Built for vehicle repair shops onlyNot for a retail counter, a restaurant till or a franchise buyer
Estimates, repair orders, invoices, receipts and multi point inspections built from your own parts cost, markup and door rate. Every answer becomes paperwork a customer signs and a shop can file.
$79 a month for the whole shop
Estimate, authorize, invoice
Parts at cost with your markup, the hours you are selling at your door rate, sublet with its own margin, shop supplies and tax on parts. Change the markup and the total moves while the customer is still on the phone, which is when the number matters.
The estimate becomes the repair order, the repair order becomes the invoice, and all three sit against the same customer and plate. Next year, when the same car comes back, the history is there without anybody digging through a filing box.
A checklist sized to what is on the lift, with the findings you photographed attached to the repair order. It is what turns declined work into approved work, and it is the record that says what you told the customer and when.
If you need a parts catalogue with live supplier ordering, integrated labor guides, DVI hosting, marketing automation and a phone system, buy a full shop management system and pay for it. Lugtorq is for the shop whose problem is narrower: the estimate, the repair order, the invoice and the inspection, done the same way every time, without a per bay licence.
| Lugtorq | A full shop management system | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is priced on | One price for the whole shop, $79 a month, however many bays and technicians | Priced by tier and often by user or bay, with the entry tier well above a small shop's software budget |
| What you get on day one | Every estimate, invoice, receipt and inspection tool free on the page, no account, no trial clock | A demo call and a sales process before you see the product working on your own numbers |
| Book times and parts prices | Yours. Lugtorq publishes no labor guide and no parts price, and the arithmetic runs on what you enter | Integrated labor guides and catalogues, which is a real advantage if you want them and a cost if you do not |
| Getting your work back out | Bulk export of customers, vehicles and documents, any time, and 90 days of export after you cancel | Varies by vendor, and data transfer in or out is commonly a paid service |
Suite pricing, for the record: Shop Boss lists Gold at $199 per month, Platinum at $349 and Premier at $449, billed monthly (shopboss.net/pricing, retrieved 2026-09-05), with data transfer of customer and vehicle records quoted separately. Housecall Pro, which sells to mobile mechanics as well as other trades, lists Basic at $59 per month billed annually and Essentials at $149 (housecallpro.com/pricing, retrieved 2026-09-05). Lugtorq Pro is $79 per month for your whole shop.
Free to use. No account, no card, no trial clock.
The answers are free forever. Pro turns them into your paperwork: your shop name and registration number on it, no watermark, every estimate, repair order and invoice saved against the customer and the vehicle, and clean exports.
$79 per month, whole team
$79 a month for the whole shop Billed monthly. Cancel any time from your account page. Price and renewal terms are shown before checkout.