The Payout Friction
In the auto body and repair business, the actual work is only half the battle. The other half is ensuring you get paid correctly for every RO number (Repair Order) you close. If you are a technician relying on the shop's management system to calculate your weekly check, you are trusting a process you don't control. Between Body shop splits, Tech pay percents, and the occasional Tech split?, the math of your payout becomes a high-stakes variable. Most techs rely on a crumpled carbon-copy or a mental estimate of "the big jobs." But when the check comes and it's $200 short, "it felt like I did more" doesn't win the argument. Without a granular, real-time log of every vin scan and every Price point, you aren't an expert tech; you're just an employee hoping for accuracy.
This template is a digital технічний time card for the professional body man. It moves you from "hoping the check is right" to having absolute financial clarity, ensuring that every cent of your Total payout is documented at the point of completion.
The Daily Reality: The Percentage Audit
The brilliance of this system is its focus on the split logic. It doesn't just track "earnings"; it calculates the Tech pay after bodyshop using complex conditional scripts. By logging the Body shop percent and whether a Body shop split is active, you create a real-time mirror of the shop's business model. You stop looking at a repair as a "big check" and start seeing it as a precise mathematical outcome. The inclusion of the vin scan and Year model / Make / Model fields ensures that your record is anchored to a specific vehicle, providing an unshakeable audit trail if there is ever a dispute about which technician worked on which car.
The Tech split? boolean is your primary defense against "collaborative confusion." If you shared a heavy frame pull with another tech, you tag it, and the system automatically halves the payout. It turns the often-contentious issue of shared labor into a transparent, data-backed agreement. The Picture field allows you to capture the finished quality or specific damage before the car leaves your bay, providing a level of professional protection that paper logs simply can't match.
The Data Payoff: Financial Sovereignty
After a few months of logging, the Total payout and Price fields become your primary diagnostic tools. You can analyze your most profitable Name/Body shop partners or identify which Make and Color combinations are eating up too much of your time for the return. Are you consistently making more on high-volume minor repairs or the single, complex frame jobs? This data allows you to optimize your workflow and advocate for yourself during pay reviews. You move from reacting to your paycheck to engineering a more profitable career, backed by a time-stamped history of every Invoice and every vin scan. You aren't just "fixing cars"; you are managing a data-driven business unit where every repair is a documented step toward financial independence.