Maintenance Menus
Brand-specific maintenance menus for every store, kept current from your own repair orders. New op codes land on their own, every line shows the labor rate it really earns, and the spiffs ride on the menu item.
Included in Essential, $349 per store per month. Every tier above it contains this one.
The Problem
The DMS keeps issuing new op codes. Prices change at the counter and never make it back to the sheet. A line written years ago at half an hour for a few dollars is still being quoted, and nobody notices it earns a fraction of the door rate.
A menu is only worth quoting from if it reflects what the store is billing today and what each line really earns.
What It Covers
On every line
Checked on every line
For your people
Every time new op codes show up on your repair orders, they are added to the menu automatically. You stop finding out months later that the drive has been selling services nobody ever put on the menu.
Each line shows the effective labor rate it really bills, in red when it sits under your target. The target starts at your posted door rate, and the Should Be and Gap columns show how far off each line is. Try a different target as a what-if without changing a single price.
Each rooftop carries its own brand-specific menu with its own tax, shop supply and labor settings. A store selling two brands keeps two menus, and nothing from one bleeds into the other.
Give any menu item an advisor spiff and a technician spiff. The commodities report totals what each person has earned as those services sell, so nobody rebuilds it in a spreadsheet at month end.
Codes that arrive without a home are listed with a category picker for the people who can edit the menu. Take a code off the menu on purpose and it stays off. A code that arrives while someone is editing is never deleted by their save.
Already have a menu price file? Upload it, review the rows in the editor, then save. You can also paste rows straight from a spreadsheet. Download the finished menu as a PDF or Excel file whenever you need it.
Want your menu prices next to the shops down the road? That lives in Competitive Intelligence.
How It Works
On Dealertrack we pull your repair order data every night. On any other DMS you upload the extract you already run. Either way, the menu reads the same data your commodities report does.
Any op code your store billed in the last 90 days that no menu carries is added, with the price your store has been charging for it. Inspection results and catch-all codes stay off. Anything we cannot price yet is listed for you instead of guessed.
Edit Menu shows every line with its effective labor rate against your door rate. Fix the lines that sit under it, place the codes that still need a category, and set the spiffs.
Download the menu as a PDF or Excel file with your logo on it for the write-up counter. The spiffs you set flow into the commodities report as the sales come in.
How We Show It
A new op code lands with the price your store has really been charging for it. If there is not enough history to say, it is listed for your manager to price, not filled in with a number that looks confident and is not.
The same goes for the rate check. A line with no labor hours gets no target price and asks for the hours, because showing it as free would be a wrong answer dressed up as a real one.
Send us a recent extract of your repair orders and we will show you the menu it builds, line by line against your door rate.