Guides for garages

Practical, no-nonsense guides to running a workshop: paperwork, parts and tax, written for independent garages.

• How to Write a Job Card: Fields, Example and Mistakes

  What a workshop job card should contain, a filled-in example, how to turn an estimate into customer approval, the status flow and the mistakes to avoid.

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• Garage Stock Management: A Practical Guide to Parts

  How to manage parts stock in a garage: product cards, barcodes, purchase invoices, automatic deduction from job cards, stock counts and low-stock alerts.

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• VAT Invoices for Garages: UAE, UK, US and Saudi Arabia

  What a garage invoice needs in the UAE (Tax Invoice, TRN), the UK (VAT invoice) and the US (sales tax), plus Saudi ZATCA and UAE e-invoicing explained.

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