A blog for people who fix cars for a living

The Ceeda Blog is written for owners and service advisors of independent garages, body shops, tyre shops and quick-lube bays. Every article answers one practical question about running the shop: how to fill the booking diary, move cars through the bay faster, send estimates customers approve, and get paid on the day the car leaves.

The 8-stage job flow

Ceeda tracks every vehicle through the same eight stages. Most of what we write maps onto one of them.

1. New
2. Checked-in
3. Inspection
4. Estimation
5. Work Started
6. Work Done
7. Invoiced
8. Delivered

When a car stalls between stages — waiting for an inspection, an approval or an invoice — the shop loses bay time and cash flow. Naming the stage makes the bottleneck visible.

What you will find here

• Operations: check-in routines, inspection checklists, technician handovers.
• Customer experience: clearer estimates, status updates, fewer "is my car ready?" calls.
• Finance and invoicing: deposits, partial payments, chasing overdue invoices.
• Marketing and growth: repeat visits, service reminders, reviews.

Our approach

Short, specific and tested on real workshops. No filler. If a checklist or table explains it faster than a paragraph, we use the checklist.