Shop Supply Split Ledger.
An app idea for auto repair shops.
Splits and tracks shared supply and sublet costs between shops that borrow parts, lifts, or a machinist from each other.
What the search found
- Who pays
- Shop owner who trades work with nearby shops
- The problem
- When a nearby shop borrows a part or sends a car over for a sublet job, the owner has to remember who owes what. At the end of the month there is no clean record and money gets lost or relationships get strained.
- The gap
- Existing parts tracking software like CostBeacon and Shop-Ware track parts within one shop. None handle cost splitting between separate shops that borrow from each other.
- Already out there
- CostBeacon costbeacon.com
Tracks supplier price changes for one shop, not shared costs between shops.
- Shop-Ware shop-ware.com
Tracks advance auto parts within one shop, not between shops.
- CostBeacon costbeacon.com
- People asking for it
- Parts inventory checklist paperform.co
Shows shops struggle with parts tracking and still use pen and paper or spreadsheets.
- Parts inventory checklist paperform.co
- The big assumption
- Shops that borrow from each other will trust a shared ledger enough to put money through it.
- Test it this week
- Ask 10 shop owners who borrow from other shops how they currently settle up and if they would use a shared log.
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