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How we stack up, including where we don't
Every comparison below names what the alternative does better. If a rival is the right answer for your garage we would rather tell you than sell you something that does not fit. Facts are taken from each company's own published pages and dated.
GarageCal vs Garage Hive
Garage Hive is a serious garage management system and its online booking is genuinely good. If you are ready for a full GMS, buy theirs. We are for garages that are not.
GarageCal vs MAM Autowork Online
If you run Autowork Online, its own booking partner writes bookings straight into your diary. We cannot match that yet, and we will not pretend otherwise.
GarageCal vs TechMan
TechMan is a full workshop system in four tiers, and its web booking tool sits in the top one. If booking is the only thing you need, you would be buying a lot of software to get it.
GarageCal vs FixMyCar (WhoCanFixMyCar)
FixMyCar finds you strangers. GarageCal converts the people who already know you. If you are quiet, use both. If you are busy, only one of them should be costing you money.
GarageCal vs BOOKAR
BOOKAR is the closest thing to us in the UK, and the better choice if you want one system for the whole workshop. We are the better choice if you only want the booking to work.
GarageCal vs MOT Manager
MOT Manager bundles booking into a wider garage management package with a tailored monthly price. We are a smaller, cheaper, published-price alternative if booking is all you need.
GarageCal vs BookMyGarage
These are not the same kind of thing. BookMyGarage brings you other people’s customers and takes a cut. GarageCal converts the customers you already have and takes nothing.
GarageCal vs a paper diary
The counter diary is not stupid. It is fast, it never goes down, and everyone knows how to use it. It just cannot answer the phone at nine at night.
A note on the two full management systems in that list. GarageCal is designed to sit alongside a garage management system rather than replace one, so the Garage Hive and Autowork Online pages are written as an honest account of where each is the better answer, which is more often than not. If you are already happy with the booking built into your management system, keep it. We would rather be useful than win a comparison.
See it running on your own bays
Twenty minutes on a call, with your own bays and products set up as they actually are. Far more use than any comparison table.