Available now, invite-only · No public sign-up
For workshops
Motrix is an automotive knowledge platform in development. Workshop is available now to invited workshops, from the first visit to the end of the work.
Updated
In the app today, on fictional data: one identified vehicle with its procedures, parts, torque, fluids, maintenance and fault codes. Verified knowledge from real sources is in development, and verified knowledge in the job is coming soon, with no date given.
Vehicle information: Available now ·
Verified sources: In development ·
Workshop: Available now, invite-only
The app shows a vehicle’s technical information on fictional data, with no account. Workshop is by invitation only.
See the plansWhat the labels mean
- Status: Available now
- Works today in the Motrix app at app.getmotrix.com, on example data. Open to everyone, no account needed.
- Status: Available now, invite-only
- Works today in the Motrix app for the workshops Motrix has invited, on their own records. There is no public sign-up.
- Status: In development
- Being built now. Not in the app. No date is given.
- Status: Coming soon
- Planned, not built yet. No date is given.
No technical information in Motrix is verified yet. What a workshop records in its own organisation is its own.
The chain
One chain, from the vehicle to its history
Workshop follows one chain, from the vehicle to its history. Each link carries its own status.
Verified vehicle knowledge
Being built so that each value carries its source, its revision and what it applies to. The app shows how, on fictional sources.
What “verified” will meanVehicle
One identified configuration, with its engine, gearbox and equipment codes. In the app, Motrix asks instead of guessing when something is still open.
How a vehicle is identifiedDiagnostics and service information
Fault codes with their possible causes in the order the source lists them, guided test steps on two of the Golf’s codes, and the procedures, torque, fluids and maintenance operations for that configuration, all on fictional data.
A walk through the example GolfJob
Work Order Studio: a job is a work order with tasks and assignment, in five states: opened, paused, finished, closed and reopened. A job is planned to open from a maintenance operation, a fault code or a procedure.
Labour
The Mechanic Console: a shift clock and job timers for the time actually worked. A labour standard is planned only where a verified source gives one.
The app shows a fictional time per procedure. It is not a labour time.
Parts
Parts on the work order, each part with its status from required to fitted.
Status: Available nowIn the app: the parts catalogue, where each part links to the procedures that use it.
Estimate
An estimate built from the work order’s labour and parts, in versions, with the customer’s answer on record.
Customer
A CRM with each customer and company, and their vehicles.
Approval
Customer approval of the estimate through a secure link, or recorded by the workshop after a call or a visit.
History
Each garage’s private service history of a vehicle: the work orders it has done. Maintenance + APK is a call list of vehicles that are due.
Available now, invite-only
Working today at app.getmotrix.com for the workshops Motrix has invited, on their own records. There is no public sign-up: each of these needs an invitation. While nothing is sold, an invited workshop can use every workshop module, and Motrix charges nothing.
- Check-In and Check-Out: a vehicle’s arrival with the customer’s complaints and the requested work, and its handover when the work is done. Status: Available now, invite-only
- Motrix Inspect: vehicle inspections with results, findings and photos. Status: Available now, invite-only
- The Planner: appointments by service bay and mechanic. Status: Available now, invite-only
- The Service Catalog: service packages with their operations and hours, built once and used on estimates. Status: Available now, invite-only
- Maintenance + APK: a call list of vehicles due for maintenance or the APK, with the outcome of each call. A workshop sets its own rules: finished work that matches one is recorded in the vehicle’s service history and sets the next maintenance item. Nothing is sent by email. Status: Available now, invite-only
- Message drafts: message templates in English and Dutch, and a message prepared for a customer from an appointment, an estimate, a finished work order or a maintenance item. The workshop copies or prints each message: Motrix sends no email. Status: Available now, invite-only
- Final quality control: checklists a work order passes before it is finished, and comebacks linked to the work they came from. Status: Available now, invite-only
- Invoicing: invoices, payments and credit notes for finished work, and a CSV accounting export of a period for the accountant. Numbering and tax rules follow Motrix’s defaults until an accountant has reviewed them, so check every invoice before you send it. Status: Available now, invite-only
- PDF and job cards: the job card, the estimate, the invoice and the credit note as A4 documents to print or save as PDF. Status: Available now, invite-only
- The Live Board: every open work order on one board, updating by itself. Status: Available now, invite-only
- Universal search: customers, vehicles and work orders across the workshop, showing each person only what their role allows. Status: Available now, invite-only
- Import Studio: customers and vehicles brought in from a CSV file, checked before anything is saved, and an export of the workshop’s own data. Status: Available now, invite-only
- Workshop Settings: the workshop’s profile, members and roles, finance settings, templates, document settings, and a Licence page with its plan, seats and modules. Status: Available now, invite-only
- Dutch open vehicle registration data: a real Dutch plate looked up for the facts its registration states, when a vehicle is added to the workshop’s records. It gives no technical values: for a real vehicle Motrix says that no verified source is available yet. Status: Available now, invite-only
- Accounts, roles and permissions: passkey accounts and invitations, so that each person in a workshop sees only what their role allows. Motrix invites a workshop’s owner, and the owner invites the team. There is no public sign-up. Status: Available now, invite-only
Available now
Working today at app.getmotrix.com, on fictional data. A job is planned to start from what these screens already hold.
- Maintenance operations that list their procedure, parts and fluids, with a Copy parts list action.
- Fault codes that link to the procedures that apply, with possible causes in the order the source lists them.
- Procedures with safety notices and an At a glance panel: tools, parts, torque and fluids.
- A parts catalogue where each part links to the procedures that use it.
- The app’s workshop mode, a reading mode for the bench with one procedure step per screen. It is not Workshop.
What the example vehicles do not have: a record of past work. Their maintenance strip shows “Last service” with “Not recorded” under it, and a passed limit is shown as due, never as overdue.
Every vehicle record, document and source in the example data is fictional, and its values are illustrative and unverified. Never use an example value on a real vehicle.
Everything in Motrix today
In development
Being built now. Not in the app. No date is given.
- Verified sources from real documents
Coming soon
Planned with the chain above. Not in the app, and no date is given.
- Verified vehicle knowledge feeding the job. It needs verified sources from real documents, which are in development. Status: Coming soon
- Planned: Communications, email that the workshop configures for its customers. Motrix sends no email today, and sending waits for an approved provider. Status: Coming soon
- Planned: License Studio, for modules a workshop can have on their own, and extra mechanic seats. Status: Coming soon
- Planned: mobile PWA workflows, for assigned jobs, timers and inspection photos on a phone, in the web app that installs from the browser. Status: Coming soon
The vehicle first
Why it starts from the vehicle
- Workshop is planned to start each job from the identified vehicle, not from a blank form, so that its engine, gearbox and equipment are settled before the first line is added.
- Verified vehicle knowledge is planned to feed the job: the procedures, parts, torque and fluids for the identified vehicle.
- The job is planned to show where no verified source applies. Motrix is being built never to invent a value.
The rules
What Motrix is being built never to do
- Invent a value. Where a value cannot be traced, Motrix will say so.
- Present a value as verified when its source is pending review or stale. In the app such values carry a marker.
- Present the app’s time per procedure, or any other example value, as real.
- Choose a winner when sources disagree. Both values stay visible, each with its source.
- Turn a fault code into a verdict.
- Call a maintenance operation overdue when no service is recorded.
Plans
A plan for workshops
There will also be a plan for workshops, named Workshop. Which of these modules it includes is not decided, and like every plan it is not yet available.
See the plansThe app shows a vehicle’s technical information on fictional data, with no account. Workshop is by invitation only.