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title: "Heavy-Duty Shop Management Software | Meridian"
description: "Heavy-duty shop management software covering parts inventory, repair orders, inspections, scheduling, the customer portal and a real ledger."
canonical: https://meridianhdx.com/heavy-duty-shop-management-software
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# The shop management platform built for heavy-duty

Meridian is shop management software for heavy-duty parts distributors, truck repair shops, and the buying groups they belong to. It covers the counter, the bays and the books in one system: parts inventory across locations, repair orders with inspections and labor, and a real ledger underneath instead of a monthly export into one.

## Light-duty software assumes one location, one price, one entity

Heavy-duty operations break all three in the first month. A second branch, a fleet account that does not pay retail, and a second legal entity that owns the building are ordinary here. That is why so many shops end up running a parts system, a shop system and an accounting package, and paying somebody to be the integration between the three.

- **Parts is a business, not a stockroom** — Price levels, cores, vendor part numbers, several suppliers per part with their own costs and lead times, and bin locations per branch. A light-duty system models none of it.
- **More than one location is normal** — Per-location stock, a part picker that shows which branch has it, and transfers that move cost without creating a sale.
- **The books cannot be an afterthought** — General ledger, accounts payable, AR aging, ACH batches, per-branch P&L, and several legal entities with intercompany settlement.

## Everything the shop floor runs on

The operational half stands on its own. The order, the inspection, the schedule and the invoice, in one flow.

- Repair orders with labor, parts, sublet and fees, plus VIN decode and PM schedules
- Digital inspections with condition ratings, photos and printable reports
- A built-in flat-rate labor guide and a per-order tech time clock
- Scheduling with tech assignment and customer confirmations
- A customer portal with estimate approvals, history and balance
- KPI dashboards, gross profit, advisor sales and tech productivity

## Where to go next

If you are running the bays, the truck repair page goes deeper on repair orders, inspections and the labor guide. If you are running a counter and a set of bays as one business, the shop page covers both halves and the reporting an owner reads.

## It keeps working as the operation gets more complicated

A second location, a second legal entity, or a buying group membership are all the same platform, not a migration. Multi-location inventory, intercompany agreements with FIFO settlement, and cross-dealer search are already in the system you would be starting on.

## Where to read next

- [Heavy-duty truck repair](https://meridianhdx.com/heavy-duty-truck-repair-software) — Repair orders, inspections, and the labor side of the bay.
- [Truck repair shop software](https://meridianhdx.com/truck-repair-shop-software) — The counter and the bays as one business, with one set of books underneath.
- [Parts inventory management](https://meridianhdx.com/parts-inventory-software) — Per-location stock, bin locations, price tiers, and more than one supplier per part.
- [Compare the editions](https://meridianhdx.com/editions) — Four packages over one system. Which one you are depends on what you run.

## Questions

**What does Meridian cover that light-duty shop software does not?**

Parts-distribution depth (price levels, cores, vendor part numbers, several suppliers per part, bin locations per branch), multi-location inventory with transfers, and a full ledger including several legal entities with intercompany settlement.

**Is the accounting included or exported?**

Included. General ledger, accounts payable, AR aging, payments, recurring billing and NACHA ACH batch export run in the same system that took the order. There is also a QuickBooks Desktop journal export if your accountant wants one.

**Does it handle more than one location?**

Yes. Stock is held per location with on-hand, committed, on-order, min and max, and branch-to-branch transfers move cost only, so internal movement does not inflate revenue.

**What is on the shop-floor side?**

Repair orders with labor, parts, sublet and fees, VIN decode, PM schedules, digital inspections with photos, a flat-rate labor guide, a per-order time clock, scheduling and a customer portal.

## More

- [Overview](https://meridianhdx.com/)
- [Why Meridian](https://meridianhdx.com/why-meridian)
- [Editions](https://meridianhdx.com/editions)
- [Pricing](https://meridianhdx.com/pricing)
- [Open by default](https://meridianhdx.com/open)
- [Customer Bill of Rights](https://meridianhdx.com/bill-of-rights)
- [Start a free trial](https://app.meridianhdx.com/register)
- [Contact sales](mailto:sales@meridianhdx.com)
- [Terms of Service](https://meridianhdx.com/legal/terms)
- [Privacy Policy](https://meridianhdx.com/legal/privacy)
- [Master Services Agreement](https://meridianhdx.com/legal/msa)