Auto Repair & Maintenance
Build a custom garage management app
Kliv is an AI app builder. Describe your garage management app — vehicle records, job cards, photo estimates, approvals, bay diary, invoices, and reminders — and it builds it.
Just enter your idea into the text box and AI will build it for you
What is Kliv?
Kliv isn’t a workshop package with someone else’s workflow you sign up for and configure — it’s an AI app builder that builds software for you.
You describe what you need in your own words, and Kliv builds it: the database, the logic, the screens, and the rules. What you get is a real, working application that’s yours. You can use it, change it later by asking for changes, and run it on your own accounts and your own domain. It isn’t a template with your name on it.
On this page, that app is a garage management app shaped to your workshop. Kliv builds all kinds of web apps; this is one example, and that’s what the rest of this page covers.
Why build your own garage system?
A small workshop does not always need the same workflow as a bodyshop chain. It may need vehicle history by plate, job cards, photo-backed estimates, customer approvals by link, a diary that matches the real bays, invoices, and reminders that bring cars back.
Kliv builds the app from the way you describe the shop. The result is a real database for vehicles, jobs, approvals, bookings, payments, and reminders, shaped to the building and the work you actually do.
What the workshop keeps track of
Five records connect the front desk to the lifts.
Vehicles by plate
Type the registration and the history opens: jobs, advisories, mileage, and notes. The car keeps its record over time.
Job cards
Complaint, diagnosis, parts, labor, photos, status, and mileage live on the job card. If it is not on the card, it does not get billed.
Estimates and approvals
The estimate goes out as a link with photos attached. The customer’s approval returns with a timestamp, and unapproved work stays flagged.
The bay diary
The diary can match your actual capacity: two lifts, one MOT slot, or whatever the workshop holds. The bookings table enforces the limit.
The reminder engine
MOT dates and service intervals stay on the vehicle. A scheduled job can send a reminder four weeks out with a booking link.
An example: Tomas’s two-lift garage
Here’s how one workshop might use it. It’s only an example — you would describe your own bays, approvals, invoices, reminders, and roles.
A plate lookup starts the job
A Golf comes in with a brake pull. Tomas looks up the plate and sees last year’s advisory on the discs before opening the job card.
Photos support the estimate
The technician adds photos of lipped discs and worn pads. The estimate assembles from parts and labor lines and sends to the customer.
The customer approves from a link
The customer opens the estimate at work, sees photos beside the price, and taps approve. The timestamp lands on the job card before work continues.
The board shows what the bay is waiting for
Parts lines move from ordered to arrived, so the workshop can see that bay two is waiting for a delivery, not a decision.
The invoice matches the approved work
At pickup, the invoice matches the approved estimate and can be paid by link. The job closes with the day’s mileage.
The car books itself back in
Eleven months later, the MOT reminder goes out with a booking link, and the Golf returns without Tomas making a phone call.
Describe the garage app you want to build
Kliv builds from your description, so the more detail you give, the closer the first version. Include vehicles, job cards, approvals, bay capacity, invoices, reminders, and roles. Here are three to build on:
Independent garage
Job cards, approvals, diary, and reminders.
“Build a garage app for my two-lift workshop in Leeds. Keep vehicle history by number plate, create job cards with photos, complaint, diagnosis, parts, labor, and mileage, send estimates customers approve from a browser link, enforce one MOT slot per day, create pay-link invoices, and send MOT reminder emails four weeks before due dates.”
Tyre and exhaust shop
Fast fittings and stocked sizes.
“Build a tyre shop app with a same-day fitting diary, tyre stock by size and brand, quotes sent by text link, torque-check records per job, and invoices customers can pay from their phone before pickup.”
Mobile mechanic rounds
Visits mapped to a day route.
“Build a mobile mechanic app where customers book time windows by postcode area, each visit has a job card with photos and parts, the day route groups nearby jobs, and invoices are paid on the spot by link.”
How it comes together
Trade accounts can invoice monthly. A courier firm with five vans can have jobs accumulate on its account and receive one itemized invoice on the first of the month, paid through your own Stripe account.
Service history answers customer questions. Signed-in customers can ask what was done in March, when the cambelt is next due, or what an advisory said. The answer comes from their own vehicle records only, and the transcript stays in your database.
The shop can change without a developer. Change a labor rate, opening hours, or an MOT price on the page, then publish when ready.
A garage lives on local trade. Local businesses on Kliv covers the rest: bookings, reminders, and being found nearby.
Common questions
What exactly is Kliv?
Kliv is an AI app builder. You describe the software you need, it builds the working app, and you own the result. For this page, that means a workshop app with vehicle records, job cards, photo-backed estimates, customer approvals, bay bookings, invoices, and reminders.
Do I get a real app, or a template?
A real app. Kliv builds the data, rules, and screens for your specific case, not a pre-made theme you fill in. You keep changing it by describing what you want different.
Can I change it after it’s built?
Yes. Ask for changes in plain words and Kliv updates the app. You can adjust fields, workflows, pages, emails, access rules, and reports without starting over.
Do customers need to install anything?
No. Estimates, approvals, invoices, and booking links open in the phone’s browser. An account is optional for service history.
Can the diary match our workshop?
Yes. Describe your capacity: three lifts, one alignment ramp, MOT slots at specific times, mobile rounds, or anything else. The bookings table enforces the limit.
Can the apprentice use it safely?
Yes. Roles can allow an apprentice to add work and photos without sending estimates or changing prices.
Can old customer records come along?
Yes. Export what the old system or spreadsheet holds, and an import can map customers, vehicles, and history into the new tables.
Can customers approve estimates from a link?
Yes. The link can show photos, parts, labor, and price, then record the customer’s approval with a timestamp.
Can invoices be paid online?
Yes. Invoices can include a pay link through your own Stripe account.
Do customers need their own Stripe accounts?
No. They pay by card through your invoice link. Stripe is connected to your account.
Can trade customers get monthly invoices?
Yes. Jobs can accumulate on a trade account and invoice monthly with each job card itemized.
Can the app send MOT reminders?
Yes. MOT dates and service intervals can trigger scheduled reminder emails with booking links.
Can I use my own domain?
Yes. Customer pages, booking links, and the app can run on your own domain.
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Run the next job on a real card
Describe the bays, job cards, approvals, invoices, trade accounts, and reminders. Kliv builds the garage app around how your shop works.