In the modern world, collision repair and bodyshops compete against each other for customers in many ways.
Competition is fierce in price, speed of work, customer acquisition, insurance acceptance and in nearly every other avenue possible. Recent years however have brought out a new arena for bodyshops to compete, and a new side to business that future bracing shops must be prepared to excel in, payment method acceptance.
Gone are the days of cash or check only options for payment at nearly every store.
Bodyshops are no exception to this, with younger generations keeping their money in a huge variety of places, primarily in various online forms. This makes enforcing a narrow standard of payment method from customers a tough uphill battle against a constantly rising tide.
Therefore ensuring your shop can accept, process, and properly account for a wide variety of payment options is critical to ensure the customers that walk through your door leave happy and with their invoices paid in whatever way they find easiest.
This means that the tools used for processing payments at your shop need to not just be modern, but flexible, allowing for any potential customer to pay for their repair without hassle or confusion. It is a good idea to put yourself ahead of the pack and upgrade to a modern, all in one bodyshop software solution that keeps you on the cutting edge of payment processing options today. Updating the tools you use for accepting payment methods is currently a great way to stand out, but will become a necessity in the near future.
