Garage Page is built and run by RJP Advisory Partners, a data and automation firm in Thame, Oxfordshire. We spent a year looking at how people book MOTs — 32 million tests' worth of DVSA data — and the answer was blunt: nobody plans, everybody reacts to the date, and whoever's in front of them when the date arrives gets the job.
Independent garages already have what they need to be that someone: a list of customers who trust them. What they don't have is time. So we built the bit that runs itself.
Twenty years in data and operations before starting RJP. Did the MOT analysis, writes the software, and reads every dashboard we run to see what's working.
If Garage Page has rung you, it was Zak. He builds your mock-up before he calls, so the conversation is about your page, not a pitch. Out of hours you'll get our answering agent, and he'll ring you back.
We're on the same roads as the garages we work with. If you're within an hour of Thame and want us to come and set it up at the counter, we will.
Garages get rung by a lot of people selling websites, SEO, lead-gen and apps. Most of it is priced by how much they think you'll pay, with a setup fee to make leaving feel expensive. We wanted to be easy to say no to: one price, on the website, no contract.
At £249 a month plus VAT, what you're paying for is mostly the reminders and the schedule. The page is the wrapper that makes them work — the thing the text links to, the thing Google points at. It's yours, on your own domain, and it stays yours if you stop.
We also don't take a fee per booking. Directories do, and it means they're paid to put your customers in front of your competitors. We're paid by you, once a month, and if the dashboard doesn't show that back in work, you cancel.
The data behind the reminders is the DVSA's, used under the Open Government Licence. Your customer list stays your customer list: we don't sell it, share it, or use it for anything except your reminders.
Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 5.30pm. Outside that, the answering agent takes a message and we ring back next working morning.
RJP Advisory Partners Ltd, Thame, Oxfordshire.