Quote, book, repair, invoice. All from your phone.

If you run a workshop — mechanical, auto-electrical, panel-and-paint, tyres, or detailing — you already know the admin grind. Tradify or Workshop Software for job management, Xero for accounting, a spreadsheet for parts inventory, your phone's notes app for customer vehicle history, and a shared inbox for booking requests. Each tool costs money, none of them properly join up, and you end up doing the books at 8pm while the kids are asking about dinner. OneBookPlus replaces the whole stack with one app built for how Australian workshops actually run — on the bay floor, on a phone, between the next car coming in and the one going home.

The platform covers the full lifecycle from the moment a customer rings about a noisy wheel-bearing to the moment the invoice clears your bank. A customer books through your OneBookPlus booking page (or you create the job manually after a phone call) and you raise a job card with rego, make, model, VIN, fault description, and a walk-around photo. The quote is itemised — labour hours at your shop rate, parts at your set markup, sublet work, EPA disposal fees, GST — and the customer approves it from their phone before you touch a single bolt. The job card travels with the car through the workshop, techs tick off labour as they go, photos and roadworthy attachments save against the VIN, parts get consumed from inventory, and when the customer collects the keys you convert the whole thing to a GST-compliant tax invoice with one tap. They pay online. Done.

Your Workshop Day

Picture a typical Tuesday. You open the OneBookPlus dashboard at 7am with a coffee — four jobs already in the bay queue, two carryover cars from yesterday waiting on parts, and three online bookings to confirm. Your service writer at front-of-house sees the same view, so when the first customer walks in at 7:30am you both know their car's history, their pre-quoted scope, and the courtesy-car number they'll drive home. The tech opens his phone and sees his assigned jobs for the day with full notes. He starts on the brakes job, photographs the worn pads, scans the VIN, and ticks off the labour line by line. The car next to him needs a sublet auto-electrical job — you add a line item for $280 with its own GST treatment, and the third-party invoice attaches to the job card when it arrives. By 4pm three cars are ready for collection, three invoices have gone out for payment, and two have already been paid via the customer's phone. The next-service SMS reminders are queued for 10 months out. No evening paperwork.

Bank Feeds & BAS

OneBookPlus connects to your business bank account and pulls in transactions automatically. When a customer pays an invoice, the system matches the payment to the invoice for you — no manual reconciliation in a separate accounting tool. Workshop expenses you log throughout the day (parts from Repco or your supplier, fuel for the diesel courtesy car, consumables from Burson) are categorised and tracked against revenue so you can see real margin per job, not just what you invoiced. GST is calculated on every invoice and expense automatically. Diesel fuel-tax credits and tool depreciation flag for your accountant. Come BAS quarter, you export a clean summary — GST collected, GST paid, the difference owing — and hand it across or lodge it yourself. No shoebox of receipts, no end-of-quarter scramble.

Getting Started

Sign up in under a minute — no credit card required. Add your ABN, motor-vehicle repairer licence number, shop hourly rate, and your default parts markup. Upload your logo. Most workshops send their first quote within twenty minutes of signing up. The free plan covers unlimited invoices and quotes with up to five customer-vehicle records, so you can try it on real jobs in the bay before committing. When you're ready for bank feeds, multi-tech assignment, full parts inventory, or more vehicles in the system, upgrade to a paid plan — still a fraction of what you'd pay for Workshop Software plus Xero plus a separate CRM combined. Existing customer and vehicle records import from a CSV.