MechanicDesk

22/12/2025

Check out our final update post for 2025. This one goes over the new Dark Theme and the Checksheet Photo features as well as going over our availability during the holiday period. We would also like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. See you in 2026!

With 2025 coming to a close, we’re excited to share our final major update of the year—and it’s a big one! We’d also like to thank you for all your support throughout the year, especially everyone who helped test the new user interface and provided valuable

18/12/2025

Dark theme is here!!! We have received quite a few feedbacks regarding the new UI being too bright, so we deliver Dark theme option, which has maximum contrast in mind. Please be noted that you can also adjust the brightness and contrast of your monitor to adjust the colours to best suite your eyes...

13/11/2025

Check out the latest blog post with our most recent updates, including our brand new Slack Integration!!

We have a jam packed November update for you with a number of major new features and changes. New Features Slack Integration and Notification Update A brand-new integration is now available in the new UI for Slack. This is intended to have more visibility over your notifications and how they

05/11/2025

Check out the updates we have been working on in our latest blog post

We have been hard at work on the new UI and have a host of changes over the last month, from new features to bug fixes. New Features 3rd Party Customers Bit of big news for all you Capricorn Suppliers out there. A long requested feature has been being able

23/10/2025

Hi Everyone,

We have just posted our first Release blog, this will be your go-to spot to see what’s new in MechanicDesk, including feature updates, improvements, and bug fixes. We will still be posting on Facebook but you will be able to access all the changes we make going forward in the new MechanicDesk User Interface.

👉 Check it out under Help → Releases in MechanicDesk
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With the new User Interface now available for testing — and not too far off from being ready for full deployment — we’re excited to introduce a new Releases section in MechanicDesk. We’ve heard your feedback about not always knowing what changes are being deployed, so we’ll now be

25/08/2025

Our Digital Signature Addon, has an a big upgrade. Customers can approve optional items on the signature page. The page has also been redesigned to be cleaner, better responsiveness on mobile devices.

If you also buy the storage extension, using the mobile app, you can take video (up to 30 seconds) and it will be automatically attached to the quote. this video might be include in the signature page when you send the request.

The printing options on the quote/invoice headers are also respected. meaning any hide item/hide prices setting that you set on the item/headers will also reflected on the this page.

04/08/2025

"In Australia, the use of SMS alpha tags (alphanumeric sender IDs) is undergoing significant regulatory changes to combat SMS scams. A new SMS Sender ID Register is being established to track entities using alpha tags and potentially mandate their registration." This will come into effect in October, to prepare for this change, we have been working with our service provider to register all the "Workshop name when send SMS" for your businesses. You might have received some email regarding the registration, these are for this purpose.

Some workshops want to use their mobile number as sender ID so they can receive replies directly in their mobile device. this will also need to go through a verification process. If you use this method, please contact our support team so they can walk you through it.

07/07/2025

As you might have noticed, we have released the new UI for beta testing. this is a massive job that we have been working for the last 3 years. We try our best to retain the User experience to be consistent to the old UI and only tidy up a few bits here and there, however the new UI is actually written with newer framework which allows us to innovate much faster in the future. In the next coming months, our focus will be taking on all the feedbacks and polishing the new UI.

As a big job as it is, we expect quite a bit of bugs before it become stable, so please try them out as much as you can and please report any bug you find to our support team.

Going forward, any improvement we make will be available only on the new UI (unless it is absolutely essential, we can then put them on the old UI) so the sooner you are familiar with the new UI the better.

We will manage the release of the UI very carefully as to not disrupt your businesses, the old UI will be available until the new UI is stable and only then we will gradually migrating existing customers on to the new UI.

Thank you very much for your patience as we are working through one of the biggest changes. If you have any concern, please feel free to contact our support team.

24/02/2025

Some workshops might have received our notification of a price update. We would like to clarify that the update is our routine review of accounts that are more than 3 years old, the update is to bring the price to be the same (or close to) our current pricing, which has not been changed for over a year. We have made a small mistake of not setting the reason correctly. If you have any enquiries, please contact our support team.

13/11/2024

Minor update, you can use 'add_to_calendar_url' on a booking confirmation so the vehicle owner can add the booking to their calendar

10/10/2024

This update has been a big ask from our workshops. You can now dictate how items of a job types print on quotes or invoices. Please note these options are guaranteed to work on our standard templates only. if you have customised templates. we might need to rework them.

06/10/2024

Follow Up on our WOF digital check sheet. New Zealand workshops should enter the inspecting organisation number in the workshop details section for it to be printed on the WOF check sheet. We have also include WOF Check sheet Report section. Please let us know if you have any additional recommendations.