RMI Auto App
RMI approved, built for South African workshops

Customers approve each repair on their phone. That approval becomes your invoice.

Your advisors and technicians work on their phones. You see every job, every rand and every message from the office. Nothing is retyped between the estimate and the invoice.

It opens in seconds with your name on it and three sample cars. Free for 60 days. No account, nothing to install.

How it works, step by stepSign in to read the full guide.

The customer's estimate on a phone: each item with its price and a Yes and No button
The owner's dashboard on a laptop: what needs the owner, the get-ready checklist and the day's figures
  • 5 photosat every check-in, front to dash
  • 15 areason the damage diagram, each with a close photo
  • 14 daysevery declined item stays on Follow up
  • 60 daysfree, with three sample cars to try

See it working

Every screen, from the forecourt to the owner's desk

Real screens from a demo workshop. Pick one, or let them play.

Check-in screen with five photos of a white bakkie: front, rear, left, right and dash
A car seen from above with a numbered pin on the left front door, and the mark listed with its photo
Health check: two need attention, twelve good, with Good, Soon and Now buttons
The customer's estimate with a Yes and No under each item
The invoice with each line, the amount still owed and a button to record the payment
Owner dashboard charts: money received over 30 days, cars in and out, cars by phase and how customers paid
The Messages page: counts, the log and a switch for each message

Try it here

The parts of the app that save you money, working on this page

Tap and slide. These work the way the app does, and nothing you do here is sent anywhere.

The customer's phone

Say yes or no, as your customer would

Each item has its own answer. Only what the customer approves becomes the invoice, with a record of who agreed and when.

Minor service labourR975.00Labour, 1.5 hours
Engine oil 5 litresR620.00Part, quantity 1
Oil filterR180.00Part, quantity 1

The invoice, built for you

  • Nothing approved yet. Nothing is done to the car without a yes.
TotalR0.00

3 items still to answer.

At the counter

Price labour in one tap

No typing with greasy hands.

R975.00at R650 an hour, the starting rate. You set your own.

Messages

When would the message go?

Customers are only messaged 08:00 to 18:00, never on Sundays or public holidays.

19:00 Monday: it waits until 08:00 Tuesday.

Where is my car

Five phases, in plain words

The customer's page and the board say the same thing, so nobody phones to ask.

Arrived

Next: photos and the customer signs.

In the bay

The health check feeds the estimate

Anything marked Soon or Now goes onto the estimate with its photo.

Brake pads
Tyres
Wiper blades

2 need attention and go onto the estimate.

Work you already found

What is the work customers say no to worth to you?

Your technicians find it, the customer says not today, and on paper it is forgotten. In the app every declined item stays on a Follow up list for 14 days, with the customer's name and a WhatsApp button, so someone calls back.

Move the sliders to your own numbers.

R31,176 a monthof work your workshop already diagnosed, at 4.33 weeks a month

See the Follow up list in the demo

Front of house and back office

Your staff work on their phones. You see it all from the office.

The same job card moves from the advisor's phone to the technician's bay to your dashboard, with nothing retyped.

  • Technicians see their own jobs and never the prices.
  • Discounts above your limit, and cars leaving unpaid, wait for your tap.
  • Each workshop has its own logins, customers and job cards, its own web address, and can send email from its own address.
The owner's charts: money received, cars in and out, cars by phase and how customers paid
The board on a phone: cars that need you, then cars grouped by phase

Every screen in the app

  • Check-in with photos
    Check-in
  • Marks on the car
    Damage marks
  • Health check
    Health check
  • Customer estimate
    Customer estimate
  • Invoice
    Invoice
  • Board
    Board

Day to day

Small things that save time at the counter

  • Licence disc scan

    Point the phone at the disc, or take a photo. If the barcode cannot be read, AI reads the printed disc.

  • Photos stay with the job

    Five angles at check-in, a photo on every finding and every mark, all on the job card.

  • Messages sent for you

    Estimate ready, car ready, invoice, service due: sent by email inside sending hours, with a log.

  • Invoices on WhatsApp

    Send the invoice to the customer by WhatsApp in one tap.

  • Follow up declined work

    See the work customers said no to, with its value, and call them back.

  • Built for rand and VAT

    Prices, VAT and the labour rate are set for South African workshops.

Start now

Start in two minutes, with nothing to install

  1. Name your workshopOpen the demo and type your workshop's name. It opens with three sample cars.
  2. Run one jobCheck a car in with the sample photos, send yourself the estimate and approve it as your customer would.
  3. Keep it, and put it on your phonePress Keep this workshop and it becomes yours. On an iPhone tap Share, then Add to Home Screen; on Android use the browser menu.

Free for 60 days. No account needed to try it. Until you keep it, a demo cannot add staff or send email.

Questions

Questions workshop owners ask

Still unsure? Open the demo and try it on a sample car. It takes two minutes.

What is a job card?

A job card is the record a motor workshop opens when a car comes in: the customer and the vehicle, what the customer asked for, photos of the car, the work with parts and labour, the customer's approval and the sign-off. RMI Auto App keeps the job card on a phone instead of on paper.

What is the purpose of a job card?

It tells everyone in the workshop what to do on a car, records what the customer agreed to before any work starts, and becomes the invoice. A clear job card prevents arguments about work done without permission.

How do you prepare a job card in RMI Auto App?

Type the registration or scan the licence disc, take the five photos, mark any damage on the car diagram and let the customer sign. Then add the work, or a usual job in one tap, and send the estimate. Most check-ins take about two minutes.

Is there a free workshop management app?

You can use RMI Auto App free for 60 days. You do not need an account: you name your workshop and it opens with three sample cars. Until you keep it, a trial cannot add staff or send email.

Do I need to install anything, and does it work on an iPhone?

No install is needed. It opens in the browser on any phone or laptop, Android or iPhone, and you can add it to your home screen so it opens like any other app. The licence disc scan works on both; on an iPhone it can also read the disc from a photo.

Does each workshop get its own app?

Yes. Each workshop has its own logins, staff, customers and job cards, and no workshop sees another's. It can also have its own web address. Start from the demo and press Keep this workshop, or we open one for you.

Can we send emails to our customers from our own address?

Yes. Add your own mailbox under Settings, Your email, and customer emails go out from your address. Until then they go out from our mailbox with your workshop's name as the sender, and replies come to your email.

What does it cost after the trial?

You own your install outright, with no per-user fee and no per-message fee. Contact us through imbilladigitalagency.com, tell us about your workshop and we will send you a price.

Who built it?

Imbilla Digital Agency, a digital agency in South Africa, built it for workshops. It carries the RMI approved mark. You can read more about us at imbilladigitalagency.com.

Open a demo workshop and run your first job