For auto repair
Be the garage people find when the warning light comes on.
Most repair searches are urgent and specific: brakes, a strange noise, a service that is due. Start with the jobs you want more of and see where you show up for them.
What nearby customers search for
Drivers search for the job and the area, often on a phone at the roadside, then call or book. Reviews weigh heavily.
Example searches
- brake repair near me
- car service near me
- mechanic open Saturday
- engine diagnostic near me
- oil change near me
What to grow
- Brakes and servicing. Routine jobs that bring a car back every year.
- Diagnostics. The first visit that often leads to the repair.
- Inspections and pre-purchase checks. Booked work with a clear date.
Booked visits
How an auto repair shop sells
Booked appointments and drop-offs, quotes by phone, and work that grows once the car is in. Invoices mix parts and labour, and customers come back with the same car for years.
What OwnerCue can read for an auto repair shop today
Reads today
- The free competitor report: where you and up to three nearby rivals appear in the same Google searches, and what their pages show that yours do not.
- Website visits, the booking, order or call clicks you already track, and the searches you appear in, from Google Analytics and Search Console, read-only.
- Appointments from your shop system's export, when it has a booking reference, when the booking was made, the appointment time, its status and the job.
- Invoices from a sales export: one row per invoice, with its date and total.
Not yet
- Parts and labour on an invoice. An invoice is read as one sale with its total.
- A direct connection to your till, booking or order system. Fresha and Square come in as CSV files; other tools are not connected.
Every source and its status
| Source | Status | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Local competitor report | Available, free | Where you and up to three nearby competitors appear in the same Google searches, sampled around your area on phone and desktop, and what their public pages show that yours do not. Each report shows how many checks completed out of those planned. Sample businesses show sample data. |
| Weekly plan | Available in the pilot | Up to three supported actions a week, each with its reason, its evidence and a review date. Fewer, or none, when the evidence does not support more. |
| Google Analytics 4 | Available, read-only | Website visits and the events you already track, such as booking, order or call clicks. |
| Google Search Console | Available, read-only | The Google searches your website appears in, with clicks and impressions. |
| Sales and booking CSV import | Available, file import | Upload a sales or bookings export from your till, point-of-sale, booking or payment system. Its columns are matched to OwnerCue's fields and previewed first, and rows that cannot be read are set aside with a reason rather than guessed. |
| Google Ads | Available, read-only reporting | Your campaigns' spend, clicks and conversions as Google reports them. Reporting only: OwnerCue never creates, changes or pauses a campaign. |
| Fresha and Square | CSV import only | Export a CSV from Fresha or Square and upload it. There is no direct connection to either. |
| Other till, booking, payment and email tools | Not connected | Tell us what you use. We will say plainly whether OwnerCue can read it, before you rely on it. |
A garage that wants more brake work
The owner picks brake repair and the area the garage serves.
The kind of finding the free report shows
Competitors have a page about brake repair; none of your fetched pages does
The question
When someone nearby searches for brake repair, do they find this garage, and can they see it does the job?
The evidence
The garage appears among the local results in some completed checks and not others. Two nearby rivals have a page about brake repair; this garage lists brakes as one word in a list of services.
The week's action
Write a brake repair page: the signs that brakes need attention, how long a typical job takes, how to get a quote, and a link to book or call. Record the change.
What it will not show
How many brake jobs followed, or what they were worth. That needs the shop's own invoice export.
Illustration of the kind of finding the free report can show, for a made-up business. No real business, customer result or point-of-sale connection is implied.
See where your garage shows up.
Run the free competitor report for one job and your area, then decide which page to improve first.