The phone rings out at drop-off rush
At 8am every advisor is at the counter and every line is ringing. The caller with a no-start will not leave a voicemail — they book with whoever picks up first.
AI agents that answer the service line, time every bay on camera, audit every ticket, and read every review — so nothing stalls in a bay, nothing leaves unbilled, and the numbers are in your inbox by morning.
I. The pains
Oil walks out the door, cars sit in bays longer than anyone notices, and the numbers that would tell you sit locked in three systems nobody has time to open.
At 8am every advisor is at the counter and every line is ringing. The caller with a no-start will not leave a voicemail — they book with whoever picks up first.
The board says the car went in at 9:00 and left at 10:00. Nothing records when the hood opened or closed, or why a 20-minute oil change took 50 minutes.
The advisor works from the customer’s complaint. Nothing pulls the vehicle’s history to show the 60,000-mile service that came due or the brake fluid nobody has touched in three years — so the ticket stays small.
Nobody reads every Google review at every store, let alone replies to them. The same complaint repeats for months, the tech who earned the praise never hears it, and nobody can say which tech is behind the problems.
Oil dispensed but never billed, parts charged and never installed, discounts nobody checks — and the POS numbers that would prove it sit in reports nobody has time to pull.
Five thousand mailers drop and nothing ties them to the cars that showed up. The customer who quietly stopped coming — and the driver five minutes down the road who has never come in — never hears from you at all.
II. How ClickSide helps
Answers the service line around the clock, books straight into Tekmetric, AutoOps, or Steer, and reports call volume, topics, length, and booking conversion.
Times every visit from arrival to exit — hood open and closed, bay utilisation, peak hours, garage doors — and alerts a manager the moment a car overstays.
Pulls the Carfax report the moment a car is identified and shows the advisor exactly what is due now and what is coming, before the customer is off the lot.
Oil in against oil out, Big Five counts versus last year, COGS by ticket, parts ordered against parts installed, coupon use by employee, clock-ins, missed breaks, overtime and bonus math, and which stock is moving or sitting obsolete — built to your shop, not to a template.
Reads every review across every store, drafts the reply for you to approve or posts it automatically, tags the tech named in each one, separates praise from problems, and can run a review contest between your techs.
Finds the customers who stopped coming in and the drivers near your shop who never have, reaches them by SMS and postcard, ties each mailing back to the cars it brought in, asks for a review after pickup, and posts your Reels.
III. Example flows
Flow 01
ClickSide connects your cameras, vehicle data, phone line, and shop systems so every visit is measured and nothing worth billing gets missed.
One vehicle. One visit. Dozens of signals. ClickSide reads what is happening across your shop in real time and turns it into revenue you can see.
AI camera detection
CCTV picks up the vehicle entering the property, reads the plate, and stamps the arrival time automatically.
Cam 01Arrived·8:42:16 AMVehicle intelligence
The plate is matched to the customer and open repair order in your POS, and the Carfax report is pulled automatically.
AI recommendations
ClickSide reads the Carfax report and service history to show the advisor what is due today and what is coming next.
Due on this vehicle
AI follow-up
The recommendation goes out by SMS with a one-tap approval link, and the reply lands straight back on the repair order.
AI bay monitoring
Cameras log the moment the hood opens and start the clock. Pass your target time and a manager gets alerted, not a complaint.
AI exit detection
CCTV records the vehicle leaving, closes the visit with a real departure time, and the review request goes out minutes later.
Cam 01Exited·11:54:03 AMReporting & audits
The closed RO is checked end to end — parts and oil used against what was billed, hours clocked against hours sold, bay time, and margin on the ticket.
Today’s outcome
Yes — bookings, customer and vehicle records, transaction data, and call summaries sync with systems like Tekmetric, AutoOps, Steer, Shop-Ware, Mitchell 1, and ISI LubeSoft, whether it runs in the cloud on LubeSoft Express or locally on your own server, so your advisors keep working where they always have.
Usually not. We run the AI on the CCTV you already have — arrivals, exits, hood open and close, bay utilisation, and garage doors all come off your existing feeds. Often it is just a matter of re-angling a camera you already own, and some shops add a single camera at the back of the bay so plates read cleanly. We tell you which after we look at your feeds.
The moment the plate is matched we pull the Carfax report and the history already in your POS, then show the advisor what is due now and what is coming next. It is the car’s own mileage and intervals, not a script — the advisor still decides what to raise.
Every report is built to your shop — if you can define it, we can report it. What we run for other shops: oil ordered and received against oil dispensed, so any discrepancy surfaces the same week; Big Five counts against last year — wiper blades, engine air filters, cabin filters, and the rest; tickets over your COGS threshold; hours sold against hours clocked; overtime and missed breaks; bonus math on whatever metrics you pay on; coupon use by employee; obsolete inventory; and how many cars crossed 75,000 miles.
Both. Every review at every location is read and classified — praise or problem, which store, which tech was named — and we draft the reply for you to approve, or post it for you if you would rather not touch it. The same tagging shows who earns the praise, who draws the complaints, and can run a review contest between your techs.
That is one of the checks. We compare parts ordered against parts fitted on the ticket and flag any mismatch, along with any transaction that breaks your COGS threshold, for a human to review.
Every mailer, SMS, and offer is tied back to the vehicles that showed up after it, so a campaign reports what it returned instead of what it cost. The targeting runs both ways — customers who quietly stopped coming, and the drivers within a few miles of the shop who have never come in at all.
The moment the agreement is signed we book an onboarding call and take in everything we need — your service menu, camera access, POS credentials, the thresholds you want flagged, and the metrics your bonuses are paid on. Most shops are live about 10 days from that kickoff, and the camera side can run up to two weeks to be fully delivered.
Ready when you are
Connect your calls, cameras, vehicle data, reviews, and POS into one operation you can actually see.
See ClickSide in action