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Browse articles and guides to help you get the most out of PitlaneHQ.

Getting Started

New to PitlaneHQ? Start here. A short tour of the workshop, your team, and your first day on the system.

6 articles

Jobs & Workshop Floor

The heart of the system. How jobs are created, who works on them, how they move through the floor, and how they end.

11 articles

Customers & Vehicles

The people and the cars. How to add them, look up their details, keep them tidy, and stay on the right side of marketing law.

7 articles

Quotes & Invoices

The paper trail. How to write a quote, get it approved, raise the invoice, take the money, and chase what is owed.

8 articles

Bookings & Diary

The diary, the bays, the service reminders that fill them — everything about getting cars into the right slot on the right day.

6 articles

Stock, POS & Suppliers

Walk-in sales, the parts shelf, stocktakes, suppliers, purchase orders, and the barcode workflows that hold the whole thing together.

6 articles

Reports & HR

How the business is doing, who is working, and how to read it. Dashboard tiles, profitability, productivity, timesheets, payroll, and bay utilisation.

12 articles

Settings & Admin

Configure your workshop, brand, plan, integrations, and audit trail. The back-of-house controls every owner touches once a quarter.

12 articles

Marketing & Conversions

Connect your ad platforms and understand the conversions PitlaneHQ sends them.

2 articles

Marketing

Reach your customers with bulk SMS and email, trigger-based automations, win-back campaigns, and source-level attribution — all from inside your workshop.

12 articles

Workshop Brain & AI

Your private workshop assistant. How the AI features work, where they show up, and how to keep them inside your own four walls.

7 articles

Inspections

Run a structured, photo-backed inspection against any job — from a quick multi-point check to a full roadworthy — and turn the failed items straight into a quote.

4 articles

Fleet & 3rd-Party Billing

How parent-company fleets and pay-on-behalf billers (insurance, head office, government) work in PitlaneHQ.

5 articles

Customer Portal

What your customers see when they sign in. Branding, vehicles, invoices, reviews — the customer-side experience explained to workshop owners.

5 articles

Online Store & Storefront

Turn your stock list into a public storefront. Choose which parts list online, publish them on your own workshop website, and feed them to free Google Shopping listings — all from your existing stock.

5 articles

Daily Operations

The day-to-day operational tools that sit alongside the core job workflow — the staff Tasks manager (including AI follow-ups) and the courtesy / loan-car pool, from reservation through return to the loaner reports.

5 articles