This page outlines the core features available within Panel Quote, with detailed explanations of how each tool supports day-to-day operations and long-term business performance.
Panel Quote Features
Panel Quote provides a comprehensive suite of workshop management features designed to support the full repair process, from initial quote through to job completion, invoicing, and profitability analysis. Each feature is purpose-built to improve efficiency, maintain consistency, and give clear visibility across quoting, workflow, accounts, and reporting.
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Explore the New Zealand-made software behind your workshop quotes, repair jobs and business reporting.
Quoting Management
Quoting
Panel Quote’s easy-to-use quoting tools allow you to create quotes in seconds with a few clicks of a mouse
Mobile Quoting
Create quotes in a jiffy from your office, workshop floor, car park and even off-site with a tablet
Emailing Quotes
Email quotes with attached photos and documents with just a few simple clicks of the mouse
Job Management
Job Sheets
Quickly and easily produce job sheets containing detailed repair instructions for your staff members to follow
Job Flow AutoScheduler
Due for release in July, one of the most powerful tools we have ever produced to help you manage job scheduling
Photo Manager App
Remove the hassle and time associated with cameras and cables. The Photo Manager App directly uploads photos in seconds
Workshop Capacity
Look ahead across upcoming weeks to review workshop capacity based on the work you have booked in.
Booking Manager
Track customer contact, review when jobs should be booked in and see each repair’s progress through the workshop.
Production Management
See what is coming in, what is in progress and what is going out in a visual workshop overview.
Parts & Outwork Reporting
Review parts statuses and specialist work bookings, with the outstanding items linked to their repair jobs.
Profit Management
Reporting
A range of reports from simple general interest reports to in-depth workshop evaluation reports
Create custom sales reports with the filters and fields each user needs.
Job Costing
See the sales, costs and profit behind each repair, with clear labour, parts and overall job breakdowns.
KPI Reports
Track quotes, invoicing, workshop efficiency and repair cycle time to understand how your business is performing.
Managing Targets
Set 30-day targets from recent averages and give your workshop clear sales and labour goals to support profitability.
Staff Management
Staff Efficiency Reports
Review staff performance, downtime and overall efficiency to understand the work behind the numbers.
Diary Manager
A simple yet highly effective tool to make monitoring daily tasks and workshop operation a breeze
Use calendar and daily views to plan tasks, meetings, vehicle arrivals and collections.
Staff Timecard
A simple tool for staff to record their work hours that produces valuable information for performance reporting
Multiuser System
A true multiuser system that allows you to use Panel Quote on as many computers, laptops or mobile devices as you like with no extra fees
Accounting Management
Invoicing
Converting a quote to an invoice can be done with a single mouse click allowing you to print or email an invoice in seconds
Accounts Payable
Record, manage and produce reports for the businesses you owe money simply and easily
Manage & Accounts Panel
The compact Manage & Accounts Panel is the most commonly used area to address nearly all management items
Office Management
Loan Car Manager
Manage your loan car vehicles with ease, print hire agreements, schedule maintenance, receive WOF reminders and more
Cloud Based System
Panel Quote is a Cloud Based System offering huge benefits including increased security of your data compared to conventional systems
Repair Summary Sheets
Create vehicle repair summaries, save them automatically to jobs and share a PDF with insurers or customers.
Customer Surveys
Create a custom survey, send it to your customers and review the feedback as responses come back.
Customer Kiosk
Let customers enter their details, sign and submit a form at your counter without pen and paper.
Notifications
Review insurer, parts and other connected-service updates in one place, with the job reference alongside each notification.