GarageBooks didn't start in a boardroom. It started in a garage in Connah's Quay, with a mechanic called Damion and a problem that should have been solved years ago.
The founder, Iain Logan, was visiting his friend's garage — Quayside Garage — to test some software he'd been developing. Damion mentioned he'd been looking at garage management software but everything decent started at £100 a month and upwards. His partner, who runs the front desk, was drowning in it — notepads, paper job sheets, Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, printed invoices, QuickBooks. A different tool for every task, none of them talking to each other.
Iain said: "If I built something, would you trial it?"
They said yes. And here we are.
"The car industry hasn't moved on in years. It was time someone did something about it."
Quayside Garage became the first garage on GarageBooks. They're still on it. And everything you see in the product today came from watching real people use it in a real workshop environment — not from a focus group, not from a whiteboard session, but from the actual daily grind of running an independent garage in the UK.