🏆 Founding member — first 10 shops lock in $39/mo for life

The Inspection
Station System.

Run your inspection garage without the $300/month software. Sticker tracking, audit-ready records, and automatic inspection reminders that bring customers back — from $49/month.

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Inspections Due Soon 6 this month
2019 Honda Civic — ABC-1234
Jane Doe · State Inspection · Overdue 4 days
Overdue
2021 Ford F-150 — XYZ-9821
Mike R. · Emissions · Due in 12 days
Due Soon
2018 Toyota Camry — QRS-4471
Sara K. · Reminder sent · Booked for Friday
Booked

Everything an inspection station needs — nothing it doesn't

Built around stickers, VINs and audit trails — not generic shop-management busywork.

Sticker Inventory & Audit Trail

Track every sticker from the batch you bought to the vehicle it went on — in stock, issued, voided or missing, with a timestamped note on every status change. Pass your next QAO audit without the shoebox.

Automatic Inspection Reminders

GarageForge texts and emails your customers before their sticker expires — automatically. Never lose an inspection customer to the shop down the street because you forgot to remind them.

Digital Inspections (DVI)

Run a digital vehicle inspection with photos on every visit. Customers see exactly what your techs saw — before they ever ask "are you sure I need that?"

Estimates, Invoices & Text-to-Pay

Send an estimate from your phone, convert it to an invoice in one click, and let customers pay by tapping a text message. No payment-processor lock-in.

Online Booking

Customers book their own inspection or repair slot from a link you text or post online — no phone tag, no double-booked bays.

Every Vehicle's History by VIN

Decode a VIN in one click and pull up every inspection, repair and sticker that vehicle has ever had — even across different owners.

Deferred-Work Recovery

Deferred-work recovery — declined jobs get automatic follow-ups, not forgotten. See exactly how much revenue is sitting on the table and win it back.

How it works

1

Look up the vehicle

Scan the plate or decode the VIN — every past inspection, repair and sticker is already there.

2

Run the inspection

Your tech works through the digital inspection with photos, logs the result, and pulls the next sticker from inventory.

3

Issue the sticker, send the invoice

Pass: the sticker is logged to that VIN. Fail: a 30-day temp sticker and an automatic reminder go out. Either way, the invoice is one click away.

vs. Shopmonkey & Tekmetric

Shopmonkey and Tekmetric run $215–$449/mo once you add the seats and modules a real shop needs. GarageForge starts at $49/mo, with no per-user fees until you're well past a one-bay operation. Their declined-service follow-up maxes out at 1–2 automated touches — ours keeps working the list.

vs. ARI

ARI and similar tools are built for mobile mechanics and fleet work. GarageForge is built for inspection stations — sticker inventory, QAO audit trails and inspection-due reminders are the product, not an afterthought.

Simple pricing. No payment-processor lock-in.

7 days free, no credit card. Month-to-month, no contracts — cancel anytime.

🏆 Founding Member — first 10 shops: $39/mo locked for life
GarageForge Pro vs. Shopmonkey / Tekmetric
Shopmonkey / Tekmetric$215–$449/mo
Per-user add-on feesextra
Payment processingoften locked-in
Their total$215–$449/mo
GarageForge Pro — all of it included
$79/mo
No per-user fees, no processor lock-in
Starter
$49 /mo
1 user · unlimited customers, vehicles & inspections
  • Unlimited customers, vehicles & inspections
  • Automatic inspection-due reminders
  • Estimates & invoicing
  • VIN decode & vehicle history
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DVI photos & online booking available as add-ons

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Pro
$79 /mo
Up to 5 users
  • Everything in Starter
  • Digital inspections (DVI) with photos
  • Sticker inventory & audit trail
  • Online booking
  • AI labor estimates & deferred-work recovery
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Shop+
$129 /mo
Unlimited users
  • Everything in Pro
  • Priority support
  • CSV exports
  • Multi-bay scheduling
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All plans: 7-day free trial · month-to-month · no contracts · no payment-processing lock-in.

Add-ons for busy months +25 repair orders $10 · +250 texts $10 · +50 AI estimates $10 · extra seat $8 · à la carte, cancel anytime — no forced upgrades.

Ready to run a tighter station?

Join inspection garages already ditching the shoebox and the $300/month software. Book your walkthrough today.

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Free walkthrough · 7-day free trial at launch · No contracts