Lift kit and 4x4 shop software

The kit is the product, so the kit is the line item

Your menu is probably already written: a 3-inch kit, installed. The 6-inch on 35s. The 6-inch on 37s with a regear. Each of those is one number to the customer and a stack of parts and hours to you. In UpfitOS each one is a saved installed-price package — what a general-repair platform calls a canned job, except here it's the thing you actually sell rather than a shortcut for a brake job.

That means the parts that always travel with a lift travel with the package: the rear block and U-bolt kit, the track bar, the carrier bearing drop, the extended brake lines, the pinion-angle shim. Nobody has to remember the eleventh item on the build sheet, because the package remembers it.

What changes when the truck gets taller

The work that follows a lift is the work that gets forgotten on a ticket: the alignment after the kit settles, the speedometer recalibration once you've gone to 37s, the gear change that makes 37s drivable again, the TPMS sensors in the new wheels, the re-torque. Build those into the package once and they quote themselves every time, with the hours already allocated so the job board isn't lying to you about when the bay frees up.

Oversize tire and gear math stays where it belongs — in your head and on the build sheet — but the price and the hours of the 4.88 regear stop being a conversation you have from scratch on every quote.

Parts that have to land together

The thing that blows up a lift build is one backordered component. Search Turn 14 Distribution inside the work order — 800,000+ parts, 450+ brands — and you see your dealer cost, MAP, and warehouse availability before you promise a date. Your own SkuLabs shelf levels show on the same line, so "do we have the U-bolts" is answered at the counter.

Multi-day builds, and the techs on them

A lift build isn't a one-hour ticket. The drag-and-drop job board shows which bays are committed for the next three days; each tech opens a My Day view on a phone in the bay and clocks in against the work order. Hours land next to the estimate, so after a dozen of the same kit you know what that package really costs to install — not a guess at month end.

Build photos come off a phone camera straight onto the work order — stock ride height, the frame before armor goes on, the finished truck. They live with the job, which matters the day a customer comes back about something that was already bent.

The winch bumper they didn't buy today

Off-road customers buy in stages. They take the lift and the tires, look at the bumper and the winch, and say "not this month." That declined package is the most valuable record in your shop and in most shops it evaporates when the ticket closes. UpfitOS keeps it on the customer and fires the follow-up on schedule — a text from your shop number, in the same thread as every other conversation you've had with them.

Where we're not the right answer

If the majority of your revenue is diagnostic and general repair with lift work on the side, a general-repair platform will serve the bigger half of your business better than we will — we don't do labor-guide estimating at all. Compared honestly: Shopmonkey, Tekmetric, AutoLeap.