Digital Inspections That Never Leave the Work Order
Build your inspection standards once, then let technicians run them from a phone, tablet, or desktop with the truck still in the air. It's the clipboard your shop already uses, except it never ends up in the wrong folder and it writes the customer report for you.
Get the Inspection Done Before the Truck Leaves - FAST
Every answer, measurement, photo, and note lands on the Work Order line as the technician enters it. Nothing gets retyped later, and nothing gets written up from memory two days after the job closed.
Pass, Monitor, or Fail in One Keystroke
At a desktop, technicians move through checkbox fields on the keyboard. P for pass, M for monitor, F for fail, Tab to advance. A fifty-point inspection does not turn into fifty screens of scrolling.
Built for Gloves, Not Desks
On a phone or tablet the layout switches to one section per page, with response buttons sized for dirty hands. Photo fields open the camera. Text fields take the phone's own dictation.
A Customer-Ready Report in Seconds
Submitting the inspection generates the PDF. Shop letterhead, vehicle details, a color-coded tally of what needs attention, every field with its status, the technician's comments, and the photos.
Three Inspections on One Line
A Work Order line can carry up to three inspections, so one diagnostic job can run a front-end check and a power steering check side by side without a second line item.
One Inspection Standard, Every Bay
Consistent Inspections
Administrators publish the template. Every technician works from the same approved version, and each publish increments the version number so you can see how often a standard has changed.
Documentation That Holds Up
Six field types cover a real heavy-duty inspection: checkboxes with an amber Monitor state, short and long text, measurements with units, photos, and read-only instructions for the steps people get wrong.
Less Admin After the Job
The report writes itself and drops a note on the Work Order with a thumbnail attached. Nobody rebuilds the inspection into something a customer can read.
Build It Once. Every Location Runs It the Same Way.
Every shop has its own standards, and they change. Administrators build templates in Settings under Service, publish them when they are ready, and revise them as the work changes. Drafts stay invisible to the rest of the shop until you say otherwise.
In-progress inspections keep the structure they started with, so revising a standard never scrambles work already underway. Duplicate a template to start a new one. Archive the standards you have retired, and restore them if you need them back.
Catch It Before the Truck Leaves the Yard
The thing that turns into a warranty argument six months from now is almost always something a technician noticed and nobody wrote down. ShopView puts the finding, the measurement, and the photo on the same line as the labor, while the tech is still standing next to it.
Technician-Friendly Workflow
One section per page on mobile, with a progress bar and section count in the header the whole time. Sections holding flagged items surface a warning count, so nothing marked Monitor gets buried under twelve passes.
Desktop Speed When They Want It
Fields sit collapsed until you open them, showing status, label, any measurement already entered, and photo thumbnails. Keyboard shortcuts handle the rest.
Live Inspection Progress
Each inspection shows as a row on the Work Order line: not started, in progress, or completed. Managers can see where a job stands without walking out to the bay to ask.
From Completed Inspection to Customer-Ready Report
The finished inspection does not need to be rebuilt into something a customer can read. When the technician submits, the report generates on its own, signed off with their name and a completion timestamp.
Automatic Report Generation
Section-by-section detail with page numbers, and a color-coded summary of what failed, what to monitor, and what passed. Download it any time after completion.
A Note Back on the Work Order
Completing an inspection drops a note on the Work Order with a thumbnail of the report. Click the thumbnail, get the full PDF.
Corrections That Keep the Record
Find a mistake after the fact and you can reopen the inspection, fix it, and complete it again. The new report is generated and the previous version is kept.
Common Questions About Digital Inspections
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Digital Inspections works with the rest of ShopView.
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Learn moreBuilt By Heavy-Duty Shop Owners Who Know the Grind
Fabian has been a heavy-duty technician since he was fifteen. He built Foothills Group into four locations and roughly a hundred employees before starting ShopView, and for most of those years an inspection meant a clipboard, a pen, and a form that got shoved in a folder after the truck left.
He went through five different shop management systems along the way. None of them treated the inspection as part of the repair. So ShopView puts it on the Work Order line, where the labor and the parts already live, and where anyone looking at the job can see it.
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Why Choose ShopView?
ShopView gets you out of the day-to-day weeds of running your shop by simplifying all your time-consuming admin, management and billing.
Available on All Devices
Simple to set up and use on computers, smartphones and tablets.
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