AUTO REPAIR SOFTWARE, BY INSTINCTOR

Fill your bays. Keep your profit

Ingine is a website that brings in repair jobs, with online estimate requests, appointment booking, digital estimates your customers approve by text, invoices they pay online, and a Smart Chat that books cars around the clock.
We build the whole thing for you, and no software takes a cut of the work.
We design it for you, free · No per-job cuts
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ONE SYSTEM, NOT SIX TOOLS

Your whole front desk, online

Today most shops pay for a website, a booking tool, a shop-management system and a marketing service, each with its own bill and its own login. Ingine brings it into one system we build for you, where your website, estimate requests, scheduling, approvals, invoices and chat all work together.
It does what Shopmonkey, Tekmetric and the marketing agencies do, without the $300-a-month bills, the annual lock-in, or a cut of your card payments, and we build the whole thing for you, free.
Estimates that win jobs
Every request becomes a priced estimate with inspection photos, built in a minute with VIN decode.
A website that books jobs
A fast, modern site built to be found on Google, so a driver searching for a mechanic near them finds you and books the car, not the shop down the road.
Online booking
Customers book on your own site, around the clock. Your bays fill while you work.
Online estimate requests
Customers send the year, make, model and what is wrong, straight from your site. Every request lands in one place, ready to quote.
Approve by text
The customer taps a link, sees the price and the photos, and approves from their phone. No phone tag.
Estimates approved by text
Send the estimate, the customer taps approve on their phone, and the work starts. No more phone tag waiting on a yes.
Smart Chat, 24/7
A chat assistant trained on your services and prices, answering questions while you are under a car.
Scheduling that fills your bays
Customers book an open slot in a tap, and automatic reminders cut the no-shows that leave bays sitting empty.
Deposits and payments
Take a deposit on approval and the balance at pickup. Payment links included, no hardware.
Invoices paid online
Send a branded invoice, the customer pays by card, and the money is yours. No per-job fee and no processor skimming your ticket.
You own everything
Your site, your data and your customers are yours.
Smart Chat that books 24/7
It answers questions and books cars even after you have closed, so you never lose a job to a slow reply.
HOW IT WORKS

We build it. You own it from day one

Claim your free build
Tell us about your business and we begin. No upfront build fee, and no bill for the design.
Tell us about your shop
Your services, your hours, your bays. A few minutes is all we need.
We build it, free
Our team builds your site, estimate requests and scheduling for you, in your look, included.
It is yours
It goes live, you own it, and our team is here whenever you need a hand.
WHY SWITCH

Keep your profit and your customers

Shop software runs $200-$500/mo once you add the modules you actually use. Marketing platforms charge agency prices just for the website, and some lock you into a year or take a cut of your card payments. Ingine is one platform, we build it for you, and every customer is yours.
IngineDoorDash / Uber Eats / Toast
  • A website that wins jobsBuilt in, built to rankAn add-on, or an $800/mo agency
  • Who builds itWe design it for you, freeYou build it, or pay to set it up
  • Online estimate requests + bookingBuilt inOften a paid add-on
  • Estimates approved by textBuilt inYes, in the pricier tiers
  • Invoices and card paymentsBuilt in, no cutYes, often at their processing rates
  • 24/7 Smart ChatBuilt inAn add-on, or none
  • What you pay each monthFree, built for you$200 to $500 and up
  • Contract3-month min, then monthlyOften an annual lock-in
  • Who owns your customersYou doSometimes their platform
INCOMMAND

Run the business from your phone

Every estimate request, chat and price sits in one panel you open on your phone. Approve a quote between jobs, answer a customer on the move, change what something costs without going back to a desk. It is the same account as the desktop dashboard, not a cut-down companion.
InCommand, the today screen
The day: what came in, and what is waiting on you
InCommand, the requests screen
Every request, with where it stands
InCommand, the chats screen
Chats the assistant already answered for you
InCommand, the more screen
Prices, customers, reviews, domain and settings
YOUR SIDE OF THE BAY

The desk runs itself

Every request becomes a priced estimate with inspection photos, the customer approves it from their phone, and the job walks the board from received to ready with a text at each step. This is the real Ingine admin, running a live shop.
Ingine auto repair software: the estimate pipeline
Every estimate priced and staged, one text from approved.
Ingine auto repair software: a priced estimate with inspection photos
Inspection photos ride the estimate, so the customer sees the problem before approving.
More tools for auto shops: Auto repair websites · Mechanic software · Shop software · Tire shop sites
ALL INCLUDED

Everything a shop needs

Every tool here is part of your plan, with no add-ons.
Online bookingDrivers book a slot
EstimatesQuote, approve, go
InvoicesGet paid faster
Vehicle recordsVIN and history
RemindersFewer no-shows
Smart ChatAnswers and books 24/7
ReviewsBuild local trust
Service menuList every job
Customer listYours to keep
Card paymentsStripe checkout
HostingIncluded
SEO built inBuilt to be found
DepositsHold the bay
Book on any deviceMobile-first
ONE SIMPLE DEAL

Free to build and keep

Free
Instinctor's professional designers design and build your website at no charge. We commit real design and development hours to every claim and take a limited number at a time.
 
Everything is included: full ecommerce, subscriptions, bookings, payments, Smart Chat and SEO.
You pay only the standard costs every website owner in the world pays: domain, hosting, software license. No setup fee, no per-job fees, no cut of your payments.
QUESTIONS
Do I have to build the website myself?
No, and you never will. The moment you subscribe, our team designs and builds your site, estimate requests and scheduling for you. All we need is your list of services and a little about your shop.
Do you really build it for me, free?
Yes. Subscribe, tell us about your shop, and our team builds it for you, at no cost, with no separate build fee, ever.
How is this different from Shopmonkey or Tekmetric?
Those are back-office shop systems that run $200-$500/mo and leave the customer-winning website to you. We give you the website that brings cars in, plus estimate requests, scheduling, invoicing and chat, built for you.
Do you take a cut of my jobs or card payments?
Never. No per-job fees and no percentage of your tickets. The money from every repair is yours.
Can customers request estimates and book online?
Yes. We set up an estimate request form and online booking, so customers send their vehicle and the problem, pick a slot, and it all lands in one place, ready for you to quote.
Can they approve estimates and pay online?
Yes. You send the estimate, the customer approves it by text, and when the work is done they pay the invoice by card. No phone tag, no chasing checks.
Will it work for my kind of shop?
Yes. General repair, brakes and tires, oil and maintenance, diagnostics or a small body shop, we build it around your services and your style, not a generic template.
How soon can I be live?
Days, not weeks. Subscribe, tell us about your shop, and we build and launch your site, estimate requests and booking within a few days.
Do I own my customer list?
Completely. Your customers, your history and your reputation are yours, for good. We never lock your data or rent your customers back to you.
Is there a contract?
It is month to month. No annual lock-in, no auto-renew traps, and if you ever leave we hand you your data.
What does it cost?
The design and the build cost nothing. No setup fee, no per-job cuts, no percentage of your tickets. The design, the site, estimate requests, scheduling, invoicing, Smart Chat and reviews are all included and built for you.
What does the SEO management cost?
It is $35 a month and it is optional. It covers the ongoing work of being found: position checks, content that answers what people are actually searching for, and the profile and technical work behind it. Every action is performed by hand, not by a tool. Two of the sites we manage reached the first page of Google within a few months.
Do I see the site before it goes live?
Yes. You see the completed website, built with your own content and your own photographs, before anything is published. Nothing goes live until you have looked at it and said so.
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Ready to fill your bays?

Subscribe and we design your shop's site, estimate requests and scheduling for you, free. It is yours from day one. Ingine is a product of Instinctor.
We commit real design and development hours to every claim and take a limited number at a time. You pay only the standard costs every website owner in the world pays: domain, hosting, software license. If you are not sure, do not claim it.
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