From approved estimate to repair order
An accepted estimate converts straight into a repair order with scope, documents, and totals carried over — the job starts from what was approved, not a retyped version of it.
Collision repair
Collision repair software that runs the shop, not the estimate.
Your estimating platform quantifies the damage. PanelDesk runs everything after the approval — repair orders, the production board, job costing, invoicing, and a customer who can see where their car stands.
No credit card needed to start. Cancel any time.
The workflow
Built for how a collision job actually moves
See every car on the floor
Statuses, a kanban-style production board with your own stages, promised dates, and colour-coded overdue warnings — so nothing sits unnoticed until the customer calls.
Close the money without digging
Job costing reconciles labour, parts, and extras with insurer and customer splits, then the invoice, payments, and paperwork generate from the same record.
An honest line
Keep your estimating platform. Fix everything around it.
PanelDesk is not an estimating database and does not pretend to be. It is the system for the rest of the job — the part that usually lives across whiteboards, spreadsheets, and text threads:
- Repair orders with statuses, line items, extras, parts orders, checklists, photos, and a full audit trail.
- A customer portal with secure links: customers view estimates and invoices, approve online, and you see when they looked.
- Job costing with insurer and customer splits, then invoicing, payment tracking, and branded PDFs from the same job.
- A production board and staff time tracking, so the workshop side of the claim runs on data instead of memory.
Under the hood
Every part of the workflow, in depth
Each stage of the collision workflow has its own page with screenshots, capabilities, and FAQs.
Collision repair FAQ
Collision Repair Software FAQs
What collision shops ask before putting their workflow into PanelDesk.
The category splits in two: estimating platforms that quantify the damage, and shop management software that runs the repair. PanelDesk is the second kind — it manages estimates, repair orders, job costing, invoicing, customer communication, production scheduling, and staff time in one connected workflow.
No. PanelDesk does not provide OEM parts and times data and does not replace estimating platforms. You write the estimate wherever your shop or its insurer partners require, and PanelDesk runs the job around it — the repair order, the costing, the invoice, and the customer.
Not today. PanelDesk manages the repair itself regardless of where the work comes from — DRP referral, independent insurer work, or customer-pay. Jobs carry the documents, approvals, splits, and audit trail that insurer administration needs.
Yes — that is who it is built for. Plans include your team rather than charging per seat, pricing is published, and the 30-day trial needs no credit card.
No. PanelDesk runs in the browser and optionally installs as an app on desktop or phone in seconds, with no app store and no shop server to buy, back up, or patch.
Yes. Customer lists import free from a CSV file, and historical documents can be imported from an export of your previous system — whether a fee applies depends on data volume and is confirmed upfront. Everything can be exported back out at any time.
Put your next repair on PanelDesk
Thirty days free, no credit card, and nothing to switch off while you look. Run a couple of live jobs through it and see how the shop feels with one system.