Collision Repair Estimating, Simplified
Affordable Collision Estimating Software.
The Wait is Over
Est-Lite gives your body shop everything it needs — estimates, invoices, scheduling, customers, and marketing — in one fast, simple platform. No enterprise software. No licensed parts database. No training required.
3x
Faster estimates
1-click
Estimate to invoice
0
Contracts
Features
One Platform. Every Part of Your Shop.
Stop stitching together spreadsheets, paper tickets, and sticky notes. Est-Lite replaces them all — without the enterprise price tag.
Digital Estimates
Build complete collision estimates in minutes — line items, labor rates, parts, materials, and tax, all calculated for you.
Photo Documentation
Attach labeled photos of the damage right to the estimate, so nothing gets missed and approvals come faster.
One-Click Invoicing
Convert an approved estimate into a polished invoice instantly, then track drafts, sent, paid, and overdue.
Smart Scheduling
Book repair jobs, manage the day's schedule, and track confirmations, completions, and no-shows at a glance.
Customer CRM
Every customer, vehicle, and VIN in one place with full service history and private internal notes.
VIN Decode
Enter a VIN and the vehicle's year, make, model and options populate your estimate instantly — no manual lookups, no typing.
Estimate Follow-Ups
Win more repair jobs with ready-to-send follow-up emails on open estimates — personalized with each customer's vehicle and total.
Reporting & Analytics
Revenue trends, win rates, and job pipelines in real time — retire the spreadsheets for good.
Rate Profiles
Save your standard labor rates, material charges, and tax rules as reusable profiles and drop them into any estimate in seconds.
PDR Estimating
Built-in paintless dent repair pricing — your own dent-size matrix and R&I add-on times, dropped into any estimate in seconds.
English & Spanish
Flip the whole shop between English and Spanish with one setting — every screen speaks your team's language.
Online Booking
Share one link and customers book their own appointments — no account needed, no phone tag, no back-and-forth.
Photo Annotation Editor
Crop, zoom, and mark up damage photos right on the estimate — point inspectors straight at what matters.
Repair Gallery
Showcase before-and-after repair photos — great for your website and for winning customer trust.
Parts Order Tracking
Track every ordered part — vendor, vehicle, cost, expected arrival, and status from ordered to arrived.
Parts Library
Save the parts you use most, with their numbers and prices, then add them to any estimate in one click.
Parts Assistant
Ask which parts are arriving, from which vendor, and when — it reads your open orders and answers while the customer is still on the phone.
Nurture Campaigns
Email the customers who got an estimate but never booked, with automatic follow-ups that bring them back.
Social Content
Post artwork and captions written for your shop, ready to publish — no agency and no blank page.
Campaign Insights
See emails sent, link clicks, bookings, reviews and new leads side by side, plus an 8-week trend.
AI Visibility
Check whether assistants name your shop when local customers ask for the best one in town.
You're in Control. No Contracts. No Overpaying. Why pay more for collision estimating software than you need to? Est-Lite gives you the tools to create professional estimates without the high costs, complicated features, or long-term commitments. No contracts, no hidden surprises, and no paying for features you don't use. Just simple, affordable estimating software that puts you in control of your business. Estimate smarter. Spend less. Stay in control.
See It In Action
A Look Inside Est-Lite
Every screen, start to finish — from writing the estimate to collecting the payment.
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Dashboard
Your shop at a glance — open estimates, revenue, today's appointments, and where the work is going.
02
Estimates
Search and filter every estimate, track statuses from draft to completed, and jump straight into any job.
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Online Booking
Share one link and customers book their own appointments — dates, time slots, and vehicle details, no account needed.
04
Photo Annotation
Crop, zoom, and mark up damage photos right on the estimate — arrows, circles, and notes exactly where it counts.
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Invoices
Convert approved estimates into invoices instantly and track collected, outstanding, and overdue payments.
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Appointments
Book repair jobs on a weekly calendar and manage confirmations, completions, and no-shows.
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Customers
Every customer and vehicle in one place — contact details, service history, and private internal notes.
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Reviews
Send customers a Google review link from any job, then approve and post a ready reply — more five-star ratings, zero paperwork.
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Repair Gallery
Showcase before-and-after repair photos — great for your website and for winning customer trust.
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Marketing
Follow up on open estimates with personalized emails that bring customers back in for the repair.
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Analytics
Revenue trends, win rates, and job pipelines in real time — retire the spreadsheets for good.
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PDR Pricing
Set your paintless dent repair prices once — panels by dent size, plus R&I add-on times — and drop PDR items into any estimate in seconds.
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Rate Profiles
Save your standard labor rates, material charges, and tax rules as reusable profiles and drop them into any estimate in seconds.
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Parts Library
Store your own parts with numbers and prices once, then add them to any estimate in a single click.
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Parts Orders
Track every part you order — vendor, vehicle, expected arrival, and status from ordered to arrived.
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Vendor Contacts
Keep all your parts suppliers and service partners organized with contacts, phones, and notes.
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Staff Directory
Manage your team — roles, contact details, and who has admin access to the shop's account.
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Activity Log
A full audit trail of every estimate created, status change, and invoice sent in your shop.
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Subscription
Manage your plan, billing, and payment history — upgrade to Pro for unlimited everything, anytime.
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Shop Settings
Your shop name and branding, plus your own labor rates and tax defaults — you set the numbers.
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Help & Support
Getting-started guides, FAQs, and a direct line to our team whenever you need a hand.
Marketing
Fill the Calendar, Not Just the Estimate
Four tools that turn estimates you already wrote into booked work: bring customers back, keep your shop in front of them, and see exactly what is working.
Nurture Campaigns
Win back the estimates that never booked
Customers with an open estimate
Dana Whitfield
2019 Honda Accord
Marcus Lee
2021 Ford F-150
Priya Raman
2018 Toyota Camry
Subject: Time to fix that dent, Dana?
Hi Dana, your estimate for the 2019 Honda Accord is still on file. The dent repair comes to $842.50 and we can have you back on the road in two days. Book online anytime, it takes under a minute.
Subject: Re: Thanks for getting back to us, Dana
Hi Dana, thanks for the quick reply. Wednesday at 9:00 AM is open, so I've held that bay for you. Reply to confirm and I'll take it from there.
Nurture Campaigns
Win back the estimates that never booked
Most shops lose jobs in the gap between “here's your estimate” and “when can you bring it in?”. Nurture Campaigns closes that gap — pick the customers who got a price but never scheduled, drop in a ready-made message, and send. Each email is personalized with the customer's name and ends with a one-click link to book online.
- Auto-built list of customers with an open estimate
- Three quick-start messages, or write your own
- Automatic follow-up email 3 days later
Social Content
Draft posts with artwork for Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn
FacebookSomeone backed into Dana's Accord last month. Two days later it left the shop looking like nothing happened. Free estimates, no appointment needed at est-lite.com.
InstagramBefore, then after. Most door dings are in and out the same afternoon. Free estimates, link in bio. #BodyShop #DentRepair
LinkedInFleet managers: one damaged panel shouldn't park a vehicle for a week. Most repairs turn in 2 to 3 days, with photo updates at every stage.
Social Content
A week of posts, without the agency
Consistency is what builds a local reputation, and it's the first thing that slips when the shop gets busy. Social Content generates complete posts — artwork plus caption — written for your shop and ready to publish. Regenerate any post with one click, copy the caption, download the image, done.
- Post images and captions created together
- Written for body shops, tuned to your shop name
- 1-click regenerate, copy, and download
Campaign Insights
Last 8 weeks of emails, clicks and bookings
128
Emails sent
41
Link clicks
12
Bookings
9
Reviews
17
New leads
29%
Click to booking
Clicks by week
Campaign Insights
See what your marketing is actually doing
Sending email without watching the result is guesswork. Campaign Insights puts campaign emails, tracked link clicks, bookings, reviews, and new leads side by side, then breaks the last 8 weeks down week by week. When clicks climb and bookings follow, the message is working.
- Emails sent, clicks, bookings, reviews and new leads in one view
- 8-week click and booking trend
- Click-to-booking rate shows what to keep doing
AI Visibility
Whether assistants name your shop on their own
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Visibility
score
Named instead of you
Riverside Auto Body
Cedar Park Collision
Who does collision repair in Round Rock?
Best body shop near me
Dent repair without repainting
AI Visibility
Get recommended when customers ask an assistant
More customers now ask an assistant for the best shop in town instead of scrolling search results. AI Visibility runs those exact questions for your city, shows whether your shop gets named, and lists the shops that get recommended in your place — plus the five changes that move the needle.
- Checks the questions local customers really ask
- Shows which shops get named instead of yours
- A 5-step plan to get recommended more often
How It Works
From Damage to Payment in Three Steps
Create Your Account
Sign up with your email in seconds. Free to start, no credit card, no setup call.
Build the Estimate
Enter the customer and vehicle, drop in your line items, attach photos, and set your rates.
Send, Approve, Get Paid
Share a clean estimate, convert approvals to invoices in one click, and book the repair.
Why Shops Switch
Manage the Work Yourself — Without the Enterprise Bill
Traditional estimating software charges you for databases and modules you don't need. Est-Lite puts you in control: you set the rates, you own the data.
What You Need
Est-Lite
Enterprise Software
Monthly cost
Licensed parts database
Setup & training
Estimates with photos, PDF & email
Invoicing & payment tracking
Customer CRM & scheduling
Reusable rate profiles
Parts library
Parts ordering & tracking
Vendor contact management
Marketing campaigns
Analytics & activity log
Repair gallery & shop profile
Works on any device
Your pricing & data
Comparison based on typical features and fees of traditional collision estimating systems.
Pricing
Simple pricing for busy shops
Start free. Upgrade when your shop grows.
Free
$0 /month
Everything you need to write your first estimates.
- 3 estimates per month
- 1 rate profile
- 1 staff seat
Pro
$9.97 /month
Unlimited everything as your shop grows.
Lock in your early bird price for the lifetime of your account.
- Unlimited estimates
- Unlimited rate profiles
- Unlimited staff seats
- Everything in Free
- Priority support
Built for Real Shops
Collision repair pros use Est-Lite to write more estimates and win more jobs.
"I used to spend my evenings writing estimates by hand. Now I finish them at the counter before the customer leaves the parking lot."
Mike R.
Body Shop Owner, Texas
"We switched from a big-box estimating system. Nobody misses the license fees, and my techs actually know how to use this one."
Dana K.
Shop Manager, Florida
"The estimate-to-invoice button alone paid for itself. Chasing approvals used to be a part-time job."
Carlos M.
Independent Shop Owner, Illinois
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