THREE STEPS.
ONE PAYDAY.
Built for shop owners, GMs and estimators who don't have time to fight the carrier line-by-line. Running PDR or hail volume? Start here. Full detail on remote collision and hail estimating services.
SEND YOUR FILE
Photos, estimate, scope sheet — whatever you've got. Drop it in the portal or email it over.
I WRITE THE ESTIMATE OR SUPPLEMENT
Inside 24 hours you get the file back with every operation line noted and its supporting reasoning attached.
YOU SUBMIT IT
The document goes out under your shop name. If a line gets challenged, I take that call. Flat $150 a file.
A SUPPLEMENT IS
A CORRECTION.
If the initial estimate was written properly, there is nothing to correct.
That is the point. The value is not in how large the supplement is. It is in the total the file supports, whether that total comes from the initial or from the supplement.
Most of the time the initial was not written at the shop at all. It was written by a carrier appraiser in a customer's driveway, at a drive-in site during a CAT, or on a DRP file before the full repair was visible. Those are conditions that make a complete estimate genuinely hard to write, not people doing a bad job. A large supplement usually means the first pass happened before anyone could see the whole car.
Anyone who has run an estimating department already knows this.
$150 FLAT, NEVER A PERCENTAGE OF THE ESTIMATE. AN ESTIMATOR PAID A PERCENTAGE HAS A FINANCIAL INCENTIVE TIED TO THE SIZE OF THE NUMBER, WHICH IS EXACTLY THE WRONG INCENTIVE ON A DOCUMENT THAT HAS TO SURVIVE CARRIER REVIEW.
I wrote a car in a parking lot on an overcast Tuesday morning, which by outdoor standards is as good as it gets. I called the hood around forty. Two days later the same car came into a bay under a PDR light with everything else off. The hood was over ninety. The roof went from about sixty to past a hundred and thirty.
Nobody added dents overnight. An overcast sky puts no defined line on the panel, so there is nothing for a dent to bend. Move a hood two count bands and you are explaining a large correction to somebody who watched you write the small one.
SO FAR THIS YEAR.
Both kept sending files after the first one. That is the only number that matters.
▲ FOUR OPERATIONS · THREE STATES · EVERY FILE WRITTEN PERSONALLY
WHEN THE CARRIER
PUSHES BACK,
I TAKE THE CALL.
The difference between a written document and a defended one. Most freelance estimators hand over a file and disappear.
Every operation is line noted when it is written. The lines carriers tend to challenge get their supporting reasoning attached before anyone asks for it.
When a line is challenged, I defend it with the appraiser on your behalf.
If a line genuinely is not supportable, I withdraw it rather than argue it. Your credibility on the next twenty files is worth more than one operation on this one.
BUY CREDITS.
BURN ONE PER FILE.
One credit = one estimate or supplement. No subscriptions, no percentages, no expiration. Buy more, pay less. Comparing providers? Twelve questions worth asking all of them.
Pay-as-you-go. No commitment.
Save 7%. Most shops start here.
Save 12%. Steady hail volume.
Save 17%. Multi-writer shops.
Save 23%. MSOs and CAT operations.
▲ CREDITS NEVER EXPIRE · NO MONTHLY MINIMUMS · NO PERCENTAGE TAKE
WE BUILT THE
SHOP SOFTWARE
TOO.
Easy Shop. Production management and CRM for collision, hail and mechanical repair. Same company, same phone number. easyshopauto.com
I opened my own repair shop in 2022. It is still open, and it still runs on this software. That is why Easy Shop exists. I wanted to know what was in the building, what we ran last month and what we were still owed without walking the floor and opening three spreadsheets to find out.
Most shop systems hand you every screen they have ever built and let you find your way. Easy Shop starts with seven modules every shop needs and lets you switch the other five on the month the work calls for them. There is no tier to climb out of. A module is either running in your shop or it isn't.
It imports estimates out of CCC ONE and Mitchell — parts, labor hours, claim number, adjuster, date of loss. The file I write for you lands on the job without anybody retyping it.
- Job boardEvery car in the building in its real stage. Drag it forward and everyone who needs to know is told.
- Customer check-inThe one screen your customers touch. Keys, contact, and what they came in for.
- LeadsEverybody who came by for an estimate, and when it is time to call them back.
- Insurance workClaim, adjuster, supplements and approval dates riding on the job.
- Estimate importingCCC ONE and Mitchell, straight onto the file.
- Wholesale accountsTrade customers, their rates, and what each of them owes you.
- ReportingClosed files, cycle time and A/R off the same records the shop runs on.
- Parts trackingTo order, on order, back order, received. Late ETAs go red with the days they are late.
- InvoicingRetail, insurance and wholesale off the job record, with statements and aging.
- SalesOne screen built for a phone, because sales happen in the parking lot.
- SMS updatesCustomers and staff told where the vehicle is, capped so a busy morning isn't fifty messages.
- Multi-shop administrationTwo or more locations under one sign-in, each with its own database.
▲ BUILT BY A SHOP OPERATOR · IN DAILY USE IN A WORKING SHOP · YOUR SHOP'S DATA IN ITS OWN DATABASE
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