Auto & Equipment Shops

The whiteboard is running your shop.

Runzek builds custom software for Western Slope repair shops — so what's in each bay, who's working it, how many hours went into it, and what the customer owes are the same record instead of a wall, a notepad, and somebody's memory.

See a Live System

Built in Grand Junction. Running in days, not months.

Auto repairDiesel & fleetHeavy equipment Ag machineryPowersports & RVMobile repair

Where it breaks

"Where's my truck?"

The hardest part of running a shop isn't the wrenching. It's knowing the status of a dozen jobs well enough to answer that question without walking to the bay.

Status lives on a wall

The whiteboard is only current if someone updates it, and it's invisible the moment you're not standing in front of it.

Hours get reconstructed

Actual labor gets remembered at invoicing time rather than captured as it happens — which is how billable hours quietly disappear.

Approvals stall the bay

You found the real problem, called, left a voicemail, and now a lift is occupied by a job nobody has authorized.

What gets built

Every job on the board, off the wall.

A repair order carries the vehicle or machine, the stage it's at, who's on it, the photos, the hours, and the invoice — one record from drop-off to pickup.

The board, but current

Every job and its stage, visible from the office or your phone — updated by the people doing the work, not transcribed later.

Hours captured as they happen

Techs clock onto a job, not just onto a shift. Labor lands on the right ticket while it's still accurate.

Photos that justify the estimate

Shots of what you actually found, attached to the job — the fastest way to turn a "why is it this much?" call into an approval.

History by vehicle or machine

What you did last time, and the time before. Useful for the customer, and better for the quote you're about to give.

Invoices from the work

Parts, labor, and notes flow into the invoice instead of being retyped from a shop ticket at closing.

Answers in plain English

Ask what's waiting on approval, what's outstanding, or how many hours went into a job — and get an answer from your real data.

Custom vs. the big platforms

Shop software assumes you're a dealership.

The established shop-management systems are built around franchise workflows and sold on long contracts, per seat.

Off-the-shelf platform

— Per-seat pricing on a multi-year contract
— Built for a franchise process you don't run
— Half the modules don't apply to your shop
— Support is a ticket queue
— Your history is locked in their format

Built for your shop

→ Shaped around how work actually moves through your bays
→ The stages and fields are the ones you use
→ Hiring a tech doesn't change the price
→ You call the person who built it
→ Your own database, your own data

How it works

Three steps. No jargon.

Walk me through a job

Drop-off to pickup — who touches the ticket and where it sits waiting. That conversation is the spec.

I build it

Working software in days, not a mockup in a month. Your techs run real jobs through it and tell me what's wrong.

It runs

I keep it running, updated, and improving. You never touch a server or an update notice.