Pricing
$89 a month, per shop
One price for the whole shop. Every tech gets their own login and the bill does not move. The subscription bills monthly.
There is no setup fee and no charge to bring your records in. You are coming from a spreadsheet, and charging you to leave it would be charging at the worst possible moment. The trial runs 45 days and asks for an email address and a shop name. No card.
Every check is in that price. There is no tier that decides how carefully the sheet reads your work. If a measurement is under its minimum, the sheet refuses the sign-off, and it refuses it the same way on the cheapest thing we sell because it is the only thing we sell.
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What is already decided
These came out of reading what machine shop software actually charges today, vendor page by vendor page. They fix the shape of the price, and now the size of it too.
- Per shop, not per user
- One subscription for the shop, and every tech on the floor gets their own login without the price moving. Adding a person is a decision about the shop, not a decision about the bill.
- One plan
- There is no good, better and best. Nobody buying this should have to work out which tier is the one that stops the sheet from refusing a bad deck height.
- Nothing to get started
- There is no setup fee and no charge to bring your history in. Shops in this category are routinely billed to migrate their data, but they are migrating from another system. You are coming off a spreadsheet, and billing you for that would be billing you at the moment you are least sure.
- No card to start
- The trial takes an email address and a shop name. Nothing is charged when it ends, because there is nothing on file to charge.
- Monthly billing
- The shop pays month by month. A manager can cancel through the billing portal; cancellation takes effect at the end of the paid period.
- A ceiling on photos, not on people
- Photos are the one thing that genuinely costs more as a shop uses the product more. They stay with the warranty record while the account is active, so that is what carries a limit. It is set high enough that ordinary work does not reach it, and a shop that does reach it hears from a person rather than from an invoice.
Why the price does not count logins
Every value on the printed traveler carries the initials of whoever took it and the date they took it, and every override carries the name of the manager who granted it. That attribution is most of what makes the sheet worth anything in a warranty argument three years later.
Price a login, and the sensible move for a four person shop is to buy one and pass it around. It costs the shop nothing to do, we would never see it happen, and what it quietly removes is the name on every reading. A per user price would put money behind the one habit this product cannot survive.
The shared tablet is a case this was built for rather than one it puts up with. A reading typed in a dead spot waits on that device for the tech who typed it to sign back in, instead of going into the record under whoever picked the tablet up next.
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The trial runs 45 days
Thirty days is what shop software usually offers, and thirty days is wrong for this one. The reason is in when the product pays off rather than in how generous we feel.
The first job on an engine model asks a tech for the limits out of your own book, which is the same lookup the paper sheet already needs. The payoff arrives on the second job on that model, when those limits come up already filled in and the sheet argues with a reading that does not agree with them. At single digit jobs a month, thirty days can pass with three jobs started, none of them on the same model, and possibly none of them finished, signed and printed. A trial that short can end before the software has once done the thing it exists to do.
Forty five days makes at least one complete job, from the counter to the printed sheet, close to certain at that volume, and it roughly doubles the odds of seeing two jobs on one engine model. It also means that when the trial does end there is a printed traveler sitting in a customer file to think about, which is the only argument that ever really closes.
What happens when a trial ends
Starting new work stops. Reading what you already entered does not. Jobs, measurements, photos, findings and overrides stay readable, and the CSV exports keep working.
A printed traveler is a warranty record. Holding one back over an unpaid invoice would be the exact opposite of what this product is sold on, so the record is not the thing we withhold.
There is no free tier
A free plan here would be a discount rather than a way in, because the shop that would use the free one is the same four person shop that would pay for it. There is no hobbyist version of an engine rebuild.
The other half is storage. The copy we keep is evidence rather than a thumbnail, sharp enough to argue a cracked block over years. A free account would still accumulate backed up evidence for as long as it stayed active, while a closed account has the same stated 180 day export and deletion policy as every other shop.
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What is in it
One plan means this is the list. There is no tier above it where a check comes back on or a report appears.
Eleven checks, and your own
The built in rules, four of which block a signature and cannot be switched off by anyone, only softened to a warning. On top of them, checks your shop writes for itself in four fixed shapes, which behave exactly like the built in ones.
The printed traveler
Rendered on the server, so it is the same document from every device and every printer. Out of limit values print beside the limit they broke, a required field nobody filled prints as NOT RECORDED, and every override prints with a name and a reason.
Photos, at the detail you choose
A photo is stored once, and a manager picks how much detail it keeps from four samples made out of one of your own photographs, with the file size under each. Higher detail costs storage and shows more of a crack, and you can see the difference before you decide rather than guessing at a number.
A window for the customer
You can send a customer a link to their own job. There is no account to create and no app to install, you choose per job what they can see, and they can ask a question that reaches you like any other message.
Your sheet, changed by you
The fields are data rather than code, so a manager adds, removes and reorders them without waiting for us. Publishing an edit creates a new version, and every job stays on the version it was created under.
Working through a dead spot
What a tech types is kept on the device and sends itself when the signal comes back, named with the person who typed it, and the bar at the bottom of the screen says how long the connection has been gone.
Your own address, and your data out of it
The shop works at its own address with its own data. Jobs, cores at or past their limit, parts on order and every override are each a CSV download from the screen you are already looking at.
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What the price stands on
It is one flat figure for the whole shop, and it was set against what shops your size already pay rather than against what we hoped to get.
A four to eight person shop is usually already paying for engine reference data, with a single login, at slightly more than we charge for this whole application with as many logins as you need. That is the floor, and it is the reason we did not go lower: a price under it invites the question of what has been left out.
The ceiling is the nearest thing we have to a direct competitor, which costs the better part of twice as much and does more than we do. It has invoicing, inventory, a labor guide and a link to your accounts, and none of that is here. Pricing a narrower product level with a wider one is how a shop ends up feeling short-changed at renewal, so we sit well underneath it and say why.
The subscription is monthly. The amount and billing interval appear in checkout before a shop enters a card.
The figure is on this page in plain sight. Most software sold to shops shows its price. The products that hide it behind a form are the ones sold by a rep on a scheduled call, and we have no rep. A form is where a four person shop's interest in a piece of software usually dies.
If something here is not answered, write to us. That form reaches a person, and you will get a reply from one.
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Questions
Can our customers watch their own engine?
Yes, and it costs nothing beyond the $89. You invite one customer to one job and they get a link: the stage the engine is at, the photographs you have marked for them, anything you want answered, and a way to write to you. They never see measurements or findings. No account and no app at their end, and their replies land on the job rather than in somebody's inbox. There is no charge per customer and no allowance to run out of.
So what will it cost?
$89 a month for the shop, with as many logins as you need. There is no setup fee, no charge to bring your records in, and no cheaper tier that reads your work less carefully, because there is only the one thing to buy.
Do we pay for every tech?
No. The price counts shops. Every reading on the traveler carries the initials of whoever took it, and charging by the login would pay a shop to buy one and share it, which is exactly how that attribution gets lost.
How do cancellation and refunds work?
A manager can cancel in the billing portal. The subscription runs through the paid month, then stops. We do not automatically refund unused days in that month. If a charge is wrong or a refund is required by law, contact support. The terms give the details.
Can we start today?
Yes. Signup is on this site, and it sets your shop up at its own address in a few seconds. The 45 day trial asks for an email address and a shop name and no card, so nothing is charged while you find out whether the sheet suits how you work. The price is the one at the top of this page, and you will have seen it long before we ask you for it.
What happens to our records if we stop paying?
You keep reading and exporting them for at least 180 days after the account becomes read-only, printed travelers included. The app shows a planned deletion date and sends reminders before it. Deletion is held if no export has been downloaded, and a final archive remains downloadable for 30 more days after deletion. A warranty record is not something to hold over a customer, and deletion is not something to hide in fine print.
Is there a free version?
No. The shop that would use it is the same shop that would pay for it, so it would work as a permanent discount rather than as a way in. An active account keeps backed up photo evidence with its warranty records, which is real storage even though a closed account follows the 180 day retention policy above.