Tekmetric is built for shops that want depth and are willing to be sold to. UGView is built for shops that want to try it tonight and know the bill will not move.
| Question | UGView | Tekmetric |
|---|---|---|
| Price model | $129/month flat per shop. | Tiered, starting higher, with add-ons priced separately. |
| Try before buying | Self-serve trial. No card, no call. | Tekmetric's pricing page offers demos, not free trials. |
| French / bilingual | Yes, including invoices and customer email. | English-first. |
| Canadian taxes | GST/QST native. | Confirm Canadian tax handling with them. |
| Compliance reminders | Québec obligations calendar built in — CNESST, lift inspections, extinguishers, DAS, TPS/TVQ remittances. | Not a feature. |
| Scale it is built for | 1–12 bays. | Independents up to larger, multi-location operations. |
Pricing note, September 2026: UGView's $129 flat is published on its own pricing page. For the others, prices move and tiers change — comparisons published this year put entry tiers for Shopmonkey, Tekmetric and AutoLeap roughly in the $179–$239 per month range before add-ons, with per-user charges on some plans, but check each vendor's own pricing page for today's number rather than trusting any comparison table, including this one. The structural difference is the point: one flat price per shop, versus tiers that rise with users, features or add-ons.
Tekmetric is the deeper product with the bigger company behind it. If you are a ten-bay shop heading for three locations, that depth is the right thing to buy.
UGView answers a narrower question: a small bilingual shop that wants one flat bill, a trial it can start without a phone call, and a system that already knows what a Québec shop owes the province and when.
Said plainly, because you will find out anyway: UGView is a small independent product with a few dozen shops on it, not a funded platform with thousands. It has almost no third-party review history yet. There is no dealership DMS integration, no heavy-truck or fleet module, and no multi-location group reporting. If you run several locations and need consolidated reporting across them, buy one of the bigger systems.
UGView has a trial you can start yourself — no card, no demo call — so the fastest honest test is to put one real repair order through both. Book the demo with Tekmetric, and while you wait for the slot, run a week of your own work through UGView. Whichever one your service advisor stops complaining about wins.