SquatchSoft
Squatch Soft · software from the Idaho woods

Legendary software for shops that turn wrenches.

We're a small software studio born inside a working European auto shop. Our first product, ShopDesk, runs the boards, bays, and books in our own three shops — every single day. If it survives our service advisors, it can survive anything.

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3shops running ShopDesk daily
29reports built in
100%self-hosted — your data, your server
0trackers on this website

The flagship

ShopDesk: the whole shop, one screen

Job board, repair orders, digital inspections, appointments with text confirmations, guest messaging, parts, payroll-ready time clocks, and an end-of-day report your accountant will actually enjoy. All of it running on a server in the shop — not rented back to you by the seat.

  • Built by a master tech, not a focus group
  • Multi-shop ready — one login, every location
  • Your data stays yours — self-hosted, exportable, no lock-in

See what it does

ShopDesk dashboard showing open work orders, today's appointments, and sales by location
The morning briefing: every shop, one dashboard.

Why we exist

Shop software shouldn't hold your shop hostage

We got tired of per-seat pricing, surprise "platform fees," and our own customer history living on someone else's computer. So we built the alternative — and we run our business on it.

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Self-hosted, seriously

ShopDesk runs on a modest server in your shop (or your own cloud). Internet goes down? Your board still works. Vendor goes down? There is no vendor outage — it's yours.

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Forged on the floor

Every feature earned its place in a real bay, with real advisors and real guests. If a workflow is clumsy, we hear about it by lunch — and it gets fixed.

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Small studio, long shadow

We're tiny on purpose. You talk to the people who wrote the code. The Squatch may be elusive; we answer our messages.

Field notes

Fresh tracks from the blog

The Squatch Is Real: Why We Built Our Own Shop Software

Every Pacific Northwest town has a guy who swears he’s seen Bigfoot. Our version of that story starts: a master tech swears he can build better shop software than the stuff he’s paying for every month. The difference is, we have screenshots.

Squatch Soft grew out of a working European auto shop in Idaho’s Treasure Valley — three locations, a lot of BMWs, and a front counter that lives or dies by its software. For years that software was rented: per-seat pricing, modules behind paywalls, and our own guest history sitting on somebody else’s server, in somebody else’s format, retrievable at somebody else’s pleasure.

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Self-Hosted Isn't Scary (Anymore)

“Self-hosted” used to be a warning label. It meant a dusty server, a guy named Dale who’d set it up in 2009, and a backup tape nobody had tested since the Obama administration.

That’s not what it means now — and it’s the entire bet behind ShopDesk.

What self-hosted means in practice: a small, quiet computer in your shop runs the program. Your team opens it in a browser, same as any cloud app. The difference is whose computer it is. Yours.

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Documentation

The full ShopDesk manual, out in the open

Every page of the user manual is published in our docs — getting started, the job board, inspections, reports, all of it. No login, no "contact sales for the PDF."

Browse the docs

ShopDesk job board with repair orders moving through workflow columns
Drag, drop, done — the board is the shop's heartbeat.