You buy a lot of parts. You're not sure they all end up on a ticket. Here's how it played out at our sample shop, the way a mechanic works a car: concern, cause, correction, verification.
Nate's parts profit was 38% when it should have been about 45%.
Nolavi matched every part bought to a repair order. 41 parts in two months, worth $2,870, were never billed to anyone. Most were brake parts picked up by the same tech.
Nate set a rule that every parts order needs a repair order number, and Nolavi flags any part that isn't billed within 3 days.
Unbilled parts dropped to 2 the next month, both caught and billed, and parts profit is back to 45%.
Example shop. Nate's Auto Repair is Nolavi's sample shop with made up numbers. The steps are exactly how Nolavi works on a real shop's data.
Match each part on your vendor invoices to a repair order. Anything left over needs a reason.
Many shops aim for 40% to 50% gross profit on parts. A drop is often unbilled or misused parts.
Open the demo and find this kind of problem yourself 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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