It’d be easy to blame corporate greed, but that’d be like faulting Bill Clinton for lusting after a college coed or Al Franken for throwing a whiney tantrum. In all, you probably save two hours of paperwork.Īs much as this sounds like the future of the autobody industry, all of this technology is available right now – at a huge cost savings to you and the insurance companies. No manual changes in your software to update the parts prices. Sounds nice, doesn’t it? No re-keying the appraiser’s estimate into your software so you can generate a supplement. There were a few additional parts needed so you take digital photos of the additional damaged parts, add them to the supplement and e-mail the supplement to the appraiser so he can cut a final check. The following week, the repair is finished. You open the estimate again, generate a supplement, and a couple more mouse clicks and all the parts prices are updated. You notice that there are many parts price differences. The next day you get a confirmation e-mail from your parts source and an electronic invoice. This all takes place in the span of a few minutes. You now convert the estimate to a repair order, add a few more mouse clicks and your parts have been ordered. He re-opens the estimate and calls you to OK the changes. You notice that he missed some standard items, so you make the changes and e-mail the estimate right back to him. You open your e-mail software, double click the attached file and the estimate opens up in your estimating software.
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