CARS Cooperative forged a new partnership arrangement with ComputerLogic to offer the paint and materials calculator PMCLogic to CARS shareholders.
Like this article? Sign up to receive our weekly news blasts here.The paint and material estimation/invoicing application was built by ComputerLogic and is the culmination of years of input gathered from hundreds of paint and material manufacturers, industry training experts and auto body repair professionals.
PMCLogic is a software application that enables collision repair specialists to track and invoice all paint and materials used during repairs. Users can estimate the costs of paints and materials used while replacing, repairing and/or refinishing body panels and/or structural section of the vehicle.
ComputerLogic’s group of collision industry experts has benchmarked a specific list of the materials used on the replaced or repaired panel or structural part for accurate estimates.
“CARS shareholders have, for years, expressed concerns about the price increases incurred each year for paint and material products and the lag time in recovering these costs as they occur,” said Orville Manuel, executive director of CARS Cooperative, in a statement. “The antiquated system used for determining compensation for paint and materials dictates an extended timeframe, weeks, months or even years, for the methodology to provide an adequate increase.
Additionally, by the time it does, more increases have occurred. The ability to track and invoice paint and materials used in the repair and to assess a true cost estimate for each would enable the shop to stay on top of the issue and provide a basis for adjusting prices accordingly. We believe PMCLogic provides the solution to enable the shop to achieve a professional and comprehensive tracking and invoicing system."
Rick Palmer, president of ComputerLogic added in a statement, “We're pleased to have the opportunity to work with CARS Cooperative, an organization focused on doing the right thing the right way to help its members provide their customers with documented proof of what paint and materials are actually used on a specific vehicle repair. Virtually everyone in the collision industry readily admits that we must get away from calculating paint and material compensation based on refinish hours times as arbitrary and unfounded dollar allowance and replace it with an accurate invoicing system. PMCLogic is the tool that will help them do this quickly and easily and, more importantly, accurately.”
