An app which permits motorists to maintain updated with all their automobile upkeep and authorized duties will launch subsequent month at Automotive Administration Dwell.

Autofile, a shopper app designed to offer drivers one place to maintain on high of servicing and different points, will probably be shared with audiences on the high occasion for automotive business colleagues on November 9.

The app, which is totally free to the client, has been developed to offer dealerships, repairers and suppliers a dramatically cheaper and extra focused approach to talk with their purchasers than conventional strategies of calling, emailing, texting or posting letters.

Autofile reminds the consumer when something must be addressed and supplies the means to organise bookings with repairers and dealerships, with the potential to retailer data for a number of automobiles.

For the automotive retail business, the answer affords focused entry to clients in actual time, with service fees solely required when somebody books a service and no ongoing subscription fees.

The idea for Autofile has been developed by founders Paul Clarke and Giles Daly, who draw upon a wealth of automotive business expertise.

Paul Clarke stated: “We’re excited to unveil Autofile at Automotive Administration Dwell as we imagine it may be the most affordable and handiest approach for the automobile business to speak with clients but.

“The whole lot wanted to handle a automobile is in a single place with Autofile so there isn’t any extra on the lookout for paperwork to search out out when issues could be due, or frustrations of attempting to get by to a storage for a last-minute reserving for a service or MOT because the app retains customers updated.”

Giles Daly stated: “Autofile provides retailers and repairers the flexibility to reply questions with out the necessity to name and to ship reminders by way of push notifications. Your clients are reminded when an MOT or scheduled servicing is required, permitting you to deal with many extra automobiles and clients with the identical overhead as right now, serving to profitability and enhancing buyer satisfaction.”

When an Autofile consumer sells a automobile, they’ll go the upkeep historical past to any new proprietor by way of the app, which may additionally analyse utilization to evaluate potential financial savings of switching to an electrical automobile.

Autofile will probably be on show at stand B21 at Automotive Administration Dwell on November 9. Going down at Birmingham NEC the occasion is billed because the “go-to occasion” for automotive professionals wanting to search out out in regards to the newest expertise options, merchandise, and companies within the business.

The Autofile crew have been supported in its improvement by the Worcestershire Elevate Progress programme, a Authorities-funded scheme run by Worcestershire County Council to help established small to medium-sized enterprises with progress ambitions. Autofile have partnered with fellow Elevate Progress cohort member Inexperienced Gorilla Software program, based mostly in Bromsgrove, which has developed the app software program, together with design firm Gasoline.

The Autofile companions have a powerful observe report in business innovation, having operated Autoconnect, one of many UK’s main aftermarket options suppliers. Paul Clarke is founding father of main truck compliance system Truckfile and RTC, one of many present main aftersales suppliers to the UK franchised vendor networks, which is now a part of the Citnow group of corporations.