Carstio keeps clients, cars, estimates, work orders and payments in one simple place, and sends tidy PDFs to your customers. Works in your language and your currency from day one. Free for workshops of any size. No monthly fee, ever.
Built for independent car services and small repair shops.
Every repair goes through the same five steps. Carstio handles each one and keeps the paperwork in order, so nothing gets lost between the front desk and the bay.
Name, phone, plate, VIN. Find them again later with one search.
Labour, parts, discounts and tax. Email the PDF straight to the customer.
One click turns the approved estimate into a work order. Nothing retyped.
Open, in progress, waiting for parts, done. Your mechanics update the status.
Cash, card or bank transfer, partial payments included. Carstio tracks the balance.
No modules to buy, no add-ons to unlock. This is the whole product, and every workshop gets all of it.
Full history per vehicle: every estimate, repair and payment in one place.
Line items for labour, parts and extras. Clear statuses from draft to closed.
Professional estimates and work orders, emailed to the customer in one click.
Partial payments, multiple methods, and an always-correct remaining balance.
Know what each part cost and what you earned. Visible to you, never to the customer.
Scheduled work orders on a monthly view so you can see the week ahead.
Revenue over time, top clients, mechanic workload, most profitable parts.
Admin and mechanic roles, so the front desk and the bay each see what they need.
Translated into English, German, Spanish, French and Bulgarian, with a range of currencies built in. Pick yours in Settings and start the same day.
Carstio is open source and published under the MIT license. You can use it in your business forever without paying anyone.
Carstio runs on your own computer or a small server instead of in our cloud. That's what keeps it free and private. Setup takes about 10 minutes with Docker. If you have an IT person, send them this:
Full instructions, including setup without Docker, are in the installation guide.
Most garage software keeps your customer list on someone else's servers and charges you to reach it. Carstio does the opposite.
Clients, cars, invoices and attachments stay on your machine. No cloud account required.
It's a standard database. If you ever switch, take everything with you.
The full source code is public. Anyone can check what it does, and anyone can improve it.
Set it up, add your next job, and see if it fits the way your shop works. Questions and feature requests from workshop owners are welcome.