Built in a working auto shop

Your whole shop, on one screen.

Team chat, loaner cars, inspections, customer forms, special tools, time off, training and the day's work - one connected system for the back of your shop, right alongside the shop management system you already use.

No credit card to start. Cancel any time.

Built to work together

Not another shop management system - the rest of your shop, connected

Keep estimates, invoicing and parts where they are. TEKTUNE runs everything around them - your team, the loaners, the tools and the paperwork - and every part is tightly connected to the others.

One system, not ten apps

Every module shares the same people, cars and schedule. Check a loaner in and its inspection lands on the task board; a customer signs and the car signs itself out, with their lockbox code on the last page; a form filled in at the counter shows up on the board.

Message Center ties it together

Chat, announcements, assignments and notifications reach every phone, PC and the Windows app - so the whole team hears about it the moment something happens.

Standalone, better with Tekmetric

TEKTUNE works on its own. Connect Tekmetric and repair orders flow in live - into Message Center, the task board, your loaners' history and Shop Hours.

Fits how your shop is run

Foremen, service managers, parts managers, porters - give everyone the roles they actually have and decide what each role can do. Already use something else for a module? Turn it off and keep the rest.

See how it works

Every feature, step by step

These are real TEKTUNE screens from a demo shop. Click any picture to see it full size - or take the guided tour, one step at a time.

Task board

Everything that needs doing today, in one place everyone can see - on the shop computer, the wall TV and every phone.

  1. "Needs immediate attention" jobs go on the board for anyone to grab - and add up points when they're done.
  2. The same list brings what needs someone now: a form a customer just filled in, a rental agreement being signed, a time off request to decide, training that's due.
  3. Loaners coming back from a rental show up as inspection tasks automatically, and a problem a customer reports becomes a vehicle concern for a tech.
  4. Daily tasks reset every morning, on the days your shop is open.
  5. A weekly leaderboard, with the winner announced automatically.
The task board: inspections waiting, the loaner fleet, urgent and daily tasks
The task board: inspections waiting, the loaner fleet, urgent and daily tasks
Needs Attention: tasks, a form to look at and a time off request
Needs Attention: tasks, a form to look at and a time off request

Message Center

Keep shop conversations out of personal text messages. Message Center is the chat your whole team shares - on the shop computer, every phone and the Windows app.

  1. Direct messages and group chats, grouped by day, with read receipts and "... is typing".
  2. Reply to a message and the conversation opens beside the chat; react with any emoji - your favorites come first.
  3. Type @ to mention someone, and paste or drag photos straight in - several at once.
  4. Mute a chat, mark it unread, search inside it, forward a message or save it for later.
  5. Announcements to the whole shop, with polls - including ranked-choice votes.
  6. Assignments hand someone a job - once, every day or every week - and tell you if it's late.
A shop group chat, with replies open beside it
A shop group chat, with replies open beside it

Tekmetric integration

Use Tekmetric? Connect it once and every repair order flows into TEKTUNE as it changes - and into the parts of your shop that need it.

  1. Repair orders: every RO arrives live, grouped by your shop's own Tekmetric status tags.
  2. RO links: any RO number in a chat or a task turns into an orange tag - hover for the customer, status, keytag and their loaner, click to open it in Tekmetric.
  3. Quality control: an RO moved to Quality Control adds a road-test task on its own, naming who moved it.
  4. Loaners: a car in for service gets a button to its repair order, and every repair order for it lands in its history.
  5. Vehicle concerns: no repair order yet? Add the RO number later, right on the car's card.
  6. Shop Hours: finished labor counts by itself - by day, technician and repair order.
  7. Technicians: tie each Tekmetric technician to the employee it belongs to, so names show everywhere.

Optional - TEKTUNE works on its own. Connecting Tekmetric takes one link pasted into Tekmetric.

Repair orders from Tekmetric, grouped by status tag
Repair orders from Tekmetric, grouped by status tag
An RO number in Message Center, with its Tekmetric card
An RO number in Message Center, with its Tekmetric card

Shop Hours

See the labor hours your shop finished today, this week and this month - right on the board, against the goals you set.

  1. A bar for every day of the week (or the last weeks or months), with your daily goal as a line.
  2. Open any day for each technician's repair orders and labor lines.
  3. Every week and month is kept - look back a year at a time, and print it.
  4. Adjust a day or set its total with a note - every change is in the edit log.
  5. With Tekmetric, finished labor counts by itself. Without it, enter each person's hours at the end of the day.
Shop Hours: the week against the goal, and the day by technician
Shop Hours: the week against the goal, and the day by technician
Shop Hours on the board
Shop Hours on the board

Message Center for Windows

The TEKTUNE Message Center app keeps chat one click away on every shop PC - no browser tab to lose.

  1. Click Pop Out in Message Center to install it; it signs in with your TEKTUNE account.
  2. New messages pop up as Windows notifications, with an unread count on the tray icon.
  3. Message Center in its own small window - drop or paste photos right in; links open in your browser.
  4. It starts with Windows and tells you when a new version is ready.
The TEKTUNE Message Center app's window
The TEKTUNE Message Center app's window
On a shop PC, with a new-message notification
On a shop PC, with a new-message notification

Loaner fleet & sign-out

See every loaner at a glance - ready, out with a customer, being inspected or in for service - with fuel, mileage and where it is.

  1. Sign a car out with the customer, phone, RO number, mileage and return date.
  2. Print the rental agreement, send it for an electronic signature, or send it to the counter kiosk - or do it later from the car's Edit.
  3. Check the car in when it comes back; its inspection lands on the task board.
  4. Reserve cars ahead of time, and keep notes for the next person.
A loaner ready for rental
A loaner ready for rental
Signing a car out
Signing a car out

Electronic rental agreements

Send the rental agreement to the customer's phone - they sign before they arrive, or after hours.

  1. Text or email the customer a secure signing link, or hand it over.
  2. They photograph their license and insurance card, read the agreement and sign.
  3. You follow along on the board; when they sign, the car is signed out to them automatically.
  4. Assign a lockbox and they see its code on the last page - only after signing.
  5. A signed PDF with a signing certificate is kept with the car's history.
What the customer sees on their phone
What the customer sees on their phone

TEKTUNE Kiosk app

Put an iPad on the counter with the TEKTUNE Kiosk app. It shows your shop's logo until you send it something - no clipboard, no copier, no retyping.

  1. Set it up once on the shop's iPad or tablet; it signs in with its own PIN.
  2. Send a rental agreement to the kiosk and the customer signs with a finger - the car signs itself out.
  3. Send one of your shop's forms and customers fill it in - and sign it - right there.
  4. When they're done, the kiosk clears itself and goes back to your logo.
A drop-off form on the counter iPad - the real TEKTUNE Kiosk app
A drop-off form on the counter iPad - the real TEKTUNE Kiosk app

Forms

Build any form your shop uses - new customer, vehicle drop-off, repair authorization, pickup, feedback - and send it out in seconds.

  1. Start from a ready-made form or a blank one, and add any question: text, numbers, dates, choices, yes/no, the customer's vehicle, an agreement and a drawn signature.
  2. Text it to the customer, print it, or put it on the counter kiosk.
  3. Filled-in forms arrive on the task board; copy the answers into your shop system in a click.
Building a vehicle drop-off form, with a live preview
Building a vehicle drop-off form, with a live preview

Rental turnover inspections

A guided turnover inspection makes sure every car goes back out clean, full and safe.

  1. Tap Start inspection - the car is claimed so nobody doubles up.
  2. Tire pressures next to the car's spec, oil, mileage, the fuel gauge and photos.
  3. Your own checklist items, each marked good, needs attention or needs it now - anything not good flags the car.
  4. Submit and the car is ready to rent - or flag it for repair.
The rental turnover inspection
The rental turnover inspection

Rental car history & notes

Every rental, inspection, service, repair and note for each car in your rental fleet - plus its repair orders from Tekmetric - on one timeline.

  1. The car at a glance: status, where it is, mileage and its Tekmetric links.
  2. Every rental, inspection, service and repair by month - filter it, search it, sort it, print it.
  3. Leave notes for the next person - new notes are flagged on the car's card.
  4. With Bouncie trackers, Location History shows every trip the car took.
A loaner's history, with its repair orders from Tekmetric
A loaner's history, with its repair orders from Tekmetric
Location History: every trip from the car's Bouncie tracker
Location History: every trip from the car's Bouncie tracker

Live GPS tracking

Connect Bouncie trackers and see where your rental cars are, on a map, with a trip history for each one.

  1. Connect your Bouncie account and match each tracker to a car.
  2. See each car's location and whether it's moving, on the fleet board and a map.
  3. Review every trip, with a warning if a tracker was unplugged.

Requires Bouncie GPS trackers and a Bouncie account.

The vehicle map
The vehicle map
Live location on a loaner's card
Live location on a loaner's card

Special tool inventory

Every special tool - the shop's and each tech's own - with who has it right now.

  1. Add tools with a photo, part numbers, what they fit and where they live.
  2. Sign a tool out and back in - or just scan its barcode with a phone's camera or a scanner.
  3. Print barcode labels on standard label sheets, starting at any label on a part-used sheet.
  4. Ask to borrow someone's tool, report one missing or damaged, and keep a full sign-in/out log.
Tool inventory: available, signed out and missing/damaged
Tool inventory: available, signed out and missing/damaged
Printing barcode labels
Printing barcode labels

Time off

Employees request time off from their phone; the right manager approves it and everyone sees who's out.

  1. Pick days (or part of a day) and a reason, and see your remaining balance - days the shop is closed don't count.
  2. The request lands on the board for whoever approves it - their Foreman, Service Manager or a manager - who sees who else is off before deciding.
  3. The calendar shows who's out, paid holidays and shop events.
  4. Set yearly allowances, print an approval sheet to sign, and subscribe to the calendar on a phone.
Approving a request - with who else is off
Approving a request - with who else is off
The shop's time off calendar
The shop's time off calendar

Time clock

Clock in, take breaks and clock out in one tap - with a location check so punches only happen at the shop.

  1. Clock in and out, and start and end breaks, from any phone.
  2. Each punch is checked against a circle around your shop (250 feet by default).
  3. Managers see time cards by week and who's on the clock now - and print time cards with signature lines.
  4. Fix or add punches when someone forgets - every change is logged.
Weekly time cards
Weekly time cards

Training

Your shop's training in one place: new employee onboarding, in-house training and the employee manual.

  1. Courses made of lessons, each with an optional quiz.
  2. Start from a ready-made onboarding course or employee manual, or write your own.
  3. Assign a course to people - or to everyone new - and it shows on their board until it's done.
  4. The employee manual ends with everyone signing that they've read it; see who has finished.
A training lesson with its quiz
A training lesson with its quiz

Reports & printouts

Weekly numbers for managers, a friendly competition for everyone else, and a printout of anything you need to file.

  1. Inspections and tasks by employee for the week.
  2. A weekly points leaderboard, with the winner announced automatically.
  3. Print any report, time card, history or list as a plain table - pick the dates first.
Weekly reports
Weekly reports

Lockboxes

Track which key lockbox is holding whose keys, with the code hidden until you need it.

  1. Each lockbox shows the customer it's set aside for, or Available.
  2. Codes stay hidden on the wall display.
  3. Assign a lockbox while sending an e-signature and the customer gets the code after signing.
Lockboxes on the dashboard
Lockboxes on the dashboard

Shop TV & phones

Put TEKTUNE on a TV in the shop, and install it on phones like an app.

  1. A dashboard screen turns any TV into a live wall display.
  2. Arrange the TV from your desk - drag blocks, show or hide them - and it updates in seconds.
  3. Each person arranges their own dashboard - separately for phone and computer.
  4. Install it to a phone's home screen for notifications.
The shop TV
The shop TV
On a phone
On a phone

More than one shop

Own more than one location? Group them - each shop keeps its own work, and you see them all.

  1. Administrators open every shop in the group with one sign-in and switch between them.
  2. Add someone from another shop with roles of their own here.
  3. Each shop chooses what to share with the others: announcements, training, special tools and the time off calendar.
  4. Every shop keeps its own plan, data and settings.
A shop's group: switch shops and choose what to share
A shop's group: switch shops and choose what to share

Your team, your rules

Turn on only what your shop uses, and decide who sees what.

  1. Roles that match your shop - Technician, Porter, Advisor, Parts Manager, Foreman, Service Manager, General Manager, Shop Contact and Administrator - and one person can have several.
  2. See exactly what each role can do, and change any of it. Foremen and Service Managers look after their own team's time off and time cards.
  3. Every part of TEKTUNE is a module. Already use something else for one of them? Turn it off - for the whole shop or one role.
  4. Add an employee with a name, role and email; PINs switch people in and out on shared shop computers.
What each role can do - Shop Settings > Roles
What each role can do - Shop Settings > Roles
Modules - switch on what your shop uses
Modules - switch on what your shop uses

Always getting better

TEKTUNE keeps growing with your shop

TEKTUNE is built and improved constantly by people who run a real shop floor. New modules and improvements arrive all the time - automatically, with nothing to install and nothing extra to pay.

New modules, regularly

The time clock, electronic signatures, kiosks, the form builder, shop roles, Shop Hours, training and shop groups all arrived along the way. More are always in the works.

Updates arrive by themselves

Every improvement goes live for every shop the moment it's ready. Open TEKTUNE and you're on the newest version - see what changed under TEKTUNE Updates, or take the full tour from the What's new bubble.

You tell us what's next

Anyone on your team can tap Request Support to report a bug or ask for a feature. It goes straight to the people building TEKTUNE, and the answer comes back in Message Center.

Switch on only what you use

Every part of TEKTUNE is a module. New ones show up in Shop Settings > Modules, ready to turn on when your shop wants them.

Pricing

Try everything free for 15 days

Every plan includes a 15-day free trial. After that it's month to month - cancel any time from your Billing page.

TEKTUNE STARTER

$179/month

TEKTUNE STARTER 30-day subscription

  • Up to 15 employees
  • Dashboard
  • Time Clock
  • Time Off Calendar
  • Rental Car Tracker
  • Rental Agreement
  • E-Signing
  • Tool Inventory
  • Lockboxes
  • Message Center
  • Porter Management
  • 15-day free trial
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$1,934/year

TEKTUNE STARTER 1-Year subscription

  • Up to 15 employees
  • 10% Discount
  • Dashboard
  • Time Clock
  • Time Off Calendar
  • Rental Car Tracker
  • Rental Agreement
  • E-Signing
  • Tool Inventory
  • Lockboxes
  • Message Center
  • Porter Management
  • 15-day free trial
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TEKTUNE PRO

$279/month

TEKTUNE PRO 30-Day Subscription

  • Unlimited employees
  • Dashboard
  • Time Clock
  • Time Off Calendar
  • Rental Car Tracker
  • Rental Agreement
  • E-Signing
  • Tool Inventory
  • Lockboxes
  • Message Center
  • Porter Management
  • 15-day free trial
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Save 10% - TEKTUNE PRO (1-Year)

$3,014/year

TEKTUNE PRO 1-Year Subscription

  • Unlimited employees
  • 10% Discount
  • Dashboard
  • Time Clock
  • Time Off Calendar
  • Rental Car Tracker
  • Rental Agreement
  • E-Signing
  • Tool Inventory
  • Lockboxes
  • Message Center
  • Porter Management
  • 15-day free trial
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Questions

How does the free trial work?

Tell us about your shop on the Get Started page and we'll set it up and email you an invite. You get the full app for 15 days. Before it ends, your administrator chooses a plan from the Billing page - or does nothing, and the trial simply ends.

Does it replace our shop management system?

No. TEKTUNE isn't a shop management system - estimates, invoicing and parts stay where they are. It runs the back of your shop alongside it: your team's messages, the loaner fleet, inspections, tools, time off and the time clock, all in one connected system.

Do we need Tekmetric?

No. TEKTUNE is complete on its own. If your shop uses Tekmetric, connect it with one link and your repair orders come in live: RO numbers in chats and tasks become links with the customer, status, keytag and loaner, Quality Control adds a road-test task by itself, loaners link to their repair orders and history, and Shop Hours counts finished labor by technician. It pairs well, but it's optional.

Do you have shops with more than one location?

Yes. Group your shops and Administrators open every one with a single sign-in. Each shop keeps its own work, plan and settings, and chooses what to share with the others - announcements, training, special tools and the time off calendar.

We already use another tool for some of this. Can we turn those parts off?

Yes. Every part of TEKTUNE is a module you can switch off in Shop Settings - for the whole shop or for individual roles. The modules are built to work together, so the more you use, the more they do for each other, but you only ever use what you need.

Can TEKTUNE match how our shop is organized?

Yes. Give each person the roles they really have - Technician, Porter, Advisor, Parts Manager, Foreman, Service Manager, General Manager, Shop Contact or Administrator - and one person can have several. Each role comes ready to go, and your shop can change exactly what any role can do. Foremen and service managers approve time off and fix time cards for their own team.

Can we use our own paperwork?

Yes. Build any form your shop uses - new customer, vehicle drop-off, repair authorization, pickup or feedback - with choices, dates, an agreement and a drawn signature. Text it to the customer, print it or put it on the counter kiosk, and the answers arrive on your task board.

What do we need to run it?

A web browser. TEKTUNE runs on any computer, tablet or phone and installs like an app on phones. There's also the TEKTUNE Message Center app for Windows PCs and the TEKTUNE Kiosk app for a counter iPad. Nothing to host or maintain - updates arrive by themselves.

How does the time clock know someone is at the shop?

When someone clocks in or out, their phone's location is checked against a circle around your shop - 250 feet by default, adjustable from 50 to 2,000 feet. General Managers can fix a forgotten punch; those are marked as manager entries.

How does everyone sign in?

Each person signs in with their own email and password. On shared shop computers and wall displays, people switch in with a 4-digit PIN.

Who can see our shop's information?

Only the people at your shop. Every shop has its own separate database and private file storage, and photos and documents are only shown to people signed in to that shop.

How does billing work?

Month to month by card, through Stripe. Your plan renews automatically each month, so nobody has to remember to pay. Your administrator can change plans, update the card, download invoices or cancel from the Billing page in TEKTUNE.

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