Werkflow

Software for the people who fix your car

Independent repair shops in Egypt still run on paper, memory, and phone calls. Werkflow keeps track of every car, job, and payment for a workshop. It is being built for a real shop in Cairo and is not yet in production.

Procedure

2 min

What problem this solves

Independent repair shops in Egypt mostly run on paper, memory, and phone calls. A job lives on a paper card until the card is lost. A car’s history lives in whoever worked on it last. Payments are settled in the moment and remembered — or not. It works, in the way things work when nobody can afford for them not to, but nothing can be searched, totaled, or handed to someone new.

Werkflow puts all of that in one system: every car the shop has seen, every job opened on it, and every payment against that job. When a customer calls about their car, the answer is a search, not a memory test.

How it’s put together

The shop-facing side is a PWA — a web app that installs like a phone app, so it runs on whatever device is in the shop without an app store in the way.

Behind it, a Spring Boot service enforces the business rules and PostgreSQL keeps the records. Everything runs on a self-hosted Debian machine and is published through a Cloudflare Tunnel, which means the server connects out to Cloudflare instead of opening any port to the internet.

Where it stands

Werkflow is not in production yet. It is being built for a real repair shop in Cairo, and this figure will be re-stamped “In service” the day it is.