Every price,
in the open.
The desktop is bought once. Support and new versions are a yearly choice you can drop and pick up again. The phone app is rented, because it lives on our servers. No per-mechanic charge anywhere.
Circlip Shop
Bench
FreeFor ever · no card
- 15 job cards a month, permanently
- Customers, vehicles, invoices, payments
- Stock is view-only
- Excel export and local backup
It does not expire and it does not count down. Run it beside what you use now for as long as you like. Bench is the trial.
Shop
KES 55,000US$449 · once · one PC
- Everything on this site, on one PC
- Unlimited users and job cards
- Stock room, orders, receipts, suppliers
- Profit, fleet accounts, comebacks, cash-up
- Vehicle reference database and VIN decoding
- The first 12 months of Cover included
Never expires. Never goes read-only. Instalments: three payments of KES 20,000 by M-PESA.
Cover
KES 16,000US$129 · a year · optional
- Every new version released while you are in Cover
- Support by WhatsApp or email within two working days, up to six times a year
- A yearly health check of your records
- Tax and regulatory updates
- Free reissue when you change PC
Cover lapses. The software doesn’t.
The first twenty in Kenya
KES 35,000 instead of KES 55,000, and Cover renews at KES 12,000 a year for as long as you keep it. In return: a named testimonial, and permission to publish your numbers once you have them. Twenty garages, then the offer ends.
Rented, because they live on our servers
| Item | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Circlip Connect (phone app) | KES 5,000 / month or KES 50,000 / year | Every mechanic and the front desk on their own phones, synced with the desk. Founding garages: KES 3,500 a month, locked for two years. Details → |
| Assistant, Light | KES 1,500 / month | 500 questions a month about your cars, jobs and parts, inside Circlip |
| Assistant, Full | KES 3,500 / month | 1,500 questions a month |
| Extra PC, same site | KES 15,000 once | A second station on the same records |
| US VIN pack | Free | Optional download for imported vehicles |
If you want us to do the setting up
| Service | Price | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| Quick setup, remote | KES 15,000 | Install, settings, your logo on the invoice, a first walk-through |
| Full go-live | KES 60,000 | Two days on site: your customers, vehicles and stock loaded, staff trained, first week watched |
| Site survey | KES 15,000 | Credited back if you go ahead |
| Support incident, outside Cover | KES 2,500 | One problem, fixed |
| Reissue to a new PC, outside Cover | KES 3,000 | Licence moved to the new machine |
What the desktop costs over three years
List prices for one PC and one site, before any add-ons. The cloud products charge per month for as long as you use them.
| Option | Three-year cost |
|---|---|
| Circlip Shop, Cover dropped after year one | US$449 |
| Circlip Shop, Cover kept every year | US$707 |
| GB Pro | about US$620 |
| ARI | US$1,200 |
| Tekmetric | US$7,164 |
| Shopmonkey | US$8,604 |
| Shop-Ware | US$10,044 |
Prices on this page were set on 25 September 2026 and hold until we say otherwise here. US dollar figures are for buyers outside Kenya.