With InspectARide you have the ability to customize the ratings to use the terms you want. You can use different sets of ratings for each of your templates which gives you more control to set the software up to the way you want. For example, let’s say you’re doing a condition report. With this you may want a setup such as Good/Fair/Poor. On the other hand, if you’re doing an inspection to determine if a vehicle should be driven or not you may want to go with Pass/Fail.

Here are a few more points about ratings:

• You can have anywhere from 0-3 ratings in your template
• You can set a rating to create a summary at the end of the report for anything marked with that rating
• Ratings are changed in the template editor in the InspectARide portal

Use InspectARide for any type of vehicle inspection. With the ability to quickly create your own checklists (and have as many different ones as you want), you can set up the program for the exact type of inspection(s) that you do. Here are some of the types of inspections that can be done with InspectARide:

• Pre-purchase inspections
• Auction inspections
• Pre-service inspections to have a record of vehicle condition before work begins
• Damage inspections
• Dealership inspection on cars received from trade-ins
• Recurring daily/weekly/monthly inspections on vehicles
• And much more!

InspectARide works great on both iOS and Android devices. This gives you a ton of options to choose from when deciding what mobile device to use the app on. There also isn’t one device that works better than all the others, and because of this, the device that will work ‘best’ for you will come down to personal preference.

Here are some of the more popular devices:

Tablets

• iPad Air
• iPad Mini
• iPad Pro
• Google Nexus 9
• Samsung Galaxy Tab 4, S2

Phones

• iPhone 6, 6+, 6S, 6S+, SE
• Samsung Galaxy S6, S6 Edge, S7, S7 Edge
• Samsung Galaxy Note 5
• HTC One 10

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This is not a complete list of all the devices that run the app, it simply lists some of the most popular devices in use today. It’s also important to note that while the app will run on multiple generations of the same device (iPhone 5, 5C, 6, 6+, 6S, 6S+ for example), the newer the model the better the app will run. There can be a major difference in speed and performance between generations of the same device.

With InspectARide you can easily set up and use different checklists. This is very helpful if you do more than one type of vehicle inspection. You can have checklists with varying levels of detail or you have checklists with completely different content. There is no limit to the number of checklists you can set up and use.

For example, let’s say you focus on tires so you want a simple checklist setup that only has information related to vehicle tires. But, you also like to do a quick inspection on the whole car to look for damage before you do work on it so you want a short whole vehicle checklist as well. You can easily have a checklist for each type of inspection and use them as needed.

You can easily add inspectors to your InspectARide account. This is done by logging in to the online portal and going to ‘Account Management’ and then ‘Inspectors’. On the ‘Inspectors’ tab, you can set up the inspectors that you need. Once this is done you can switch between inspectors on your mobile device by going into ‘Settings’. If the people doing inspections each have their own device then you’ll select the inspector once on each device and be all set. However, if a device is shared between different inspectors you can simply change the inspector in ‘Settings’ as needed.

When putting together an inspection report it’s important that you don’t accidentally miss filling something out. This can happen whether you’re using paper or software. If you forget to fill something out it doesn’t mean you didn’t inspect it, but that’s how it’s going to look to whoever is reading the report. 

Don’t worry, InspectARide has you covered. When you are ready to finish an inspection the app will let you know if you missed anything. The app has a list of everything that hasn’t been filled out which you can see at any point in time during the inspection. What this means is that even if you did accidentally skip over something, you’ll know about it and be able to fill it out before finishing the report. While unintentionally leaving an item blank can happen with both paper and software, only software can automatically let you know when it happens!

 

A picture says a thousand words. We’ve all heard this, well, probably a thousand times. That doesn’t make it any less true. Pictures communicate something that words never can. It lets the person viewing them see exactly what the person who took them saw. When it comes to including pictures with your vehicle inspections the value is clear.

Regardless or what type of vehicle inspections you’re doing pictures have value. If you are trying to show damage a picture with a quick description is so much clearer than a note by itself will ever be. Let’s look at an example:

‘There is a dent in the driver side door’.

OK? How big is the dent? Where is the dent? Let’s get more descriptive:

‘There is a large dent at the bottom of the driver side door’.

That’s certainly better, but when you read a statement like that, the first thing you want to be able to do is to see the dent. You instantly try to figure out what ‘large’ means. It’s at the bottom of the driver-side door, but where exactly at the bottom? How big of an issue is this?

Having a picture alongside a brief description gives the person reading the report the information they need to get an accurate ‘picture’ of what is going on with the vehicle.

Having the right checklist is important. Depending on the type of vehicle inspections you’re doing you may want a checklist designed for detail or a shorter one designed for speed. InspectARide comes with several checklists already set up, which gives you a great starting point. Some inspectors will use these exactly as they are without making any changes whereas others will want to start from scratch and build their own. InspectARide has you covered either way.

Setting up your own checklist is easy. You can modify an existing one or start a brand-new one. You decide what Rating terms to use, how many sections you want in it, and how many inspection points you want. Once your checklist is created it can automatically be sent for use to your mobile device(s).

Our checklist creator is easy to use, but we know there are things that we can do to make it even better. We’re very excited to see how it evolves over time!