Total garage leakage on your dashboard
Unbilled labour, missed parts and below-margin jobs, added up and shown on the main dashboard, so you can act on the number that matters most: margin walking out the door.
On the dashboard from day oneDruOps GMS · Launching November 2026
Garage management software that shows you where the money went
DruOps GMS is cloud garage management software for UK independent garages. Enter a reg and the parts basket fills itself in under 60 seconds. Unbilled labour, missed parts and below-margin jobs are tracked job by job and technician by technician, so you can stop the leak before the invoice goes out.
<60sreg to parts basket
12–15%of monthly turnover garages can lose (estimate)
£0per-seat fees, unlimited users
GSFlive parts supplier, more coming
Founding offer · 50 places
Claim a founding place
Founding garages wanted
DruOps GMS launches in full at Mechanex, Sandown Park, on 10–11 November 2026. Until then, 50 independent garages can join as founding members and pay less for their first 12 months: from £100 a month instead of £149. Spaces still available.
60-second leakage estimator
How much margin could your garage be leaking?
Estimates suggest independent garages can lose up to 12–15% of monthly turnover to unbilled labour, missed parts and jobs priced below margin. Put your own numbers in to see what that could mean for you.
The parts cascade
Reg in. Parts basket out.
Most garage systems stop at the reg lookup and leave you searching catalogues. DruOps carries on: it identifies the vehicle, checks its MOT history and fills the parts basket for the job from your supplier account, so the quote is ready while the customer is still at the counter.
KP19 XYZ
Front brake padsFront discs ×2Wear sensorBrake fluidLabour: 1.4h
Enter the reg
Type it in or read it off the job card. DVLA returns the make, model and engine.
Check the history
DruOps pulls the MOT history from DVSA, so advisories and mileage are on screen before you quote.
Basket fills itself
The right parts for the job come from your GSF account with live price and stock. More motor factors are being added.
What DruOps actually does
Built for the workshop. Built for operators, not accountants.
Every feature has one goal: give independent garage owners the data, control and accountability to keep more of what they earn. Digital job cards, the parts cascade, leakage tracking and customer updates by text, for one flat price per site.
Leakage attributed to the lead technician
Every pound of lost margin is tied to the job and the lead technician on it, so you know which bay is bleeding profit and why. To coach, not to blame.
Job by job, tech by techInvoicing Blocker stops below-margin jobs going out
A warning is easy to ignore. Jobs below your margin floor can't be invoiced without an override and a written reason, so leakage is stopped before it leaves the workshop.
A hard stop, not just a warningParts cascade from your supplier account
Enter the reg and DruOps fills the parts basket for the job from your GSF account. More motor factors are being added, so you can compare price and stock across the suppliers you already use.
GSF live today. More suppliers coming.Built for the tablet on the bench
Designed for a tech with greasy hands and a tablet on the bench. Runs in the browser on any tablet, phone or PC, with nothing to install.
Big buttons, few taps, nothing to install.Customer updates, approvals and photos
Customers see progress and photos from the bay, approve health check work by text and pay by link on their phone.
Plain-English health check reports
“Front pads at 3mm, recommended within 2,000 miles”: written by AI, sent by text, photo attached. No more carbon-paper tick sheets.
Card payments built in
Card on file, deposits, pay-by-link and surcharges through Stripe, reconciled automatically. No separate card terminal account to match up at the end of the day.
Your data stays yours
Export your customers, vehicles and jobs whenever you want, at no extra cost. Your records belong to your garage, not to us.
Export any time, no charge.No per-seat pricing
One flat price per site. Add every tech, adviser and front-desk person you have and the bill stays the same.
Many systems charge per user. We don't.Reg to parts basket in under 60 seconds
Enter the reg and DruOps pulls the vehicle details and MOT history, then fills the parts basket for the job. If the DVLA lookup is slow, it falls back to saved details or manual entry, so you're never stuck.
Part-number efficiency tracking
We rate part-jobs, not people. Barry fits a Transit oil filter in 15 minutes; Terry takes 30. DruOps learns this and helps you give future jobs to the right tech.
DruOps GMS · Live dashboard
Your workshop. Your data. Your margin.
Every job, every technician, every pound of margin, tracked in real time. Active jobs, stuck jobs, parts delays and today's leakage on one screen. No spreadsheets. No end-of-month surprises.
Workshop dashboardLive
Active jobs14On the floor now
Stuck jobs2Waiting on customer approval
Awaiting parts2Supplier delay: chase the part
Completed today9Closed since 00:00
Today's leakage£186Found on 3 jobs
Stuck job · oldest first
2Loss-making job · open the worst first
1Low margin warning · jobs still in progress
3Example screen with figures for a busy 6-bay garage.
Tech Scorecard
See your team's efforts in numbers.
Every job your team completes, every margin they hold and every pound they let slip, visible and attributed. Not to catch anyone out. To know where to coach, where to celebrate, and where to have the conversation before it costs you another month.
| Technician | Jobs led | Revenue | Gross profit | Margin | Leakage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marcus Bennett | 94 | £47,200 | £18,900 | 40.0% | — |
| Sarah Okonkwo | 88 | £44,000 | £17,200 | 39.1% | — |
| David Yates | 82 | £38,400 | £14,000 | 36.5% | £320 |
| Priya Shah | 76 | £35,600 | £12,800 | 35.9% | £580 |
| Tom Whitaker | 71 | £31,800 | £10,400 | 32.7% | £1,240 |
| Jay Patel | 65 | £28,200 | £8,100 | 28.7% | £2,100 |
Supplier performance
Know which supplier is costing you.
On-time delivery and average delay for every supplier you order from, measured against the delivery time they quoted. Late parts stop counting against your technicians, and you go into supplier talks with the facts.
| Supplier | Orders | On time | Avg delay |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northgate Motor Factors | 10 | 50.0% | 28.8h |
| Riverside Auto Spares | 13 | 53.8% | 27.7h |
| Kestrel Parts Supply | 19 | 68.4% | 12.0h |
| Brookfield Car Spares | 10 | 80.0% | 7.2h |
| Hadley Parts Direct | 11 | 81.8% | 6.5h |
| Oakline Auto Factors | 24 | 91.7% | 1.2h |
| Westmoor Parts Co | 31 | 93.5% | 0.8h |
How we compare · checked October 2026
DruOps vs the systems you know
How DruOps GMS compares with TechMan, GarageHive and Autowork Online, three well-known garage management systems in the UK independent market.
Swipe the table sideways to see every system →
| Feature | DruOps | TechMan | GarageHive | Autowork Online |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Margin defence | ||||
| Total garage leakage on the dashboard | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Leakage attributed to the lead technician | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Below-margin jobs blocked from invoicing | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Technician scorecard: jobs, margin and leakage | ✓ | Check | Check | Check |
| Customer trust | ||||
| Reg fills the parts basket automatically | ✓ | Reg lookup | Reg lookup | Reg lookup |
| Health check with photos | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Via app |
| Customer approves work by text | ✓ | Check | ✓ | Check |
| Pay-by-link | ✓ | Check | ✓ | Check |
| AI-written plain-English health check reports | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Operator freedom | ||||
| Unlimited users on every plan | ✓ | Check | Check | Check |
| Export your data any time | ✓ | Check | Check | Check |
| Works on tablet, phone and PC | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Check |
| DVLA vehicle and MOT history lookup | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Competitor details checked against public information on 19 October 2026. A dash means we couldn't find the feature in their public information, not that it can't be done. "Check" means public sources don't say or disagree. Features and prices change, so always check with the supplier.
Built by the trade · For the trade
Thousands of independent garages. Most run on software that wasn't built around how they work.
I spent 20 years in this industry, managing independent garages, running regions for a national chain and, most recently, running a GSF Car Parts branch. The owners I worked with were sharp, hard-working, and badly served by the software they were paying for every month. Big promises. Clunky screens. Little insight into where their money was actually going.
DruOps isn't a software company that decided to target garages. It's being built by someone who's stood in your workshop at 5pm with four jobs still open, a comeback on bay two, and no idea whose fault it was or why. That context is baked into every screen.
The bigger idea is a community. Every garage that joins can share anonymised data with the others: real fitting times from real jobs, labour benchmarks built from actual clock data, supplier delay patterns and comeback causes by part number.
The more garages that run on DruOps, the sharper that data gets, and every garage in the network benefits. That's something no single garage can build on its own. Most systems track jobs. We're building something that tracks the trade.
<60s
Reg to parts basket
Reg goes in, DVLA pulls the vehicle and the parts basket fills from your supplier. As more garages join, fitting times will come from real jobs, not just book times.
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Garages using it ahead of launch
Three independent garages are running DruOps now and shaping what gets built next. Founding places are open to 50 more before November 2026.
12–15%
Of turnover garages can lose (estimate)
Estimates suggest garages can lose up to 12–15% of monthly turnover to unbilled labour, missed parts and below-margin jobs. DruOps shows you where, job by job.
Founding offer · spaces still available
Claim a founding place
Ready to stop guessing where the money went?
Founding places are open to 50 independent garages before the November 2026 launch. No setup fee, no long-term contract, cancel any time.