POWAY, Calif. - Summit Software Solutions is introducing two shop management systems beginning at $99 per month. The systems, ASCENT and RPM shop management solutions, provide independent and dealership collision repair facilities with management controls, reporting, scheduling, and production management capabilities designed to help repairers increase profitability and cash flow while reducing costs, cycle time and much more.
Summit’s President Frank Terlep states, “Even though it has been 27 years since the first computerized shop management system was introduced to the collision repair industry, less than 25 percent of collision repair shops presently utilize one. This is an amazing statistic considering more than 75 percent of repairers use a computerized estimating system and almost every shop has one or more computers.”
Terlep added, “It has been proven that shops that use a computerized shop management system are more profitable, more organized, have better CSI and cycle time results. By offering collision repairers two shop management system options for less than $5 per day we hope that we can increase the number of shops using management systems which will help those shops operate better, faster and more profitably and help the entire industry improve CSI, cycle times, and profitability.”According to Summit Software, the ASCENT and RPM systems include:
* Free interface software with Audatex, CCC, and Mitchell estimating systems;
* Free Interface software for QuickBooks, Business Works, and Peachtree accounting software;
* Complete job costing management;
* Technician management;
* Scheduling management;
* Parts management (ASCENT)
* Sublet management
* IOU Parts management (ASCENT)
* Production management
* Cycle time management
* Marketing management
* Vendor, insurer and rental car management
* Quality management (RPM)
* Hundreds of reports
* Automated internal and external communications (RPM)
* 50 Custom forms
ASCENT and RPM do not require a long term contract nor do they require the shop to store their data on remote servers. Users of either can upgrade to Summit Software’s VantagePoint and Summit shop management system or add additional features such as the Digital Documentation System, Summit’s Media management and paperless option; Status On-Demand, a Web-based vehicle status system; ShopGuide, an interface with Chief’s Measuring System, as well as interfaces with PPG’s Paint Manager System, Fix Auto CSI and Reporting systems, BASF VisionPlus, Enterprise Car Rental ARMS system, the See Progress AutoWatch system and more.
For more information, contact Frank Terlep at 858-547-8697 EXT 101, send an e-mail to [email protected], or visit the Summit Software Website at www.summitsoftwaresolutions.com.
