MOTR: the Internal Tool for Repair Orders, Lots and Dispatch
V&J Auto Body is a US collision-repair business. A shop like it runs on two questions: where is that vehicle right now, and who is supposed to move it next. MOTR answers them in one place for the office and the technicians.
What we built
- Repair orders
- Vehicle lots, where a vehicle's location only changes when a move task is completed
- Dispatch
- Technician tasks, including the mobile driver flow
- Transactions and reporting
Stack
React and TypeScript frontend, Xano backend.
What changed
In daily use by the shop's staff.
Built with the owner in weekly stand-ups, ticket by ticket. Every change is gated on a clean type-check and a full production build before it ships, with a written test path so the client can try it before it reaches production.
The hard part was the invariants, not the screens. Planned moves are projected state, not physical truth. Get that wrong and the system sends a technician to a bay that is already taken.
Have a workflow like this one?
Twenty minutes to find out whether we are a fit.