Audatex Announces Integration Service with CSI Holdings for Paintless Dent Repair Estimates
Audatex announced a system integration service with CSI Holdings (CSI), a global provider of claims and repair services, to streamline paintless dent repair (PDR) estimate services for catastrophe-level hail damage events around the world.
Collision Chain of Custody Released with EstimateScrubber.com
EstimateScrubber.com subscribers can create a digital evidence bag containing important repair information, documentation and/or photos, lock the packet with a digital fingerprint and download to their shop at no extra charge.
Ask the Expert: Charging for Estimates
A repairer is in the business of repairing vehicles, and a proper assessment of the damages is an extremely important part of that process and should not be taken lightly.
EstimateScrubber.com Adds No-Cost Access to 42 Repair Planning Procedures
EstimateScrubber.com uses advanced artificial intelligence to read and apply repair planning procedures against printed Audatex, CCC and Mitchell collision estimates.
EstimateScrubber.com Enables Collision Repair Shops to Download their Estimate Data
Collision repairers can extract and download the information contained in collision-estimate PDF files when scrubbing estimates.
Real-Time Sales Mix Reporting Added to EstimateScrubber
The sales mix analysis continuously updates labor, refinish labor, replacement parts and refinish materials metrics.
Reader’s Choice: How Can We Stop Insurers Writing Estimates from Photos?
To me, there isn’t much difference between a photo-written estimate and a street-written estimate; they’re both inaccurate and will not be a basis for how I repair the vehicle.
OEM Scratch-and-Dent Parts Come to EstimateScrubber.com App
App allows dealership parts departments to show repairers their available returned OE parts inventory as they scrub estimates.
EstimateScrubber.com Releases New Apps
The new apps include an Axalta Coating Systems Refinish Materials Reporting/Invoicing app and a CollisionPartsSource parts exchange app.
Traffic Fatalities Fall in 2014, But Early Estimates Show Increase in 2015
The 2015 fatality estimate is up 8.1 percent from the same period last year, and the fatality rate rose by 4.4 percent.