Benefits to Writing Repair Estimates on the Internet

We at Web-Est are trying to do what no other body shop service provider has yet to master: utilizing the internet as a tool for the way body shops do business. We as a company have come to fully appreciate what the internet has accomplished for other industries and the businesses that have utilized it. The internet connects everyone with a PC to each other, creating avenues for businesses to communicate with potential customers, while also generating ways to place all operational activity on a secure, yet easily accessible system.

Take, for example, Web-Est’s primary service: collision estimating. As it stands right now, major auto collision estimating providers like the “Big Three” still rely heavily on software that can only be uploaded to a single-station computer. Still utilizing yesterday’s technology, other providers limit shop owners by forcing them to accept collision estimating software access to only one station. Then they charge them if they want more stations to have access. In the mean time, that single port collision estimate program requires that you pay the arm and leg it takes for those providers to create and manage that system. All the while, you as a body shop are required to do all the work that it takes to keep that system up-to-date on part prices!

Utilizing today’s technology, Web-Est’s collision repair software eliminates several headaches that you have in dealing with the single-port systems, most importantly of which are price and part price updating. Because of the internet, our expenses are much lower to manage the program. Our program is housed in one central location that every one of our customers has access to through the internet. We have one program to manage, all you need is internet access. A benefit of that: you don’t have to pay for technical support. We have a handful of technicians on 24-hour standby constantly tending to our program. The “Big Three,” on the other hand, have no choice but to put their financial resources into technical support to cover the needs of its entire customer base. And think about it, who do you think has to pay for all that technical support? Those costs are included in the monthly fees their customers have to pay. At Web-Est, because of the nature of the internet, our technical support fees remain low and our customers benefit from that.

Keeping the program updated is a lot easier to manage as well. When we get part price updates, we put it in our program and it immediately updates every customer who uses our system. Its that simple. We do all the work, all you have to do is focus on collision repair estimating. No more CD’s and no more manual updating to your PC for you the customer. We take care of all the manual labor that comes with updating the part prices you need. To add to that luxury, the internet once again proves to be a money-saver. The “Big Three” providers have to send out CD’s to all of their customers for updates. Audatex has recently begun providing updates via the Web, but it still raises questions about the impact of the updates to your hardware, meaning, they take the liberty of down-loading onto YOUR computer and when it creates a problem…No cheap endeavor, not for Audatex, and once again, not for you the customer. A centrally hosted system using the internet for you to connect to cuts that expensive step out of the process for us, which our customers benefit from.

Body shop estimate software on the internet is low-cost and is accessible to shop owners and managers any time and from any place. We at Web-Est fully believe that the internet can bring body shop owners new and improved ways of doing business. Start a Free Trial on our collision estimating program to discover for yourself what it can do.

Web-Est services cater to the small to mid-size auto collision repair market by providing a low-cost, high-value logic-based collision repair estimating software solution. The company's estimates are accepted by most major insurance companies. Web-Est provides additional services developed to meet the needs of independent collision repair shops in the area of online Internet marketing.

Privately held and based in the Tampa Bay, Florida Area, Web-Est is located in the community of Oldsmar. The company also maintains a satellite office in Columbus, OH.

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Eric Seidel is author of this article on auto estimating software. Find more information about body shop estimate software here.

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