No subscription setup feeMotorcentral charges $995 to $1,695 to set up. EverLogic charges $3,999.
No training feeOnboarding and training sessions are included, not quoted separately.
No lock-in contractMonthly or yearly. Leave when you like.
No cancellation penaltyLightspeed customers report being charged 70 per cent of the contract remainder.
No charge for the mobile appSome competitors bill it at $39 per licence per month.
No data hostageYour data is yours. Export it any time, including on the way out.
Migration included on a yearly planOn a monthly plan it is quoted first. If your data is complicated we scope it and quote a fixed number before you commit. You will never get a surprise invoice.
What is in each plan
The whole list, open. Not a highlights reel, and not a PDF you have to ask for. Collapse any section you do not need.
Selling units
Feature
Gold
Platinum
Unit stock, acquisition and floor management
✓
✓
Serial, VIN and HIN tracking
✓
✓
True unit cost, with recon rolled in
✓
✓
Floor ageing you can act on
✓
✓
Trade-ins valued against full service history
✓
✓
Deal documents and delivery checklists
✓
✓
Multiple units and accessories on one saleSold together on one invoice.
✓
✓
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✓
✓
The workshop
Feature
Gold
Platinum
Unlimited quote and job management
✓
✓
Job cards for retail, warranty, internal and recon
✓
✓
Full service history against the unit, for life
✓
✓
Engine hours recorded against the jobCaptured on the job card and kept on the unit record.
✓
✓
Technician time clocking and productivity
✓
✓
Booking management
✓
✓
Shop scheduling
✓
✓
Print all job cards for a day
✓
✓
Start all bookings for a day
✓
✓
Auto Inspect tool
✓
✓
Inspection photos and videos
✓
✓
Customer approves inspections from a phone
✓
✓
Courtesy and loan unit management
✓
✓
Split invoices
✓
✓
Adjustable user groups and permissions
✓
✓
Global system search
✓
✓
Reporting and business intelligence
Feature
Gold
Platinum
Business Intelligence
✓
✓
Invoice analysis
✓
✓
Report CSV export
✓
✓
Group and per site reporting
×
✓
Parts and stock
Feature
Gold
Platinum
Stock order management
✓
✓
Stock order raised from a job
✓
✓
Supplier invoice and payment management
✓
✓
Stock take
✓
✓
Reserve stock
✓
✓
Product bundles and kits
✓
✓
Canned services and bundles
✓
✓
Product categories
✓
✓
Price matrix
✓
✓
Mobile app
Feature
Gold
Platinum
Free Android and iOS appUnlimited phone users. Never billed per licence.
✓
✓
Time clocking
✓
✓
Job status
✓
✓
Talk to text
✓
✓
Note taking
✓
✓
Booking creation and management
✓
✓
Full job management including processing
✓
✓
Customer and unit management
✓
✓
Inspection checklist
✓
✓
Inspection photos and videos
✓
✓
Inspection approval
✓
✓
Registration and VIN lookups on the phone
✓
✓
Customers and communication
Feature
Gold
Platinum
Automatic service, registration and booking reminders
✓
✓
Personalised fields for customer communication
✓
✓
Verification of email domain
✓
✓
Bulk invoice statements, 30, 60 and 90 days
✓
✓
Customer portal
✓
✓
Online booking diary
✓
✓
Communication centre
✓
✓
SMS messagingCharged per message, at the published rate.
✓
✓
Two way SMSAvailable as a paid add-on.
✓
✓
Registration and VIN lookupCharged per lookup, at the published rate.
✓
✓
Payments
Feature
Gold
Platinum
WorkshopPay
✓
✓
Online payments
✓
✓
In person payments
✓
✓
Surcharge management
✓
✓
Multi terminal management
✓
✓
3D Secure protection
✓
✓
Apple Pay and Google Pay
✓
✓
Overnight payouts
✓
✓
Accounting
Feature
Gold
Platinum
Xero
✓
✓
MYOB
✓
✓
MYOB AccountRight
✓
✓
QuickBooks
✓
✓
Parts suppliers
Feature
Gold
Platinum
Repco Navigator Pro
✓
✓
Repco invoice auto sync
✓
✓
Burson EzyParts
✓
✓
Burson invoice auto sync
✓
✓
Capricorn
✓
✓
HSY
✓
✓
Oscar
✓
✓
PartsTech
✓
✓
PartsTech Labor
✓
✓
Parts Authority
✓
✓
GPC
✓
✓
ProLink, NAPA
✓
✓
GSF
✓
✓
Data, media and marketing
Feature
Gold
Platinum
Mitchell 1 ProDemand
✓
✓
WorkshopDataAvailable as a paid add-on.
✓
✓
Carfax
✓
✓
Vehicle Visuals
✓
✓
vvGarage
✓
✓
TireConnect
✓
✓
Tire registration and TPMS
✓
✓
Podium
✓
✓
MailChimp
✓
✓
Mobile videoAvailable as a paid add-on.
✓
✓
More than one site
Feature
Gold
Platinum
Multi site stock visibility and transfers
×
✓
Customer, unit and product sharing between sites
×
✓
API
Feature
Gold
Platinum
Public API
×
✓
Online booking API
×
✓
WorkshopWeb API
×
✓
Support and getting started
Feature
Gold
Platinum
Email and phone support
✓
✓
Live chat support
✓
✓
Getting started training
✓
✓
Knowledge base
✓
✓
Data migrationIncluded on a yearly plan. Quoted on a monthly plan. Complex dealerships are scoped with a fixed number before you commit, on either plan.
✓
✓
Data export, including on the way out
✓
✓
Additional usersCharged per user beyond what the plan includes, at the published rate.
✓
✓
Priority support
×
✓
Custom training and strategy plan
×
✓
Named account manager
×
✓
What it actually costs over three years
Buyer guides in this category tell dealers to ask for three year total cost of ownership rather than the monthly rate. Nobody publishes it, so here it is. Competitor figures are from their own published pages or from named third party sources, and are marked where they are estimates.
Three years, single site, two users
Users
Subscription
Setup
Three year total
DealershipSoft Gold, billed yearly, AUD
2
$8,604
Nil standard
$8,604
BiT, entry config, 2 modules, USD
2
$8,568
$0
$8,568
Shift Industry Pro, USD
Not published
$11,340
$0
$11,340
EverLogic, $139 per licence, USD
3 minimum
$15,012
$3,999
$19,011
Motorcentral Standard Max plus support pack, NZD
Not published
$10,980
$1,695
$12,675
Lightspeed DMS, third party estimate
Not published
$16,200 to $108,000
Not published
Plus reported 70% of remainder to cancel
Read the currency column before you compare. Every figure above is that vendor's own published price in that vendor's own currency, and we have not converted any of them, because a converted price is a number they never quoted. BiT, Shift and EverLogic publish in US dollars, Motorcentral in New Zealand dollars. Ours is the row marked AUD.
Where we lose: BiT is the one that genuinely competes on price. Their entry configuration at two users and two modules is the cheapest line in this table in its own currency, and for a dealer buying in US dollars that is a real advantage we are not going to talk around. Add their third module and three more users and the gap closes the other way. If two users across two departments is your business, they may well be the right answer.
Pricing questions
Is that the whole price?
Almost. One user is included, and each additional user is $20 a month. That is the list. There is no setup fee, no training fee, no charge for the mobile app, no minimum term and no penalty for leaving. Standard data migration is included if you pay yearly. On a monthly plan it is quoted first, and a complex migration is scoped with a fixed number before you commit either way. The three year table above is there because in this category the monthly figure is rarely the whole price, and ours is.
What does an extra user cost?
Every plan includes one user. Each additional user is $20 a month. Still pending: whether technicians who only clock on and off can be free seats. If they can, it removes the single most common pricing objection in this category permanently.
Do you charge for SMS?
Text messages are charged per message, not as a monthly fee. They are from 11 cents each, bought as credits when you want them rather than as a commitment. Reminders, job updates and pickup notices all come out of the same credits.
Two way SMS is a separate add on. It gives you a dedicated number so the customer can reply, and the reply comes back into the job rather than to somebody's mobile. It is $49 a month. Call forwarding on that number is a further $99 a month. More on two way SMS.
What happens at the end of the free trial?
Nothing automatic. There is no credit card on file, so it stops unless you choose to continue. If you do continue, the data you entered during the trial stays where it is.
Prices effective 14 August 2026.
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