Apex EP Solutions Group · Orange County, California
Class A, B and C. Coach bodies, slide-outs, delamination, roof and sidewall, the jobs no collision estimator has ever seen. Our shop operating system runs in an RV center today.
Why RV is its own problem
Most marketing firms treat RV service as collision with a bigger bay. It is not, and every part of the work is different, starting with the fact that the customer is often living in the vehicle you are holding.
The breakdown
It is five, and on an RV every one of them takes longer and costs more when it goes wrong. Take the vehicle apart and you can see them.
Insurance estimate review, line by line. The deductible is where the error hides. A sublet line defaults to a taxed category, and on a coach with a long sublet list that adds up before anyone notices.
Special order, long lead, no substitute. The blocker clears the moment the box is scanned, which on an RV job may be the difference between shipping this month and next.
Which bay is holding a coach that is waiting on a panel, and which is waiting on nothing. Panels read LIVE or UNAVAILABLE, never a guess dressed up as a number.
Often living in it, sometimes parked on your lot. Drafted the moment the job changes so it goes out while it is still true.
What a coach job actually cost you against what it paid. Which contract argued, which line they cut, how many days it sat waiting on a panel. The number you price the next one from.
Proof, not promises
Friday, our shop operating system, is deployed at a collision and RV center in Orange County. Every number was read off the machine. Anything unfinished says so, on this page, in writing.
The matcher found a real $250 deductible error and a mis-bucketed $388.92 on a live repair order. Not yet: price entry, vehicle selection and line editing inside the estimate are still being built, so a person finishes the estimate today. On a coach that will not decode, picking the database vehicle is still a human job. No real part has run the receiving rail. Running two shops on one system is designed rather than built.
What we take on
Motorhomes, travel trailers and fifth wheels. Independents and service centers. We stay in the lanes we have actually worked in.
Sidewall, roof, delamination, fiberglass and panel.
Mechanism, seals, toppers, alignment.
Carrier work on a coach, which is its own paperwork.
One-off units where nothing decodes and nothing is standard.
Where we work
Close enough to stand in your shop, which is the only way any of this works.
Santa Ana, Costa Mesa, Irvine, Anaheim, Huntington Beach, Orange, Fullerton.
Mission Viejo, Laguna, San Juan Capistrano, and south to San Clemente.
LA County shops and service centers.
You own everything. Every domain, every account, every login is in your name on your card. Apex takes delegate access and nothing more.
Common questions
The shop operating system running today is deployed at a collision and RV center in Orange County, so RV work is in the system rather than in the sales pitch. RV service is one of four lanes Apex works in, alongside collision, powersports and motorsports.
No, because that was true on day one at the shop it runs in. When a VIN will not decode, the database vehicle is chosen by hand. Selecting the vehicle inside the estimate is one of the parts still being built, so today a person does it. The system does not pretend otherwise.
The estimate matcher compares any carrier or contract estimate against the shop's, line by line. It does not care who wrote the other estimate. What it will not do is submit anything: there is no code path to send, submit or lock. The owner sends.
The symptom, not the service list. An owner with a delaminating sidewall or a slide that will not retract searches for what is happening to them. The site has to answer that, in their words, and be found on a phone from a parking lot.
The client does. Every domain, every account and every login is registered in the client's name on the client's card. Apex takes delegate access. Fire Apex on a Tuesday and the business still has all of it.
Price entry, vehicle selection and editing an existing line inside the estimate. No real part has run the receiving rail. Running two shops on one system is designed rather than built. Those are the honest gaps and they stay on this page until they close.
Orange County, Los Angeles, and south to San Clemente.
Start here
The fastest way to understand what we build is to watch it check an estimate against yours and find what the carrier left out.