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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.

Autowork Online is MAM Software’s cloud-based garage management system: job cards, invoices, work histories, parts catalogue and repair times, with a customisable workshop diary.

For online booking, MAM partnered with Vitara to offer BOOKAR. With the Autowork Online Integrator enabled, BOOKAR reads real-time appointment availability and creates web bookings directly in Autowork Online. It is a fully managed website and booking package sold through MAM.

That is a real, sanctioned, two-way integration and we do not have an equivalent. If you are an Autowork Online garage, the honest recommendation is to look at BOOKAR first. GarageCal is worth a look only if you want something much smaller and cheaper, and you are content for bookings to arrive as notifications rather than appearing in the Autowork diary on their own.

At a glance

Checked 2 August 2026. Where a figure is not published, we say so rather than guess at one.

  GarageCal Autowork Online
What it is A booking layer A full cloud garage management system
Official booking product Not applicable BOOKAR, via MAM partnership
Writes bookings into the diary No, sends a notification Yes, with Integrator enabled
Published pricing £29/month + VAT Not published
Free tier Yes, one bay None published
Job cards and invoicing No Yes
Parts catalogue and repair times No Yes, via MAM Autocat
Bay-level capacity Products mapped to bays Workshop diary
Setup An afternoon, self-serve Managed setup by their team

Where Autowork Online is the better buy

  • You already run it. Adding BOOKAR gives you booking that writes straight into your existing diary, which is a genuinely better outcome than anything we can offer an Autowork garage today.
  • It is a complete management system: job cards, invoices, work histories and parts ordering through the Autocat catalogue.
  • MAM is a long-established supplier with a support organisation behind it.
  • The BOOKAR package includes a fully managed website, built and hosted for you.

Where we would still have a look

  • You want online booking for well under what a managed website package costs.
  • You are happy taking bookings by email and webhook rather than having them appear in the Autowork diary automatically.
  • You want to trial online booking on one bay for nothing before spending anything.
  • Bay-level capacity matters to you more than diary integration does.

Questions people actually ask

Does GarageCal integrate with Autowork Online?

Not today. Bookings can be pushed to any system that accepts a webhook, but that is not the same as the real-time two-way integration BOOKAR has through the Autowork Online Integrator. We would rather be clear about the gap than blur it.

Should I use BOOKAR instead if I am on Autowork Online?

Probably, yes. It is MAM’s official partner and it writes into your diary. That is a straightforwardly better fit, and we would rather tell you than sell you something that leaves you copying bookings across by hand.

What does Autowork Online cost?

MAM does not publish pricing for Autowork Online. You would need to ask them for a quote.

Sources, checked 2 August 2026: Autowork Online · Autowork Online and Bookar

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