Shop Boss

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Web-based auto repair shop management solution

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Value for Money
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Ease of Use
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Joseph
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  • Industry: Automotive
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

Best customer support

Reviewed on 2025-01-27

Friendly interface very good solid just needs a few tweaks and I believe it would be a great thing...

Friendly interface very good solid just needs a few tweaks and I believe it would be a great thing to use in the automotive field

Pros

Ease of Use
No matter the computer skills you have it definitely is a good software for those who don’t know how to to use a computer as good.

Attentive features
Multi use ordering, parts log, invoices, as your doing one you can easily switch to whatever you need at that given time

Strategic reporting
Get all the helpful reports so you can see where you auto techs could improve the overall service being provided.

Easy intergrations
Use with other tools to help provide the best and most accurate service

Awesome customer service experiences

Cons

Learning the software
For some it may be easy first use but others may have some difficulty to getting the hang of it

Further customizations
For detailed custom options I believe it could use improvement

Absolute no offline connection
Some people may need to access the system when offline

Mark
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  • Industry: Automotive
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for Free Trial
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Amazing software!

Reviewed on 2024-09-03

Well put a request in for a demo, Got a phone call right after the holiday weekend from [sensitive...

Well put a request in for a demo, Got a phone call right after the holiday weekend from [sensitive content hidden] which is very transparent about cost and everything the system offers.

Pros

How every little thing is integrated and built in the software to run the shop smoothly

Cons

No complaints, It's Definity everything i think any shop needs to have to keep everything organized. and [sensitive content hidden] was absolute amazing on the Demonstration.

Larry
Larry
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  • Industry: Automotive
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10

The handy dandy shopboss

Reviewed on 2025-01-17

At first it was a little overwhelming. With all of the different things your capable of doing with...

At first it was a little overwhelming. With all of the different things your capable of doing with shopboss. From ordering parts yourselve to keeping up with expense reports.

Pros

That there is no mire piecing together report to see how your shop is performing. Whether your making money or losing mobey. Shopboss keeps track of it for you saving you time you would be waising on putting reports together.

Cons

So farci haven't found any 1 thing i can't tolerate about shopboss. Its everything you could ask for in a shop management siftware

Paul
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  • Industry: Automotive
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10

Stay away from this software

Reviewed on 2023-11-16

It is one of the biggest most costly mistake I have made in my 16 years in business and know I feel...

It is one of the biggest most costly mistake I have made in my 16 years in business and know I feel stuck with it.

Pros

Nothing so far, A lot of talk from them and any obvious flaws they claim they are aware of and will be fixed in the imaginary update that never appears. Also if you join there private help groups and you don't pretend to like there software they ban you and remove your comments.

Cons

Customer support is non existent. Software is expensive and counter intuitive

Angella
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  • Industry: Automotive
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Awesome all In one shop software

Reviewed on 2025-01-19

Easy to get set up and quick. User friendly interface made it even easier to learn. Everything you...

Easy to get set up and quick. User friendly interface made it even easier to learn. Everything you need is right in front of you from obtaining vin reports and history to ordering tires. Made my life so much easier. 5 plus stars! Highly recommend.

Pros

So many important things you need to run your shop all in one program

Cons

No complaints about shop boss from this shop boss.

Alfazar
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  • Industry: Business Supplies & Equipment
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

The experience that i have.

Reviewed on 2023-10-28

My overall experience with shopboss was great they not just treated me as a customer but they...

My overall experience with shopboss was great they not just treated me as a customer but they treated me as a real partnership in the business.

Pros

The product is very easy to use and user friendly and also easy to navigate and highly recommended

Cons

There is no missing for me it's enough and had a great feature for the partnership to navigate and easy to understand

Response from Vehlo

Thank you for the review, Alfazar! Glad to see that you've been having success with the program.

Victor
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  • Industry: Automotive
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10

Good POS for an auto shop, needs some updates

Reviewed on 2024-03-07

Pros

The boss inspections are the best inspections of any other POS

Cons

missing some integrations, not synced dispatch board

Pratibha
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  • Industry: Logistics & Supply Chain
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Amazing Comprehensive Software

Reviewed on 2025-01-27

Its overall very good. Comprehensive and User friendly. Easy of Use is good. Support offered is...

Its overall very good. Comprehensive and User friendly. Easy of Use is good. Support offered is excellent

Pros

Software is good and precise when it comes to auto repair

Cons

More information on the website. Maybe pricing factor needs to be reworked.

Tammy
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  • Industry: Automotive
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Shop boss Review

Reviewed on 2025-01-20

My overall experience was great, pretty pleasant very easy to work with and utilize

My overall experience was great, pretty pleasant very easy to work with and utilize

Pros

What I really liked about shop, boss was the efficiency to place orders and the selection of products they have.

Cons

At the present time, I really have no complaints or things that I did not like about the company

Jade Anthony
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  • Industry: Automotive
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Monthly for Free Trial
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Commendable software

Reviewed on 2024-12-19

Pros

I do like the standard pricing of the Shop Boss, it starts with $199/month

Cons

The feature "Responsive website" is only indicated at premier subs. Which cost around $399/month. Well it supposed to be responsive in every plan.

Amanda
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  • Industry: Automotive
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10

The only thing consistent with ShopBoss is it is down, and "being worked on"

Reviewed on 2023-06-15

Just know we are severely disappointed.

Just know we are severely disappointed.

Pros

When our current owner purchased the business from the previous owner, he used ShopBoss and we just carried it over since the staff was familiar with it so thats the only reason we use it.

Cons

The fact that it is so consistently down, or being worked on. And all we get is a sorry. Funny that the billing is NEVER down, or the ability for them to charge our cards is NEVER down. Our shop depends on this program to work for our shop to run seamlessly. However, we can't depend on that. This week so far (Thursday) it has been down twice for HOURS. The first day, we had customers waiting and our techs were in the middle of jobs when it went down, we had no way for them to pay--or even open Work Orders to see them, so the amount of people who walked out with free work is asinine. All because the program doesn't work like it is supposed to--like we pay for it to work.

Response from Vehlo

Hello Amanda, we can appreciate your frustration with stability over the past few days. Shop Boss is a program that is meant to run your business, and when it's unavailable, things come grinding to a stop. For that, we apologize, and will continue to monitor and optimize until we get back to our 99.99% uptime. If you'd like to discuss further, please reach out to our service team at [email protected] and they'd be happy to discuss your current situation.

Joseph
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  • Industry: Automotive
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Everything all in one

Reviewed on 2023-07-11

very great. great customer service, and they are always improving their system

very great. great customer service, and they are always improving their system

Pros

Everything you need is part of this program

Cons

nothing, everything that it lacks, you can submit suggestions that actually gets looked at and voted on and implemented with enough feedback

Response from Vehlo

Thank you for the kind words, Joseph. We're very excited to see our customer engagement tools working well for you!

Shannon
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  • Industry: Automotive
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Great Product

Reviewed on 2023-03-28

We use Shop Boss every day for roughly 3 years. Always easy to use.

We use Shop Boss every day for roughly 3 years. Always easy to use.

Pros

Very user friendly. Customer support is very responsive. Outages are rare and quickly addressed. Lots of features and integrations. Customer suggestions considered and new features and updates regularly added.

Cons

No offline usage. There are small features that would be nice. Being able to re-open a RO in the search screen. Being able to choose colors for categories.

Alternatives Considered

NAPA TRACS

Reasons for Switching to Shop Boss

price, features and customization options, preliminary sales pitch, and training
Nich
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  • Industry: Automotive
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Great Company to work with

Reviewed on 2023-03-27

Pros

The ShopBoss community is great, they are very responsive if you have an issue that needs to be addressed and are very open to the communities feedback to make this system even better.

Cons

I feel like there are some pretty big bugs out there still that have not been addressed, one of my biggest cons with ShopBOSS is the integrated chat feature, it hardly gets used due to lack of notifications and how disorganized it can get.

Danielle
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  • Industry: Automotive
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Shop Boss Review

Reviewed on 2023-02-10

Shop boss is a great software, it isn't perfect but no one is perfect. I highly recommend shop...

Shop boss is a great software, it isn't perfect but no one is perfect. I highly recommend shop boss.

Pros

The software is very windows based, so easy to work with, it's "click and play". The team at shop boss is interactive with their clients and very responsive to suggestions to make the product better. They have a dedicated support team available by chat during business hours and respond to email queries within one day typically.

Cons

The inventory system needs work - but guess what? As stated above, they are hugely responsive and they are working on fixing it! It would be nice if their reports explained a little better what data they were pulling (sometimes it doesn't make sense what information is presented) but again, if you contact support they will explain everything to you.

Jason
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  • Industry: Automotive
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Great Product/ Streamline Implementation/Superior Customer Service

Reviewed on 2023-03-29

After using several different systems for multiple locations within our company I feel we have...

After using several different systems for multiple locations within our company I feel we have finally found a product that works for every aspect of our company.

Pros

Product was easy for our team members to adapt to. Customer service is top notch from implementation to following up on daily operations. The team at Shopboss will take the time to listen to customer's feedback and make the changes necessary to ensure efficiency.

Cons

No complaints

Frank
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  • Industry: Automotive
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

shop boss

Reviewed on 2023-02-09

BIG time saverExcellent at staying up with where the vehicle is in our process.

BIG time saverExcellent at staying up with where the vehicle is in our process.

Pros

I was in this business before computers were. I wasn't thrilled (to put it mildly) to integrate computers into my workplace. It was however a necessity. I have hated most softwares that I had to use. We changed over from a software that was cumbersome and had many less features. I hate change! It was really easy however with the support crew that is always a click away. I am a computer dummy, but the girls in the support section are a Godsend to me. They never get impatient with me, or get frustrated with my ignorance regarding computers. I absolutely refuse to change from Shop Boss primarily because of the stellar support group. I just cannot say enough about that team!

Cons

I would like to be able to send the same text to two or more phones on the repair order at the same time. can't use the "workflow" window because I cannot see enough at once.

Woodrow
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  • Industry: Automotive
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Make the move and don’t look back!

Reviewed on 2023-02-11

Originally this company was family owned and the Overall experience was like dealing with family,...

Originally this company was family owned and the Overall experience was like dealing with family, then when they moved to the next level, the only thing that changed was more features, better resources and more friendly family to deal with!!

Pros

From The integrated inspection feature, to the ease of creating unlimited canned jobs, to the way the software communicates with some of my marketing partners, where do I start? Where do I end? It’s good!!

Cons

Only con I can think of is that we didn’t switch sooner!!

Alternatives Considered

Shopmonkey

Reasons for Choosing Shop Boss

Originally Main reason was for the cloud based and to simplify. Saving money and dealing with a company that made more advancements inside of the first year than the old company made in 12 was a bonus!!

Switched From

Manager SE

Reasons for Switching to Shop Boss

The warm welcome from the sales, along with the ability to run the program side by side with my old one for a month for free.
William
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  • Industry: Automotive
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Shop boss

Reviewed on 2023-03-29

Glad I made the change. Great company and very helpful

Glad I made the change. Great company and very helpful

Pros

Very easy to change over from expensive system I was using. Very helpful and simple to use. Had more features and less money. Everyone that helped me make the change was A ++++

Cons

I didn’t really have any cons. Everything was super smooth and guys was rockstar’s that made it happen

Sal
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  • Industry: Automotive
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Fantastic

Reviewed on 2023-02-10

Great customer service

Great customer service

Pros

Short learning curve and everything we were looking for in a POS System

Cons

Could use a better Parts and Labor guide.

Ethan
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  • Industry: Automotive
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

ShopBoss Review

Reviewed on 2023-02-08

Overall extremely satisfied!!!

Overall extremely satisfied!!!

Pros

I like how easy it is to learn and access. The ability to look up labor times is a huge help for this program also.

Cons

As far as scheduling goes its just too cluttered. We still use google for scheduling but if that changes in the future that would be great!

Alternatives Considered

Shopmonkey

Reasons for Choosing Shop Boss

Trash
Tim
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  • Industry: Automotive
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

I’ve been through a lot of shop management software shop Boss is the best

Reviewed on 2023-02-09

Great tech support!

Great tech support!

Pros

My favorite feature is to build individual estimates in there own box, and be able to ok or send to recommendations!

Cons

Overall it’s all good !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Erik
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  • Industry: Automotive
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

ShopBoss Review

Reviewed on 2021-10-21

Overall, First Rate and Top Notch! Customer Support has always been on top of things. I've referred...

Overall, First Rate and Top Notch! Customer Support has always been on top of things. I've referred ShopBoss to 2 other Shops and Help both of them get set up and it has been super smooth both times! Anytime me or my Crew have a problem, ShopBoss is on it! So, that is really nice! The system is pretty slick and does Work Nice, Dont Take my Cons as a personal insult.

Pros

The Digital Inspections, and Texting/Emailing has really stepped up our game.

Cons

We were 17 year Mitchel1 users, So coming from them to ShopBoss some of the things you can and cant do seem odd. Id like to be able to change the width of some of the items in the W.I.P.. Id like to be able to change the status( Inspection,Approval,Parts,Etc..) into my own custom labels and then color code them on the W.I.P.. I dont like the operation of a recomended Repair, I prefer the Revision(From Mitchel), basically an open quote stuck to the customers vehicle profile that I can see with out having to reopen. There seems to be a lot of Re opening things. Sometimes, Rarely, But Sometimes, The cloud base can be an Issue! It would be nice to have some sort of Server Based "imprint" or "Copy" for when there are Internet issues, either on my end or Shop Boss's end.

Alternatives Considered

Shopmonkey and Tekmetric

Reasons for Choosing Shop Boss

They were Expensive, Expensive and Expensive. I didn't mind so much, but in order to get what you or others similar to you offer, they wanted even more!

Switched From

Manager SE

Reasons for Switching to Shop Boss

The Customer Support from ShopBoss when I Called, They basically moved in with me.

Response from Vehlo

Thanks for the review Erik. Great detail, here and we're actually working on some of the customization items you mentioned. I've forwarded this into our product team to add context to our UI / UX projects.

Matt
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  • Industry: Automotive
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Stop wasting your time looking at other systems!

Reviewed on 2021-10-12

5 stars! Great software and great staff.

5 stars! Great software and great staff.

Pros

It just works! It's simple, easy, and intuitive. It's cloud based, amazing customer support, very affordable, and quick to learn

Cons

Maybe the look of the software is a little dated? But it's still better than something like Mitchell or protractor.

Alternatives Considered

Tekmetric

Reasons for Choosing Shop Boss

It was clunky, receipts looked terrible, support was trash, only one person could be in a ticket, crashed often, had to pay extra for additional user licenses, they always had improvements but you had to pay extra (bolt on)

Switched From

Manager SE

Reasons for Switching to Shop Boss

Price and simplicity of the system.

Response from Vehlo

Excellent review and feedback on your selection process, Matt. Glad to see Shop Boss has met your needs and then some. Always trying to advance the product, which will include some UI updates. More to come!

Tim
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  • Industry: Automotive
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Great program for a shop that is just starting

Reviewed on 2021-10-02

I've been really happy with Shop Boss. I had it recommended to me by a friend who has a shop, and...

I've been really happy with Shop Boss. I had it recommended to me by a friend who has a shop, and I've recommended it to a few people also.

Pros

I found Shop Boss really easy to use. It's really easy to set up for your shop. The customer service is extremely helpful and friendly. The price is right.

Cons

The parts ordering integration is really the only thing I don't like about Shop Boss. In my option, it really doesn't save any time, as I still have to manually enter the PO number after I order the parts. Also, and this may be an issue with PartsTech, but if I go and add parts to an existing cart, it wants to add ALL the parts, not just the one(s) I added. Also, it I create multiple orders, and order from of them, all the orders get erased. If I decline a job, and then the customer comes back, I have to re-look up everything as the order isn't saved. In my opinion, once the parts integration issues get fixed, this will be a phenomenal product.

Response from Vehlo

Great review, Tim. Thanks for sharing your experience with Shop Boss. We will make sure our product team is aware of your feedback on parts ordering. We can always build more efficient processes there.