For small garages
Garage software for small garages & sole traders
Built for one-to-five-bay UK independents who don't have an office, a receptionist or an evening spare for paperwork. Jobs, invoices, MOT reminders and bookings — all from the phone in your pocket.
Built for the one-man band
Most garage management software assumes someone sits at a desk all day. In a one-man band or a small family workshop, nobody does — the person running the business is the person under the car. So the admin waits for the evening, invoices go out late, and MOT reminders never go out at all.
Garage Desk flips that. It’s phone-first, so the ninety seconds between jobs is enough to accept a booking, tick off work, or send the invoice — and the automatic reminders run whether you’re busy or not.
Everything a small garage needs, nothing it doesn't
No modules to buy, no add-ons, no features locked behind a bigger plan — one flat price covers the lot.
Job cards without the paper
Reg lookup fills the vehicle in, work gets ticked off on your phone, and the finished job becomes the invoice in one tap.
Learn moreInvoices done before the customer leaves
Branded PDF invoices from the job — parts, labour and tax calculated for you, sent by email or WhatsApp on the spot.
Learn moreMOT reminders that bring work back
Automatic MOT and service reminders go out on their own, so repeat work returns without you chasing it.
Learn moreBookings while you're under a car
Your own online booking page takes requests 24/7 — accept them from your phone between jobs.
Learn moreEvery customer and car remembered
Full history per customer and per vehicle — what you did, what you quoted, what they owe.
Learn moreThe accountant sorted
Invoices and payments push straight to Xero or QuickBooks, so year-end isn't a shoebox of paper.
Learn moreDo I really need software for a small workshop?
A fair question — plenty of small garages run on a diary, a carbon-copy invoice book and memory. The honest test is where your evenings go. If invoicing, chasing payments and writing up jobs takes an hour a night, that’s five-plus hours a week of unpaid admin — more than a full labour-hour’s worth of billable time every single day it saves.
The other half is the work you never see: customers whose MOT lapsed and quietly went elsewhere, quotes that were never followed up, the job that went out the door uninvoiced. Automatic reminders and a job list that won’t let things vanish tend to pay for the software before the time savings do.
Prefer to start on paper? Take our free job card template and invoice template — no sign-up needed — and come back when the filing cabinet wins.
Small-garage questions
Yes — that's exactly who it's built for. Everything runs from an Android phone or any browser, so you can quote, invoice and answer bookings from under the bonnet. No office, no receptionist, no desktop PC needed.