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NEWS POMEN Crowned as Winner of PETRONAS FutureTech Accelerator Programme 2019 PETRONAS FutureTech, an accelerator programme to encourage local innovations and support Malaysian startups, held its first Demo Day with 19 startups from the energy, industry, and digital innovation sectors recently. The programme under the PETRONAS Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) arm aims to discover and nurture local technology entrepreneurs and contribute to a tech-driven startup ecosystem for Malaysia. The first batch of startups pitched their business solutions to an audience of venture capitalists, top executives from Malaysian Government Agencies and GLCs, and other members of the Malaysian and regional startup ecosystem. Out of the batch, three startups were selected to take part in a two-week global immersion programme hosted by 500 Startups in San Francisco in early 2020. The startups are POMEN, an automotive aftermarket platform that connects car and motorcycle owners with nearby workshops and mechanics, GA Alliance, a platform that brings together financial professional expertise with digital solutions to transform accounting and AdEasy, a platform for offline ad space. Back to Blogs

BLOGS POMEN Featured in Vulcan Post POMEN: Safe, Transparent Roadside Assistance   POMEN App is a 24/7 car assistance app that was founded in 2018 and launched the beta version in October of the same year. It goes live to public on January 2019. POMEN’s main focus is to provide reassuring, reliable, and safe roadside assistance, especially for female drivers, who are the most common victims of workshop swindling. As such, POMEN takes great pains to ensure the entire process is transparent with features like real-time tracking, flat-rate pricing, no hidden additional costs, and free membership. A key feature of POMEN’s app is that you can register family members on your profile, who will then be able to keep tabs on your status when you are having car trouble. The app’s POMEN Merchants are all carefully selected, certified workshops and mechanics. How certified, you ask? POMEN collaborates with the Malaysia Automotive, Robotics & IoT Institute (MARii), registering more than 100 workshops which have been successfully certified by MARii’s Workshop Transformation Program (WTP). POMEN is currently available nationwide. Credit: Vulcan Posthttps://vulcanpost.com/680038/malaysia-mobile-apps-car-servicing-roadside-assistance/ Back to Blogs

Booking form can be found in every POMEN Smart Workshop‘s account. Dont have POMEN Smart Workshop‘s account? Get one here and enjoy 14 days free trial. Step 1: Login to your POMEN Smart Workshop’s account. Step 2: Click on ‘booking’ under ‘manage’ button. Step 3: Start add booking by clicking ‘+booking’ button. Step 4: Insert your customer’s detail and car information. In this booking form, you may insert your customer’s booking details depending on how your customer book for their services. In ‘booking source’, you can select whether they book by call, send you whatsapp message, booking via website or they walk in to your workshop themselves. In ‘appointment method’ section, you can choose an options such as ‘pick up/drop’, ‘on-site service’ or ‘drive in’ depending on your customer’s situation. Finally, click ‘send email’ and your customer’s booking form will be send to their email. Their booking form will be look like this: Another Method To Make A Customer Booking. There’s an additional method to book a customer appointment at POMEN Smart Workshop. You can also make a booking through the ‘calender’ tools under the ‘manage’ button. Next, click on the date to schedule your customer booking for upcoming day, week or months. After that, repeat Step 2. This method is much easier as you can monitor upcoming services on certain date. After make a customer booking, you can proceed to do a work order. See how to make a work order here. Still hesitate to get POMEN Smart Workshop? Hesitate no more! Get free demo now!

In today’s fast-paced automotive industry, efficiency and productivity are paramount. For workshop owners and mechanics, managing work orders effectively can make all the difference in delivering exceptional service and maximizing customer satisfaction. This is where POMEN Smart Workshop‘s work order tools come into play. In this guide, we will take you through a step-by-step journey, exploring the key features and functionalities of POMEN Smart Workshop‘s Work Order Tools, enabling you to harness their full potential and take your workshop’s efficiency to new heights. Step 1 : Login to your POMEN Smart Workshop account. If you dont have one, you can get one here. Dont know how to get a free POMEN Smart Workshop‘s account? Check here. Step 2 : Click on ‘work order’ under ‘manage’ button. Step 3 : Start creating work order by clicking ‘+ work order’ button. Step 4 : Insert customer’s basic information. After inserting the customer’s information, check on ‘send email’ box to send digital quotation to customer’s email later. Step 5 : Insert package and part. Insert the package and part that you will provide for your customer. You can create these packages and part in the parts management and package management tools. Step 6 : Select Service and Details. Once you insert the service that you will provide to your customers, the price will appear. In the details section, you can assign your mechanic to a specific bay. Lastly, insert booking date and time and type of service(s). Step 7 : Start To Quote. The total amount will appear on summary section. Click on ‘save’ to start to quote. Next click on ‘quote’ button to start quote and the quotation will be send to customer’s email. And finally, the digital work order will be send to your customer’s email. The digital work order will be look like this: And finally the digital work order for your customer has been succesfully created! Easy right? Still thinking to get POMEN Smart Workshop? Dont wait any longer, transform your workshop now!

As the economy brawl, things get tough and even a little risky, there is no doubt that you have seen this in your shop. This is tricky in the sense that people tend to neglect and sometimes go without their vehicle maintenance or repair, which leads to slower days and at a times even longer periods such as weeks or months. Here are few tips on how to manage your existing customer and how to attract new customers. Create Your Own Brand And Market It Your workshop is your brand! Your brand reflects familiarity, dependability and trust to name a few, so once your brand is established then you must promote it using all channels and techniques. Digital brand marketing is your online existence which creates an image of your business giving you the reliability to participate for and attract new customers along with retaining your existing customers. Word of mouth refferals are the most effective and direct marketing leads you will ever receive but this only achieved by having a strong well established brand. Connect To Your Loyal Customers You may have experienced a slow down period at one point or another with booking numbers below average? This is more likely a really good time to reach out to your existing customers and drum up some business, the message could be instructional such as tips on maintaining your vehicle or sales related by offering a special service or repair, you may even want to incentivise them by offering a discount. Be Active On Social Media In the environment of social media your brand need to maintain its digital identitiy which can promote your growth alongside your website. Social media platforms, such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter provide strong occasion for posts that can generate interest which can lead to online bookings. Your post should be scheduled frequently so your audience becomes familiar and begins to follow you, your posts should include link to blog, notifications and specials providing a call to action. Manage Your Workshop Well With POMEN Smart Workshop Software If your workflow becomes static, your growth of the company may become static too. Dont become static, try POMEN Smart Workshop software which reduce workflow and workload processes. It give an easy online portal for consumers to remain updated and in contact along with an online appointment booking mobile app hourly. This software lead the company on an external basis and builds a solid structure within the company itself. Scheduling shifts, maintaining invoices, calculating due payments, and setting up the inventory are some tasks that can be easily fullfill within the software. Are you ready for POMEN Smart Workshop? Try it now. It’s FREE !

A well-organized workshop can be a time and money saving asset. Managing your workshop appropriately is vital to ensure deadlines are met and downtime is kept to a minimum. These are some of the tools you need to keep everything running smoothly. Organizing Tools Ineffective workshops are usually the result of inefficient scheduling. Having a solid plan in place is important, and smart software can help to keep your workshop and technicians organised. Make sure your technicians are using their time effectively instead of wasting time on old-fashioned admin processess or unproductiv tasks. You can use scheduling software to manage technnicians availability and allocate job cards quickly and effortless. Inventory Management If you can estimate it, you can manage it which is why visibility over your workshop activity is key when it comes to keeping things running proficiently. From parts inventory to service histories and maintenance schedules, you need to have a clear overview of everything workshop-related. Using software, you can easily track and measure things like costs, jobs and asset availability to help you understand where improvements could be made. This observability will turn lead to data that can be used to create applicable reports, showing you where icompetency in your workshop may lie and allowing you to meke the necessary changes. POMEN Smart Workshop Using POMEN Smart Workshop can be a great boost to productivity. They give you the ability to take things mobile with phones and tablets, allowing you to combine tasks and administration and in turn helping you to get rid of slow, unreliable paper processes. Give your mechanics access to all the data they need in one central location. Mechanics can easily manage timesheets, see service and inspection documentation and keep on top of job cards, whether they’re in the workshop or out in the field. Think a workshop management system could be right for you? Find out more here. POMEN Smart Workshop can help you to control all aspects of your business especially your workshop. Keeping all your data combined in one place is the most efficient to work, and a comprehensive suite of reporting tools can help you to turn information into actionable data that will smooth your operations. Want to give a try? It’s FREE!