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Keeping customers updated · GARAGES AND CAR SERVICING

Customers keep chasing you for updates.

What owners tell us

‘People ring to ask if their car’s ready while we’re under it.’

Customers get a short message when their job moves on, in your voice, and hear the same day if a date slips. The calls asking where things are stop.

What Changes

The journey for keeping customers updated in a garages and car servicing business. Today: 4 steps you do and 2 times it waits. With the fix: 1 and 0.

Garages and Car Servicing: car; diagnosis, parts, ready.

Today

  1. You: Job booked, customer told “we’ll be in touch”.
  2. Waiting: Nothing for [n] days.
  3. You: Customer rings, you look it up and ring back.
  4. Waiting: The date slips and nobody tells them.
  5. You: Customer rings again, annoyed.
  6. You: It turns into a complaint.
Steps You Do
4
Times It Waits
2

With the Fix

  1. Runs on its own: Job booked, confirmation sent.
  2. You: The team marks each stage with one tap.
  3. Runs on its own: Customer hears at every stage.
  4. Runs on its own: Date moves, and they hear the same day with the reason.
  5. Runs on its own: Simple questions answered from the job record.
  6. Runs on its own: Jobs gone quiet are flagged to you.
Steps You Do
1
Times It Waits
0
  1. Each job moves through the stages you already use.
  2. When a job moves on, the customer gets a text or email.
  3. When a date moves, the customer hears that day, with the reason and the new date.
  4. Simple questions are answered from the job record. Anything else goes to the right person.
  5. You see which jobs have gone quiet for too long.

Illustrative example. Today: [n] missed calls from [Customer] on the workshop phone. A text: “Is my car ready? I need it for [time].”. After the fix: “[Reg] is booked in. We’ll text you once we’ve looked at it.” “The part arrives [day]. Your car will be ready after [time].” “Your [car] is ready. Collect any time before [time].”.

Illustrative. Your business carries your own details.

What It Costs You

Customer service caused 32% of service and repair disputes taken to The Motor Ombudsman in Q3 2024, up from 17% a year earlier.

Source: The Motor Ombudsman

What You Do

Agrees the stages and wording. The workshop moves each job on from the board it already uses, or with one tap.

What It Runs On

Wherever you track jobs now: a job system, a shared calendar or a spreadsheet. If there’s nothing, we set up a simple job list.

Agreed Before We Start

How many “where’s my job” calls and messages you get a week, and how many complaints mention communication, before and after.

What We Agree Before We Start

MeasureBeforeAfter
“Where’s my job” calls and messages a week
Complaints that mention communication

We fill this in with you before any work starts.

Questions Owners Ask

Do my customers need to download anything?
No. Updates go by text or email.
What if we don’t have a job system?
We set up a simple job list. Your team marks each stage with one tap.
Can customers reply to the updates?
Yes. Simple questions are answered from the job record, and anything else goes to the right person on your team.

Pick One Problem

Tell us which one. We’ll tell you whether we can fix it and how long it takes.

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