still a shop: a Job Board of work order columns, a Tech Board that splits a job across named technicians, a shop calendar and a tire product.
- Does Tekmetric have a free trial?
- No, and they say so themselves. Their FAQ says Tekmetric offers free demos but not free trials, and points at self guided tours you can take at any hour instead. That is one of the rare cells in this comparison where a no is quoted rather than inferred. Fixty Starter at $99/mo runs a 14 day free trial: a card is collected at signup and charged on day 14, and you can cancel before then.
- What does Fixty do that Tekmetric does not?
- It runs the whole job from a phone for one person rather than splitting the work between a desktop platform and a companion app, the customer approves the estimate line by line from a text link and signs it, and photo vehicle inspections are on every plan. What Tekmetric does that Fixty does not: inventory management included on every plan, a tire product, and as many users on the platform as you want.
Try it on your next job
Fixty runs from a phone: write the estimate at the curb, text it, let the customer approve the lines they want, and take the card before you pack up.
Try Fixty free for 14 days