Auto Repair Shop Software · reliability comparison

MechanicDesk vs Shop-Ware: which is more reliable? (2026)

Shop-Ware is more reliable than MechanicDesk, scoring 71.4 vs 40.0 out of 100. Over the last 90 days MechanicDesk reported 0 incidents and Shop-Ware reported 6, with effective uptime of 91.02% and 99.85% respectively.

Data updated Nov 2, 2026 · How we score

MechanicDesk

40.0/100

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Shop-Ware

71.4/100

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MetricMechanicDeskShop-Ware
Reliability score40.071.4
Rank (auto repair shop management systems)—#3
Uptime (90 days)91.02%99.85%
Incidents (90 days)06
Partial / major outages02
Avg time to resolve—47m
Outages we detected64
Transparency score0/10020/100

Where MechanicDesk and Shop-Ware differ

  • MechanicDesk reported no incidents in the last 90 days, while Shop-Ware reported 6.
  • Shop-Ware had 2 partial or major outages, compared with 0 for MechanicDesk.
  • Our own probes detected 6 outages at MechanicDesk and 4 at Shop-Ware, of which 0 and 0 respectively were acknowledged on their status pages.

90-day uptime

MechanicDesk

Aug 5, 2026 – Oct 31, 2026: no dataNov 1, 2026: 95.19% uptime (Outage detected by our probes)Nov 2, 2026: 72.38% uptime (Outage detected by our probes)
90 days ago83.791% average daily uptimeToday

Shop-Ware

Aug 5, 2026 – Aug 10, 2026: no incidentsAug 11, 2026: 100% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Aug 12, 2026 – Sep 13, 2026: no incidentsSep 14, 2026: 99.56% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 15, 2026: 94.41% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Sep 16, 2026: 100% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 17, 2026: 100% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 18, 2026 – Oct 4, 2026: no incidentsOct 5, 2026: 99.17% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 6, 2026 – Oct 31, 2026: no incidentsNov 1, 2026: 96.85% uptime (Outage detected by our probes)Nov 2, 2026: 81.57% uptime (Outage detected by our probes)
90 days ago99.684% average daily uptimeToday

Recent MechanicDesk incidents

No incidents reported by MechanicDesk in the last 90 days.

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Recent Shop-Ware incidents

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