GarageBuddy is the operating system for UAE workshops — FTA-compliant invoicing and e-invoicing, customer approvals and payments inside WhatsApp, and the insurance and fleet workflows nobody else builds. In Arabic, English, Hindi and Urdu.
Founding-garage pricing for the first 50 workshops. Free data migration.
Paper job cards, a WhatsApp group and a spreadsheet got the job done for years. From 2027 they stop being enough — and the software built in Texas or Melbourne was never going to help.
Structured PINT-AE invoices through an accredited provider — not locked behind an enterprise tier. Your invoice data is modelled to the FTA dictionary from day one, so going live is a switch, not a migration.
Send photos and a priced estimate. The customer taps to approve line by line, signs, and pays — without leaving the chat they were already in. Nobody else closes that loop.
Agency and non-agency, LPO capture, surveyor approvals, excess collection and claim aging. Fleet rosters, PM schedules and consolidated statements. The work that actually pays your bills.
Arabic and English for owners, customers and documents. Hindi and Urdu on the shop floor, with an icon-first, photo-first technician app built for a cracked phone under fluorescent light.
No phone tag. No "let me call my husband". No customer arriving at 6pm surprised by the bill.
No per-seat fees, no annual lock-in, no "request a quote". The things garages complain about most, simply not done.
A two-bay workshop getting off paper.
Insurance and fleet work, done properly.
Several locations under one roof.
Prices per location, excluding VAT. WhatsApp and e-invoice allowances included in every plan, with any overage billed at transparent cost — never a surprise.
The big platforms are excellent — in North America. None of them is built for a country with 5% VAT, Mulkiya renewals, agency repairs and a workforce that speaks four languages.
| GarageBuddy | US platforms | Generic accounting | |
|---|---|---|---|
| FTA e-invoicing (PINT-AE) | ✓ | ✗ | Partly |
| Arabic invoices and interface | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Approve and pay inside WhatsApp | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Insurance claims and LPOs | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Hindi / Urdu technician app | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Published price, unlimited users | ✓ | Per user | ✓ |
GarageBuddy is not a side project or a template. It is built by Knova Digital Solutions, an independent Odoo implementation firm in Dubai, out of a decade of putting real businesses onto real systems — and of watching where those systems break.
An independent Odoo implementation firm in Dubai serving the GCC and Pakistan — ERP implementation, custom development, migrations, support and AMC, and AI automation. Already delivering UAE e-invoicing and workshop management for clients across manufacturing, freight and 3PL, healthcare, construction, and trading.
Odoo techno-functional consultant, based in Dubai. Over ten years in ERP and IT consulting, more than 100 Odoo implementations delivered from pre-sales to go-live, certified across six Odoo versions, and experience spanning 20+ industries — including the garage and workshop sector this product is built for.
The hard part of garage software is not the job card. It is VAT that survives an audit, credit notes that reconcile, stock valuation that does not drift, and an e-invoice the FTA platform accepts first time. That is ERP work, and it is what we have spent ten years doing.
GarageBuddy is published in dirhams at AED 199, 449 and 899 per location per month, excluding VAT, with unlimited users and no annual contract. FTA e-invoicing is included in every plan rather than reserved for an enterprise tier. Most UAE garage software is quoted per user on annual terms, which is why a five-person workshop often ends up paying more for less.
Yes. Tax invoices render bilingually in Arabic and English with correct right-to-left layout, and the whole interface is available in Arabic, English, Hindi and Urdu. The last two are for technicians on the workshop floor, where the job card is read more often than the invoice.
Yes, and that is the point of the product. The garage sends photos and a priced estimate to the customer's WhatsApp. The customer approves or declines line by line, signs, and pays by card in the same thread. Every approval is timestamped, which is the evidence a workshop needs when a bill is disputed. Deferred lines become a follow-up rather than a lost sale.
Yes. Agency and non-agency repairs, LPO capture, surveyor approvals, excess collection and claim aging on the insurance side; vehicle rosters, preventive maintenance schedules and consolidated monthly statements on the fleet side. This is the work that pays a UAE workshop's bills and it is the part generic job-card software leaves out.
Yes, and it has to. Each garage connects its own Meta WhatsApp Business account, its own payment gateway and its own mail sender. Messages come from the garage's number and money settles into the garage's account without passing through anyone else's. There is no shared platform sender to be rate-limited or blocked by another tenant's behaviour.
GarageBuddy is built in Dubai by Knova Digital Solutions, an independent Odoo implementation firm, and led by Muhammad Salman Ali Khan, an Odoo techno-functional consultant with over ten years in ERP delivery and more than 100 implementations across 20-plus industries. The hard part of garage software is not the job card: it is VAT that survives an audit, credit notes that reconcile, and an e-invoice the FTA platform accepts first time.
Everything about the UAE e-invoicing mandate, phase by phase →
We're taking on a small number of founding garages across Al Quoz, Ras Al Khor, Sharjah and Mussafah — at founding pricing, with free data migration and onboarding in Arabic, English or Hindi.
Knova Digital Solutions · Dubai, United Arab Emirates