As an example: a garage with one office admin and three technicians can pay £350+/month on some systems. The same team on Autera Workshop is £79/month, covers unlimited mechanics, and your office and admin logins are free.
Your data is yours. Export everything, customers, vehicles, jobs, invoices, as a machine-readable file at any time. Even if you cancel. No exit fees, no data held hostage.
Generous Autera Assist allowances on every plan, and MOT reminders by text on every paid plan. Need more? Top-ups are optional, never forced, and we never auto-charge you or lock your account. No surprise bills at the end of the month.
Compare every plan
Exactly what each plan includes. Swipe sideways on a phone to see every column.
Solo Free forever | Starter £29 /mo | Popular Workshop £79 /mo | Multi-Bay £149 /mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plans & limits | ||||
| Mechanics | 1 | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Office & admin logins | — | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Jobs / month | 20 | 40 | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Invoices & quotes / month | 20 | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| New customers / month | 20 | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Autera Assist AI credits / month | 30 | 200 | 600 | 2,000 |
| Text reminders / month | — | 50 | 150 | 400 |
| Everyday | ||||
| DVLA reg + DVSA MOT lookups | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Quote → invoice → card payment | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| iOS & Android app | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Autera Assist (reads diagnostic scans) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Job calendar | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Analytics dashboard | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Grow the workshop | ||||
| Autera Snap (documents & camera) | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Branded PDFs + Xero / QuickBooks | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| MOT reminders | — | Due alerts | Automated | Automated |
| Inventory & suppliers | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Per-job time tracking | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Digital vehicle health checks (VHC) | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| ADAS PAS 1880 certificates | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Online booking page | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Your garage website (built for you, fully customisable) | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Customer job tracker (live "is my car ready?" link) | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Review booster (Google review ask at collection) | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Daily manager report (7am email digest) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multi-site management | – | – | Add-on | Included |
| Priority support (email + WhatsApp) | – | – | – | ✓ |
Office and admin logins are always free, you only pay per mechanic. Multi-site is £49/mo per extra location (an add-on on Workshop, included on Multi-Bay). SMS reminders and public API are on the way.
Which plan fits your garage?
We sized the plans around the four most common UK garage shapes. If your shop fits one of these descriptions, the matching plan is usually the right starting point.
Every paid plan includes unlimited mechanics and unlimited admin users. Bring the whole team, your office staff, accountant and receptionist included, at no extra cost.
Sole-trader mechanics and mobile technicians working alone
You handle 5-25 jobs a month, send the odd invoice, and want to stop chasing customers for car details over WhatsApp.
What you get: 1 mechanic (just you). 20 jobs, 20 invoices, 20 quotes, 20 new customers/month, unlimited MOT history lookups plus fair-use DVLA reg lookups. Job calendar and analytics included. Full iOS & Android app included.
Small workshops with a growing team and a busy front desk
You run a single bay, do 20-40 jobs a month, and need branded invoices, unlimited reg lookups with full MOT history, and your accountant on Xero or QuickBooks.
What you get: Unlimited mechanics and unlimited admin users (manager, parts, finance, customer support, viewer, invite them all at no extra cost). 40 jobs / month, plus unlimited DVLA & MOT history lookups, unlimited invoices and quotes, branded PDFs, document storage, photo job filing, and Xero/QuickBooks sync.
Established garages with a full team and an MOT bay
You have multiple ramps, run 200+ jobs a month, use MOT reminders powered by the official DVSA API, and want ADAS calibration certificates and digital vehicle health checks (VHC) filed against the job.
What you get: Unlimited mechanics and unlimited admin users with role-based permissions (owner, manager, technician, parts, finance, customer support). Unlimited jobs, ADAS PAS 1880 certificates, digital vehicle health checks (VHC), online customer booking page, MOT reminder workflow, per-job time tracking, inventory management, and team performance reports. Running more than one site? Add extra locations for £49/month each.
High-volume workshops and multi-site groups that want every limit lifted
You handle 200+ jobs a month, want every usage limit lifted and the highest allowances, and want priority support with hands-on migration when you switch.
What you get: Unlimited mechanics & admin users, priority email + WhatsApp support, and white-glove migration assistance. Multi-location management is included, at £49/month per extra site (the same add-on is available on Workshop). Public API access is on the roadmap; your pricing locks in at sign-up.
We move your data in for you, free
Send your customers, vehicles, job history and staff in whatever format they are in now, including a spreadsheet or photos of paper records. We load the lot and tell you when it is done, within one working day of your file reaching us.
No setup fee, no contract, and no card needed. It is free on the free plan too, because a system with two customers typed into it tells you nothing about whether it suits your garage.
How the free migration worksWhat every plan includes
We do not gate the basics behind a higher tier. The features below come with every Autera plan, including free Solo.
Powered by the official DVLA & DVSA APIs, not third-party data scrapers
- ✓Official DVLA reg lookup + DVSA MOT History API (advisories, test dates, mileage)
- ✓Free iOS & Android mobile apps: jobs, photos, time tracking, on the go
- ✓Stripe online payments: customers pay invoices by card at checkout
- ✓Customer portal for quote acceptance and pay-by-link
- ✓Daily encrypted backups with 30-day recovery window
- ✓UK-hosted, GDPR-compliant data storage
- ✓No setup fees, no contracts, cancel any time
Still working it out?
If you are weighing Autera up against another tool, we have side-by-side comparisons for each of the main UK alternatives:
Already on ServiceM8 today? We will move your customers, vehicles and jobs across for free. Or, if you would rather see Autera in action first, book a 30-minute live demo on a real workshop account.