Garage Assistant started life in 2003 under the name of Auto DeskManager designed and built in our spare time for personal use in a workshop environment to help with recording cash flow in the business and to manage 4 of our customers who held accounts, extremely basic but served a purpose.

 

In the early days, Deskmanager was no more than 2 screens and a single ledger style printout as illustrated below.

 

How our software started out

Simple design tailored for a specific job

In April 2004 we decided to make some major changes to our basic system and turn it into a fully fledged invoice system, Along came Auto DeskManager Version 1.

As you can see, some elements have remained very similar such as the front screen lists of invoices in progress and the data entry screens for creating invoices.

 

Our first retail release of an invoice system


Creating an invoice with basic data

 

An awful administration area, it got the job done though !

 

[ Continue to page 2 ]