You've seen the industry averages. You're not sure if your shop is above or below them. Here's how Nolavi works through it, the same way a good mechanic works on a car: find the concern, the cause, the correction, then verify the fix.
Nate looked up auto repair profit margins and found numbers all over the place: 50% gross, 10% net, 20% on parts, 15% on labor. He couldn't tell which one applied to his shop or what to do with any of them.
Industry averages combine every size and type of shop. A shop with three techs and a shop with thirty look nothing alike on paper. The number that matters isn't what the average shop earns; it's what your shop needs to earn to cover your bills, pay yourself properly and stay healthy. That number changes every time rent, insurance or payroll changes.
Nolavi calculates Nate's true profit margin from his real numbers: every bill logged, every payroll run, every invoice, every deposit. It shows gross profit, payroll share, marketing spend and net profit in one place, updated every week. The labor rate health check shows whether the posted rate still hits the profit goal given current overhead.
In Nate's case the goal was 15% net and 60% gross. Nolavi showed him at 58% gross and 11% net. The gap traced to an outdated labor rate and three jobs priced below cost. Both were fixed in under a week, and the Monday report confirmed the numbers moved.
How we work. We make changes like this for shops all the time, using each shop's own data. The numbers shown are examples.
Many shops aim for 55 to 65 percent gross and 10 to 20 percent net. But the number that matters is yours: what your overhead requires to hit your goals. Nolavi calculates that from your real bills and shows it every week.
Check your labor rate against actual overhead, find any jobs priced below cost, cut marketing that doesn't bring repair orders, and close your books every day so nothing hides. Nolavi handles all four automatically.
Open the demo and find this kind of problem in a minute. Or book your 14 day free trial: it starts with a quick call, and we set it all up and fit it to your shop.
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