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Choose the decision you actually face: keep an estimator and add management, replace both, or evaluate another provider against the same job.

Do you need to change the way an estimator writes a sheet, or the way the rest of the shop works from it? Those are separate purchase decisions.

A shop using Mitchell estimating can compare two management paths by running one return through parts and accounting.

Eight more vendors: what to ask

Bring the same fictional repair into each demo. These are questions to investigate, not claims that each product performs the task natively.

Bring an estimate export and ask how a later supplement is identified on import.

Have two advisors hand off an open repair and locate the last customer promise.

Ask accounting to follow the $12 restocking difference through its ledger.

Have the production lead move one job and explain the hold on the second.

Ask the presenter to reconcile an individual repair with the reported shop totals and confirm current availability.

Quote enough staff accounts for the shift change and identify any required plan upgrades.

Demo the split-payer invoice with your own front-office and accounting roles.

Ask the estimator to revise the bracket line, then demonstrate the handoff into management.