Switching to Autopilot

Onboarded in a day. Your data imported within 48 hours.

Moving garage management system is the part everyone dreads. We do the heavy lifting: your customers, vehicles and invoice history come across, and a UK onboarding specialist sets the system up with you on a call.

No charge for 30 daysCancel anytime in the trialUK based team
A technician servicing a car at a garage using Autopilot
We migrate garages from
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Don't see your system above? We can import from most others too, get in touch and we'll take a look.

Four stages, start to finish

Nothing here needs your evenings or a member of staff taken off the tools for a week.

1
Day 1

Account and kick off call

You sign up, we book you straight in with a UK onboarding specialist. Company details, VAT, labour rates and users get set on the call, along with your parts and accountancy integrations and your service packages built out for you.

2
Within 48 hours

Your data comes across

Send us an export from your old system. Customer records, vehicle history and invoice history are mapped, imported and checked back with you.

3
Flexible

Team training, your way

We offer a range of training packages to suit different garages, whether that is remote over a call, us coming to you, or your team coming to us, with sessions as short or as thorough as you need.

4
Rest of the 30 days

Run it for real, free

Book real jobs, send real invoices, on the full plan. Support is UK based and on the end of a phone. If it does not earn its keep, cancel and pay nothing.

The migration, in detail

You do not start from an empty system

A garage with fifteen years of history behind it cannot afford to lose it. We bring the record across so day one looks like a system you have always used.

Customer records, contact details and notes
Vehicles against the right customer, with service history
Invoice history, so the numbers still add up at year end
Checked against your old system before you go live
A technical export being prepared during migration to Autopilot
Import complete
2,418 customers, 3,106 vehicles and 9 years of invoices, live in 41 hours

30 days, nothing charged

You enter a card at sign up but nothing is taken during the trial. Cancel anytime in the 30 days and you will not pay a penny.

UK support, not a ticket queue

Our team is in the UK, on the phone and on email during working hours. The person who onboarded you is the person who picks up.

Training that fits your garage

Different packages for different garages, remote, on site or with us, and different lengths of time to suit how your team works.

Adderley Green Garage
Adderley Green Garage

“We were dreading the switch. The import came back within two days with every customer and every invoice where it should be, and the training call meant the lads were using it the same week. The whole process was seamless.”

Luke
Adderley Green Garage, switched from GS Onestop

The questions every switching garage asks

Will the garage go down while we move?

No. You keep working in your old system while we import. We agree a go live date with you and switch over on a quiet day.

We are still in contract elsewhere. Can we start?

Yes. Plenty of garages run both for a few weeks. The 30 day trial is a sensible place to overlap before your notice period ends.

What if our old provider will not give us an export?

Tell us who you are with. We have moved data off most of the systems in the UK market and can usually tell you exactly what to ask for.

Is there a contract with Autopilot?

No long tie in. Monthly, cancel when you like. The trial is 30 days and you are not charged if you cancel within it.

Do we lose access to our old records?

Your imported history lives in Autopilot. We also recommend keeping a copy of the raw export, and we will tell you how to store it.

We are on pen and paper. Is this too much for us?

It is the same onboarding. We type up your customer list with you, set up the diary, and train the team with a package that suits you.