Car body repair website design for independent bodyshops

Your pages, the features on them, the final price and the timescale, in writing before you pay a deposit. Hosting, care and any ongoing SEO are listed separately, so you can see what is one-off and what is monthly. On the Business package the first year of hosting and care is included.

Say you are an insurer's approved repairer only if that insurer has approved you, and only on its terms: across the UK, showing a trust mark you are not authorised to use, or claiming an approval you do not hold, is banned outright (CAP Code 3.52; Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 Sch. 20). For drivers claiming on their own policy, we found no law giving them a right to choose the repairer. The FCA requires insurers to handle claims promptly and fairly, and the Financial Ombudsman holds an insurer responsible for a garage it told the driver to use, but usually not for one the driver chose with its agreement, if it made that clear. So the page should ask drivers to agree it with their insurer before they book.

Where neither your estimate nor your site gives a date, the law treats the repair as due within a reasonable time, judged on the facts, and a repair that overruns it can earn the driver a price reduction (Consumer Rights Act 2015 ss.52 and 54, UK-wide). A time you do state can become part of the agreement. So give a typical time for each repair, call it a guide, and say what stretches it: parts on order, or damage found once a panel is off. On an insurance job, the Financial Ombudsman expects the insurer to keep the driver told about delays.

Yes, as a guide, if the page says plainly what a photo cannot show. Contour's form takes up to three photos, and its answers say an inspection still checks for hidden damage before the final scope is agreed. The ASA's rules require a limitation like that to be clear and not to contradict the headline price (CAP Code 3.9 and 3.10), and a price shown to drivers must include VAT (3.18). Word the guide carefully: what you tell a driver about a job can become a term of the contract.

Only if you can prove it. The ASA expects evidence before a claim goes live and bars exaggerating what a service achieves (CAP Code 3.7 and 3.11); obvious puffery is allowed only where nobody would take it literally (3.2). Drivers are likely to read invisible and as new as facts about the finished panel, so describe what you can show instead, such as how you match the colour. A review that says the repair cannot be seen is still your claim once you publish it, and it must be genuine and held on file (3.44, 3.47 and 3.49). If a repair falls short, the driver can ask for it to be done again at your cost (Consumer Rights Act 2015 s.55).

PAS 125 is the old name: the standard became a British Standard in 2014, and the current edition is BS 10125:2022. It is voluntary, as BSI says standards are unless a regulation references them, and BS 10125 sets out what any claim of conformity must say. If BSI has certified you for its Kitemark for Vehicle Damage Repair, show the mark and link your entry in BSI's directory, which drivers can search by company name or postcode. If it has not, leave the mark and the standard off: displaying a quality mark without authorisation is banned across the UK.

Three fixed prices, VAT included. Starter, from £295, is one page with your repairs and an estimate request. Essentials, from £595, gives repairs, reviews and finding you their own pages across five. Business, from £995, adds a page for each repair and your before and after photos. Any estimating or insurer software link is priced on its own, and the full list is on the pricing page.