Moving off Shop-Ware

We moved our own shop off Shop-Ware. We'll move yours free.

RO Engine was built inside a Shop-Ware shop. When we left, we wrote the importer — and it's the same one we'll run for you. Your whole history comes with you, down to the photos and the penny.

6,900customers moved
6,000repair orders moved
$0.00difference in totals when we checked
What comes over

The whole repair order. Not a spreadsheet of it.

A CSV export flattens your history into rows. We read each repair order from Shop-Ware in full, the way it looks on screen, so it arrives the same way.

Every repair order

Services, labor, parts, sublets, fees and discounts, with the totals you actually charged.

Inspections

Green, yellow and red results with your techs' notes, attached to the job they belong to.

Notes and photos

RO notes with their photo attachments, downloaded and stored with us, not linked back to Shop-Ware.

Payments

Every payment and refund, so a closed RO still reads as paid.

Customers and vehicles

Contact details and every vehicle, with the history that goes with it.

Recommendations and appointments

Declined and deferred work comes back up on the next visit. Your appointment history comes along too.

How it works

Keep Shop-Ware running until you're sure.

  1. Set up your shop. Start the free trial and you get your own RO Engine at yourshop.roengine.com. Nothing charges for 90 days.
  2. Give us a Shop-Ware login for the import. We use it to read your records and nothing else. Change the password when we're done.
  3. We run the import. It reads every repair order in full and loads it into your shop. Larger histories take longer; photos are what take the time.
  4. Check it side by side. Open a few repair orders in both systems. We check the totals match; you check it looks like your shop.
  5. Switch when you're ready. Run both as long as you like. Cancel Shop-Ware only once you're comfortable.
Before you cancel Shop-Ware, get your photos out. Photo links in Shop-Ware stop working when the account closes, and a CSV export doesn't include the pictures. Our import downloads every one, which is a good reason to do it before you cancel, not after.
The honest part

Why this is free, and what it isn't.

It's free because we already built it for ourselves, and a shop that arrives with its history stays. There's no migration fee, and it's not tied to a contract, because there isn't one: RO Engine is month to month.

Shop-Ware is the one system we import from automatically today. Coming from something else? Tell us. The first shop from each system is the one we build its importer with.

And if you'd rather talk to a person first, the person is the shop owner who built it, and he still writes repair orders every week.

Bring your history with you.