Automotive dealership and workshop · the United Arab Emirates
A dealership runs three businesses at once: selling vehicles, selling parts and selling labour. They share customers and stock but rarely share a system, so the profitability of a workshop job and the true cost of a traded-in vehicle are both guesses.
What usually goes wrong
What matters here
Chassis and registration held as an identity that carries ownership, service history and warranty status, so the record follows the vehicle rather than the customer file.
Estimate, approval, parts issued and hours booked on one card, so workshop margin is known when the job closes rather than at month end.
Parts stocked, reserved against open job cards and sold over the counter from the same position, so a part committed to a job is not sold twice.
Claimable work flagged on the job card as it is done and tracked through to recovery, so warranty is a receivable rather than an absorbed cost.
Operating in the United Arab Emirates
Currency
UAE dirham (AED)
Timezone
GST (UTC+4)
Tax and invoicing
VAT is configured to your registration during onboarding, with rates and return periods set to match the Federal Tax Authority's requirements.
Elsewhere
Other sectors in the United Arab Emirates
Or read the full Automotive dealership and workshop overview.
