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Set up Auto Center, bring in your records, and follow a repair through the shop.

This guide is written for you, the shop owner. Work through the steps in order: set up the shop, bring in your data, then follow the front desk, mechanic and checkout workflows. Run your old system alongside Auto Center while you check that your records and daily routine are covered.

A repair moves through five stages, and each stage has an owner:

Auto Center is a desktop tool for one shop on one computer. It records texts, emails and payments but does not send or charge them, and it has no printable invoice, appointment calendar or sales tax yet. The full list is on Switch over from your old system. Read it before you decide.

Every page in this tutorial is built from end-to-end tests that drive the real app, and every screenshot comes from those runs. See How we know it works.