OneBookPlus vs iBodyshop
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iBodyshop is the deeper smash-repair specialist and it is honest to say so. It has native Audatex and Mitchell estimating, online assessing through IAG O.R.M. and Suncorp P-Net, a loan-car module on its higher plans, and its own bodyshop-specific accounting, which is a genuinely unusual thing for a trade platform to build. OneBookPlus covers the core of claim tracking (each IAG, Suncorp, AAMI, Allianz or RACV claim through quote, assessor approval, repair and return, with a chase list for stalled approvals), then goes wider rather than deeper: quarterly BAS-ready figures, a customer booking page, email campaigns and Google review requests. A high-volume multi-site group with staff trained on iBodyshop should stay. An independent or 1-3 bay shop that wants one lighter subscription across the whole business is the profile that moves.

iBodyshop includes its own accounting module, built specifically for bodyshops, on every plan, with a free login for your accountant and optional export interfaces to Xero, MYOB or MoneyWorks. So the honest difference isn't whether accounting exists, it's what shape it takes. OneBookPlus reads the supplier, date, GST and total off a photographed receipt or a PDF bill and produces quarterly BAS-ready figures (G1, 1A, 1B) directly; iBodyshop's accounting pages document neither automated bank feeds nor BAS reporting. If your bookkeeper already works inside iBodyshop, that is a real reason to stay.

iBodyshop publishes its plans on its own pricing page, and the current figures are in the pricing row of the comparison table above. They are billed per subscription rather than per seat, stepped by how many office logins you need, and quoted excluding GST, with the Audatex module charged on top. OneBookPlus is $0 (Free), $29 (Starter), $49 (Plus) or $69 (Growth) per month including GST, per business rather than per site. The two are not like-for-like: iBodyshop's higher plans buy smash-repair depth OneBookPlus doesn't have, and OneBookPlus's plans buy breadth across the rest of the business.

Direct Audatex and Mitchell integration is on the roadmap for the Insurance Repair Portal app and is the single most-requested integration from panel-beater customers. Today, OneBookPlus accepts the standard estimating output (PDF / image attachment per panel + line-item import via CSV) and tracks the claim from there. If deep estimating integration is a day-one requirement, iBodyshop is the established choice.

iBodyshop submits supplementaries through the online assessing channels it integrates with, IAG O.R.M. and Suncorp P-Net, plus its integrated two-way SMS and job email. The tech adds line items to the existing claim and the supplementary goes up the insurer channel. OneBookPlus has no insurer connection and sends nothing to the assessor: you send the assessor the extra photos and lines the way that insurer takes them, then record the approval and the approved amount on the claim, and a claim waiting on the assessor for more than five days lands on a chase list. If submitting supplementaries from inside the app matters to you, iBodyshop does that and OneBookPlus does not.

Both do. iBodyshop's pricing page includes a Loan Cars Manager from the Professional plan up. The OneBookPlus Courtesy Car Manager app maintains your loaner fleet with rego, model, and condition photos, assigns to a job in two taps, and captures fuel, KMs and damage at handover and return. The part that isn't documented on iBodyshop's pages is the billing tail: excess KMs or late returns flowing back onto the linked invoice to the customer or insurer automatically.

Both do books, differently. iBodyshop built its own accounting module specifically for bodyshops, with drill-down to the scanned source document and a free accountant login, which is genuinely more bodyshop-shaped than a generic ledger. What its pages don't document is automated Australian bank feeds or BAS reporting, so the quarterly lodgement still gets assembled by hand or exported to Xero, MYOB or MoneyWorks. OneBookPlus produces BAS-ready figures directly from the invoices and expenses in its ledger, alongside claim tracking, photo evidence, courtesy cars, reviews and marketing. iBodyshop is still deeper in one place that matters: its native Audatex and Mitchell estimating pulls quote line items straight off the assessor's estimate, where OneBookPlus accepts that output today only as a PDF or CSV import.