Cloud-managed
We run it, back it up, keep it fast. Export everything to CSV or JSON any time — no support ticket, no export fee, no waiting period.
Everything it takes to run an independent repair shop — in one place, designed so nothing is typed twice and nothing slips through. Here's what's in the box.
One record per customer, every vehicle they own, and a full service history kept by VIN — so the work you did follows the vehicle even when it changes hands. Move in from your old software without losing a thing.
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 — they see your business, not ours. Our byline lives in the footer, where it belongs.
Digital multi-point inspections with photo annotation. Show the customer the worn part instead of describing it — 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 lives in one place you can actually find later.
The figures that actually run a shop — car count, average RO, what's owed and what's owed to you — on a clean dashboard, plus smart write-ups that turn rough notes into customer-ready copy in a click.
We don't hold your shop hostage. Ownership is built in from the start, on every plan — leave whenever you want and take everything with you.
We run it, back it up, keep it fast. Export everything to CSV or JSON any time — no support ticket, no export fee, no waiting period.
An encrypted backup of your entire shop lands in your own cloud storage every night, with a key only you hold. If we vanished tomorrow, you'd still have last night.
Keep a live, read-only mirror of your shop on a computer you control. Same product, three layers deep — ownership measured in fact, not marketing.
The shop-management market is dominated by older tools that grew up around big fleet operations. Daedalus is built for the independent shop.
| Daedalus | Typical legacy software | |
|---|---|---|
| Data ownership | Cloud + your encrypted bucket + your own local mirror — leave anytime with everything | Vendor-managed only; exports require a support ticket |
| Customer portal | Wears your shop's name and color | Branded as the vendor; your customers see their logo |
| Pricing | Honest and simple — no per-tech surcharges, no multi-year lock-in | Call-for-pricing, per-seat add-ons, annual contracts |
| Setup | Same-day setup wizard plus optional CSV import | Multi-week onboarding with a sales engineer |
| Built for | Independent shops and mobile mechanics | Large multi-location fleet operations |
| Interface | Fast, modern, works on the phone in the bay | Dated desktop software |
| AI | Write-up, codes and history in one record — drafts the job, ranks the causes, you approve every change | AI for marketing emails, or a second diagnostic subscription that never sees your repair orders |
When shop software advertises AI it usually means marketing emails. Diagnostic AI is usually a separate subscription that never sees your repair orders. Daedalus keeps the write-up, the codes and the vehicle's history in one record, so the assistant is working from the same job you are.
Describe the job out loud, or paste the tech's rough notes. Daedalus drafts the complaint, cause and correction, then rewrites it in language the customer can actually follow — the same job, two audiences, without writing it twice.
Give it the codes off the car and it comes back with the likely causes in order, each carrying the evidence behind it and how confident it is. It shows its reasoning, so a tech can agree with it or throw it out on the spot.
Every suggestion arrives as a change you look at before it lands: the repair order in front of you, the proposed edit beside it, and a yes or no. The part that writes to your database is ordinary code following rules — not the model. It cannot quietly edit a customer's repair order.
Built for independent repair shops of all sizes.
No credit card required — most shops are up and running the same day.