Industry Solutions

We’ll help you get back to your core business by automating as much of your garage’s accounting as possible.

Garages are renowned for being extremely busy with the constant flow of customers bringing in their vehicles whether it be for an MOT, annual service or for assistance in troubleshooting a problem with the vehicle.  As capable as you might be with the accounting and documentation side of your business, we understand that as a mechanic, this is where your specialist knowledge really lies, and where you would much prefer to spend your time.

A&C Chartered Accountants along with Xero Cloud Accounting Software and its ability to integrate with other software, we are able to assist in simplifying the running of your business and free up your time to concentrate on what really matters – dealing with customers on a daily basis.

A&C Chartered Accountants makes use of the most powerful cloud accounting available by allowing payments to be made online via card or bank transfer for example at which point Xero runs through and allows simple reconciliation of all payments. 

Spanner Planner & Xero Accounting

Add to this the ability to integrate Xero Cloud Accounting with Spanner Planner and you will be seriously amazed with the powerful tools available at your fingertips.  Spanner Planner again is a cloud based management software which will work on any pc, mac, tablet or smartphone.  Spanner Planner allows you to streamline all of your day to day business processed as a mechanic and will let you schedule and allocate the client jobs among your staff.  Whilst doing this it also allows you to allocating the parts required to complete the job through your inventory and add labour to invoices.

Once the work has been completed and marked as such within Spanner Planner all invoices are then synchronised automatically with your Xero Cloud Accounting System.  This in turn will take care of all tax, vat and payroll processes.  By using Spanner Planner you should already be able to see just how much your processes can be streamlined and your time allocated on client facing work rather than the monotony of dealing with constant administration.

Spanner Planner, a specialist cloud based software for mechanics which can work on mobile, tablet or computer, allows you to manage and schedule jobs with employees. In addition Spanner Planner will allow you to run your business more smoothly by:

  • Allocating and ordering parts
  • Adding labour to jobs
  • Invoicing directly to clients

Both Spanner Planner and Xero Cloud Accounting can be integrated seamlessly with help from our dedicated support team who are able to assist with all aspect of your setup in a bid to make your business workflow a lot more practical end efficient.

If you are interested in taking your mechanics business to the next level and would like to find out more about how the Xero cloud based accounting system can help you as a mechanic please get in touch today – we would love to hear from you!