For distributors

Repairs thatprotect the brand you’ve built.

RepairStep is the repair management software for distributors and brand owners. Every repair captured, every customer kept in the loop, every manufacturer claim filed. All from one place.

Free to start. No credit card required.

Run your repair operation from one place.

See everything

Every detail of every repair, in one place

Open any repair and see the whole story: customer, product, fault, photos, invoices, every email sent and every status change. No matter which channel the repair came in from.

  • Take photos on your phone or upload from your computer, all linked straight to the repair
  • Every store and supplier you work with stays on file: contacts, logistics, and how each one likes things done
  • Send emails, leave notes and set tasks or reminders, all from the repair itself

Customers AND stores stop chasing you

Every stage change auto-emails the customer and the store that sent the product in. Both get their own tracking page, and you decide what each audience sees per stage. Your team saves hours.

  • Write your own per-stage email templates, or use the defaults we ship
  • Choose what customers see and what stores see, independently
  • Every email and reply logged on the repair, so nothing gets missed

Inside a repair record

Everything lives on the repair itself.

Customer details, fault notes, photos, emails, invoices and the full activity log. All on one page. Here’s what’s on every repair record.

Repair #1027

Bose headphones — replacement earpad

Repairing

Customer

Sarah M.

Store

Audio Hub CT

Warranty

In warranty

Days in

3 days

At a glance

Open any repair to see customer, product, status, warranty, repair notes and customer communications. No more juggling emails, spreadsheets or scribbled notes to find out where things stand.

Actions

Send email

Auto-attach to repair

Make a repair note

Internal only

Set a task

Follow up on payment

Upload photo

From phone or computer

Reply to message

From the customer

Every action, one place

Send an email, make a repair note, set a task, attach a photo, reply to a customer message. Every action lives on the repair itself.

Activity log

  1. Stage: Submitted → Received

    Today, 9:00 AM

  2. Note: "Cracked left earpad"

    Today, 10:15 AM

  3. 3 photos uploaded

    Today, 11:30 AM

  4. Email sent to customer

    Today, 2:15 PM

  5. Stage: Diagnosed → Repairing

    Today, 3:00 PM

The full story

Every status change, email sent, reply received, photo uploaded and note added. All logged automatically.

Email thread

Audio Hub

Today, 10:42 AM

We've received your Bose headphones. Left earpad is cracked, ordering a replacement now.

Sarah M.· reply

Today, 11:15 AM

Thanks for the update! How long do you think the repair will take?

Audio Hub

Today, 2:30 PM

Replacement arrives tomorrow. Should have it back to you in 2-3 days.

Sarah M.· reply

Today, 4:08 PM

Thanks! Will I get a notification when it's ready to collect?

Customer replies stay on the repair

Send the customer an email update from the repair. Any reply lands back on the same repair page. No more chasing answers across separate email threads.

Photos

6 attached
Intake
Intake
In repair
In repair
Return
Return

Add photos from your phone

Photos taken on a phone or uploaded from a computer land on the repair record, organised as intake, in-repair or on return.

Money

Warranty

In warranty

Auto-classified

Claim pack

Ready to send

3 photos + serial

Customer invoice

Payment received

Out of warranty

Don't carry the cost

For out-of-warranty repairs, send the customer an invoice and keep track of the payment. For in-warranty repairs, bundle into a claim pack you can send to the manufacturer. Either way, the money you're owed doesn't disappear.

What the customer sees

Customers get their own tracking page.

Every stage change auto-emails the customer a link to their tracking page: status, progress, repair notes and a way to reply if they have a question. Customers stay updated without anyone having to send anything.

What Sarah sees

Your Bose headphones — repair update

Repairing

Submitted

Received

Diagnosed

Repairing

Shipped

Complete

Latest update from Audio Hub

“Replacement earpad arrives tomorrow. We’ll have it back to you in 2-3 days.”

— Pieter, Audio Hub

Sarah replied

“Thanks! Will I get a notification when it’s ready to collect?”

2 hours ago

Make it yours

Built around your business

Stages, repair forms, email templates and branding get configured once to match how your business operates, including multi-brand theming if you service more than one identity.

  • Design your repair stages and mark each one customer-facing or internal-only
  • Configure your repair forms to collect what you need, nothing you don't
  • Multi-brand theming for distributors that service more than one brand

Insights you can act on

See what's in for repair right now, what's still outstanding and how this week is shaping up. Over time, the deeper patterns surface too: top failing products, stuck stages, slow stores and turnaround trends.

  • Spot the products that keep coming back. See failure patterns by brand and product.
  • See how long repairs sit at each stage, and find where things really bottleneck
  • See which stores, brands and channels send you the most work

Default pipeline

11 customizable stages

Repair Submitted

Assessment Invoice Sent

Awaiting Assessment Payment

Waybill Sent

Product Received

Under Assessment

Repair Quote Sent

Awaiting Repair Payment

Repairing

Ready for Return

Completed

Customer-facingInternal only

Add, rename, reorder or archive any stage. Mark them customer-facing or internal-only.

Insights dashboard

Insights you can act on.

See what’s in for repair right now, what’s still outstanding and how this week is stacking up. Over time, deeper patterns surface too, highlighting top failing products and where repairs get stuck. All from data RepairStep captures as your team works.

Workshop snapshot

This week

Updated just now

In for repair

7

+2 vs last week

Awaiting repair payment

3

+1 vs last week

Avg turnaround

11.5 days

-1d vs last week

Completed

9

+1 vs last week

Most-returned products this month

Wireless headphones
7
Bluetooth speaker
5
Soundbar
4
Wireless earbuds
3
Portable speaker
2

Don't lose money

Don't end up paying for someone else's repair

Every repair is pre-classified as in-warranty or out-of-warranty using rules you set. Yours to confirm or change on the repair itself. For out-of-warranty repairs, send the customer an invoice and keep track of payment. In-warranty repairs bundle into a manufacturer claim pack: photos, fault notes and serials sent with a shareable link. Either way, the money you're owed doesn't disappear.

  • Set the warranty rules once. Every new repair gets classified in or out, ready for you to confirm.
  • Out-of-warranty repairs: send the customer an invoice and keep track of payment
  • In-warranty repairs bundle into a manufacturer claim pack: photos, notes, serials and a shareable link

Some questions don't need a repair

Not every customer question is a repair. RepairStep has a dedicated query system that catches pre-repair questions, lets you respond with photos, notes or a quick fix, and only escalates to a real repair when the product actually needs to come in.

  • Save the cost and back-and-forth of shipping products that didn't need to come in. Queries get handled before anything moves.
  • Customers submit questions through your website or in-store. Staff respond with notes, photos or a quick fix, and no product needs to ship.
  • Escalate to a real repair if the product does need to come in, and no info gets lost in the handover

When stores you supply are also on RepairStep

Repairs from connected stores arrive ready to work on.

Every repair they send you flows straight into your pipeline. No PDFs, no calls, no re-typing. When you update a stage, their screen and their customer's tracking page update with it. You decide what each audience sees, and the customer always hears the same story you do.

Let’s get your repairs organised.

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