COSTAR Enterprise
COSTAR Shop Management Software is designed specifically for Tire and Automotive Repair Shops. COSTAR’s completely integrated applications include Retail Point-of-Sale, Shop Management, Service Scheduling, Customer Follow-up, Wholesale Order Entry, Web Ordering, Inventory Control, Purchasing, General Ledger & Financials, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, and complete account & document history. The software is bilingual (English & French), supports multi-company, multi-branch (including a mix of Retail and Wholesale), and franchise environments. System configurations may vary from single site computers to remote distributed processing with centralized accounting and automatic polling of branch locations, to a Terminal Server environment with Thin Clients and Central Servers. COSTAR Enterprise scales from a single user system in an independent repair/tire shop up to 100′s of users across multiple locations.
COSTAR Enterprise is the perfect solution for medium to large automotive repair or tire shops with 1 location or many locations. COSTAR Enterprise provides the flexibility that competitive shop management solutions simply can’t provide. COSTAR Enterprise also provides the stability in inventory management and accounting that set it apart in the industry.
Large Corporations and Retail chain operations deploy COSTAR Enterprise as a complete solutions to handle their Retail POS requirements as well as their upstream Wholesale Distribution needs. COSTAR Enterprise can provide a complete solution from Head Office to Warehouse to Retail operation that is unique in the industry. COSTAR Enterprise is highly configurable to meet the needs of more complex organizations, franchises and corporate structures, while at the same time maintaining it’s ease of use, reliability and scalability.
Costar is written in Microsoft Visual Basic, .net and C#, utilizes SQL Express or SQL Server and runs on Microsoft Operating Systems.
COSTAR Enterprise features & benefits:
- Automatically generates repair orders and invoices
- Detailed Estimates / Quotations and Appointments
- Complete inventory management
- Productivity levels / bay efficiencies at a glance
- Real time sales reporting
- Maintains gross profit margin on parts
- Appointment scheduler
- Follow-up and reminders (CRM)
- Accounting and cash control
- Complete customer and vehicle history
- Tire sizing guide built right in
- Activant-Epicor parts and labour integration
- ALLDATA labour integration
- Mitchell1 labour integration
- Multi-branch capabilities
- NAPA PRO-LINK integration
- CARQUEST Parts integration
- Nexpart Parts integration (Uniselect – DAVE, LORDCO & more)
- Tire Supplier Integration
COSTAR Enterprise provides solutions to the industry’s unique problems.
System operation is arranged logically around the tasks that are required to successfully run your business. Easy to use and understand the software will operate in both a Retail and Wholesale environment. You may use the Retail or Wholesale separately or run both within one operation.
Software provides multi-company, multi-branch capability. This may be accomplished with individual computers in each branch or by utilizing a single computer communicating with branches across the Internet.
COSTAR Software products are Canadian and have been used in business since 1976. The products have stood the test of time and have matured with experience. They are completely integrated software products that require only a single point-of-entry to complete your sale, inventory, accounting and service history processes. Our Windows-based application software, was launched January 2000 and now sets the standard for Tire & Automotive Shop Management systems in the industry.
