For EV repair

EV repair job management software

What you inspect changes. What you sell changes. How often the same car comes back changes. What a job record has to hold does not.

There is very little EV specific software, and most of what claims to be is ordinary shop software with a battery icon on the pricing page. It is worth saying at the top that Fixty is not EV specific either.

What Fixty is: a job record that does not assume the work. The checklist is yours to write, the services are yours to name and price, and the vehicle is whatever you say it is. On a combustion car that flexibility is a convenience. On an electric one it is the difference between software you can use and software that spends half its screen asking about oil.

The rest of this page is about the three places EV work actually diverges, and about the list of things this product does not know.

An EV job, start to finish

Shorter than the diesel version and longer than it looks, because the diagnostic half happens in tooling that is not Fixty and the record has to survive that gap.

  1. The booking

    The request arrives from your booking page or as a text. The vehicle goes on the customer record with year, make, model, plate and VIN, which is the same set of fields whether the thing has a fuel filler or a charge port.

  2. Before the panels come off

    You run your own inspection template. The steps you take to make the vehicle safe to work on become rows you tick and photograph, in your order, so the record shows the sequence and not just the outcome.

  3. The estimate

    Built from your service library at your labor rate. EV work skews toward diagnosis and labor rather than parts, and the estimate does not care: a line is a description, a quantity and a price.

  4. Approval

    The customer opens the link on their phone, approves the lines they want and declines the ones they do not, and the job is set to approved on its own.

  5. Handing it back

    Work order to invoice with every line carried over, paid through a Stripe checkout page. The inspection stays attached to the job, which is the part you will want a year from now.

What actually earns its keep on EV work

Each row is an axis Fixty is measured on across this site. Nothing here is EV specific, which is exactly the argument: the parts that transfer are the parts worth paying for.

Photo vehicle inspections

Included on every plan, not an upgrade.

The inspection is the piece EV work leans on hardest, because so much of what you find is invisible to the owner and impossible to describe over the phone.

Digital estimates and quotes

Diagnosis heavy jobs are mostly labor, and a labor line with a description a customer can read is what stops the conversation about why it cost that much.

Customer approves the estimate by text, line by line

The customer opens a link, picks the lines they want, and signs.

Approving line by line matters more when half the estimate is investigation and the customer wants to authorize the first half before committing to the second.

Runs entirely from a phone

Estimate, inspection, schedule and payment all work in a phone browser.

Mobile EV work is mostly diagnosis, software and twelve volt systems, which happen in a driveway rather than on a lift.

Card payments

Stripe, paid from the same link as the estimate.

A payment link and no card terminal, which suits work that often happens somewhere other than a building you own.

Job pipeline board

A board that keeps a stalled job visible, because parts availability is the reason a lot of these jobs sit still.

Public booking page

EV owners search, find and book. Being bookable from a link is worth more than being findable by phone.

What Fixty does not know about an electric car

Three of these are rows Fixty loses on every comparison table on this site. The rest are specific and, for this kind of work, more important.

  • Parts inventory management: no

    Fixty tracks parts on a job, not stock on a shelf.

  • Multi technician teams: no

    One mechanic, one workspace. Built solo first on purpose.

  • Accounting sync: no

    No QuickBooks or Xero integration today.

  • No battery data. Fixty does not connect to a vehicle, a scan tool or a charging network, so state of health, cell voltages and charge history are not in it unless you typed them into a note.
  • No OEM procedures, wiring diagrams or EV labor times. The hours on your estimate are the hours you decided on.
  • No certification or qualification records. There is nowhere to store your high voltage training, and no reminder when it expires.
  • The vehicle record has an engine field, left over from a combustion assumption. Put the drive unit in it, or leave it empty. We would rather tell you it is there than pretend the product was designed around your cars.

None of that is on a roadmap we are willing to promise you. If what you needed was software that already understands the vehicle, this is not it.

The checklist is not the same checklist

This is the first thing that breaks when an EV shop tries ordinary shop software, and it is usually the last thing the sales page mentions.

The inspection Fixty seeds a new account with is a combustion checklist. Engine oil level and condition. Drive belts. Radiator and heater hoses. Automatic transmission fluid. Exhaust system and catalytic converter. On an electric car most of those rows are dead weight, and a report where half the rows come back skipped teaches your customer to skim the whole thing.

So you do the same thing every EV shop ends up doing, except that here you do it yourself instead of raising a support ticket: you build your own template once, in the settings, and pick it on every job. Rows that do not apply simply are not on it. Rows nobody else has are.

  • Items you define, in your order, each marked checked and ok, may need attention or needs immediate attention, each able to carry photographs.
  • The steps you take to make a vehicle safe to work on can be rows on the sheet, ticked and photographed in sequence, which turns your own procedure into a record instead of a habit.
  • Inspections are included on every plan rather than sold as an upgrade, so the template you build is not something you lose by staying on the cheaper tier.
  • The finished report goes to the customer as a link, with your photographs, which is how you sell work to somebody who has been told for years that an electric car needs nothing.

Read the second point carefully, because the wording is deliberate. Fixty does not verify anything about a high voltage system and cannot tell you a pack is de-energised. It is a record, not a control. What it gives you is the ability to show, months later, exactly what you did and in what order, with pictures and a date, which is a genuinely useful thing to be able to show and is not the same as being made safe by software.

Fewer fluid services, fewer reasons to come back

The business problem in EV repair is not the work. It is the gap between visits. A combustion shop gets a customer back three times a year on fluids alone and sells the real work off the back of those visits. Take those away and the same customer disappears for a year, or forever, and the next thing they need gets done by whoever they thought of first.

Fixty does not solve that either, but it has the pieces you would use to work at it, and they are worth naming honestly:

  • Recurring service reminders, on the Growth plan. A reminder is set against a customer, optionally against one of their vehicles, on an interval you choose. Fixty has no idea what an EV service interval should be and will not invent one, so the interval is yours.
  • Review requests, also on Growth, which matter more here because a lot of EV owners are choosing a shop by search rather than by a neighbour.
  • A booking page that is a link, so the reminder you send has somewhere for the customer to land.
  • The vehicle history, so when they do come back you know what you did last time without asking them to remember it.

One caveat on the first of those: reminders run on an interval of days. Not miles, not charge cycles, not anything the car reports. It is a prompt to get in touch, not a maintenance schedule, and treating it as more than that will make you look wrong in front of a customer.

What an EV shop should ask any software before paying for it

Take these to us and to everything else you are looking at. The answers are more useful than a feature list, and three of the four are answered no here.

  • Can I delete an inspection item I will never use, or only hide it? In Fixty the template is yours, so a row you do not want does not exist.
  • Does it read anything off the vehicle? Fixty does not. If that is what you came for, keep looking.
  • Does it know EV service intervals or labor times? Fixty does not, and would be guessing if it said otherwise.
  • What happens to the record when I stop paying? Cancel any time and access runs to the end of the cycle you already paid for.

The reason to ask them in that order is that the first one is cheap for a vendor to say yes to and the middle two are the ones a demo will talk around. A product that answers all four straight is telling you something about how it will behave when you have a problem.

Questions people ask before they sign up

Does Fixty read battery health or pull data from the car?

No. Nothing connects to a vehicle, a scan tool, a charger or a telematics platform. Every number in the record was typed in by a person.

Can I build an EV specific inspection?

Yes, and you will need to. Templates are yours to define: your items, your order, each one rated and able to carry photographs. The template Fixty seeds a new account with is a combustion checklist and is meant to be replaced.

Does it have EV labor times or repair procedures?

No. There is no labor guide, no OEM procedure library and no wiring diagrams. The hours you charge are the hours you decided on.

Is any part of Fixty actually EV specific?

No. The templates, the service library and the vehicle record are general purpose, which is why they fit. If you want software that already knows your cars, this is not it, and we would rather say so on this page than in your second month.

I work on both electric and combustion vehicles.

That is the common case and it needs nothing special. Keep more than one inspection template and pick the right one on the job. The customer and vehicle records are the same either way.

What does it cost?

Starter is $99 per month with a 14 day free trial, and a card is collected at signup and charged on day 14. Inspections are included at that level. Growth is $149 per month, billed in full at signup, and adds the recurring service reminders and review requests this page leans on.

Build the inspection first

The fastest way to know whether this fits is to build the EV inspection you actually run, then put one car through it and send the report to the customer.

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