Customers/Vehicles Menu
Understanding the relationship between customers, vehicles, repair orders, and parts and labor is vital to using R.O. Writer to run the daily activities of your shop.
- A customer can have no vehicles but a vehicle must always be assigned to a customer.
- Vehicles can be transferred from one customer to another.
- Estimates and repair orders are assigned to a specific vehicle when first created and always belongs to that vehicle.
- History is tied to the vehicle first, customer second.
- If a customer's vehicle is deleted, the repair history of that vehicle is deleted even if the customer remains in R.O. Writer.
- Vehicle information like VIN (vehicle identification number), make, model, model, and year should remain the same.
- Change this information only to make corrections.
- If a customer no longer has the vehicle assigned to them in R.O. Writer, do NOT change the existing vehicle information. Instead, keep the old vehicle and add the new one.
- If you do change the vehicle, all vehicle history - including vehicle statistics and repair information - becomes incorrect on reports.
Customer and Vehicle Configuration
Watch the following video to see some of the most important customer and vehicle configuration options.
Menu Items
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NOTE: You search for or create customers first because vehicle records must always be associated with customers. |
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Transfer vehicle records between customers. |
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Edit the ship-to address for customers. These addresses are used only on parts-only tickets. |
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