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Agreement template

Repair Authorization and Estimate Approval

The customer's authorisation for diagnosis and work, with the estimate, the overage limit and the supplemental approval written in.

Where this comes from

Not a sample we wrote for this page. This is the document the product puts in your account, as a draft, the moment you say what you do.

Written for your trade

Name your trade during setup — auto repair, towing and detailing — and this is waiting for you, already written, in your words, with the blanks marked and the points a lawyer settles flagged for one. Edit it, or paste in what you already use.

It is a starting point and not legal advice: the wording is yours to change and your attorney's to check.

How it reaches your account

  1. Say what you do. Pick your trade when you set up; nothing to find or download.
  2. It is there as a draft. The 20 blanks marked, and 2 points flagged for a lawyer.
  3. Settle the notes, then send. The product will not send it with a note still in it.

How this works for auto repair, towing and detailing

What it asks you to fill in

Read off the document itself, so this list cannot drift away from what the document actually asks for.

20 blanks in this document

business nameguest namedatevehicle yearvehicle makevehicle modelvehicle platevehicle vinodometerrepair orderwork descriptionestimate amountcustomer phoneoverage allowancediagnostic feereassembly termsparts typewarranty termscollection daysstorage rate

Each one is a box on the send screen, and a value your own system can pass through the API. The rest of the wording is the same for every signer.

How they are filled

  • Once per send, from what you already know.
  • Or from your own system, through the API.
  • Into the document, never into its wording.
  • What somebody signed is the version they were shown.
Page one of the Repair Authorization and Estimate Approval, as a blank copy for Example Business: the document's title and opening clauses, with a line for each blank still to be filled in.
Page one as the dashboard prints a blank copy: every blank a line, named.

Questions it can ask

Beyond the blanks, a template can ask the signer questions. These come from the product's own question library and suit this document; add them, change them, or write your own.

As the signer sees them
  • Vehicle make and modelOptional
  • Number plateOptional
  • Mobile number
  • Purchase order numberOptional
  • I have read and understood this document

Each question is checked where it is answered — a date that is on the calendar, a birthday that is not in the future, an address long enough to be one — in the same words on the signing page, on the counter tablet and in the API, and the signature waits until every required one is done.

  • Sections. Group questions under a heading, and give a section a page of its own.
  • Conditions. Show a question only when an earlier answer calls for it; a hidden question is never asked and never owed.
  • Flags. Put an answer in front of your staff when it needs a person, such as a safety box left unticked.
  • Questions first. Ask them before the document is shown, and the document after.

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What a lawyer has to settle

These are the notes already written into the document, not our opinion about the law where you operate. The product refuses to send a document with one still in it, which is the point of them.

SignSealer does not give legal advice and this document is not legal advice. What it does is put the questions in front of you before somebody signs, rather than after.

Check what the law where you operate requires in an estimate, what notice and record a supplemental authorization needs, and whether an oral approval is enough.

Check the mechanic's lien, notice and sale procedure where you operate before relying on this clause.

The document

The real text, with the blanks shown as blanks and the notes above lifted out so they are read rather than skimmed past.

Repair Authorization and Estimate Approval

business name — customer guest name, on date. Vehicle: vehicle year vehicle make vehicle model, plate vehicle plate, VIN vehicle vin, odometer odometer. Repair order repair order.

  1. What I am authorising. Diagnosis and the work described here: work description, for the estimated amount of estimate amount, including parts and labour but not tax unless stated. I authorise business name's staff to operate the vehicle on roads and on the premises for testing and for moving it.
  2. The estimate is an estimate. If the work turns out to need more than the estimate, business name will stop and contact me on customer phone before going further, and will not exceed estimate amount by more than overage allowance without my agreement recorded in writing. A supplemental authorization covers each additional amount.
  3. Diagnosis charge. If I decline the work after diagnosis, the diagnostic charge of diagnostic fee is still due, and the vehicle is reassembled to the state described here: reassembly terms.
  4. Parts. The parts used are parts type — new, remanufactured, aftermarket or used as stated. Old parts are returned to me if I ask before the work starts, except parts that must be sent back under a warranty or exchange, or that the law requires to be kept.
  5. Warranty. The work carries warranty terms. A warranty claim is made to business name first, and work done elsewhere in the meantime is not covered.
  6. Personal property. I have removed anything of value from the vehicle. business name is not responsible for personal property left in it, or for damage from a pre-existing condition, a fault not related to this work, or road hazards during testing.
  7. Collection and storage. I will collect the vehicle within collection days days of being told it is ready. After that, storage is charged at storage rate per day, and business name's rights over an uncollected vehicle are as the law allows.

By signing I authorise the work described, and I confirm that I have read this and meant to sign it.

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