Klipboard GMS Alternative: Pricing and Features Comparison
Klipboard is a software group serving seven industries in over seventy countries, from builders merchants to pest control, and garages are one line on that list. Their garage product, Autowork Online, sits alongside software for rental firms, manufacturers and field service teams. Autopilot does one thing: garage management software for UK workshops, built by a small team alongside a garage owner who uses it every day.
Published pricing from £99 a month, thirty days on the full plan before you commit, and a roadmap that answers to garages rather than six other industries.
Klipboard pricing and terms last checked September 2026
No upfront cost
Nothing to pay to get started. Just the monthly price.
No cost per user
Reception, technicians and owners included, however many you add.
30 days on the full plan
Real jobs, real invoices, before you commit to anything.
Data moved in 48 hours
Customers, vehicles and invoice history brought across for you.
Four steps, and most of the work is ours
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.
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.
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.
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.
Side by side on the things garage owners ask about
What it costs
What it costs
Published on our pricing page: £99, £179 or £279 a month. No upfront cost.
No pricing published. You book a demo to find out what it would cost you.
What you get
Trial on the full plan
Yes. Book real jobs and send real invoices before you commit.
A demo is offered on request. No free trial advertised.
What the company does
Garage management software, and nothing else.
Seven sectors including wholesale distribution, rental, manufacturing and field service. Automotive is one of them.
Who shapes what gets built
A garage owner of 15+ years is a partner in the business and signs off what gets built.
A roadmap serving 55,000+ customers across 70+ countries and seven industries.
Scroll the table sideways on a phone. Comparison based on publicly available information, last reviewed September 2026.
What actually decides it
You cannot find out what it costs
Klipboard publishes no pricing for Autowork Online. The only route to a figure is booking a demo and asking.
That is a legitimate way to sell software, particularly at enterprise scale. It does mean you cannot compare on cost without entering a sales process, and you have no way of knowing whether the price you are quoted is the price another garage pays.
Autopilot publishes everything: £99, £179 or £279 a month, on the pricing page, with no upfront cost. You can work out what it costs you before anybody rings.
Garages are one sector of seven
Klipboard serves wholesale distribution, rental, manufacturing, field service, retail, transport management and automotive. Autowork Online is their garage product within that.
Scale brings real advantages. The trade-off is where your request sits when you ask for a change: competing not just with other garages, but with builders’ merchants, plant hire firms and pest control companies.
Autopilot builds for garages and nothing else. A garage owner of more than fifteen years is a partner in the business and signs off what gets built.
Trying it on your own jobs
Klipboard offers a demo on request. Autopilot gives you 30 days on the full plan.
A demo shows you the software working the way the person demonstrating it expects. A trial shows you how it handles your diary, your customers and your awkward jobs.
Where Klipboard is strong
No system is the right answer for every garage. These are the things Klipboard does well.
- ✓A substantial, long-established business: more than 55,000 customers across over 70 countries, supporting customers since 1976.
- ✓The resources of a large software group behind the product, including their own AI tooling.
- ✓Professional implementation services and e-learning, which suits a larger operation that wants a managed rollout.
- ✓If you run businesses in more than one of their sectors, there is a case for keeping them on one supplier.
Built to be picked up without training
The diary
Every technician and job on one screen, colour coded, drag and drop to reassign.
Technician app
Job details, checklists and vehicle health checks on a tablet in the workshop.
Reporting
Revenue, throughput and technician efficiency, without exporting to a spreadsheet.
Switching from Klipboard? Your questions answered
How much does Klipboard cost?+
Klipboard do not publish pricing for Autowork Online. The only route to a figure is booking a demo and asking them. Autopilot publishes its prices openly: £99, £179 or £279 a month, with no upfront cost.
Is Autowork Online the same as Klipboard?+
Autowork Online is Klipboard’s garage product. Klipboard is the parent company, serving seven sectors in over seventy countries, from wholesale distribution and rental to manufacturing and field service. Automotive is one line on that list.
Does Klipboard offer a free trial?+
Klipboard offer a demo on request rather than a free trial. Autopilot gives you 30 days on the full plan, booking real jobs and sending real invoices, before you decide.
Can I move my data from Autowork Online to Autopilot?+
Yes. Send us an export and we bring your customer records, vehicle history and invoice history across within 48 hours, then check it back with you before you go live.
Why choose a garage-only system over a larger software group?+
When you ask for a change, it matters who you are competing with for it. Klipboard’s roadmap serves more than 55,000 customers across seven industries. Autopilot builds for garages and nothing else, and a garage owner of over fifteen years is a partner in the business who signs off what gets built.
Sources
Claims about Klipboard on this page come from their own published pages. Check them yourself:
Last reviewed September 2026. Other providers change their pricing and features at any time, so check before deciding.
Ask Scott what he made us change
Scott Walsh co-owns MB Liverpool and is a partner in Autopilot. He has used most of the systems on the market, so he knows what you are living with and what you want instead. Nothing gets built here without going past him.
Every garage we have shown Autopilot to has told us the same thing: it is simpler and easier to use than what they had. Talk to Scott and judge it for yourself.
See it on your own jobs before you decide
Twenty minutes on a call is usually enough to tell whether Autopilot suits your workshop. If it does, we will bring your data across and get your team trained. If it does not, we will tell you.