Built for UK independent garages

Garage invoicing software
that gets you paid the same day.

Send invoices to your customer phone with a one-tap Stripe payment link. Overdue invoice alerts that flag the slow payers for your team. DVLA reg lookup so vehicle details fill in themselves. Free forever for solo mechanics, paid plans from £29 per month.

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Independent garages lose more money to slow-paying invoices than to anything else. The job is done, the customer drove off, and the cash sits on a paper invoice in someone's glovebox. Garage invoicing software fixes that by putting a payment link in the invoice itself: customers pay from their phone in 30 seconds, you mark the job complete, and your bank balance reflects the work the same week. Any invoice that does go overdue is flagged on your dashboard so your team can chase it before it slips.

FEATURES

What the invoicing feature does

Four things, all in service of getting paid faster with less admin.

Payment link on every invoice

Every invoice goes out with a Stripe-secured payment link. Customer taps once, pays by card or Apple Pay, money is in your bank account in two days.

Email invoices with a payment link

Most invoices read on the customer phone. Each one goes out by email with a one-tap Stripe payment link, so customers pay in seconds without a paper PDF. SMS delivery is coming soon.

Overdue invoice alerts

The moment an invoice goes overdue, Autera flags it on your dashboard and alerts your team to chase it, so nothing slips through the cracks. Automated customer reminder emails are on the roadmap.

DVLA-prefilled line items

Type the registration once and the make, model, year and engine fill in automatically. No retyping, no transposed digits, no awkward "what was that one again" calls.

HOW IT WORKS

How invoicing works in Autera

From job complete to money in the bank, in four steps.

1

Build the invoice from a job

Pull parts and labour straight from a closed job. Or start a fresh invoice and add lines manually. Either way takes a minute.

2

Send by email (SMS coming soon)

Hit send. Customer gets a branded email with a one-tap payment link.

3

Customer taps the link, pays

Stripe-secured payment page in your garage colours. Card or Apple Pay. Done in 30 seconds.

4

Invoice marked Paid automatically

No reconciliation work. The invoice flips to Paid the moment the payment clears, money lands in your bank in two working days.

BEFORE AND AFTER

Paper invoices vs Autera invoicing

The same job, paid in days instead of weeks.

THE OLD WAY
✕Print invoice, hand to customer, hope they pay
✕Phone calls every Friday chasing 30-day overdue
✕Bank transfer details on a sticky note
✕Lost paperwork, missed VAT lines
WITH AUTERA
✓Invoice emailed to the customer with a one-tap payment link
✓Overdue invoices flagged on your dashboard for your team to chase
✓Card or Apple Pay tap, money in bank in two days
✓Sequential numbering, VAT exports, accountant-ready
CASH FLOW

Cash flow is the difference between a busy garage and a profitable one.

A garage that takes 30 days to get paid is borrowing money from its own customers. Parts have been bought, wages have been paid, and the cash that funds next week's work is still sitting on someone's glovebox invoice.

Same-day payment links cut that cycle from 30 days to under 24 hours for most jobs. The same volume of work, the same customers, paid two to three weeks faster. That difference is what hires the next technician.

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FAQ

Garage invoicing software FAQ

Want the wider feature list? See the Autera homepage, the pricing page, or the MOT reminders feature.

Each invoice has a unique payment link at the bottom. The customer taps it on their phone and pays by card, Apple Pay or Google Pay. Stripe handles the payment, the money lands in your bank account in two working days, and the invoice flips to Paid in Autera automatically.

Invoices go out by email with a one-tap Stripe payment link, so customers pay from their phone in seconds. SMS delivery is coming soon.

The moment an invoice is overdue, Autera flags it on your dashboard and alerts your team to chase it, so nothing slips through the cracks. Automated customer reminder emails are on the roadmap.

Yes. Sequential invoice numbering, VAT-registered fields, your VAT number on every invoice if you add it once in settings. Exports to CSV and PDF for your accountant. Works with Xero and QuickBooks via CSV import.

Part-payment is supported. Mark the partial amount paid, the invoice shows the remaining balance, and reminders only chase the unpaid portion. Both parts appear in the customer history.

Stripe charges its standard UK card processing fee (1.5% + 20p for UK cards, 2.5% + 20p for European cards, see Stripe for the latest). Autera does not add a markup on top. The Starter plan covers unlimited invoices for £29 a month, and the Workshop plan at £79 a month adds unlimited jobs, inventory and ADAS certificates.

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