One place for the independent repair shop — from the first phone call to the paid invoice. Here's what's in the box.
One record per customer, every vehicle they own, and a full service history kept by VIN — searchable back to the first visit.
Write the estimate, send it for approval, turn it into a repair order, invoice when the work's done, and take payment — parts, labor, and tax carried through automatically at every step.
Customers sign in to a page that wears your shop's name and color, so every visit reinforces your brand.
Digital multi-point inspections with photo annotation. Show the customer the worn part — approvals come back faster when they can see what you see.
Keep the bays full and the customer in the loop — appointments, a dispatch board, and a two-way message thread on every job, so the whole conversation stays in one searchable place.
Keep a count and a reorder point on the parts you stock; invoicing a job relieves what it used, and low stock surfaces on the dashboard. A price book, not a warehouse system — and a supplier's quote lands on the estimate without retyping.
Sales and daily revenue, receivables aging, technician productivity, parts margins, top customers and refunds. Eight core metrics are graded against published industry bands, so you can see where you stand.
Export everything, any time. One click, no ticket, no contract.
The write-up and the vehicle's history sit in one record, so the assistant works from the same job you do. You approve every line before it lands.
Hand it the tech's rough note — typed, pasted or spoken — and Daedalus drafts the complaint, cause and correction, then rewrites it in language the customer follows.
The assistant on your customer portal answers from that customer’s own repair orders — where the job stands, what the estimate covers, when the car can be collected. It reads; it never changes anything. Anything it cannot answer, it hands to you rather than guessing.
Ask the assistant for one change — a note, a status, the concern on the repair order you have open — and it makes it and tells you what it did. Before it creates, updates or deletes more than one record, it is instructed to say exactly what it is about to do and wait for your yes. The writing helper on a repair order never changes the record itself: its suggestions arrive as edits you accept or reject. The model never runs database commands; it asks for named actions, and the app carries them out under your login's permissions.
Shop software divides roughly in two. Above about $200 a month you get a mature all-in-one — deep parts catalogues, dozens of integrations, and a sales team. Between about $40 and $100 you get a competent ledger: customers, vehicles, invoices, and not much that thinks.
Daedalus is priced nearer the second group and does more than keep the books: estimates, invoices, payments, scheduling, a portal under your own name, and write-ups drafted from a rough note.
Compare it against whatever you are paying for now. That is the comparison we would rather you made.
Built for independent repair shops of all sizes.
No credit card required to start. Nothing to install — it runs
in the browser on a phone, tablet or PC.
