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Bookings, quotes, job cards, stock and invoicing in one system, for tyre and mechanical businesses.
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Pick the kind of business you run. Every product shares the same data, so you can add another later without re-keying anything.
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Fitting bays, tyre stock by size and brand, and supplier ordering built for the counter. Bookings, rego lookup, quotes, job cards and invoicing together.
Mostly used by the technician. Picks the job up, records what was done, attaches photos and marks the hours.
Also in the range
Point of sale first, for shops run from the front counter. An alternative to Workshop, not an addition.
Payroll that reads the hours the workshop recorded.
Recommended for mechanical workshops
Bookings, inspections, parts and labour on a single job card from quote to invoice, with integrated accounting and supplier connections.
Mostly used by the technician. Picks the job up, records what was done, attaches photos and marks the hours.
Also in the range
Payroll that reads the hours the workshop recorded.
Recommended for multi-site or franchise networks
One view across every site, with head-office control over pricing, stock, customers and reporting, and inter-branch transfers between locations.
Mostly used by the owner or group manager. Sees every site's jobs, stock and margin in one place, and sets pricing from head office.
Also in the range
What each site runs day to day.
Payroll across the network.
Recommended for fleet service providers
External fleet work is recorded against the fleet company and raises a credit to claim back; internal fleet is billed to your own head office. The Fleet Credits report shows where every claim stands.
Mostly used by the technician. Picks the job up, records what was done, attaches photos and marks the hours.
Also in the range
When the fleet is serviced across several sites.
The same job as it moves through Marlin: booked at the counter, worked in the bay, invoiced and paid.
A customer calls with a rego. Marlin looks the vehicle up and books the work into a bay, with what you did for them last time already attached. The lookup returns the vehicle and its specifications, so nobody at the counter is typing them out of a windscreen.
The booking becomes a job card the counter and the technician both work from. Tasks, comments and photos go on from the floor, so nobody walks out to ask where it is up to. Hours go on against the job as they are worked, which is what puts the estimate and the actual side by side at the end of it.
Fit from your own stock or order from a supplier without leaving the job. What comes off the rack comes off the stock file. The connection to the supplier runs both ways: stock levels on the way out, the supplier's invoice on the way back.
Labour and parts come off the job card and onto the invoice, and it lands in the accounts with the BAS period it belongs to. Nothing is keyed twice, and GST and BAS reporting are part of the system rather than a separate exercise at the end of the quarter.
“Before Marlin Tyre & Mechanical Workshop Software, we had separate solutions for job quotes, invoicing, accounting and a website. Nothing was connected, and there was a lot of double handling. With Marlin, most of these headaches have gone, and I feel in control of my business.”
Hamad Ajaje, Owner, Canberra Tyres, Canberra A.C.T.
What you pay for now
Most workshop software only runs the workshop. Accounting, payroll and the online store are separate subscriptions on top, each with its own login and its own copy of your data.
Separate tools. Separate subscriptions.
Workshop software
Bookings, quotes and job cards
Accounting and BAS
A separate subscription, keyed by hand
Payroll
Hours copied across from the workshop
Online store
Stock that disagrees with the rack
Switching to Marlin
Most workshops come to Marlin from something else. The implementation team reviews what you run now and confirms what comes across before you commit.
Talk to us about switchingWe review your current system and confirm what can be brought across.
Implementation specialists set you up, on site or remote.
Help guides, and support requests logged from inside Marlin.
Megabus has conversion strategies for many popular workshop, point-of-sale and accounting systems. We’ll look at yours and confirm what comes across before you commit.
Most small and medium businesses are up and running within a month. Larger, multi-site rollouts are planned with you and can take longer.
Accounting and BAS are part of Marlin rather than a separate subscription, and Marlin connects with parts catalogues, suppliers and payment providers such as Repco Navigator Pro, Burson EzyParts and Tyro.
See every integrationMarlin Workshop runs in the cloud. Technicians use the Marlin app on a phone or tablet in the bay, from the Apple App Store or Google Play.
Megabus’s own team in Melbourne, with training on site or remote while you get set up. After go-live you can use the Marlin help guides and log support requests from inside Marlin.
Marlin help guidesMegabus has been part of Vela Software, an operating group of Constellation Software, since 2015. Constellation owns software businesses for the long term, and we still run as our own team, focused on the automotive trade.
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