For booking, texting, web chat, review requests, campaigns and your website, yes. For reminders and follow-ups driven by repair-order data, no. Steer reads that data from your shop management system; LeadGasket does not.

For booking, texting, web chat, review requests, campaigns and your website, yes. For reminders and follow-ups driven by repair-order data, no. Steer reads that data from your shop management system; LeadGasket does not.

You can, but you would be paying for two texting systems. If you keep Steer, send review requests and reminders from one system only, so customers are not asked twice.

Texts, calls and email are billed by usage. Most shops pay $20 to $75 a month. There is no charge per user beyond your plan's user limit, and no long-term contract.

Every missed call gets a text back right away on every plan. The Voice AI plan at $399 a month adds an AI receptionist that answers calls and books appointments.

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LeadGasket vs Tekmetric

Q: Does LeadGasket connect to Tekmetric, Shop-Ware or Shopmonkey?

No. Your customer list comes in from a spreadsheet, and new customers are added when they book, text, call or fill out a form. Nothing syncs back and forth with your shop management system.

Q: What if it doesn't work out?

Email support@leadgasket.com within your first 30 days and we refund 110% of what you paid for your plan. Usage charges are not refunded. After 30 days, cancel by emailing us at least 7 days before your renewal date.

Tekmetric is a shop management system: estimates, repair orders, digital inspections, parts and payments. LeadGasket is a front-of-house platform: website, web chat, texting, booking, review requests, campaigns and phones. They overlap in one place, Tekmetric's Marketing add-on and the texting in its Scale plan. This page shows where, with prices from each company's own website on October 22, 2026.

The short version

LeadGasket does not replace Tekmetric. Nothing in LeadGasket writes a repair order, runs a digital inspection, orders parts or clocks a technician. If you run Tekmetric, you keep it. What LeadGasket competes with is Tekmetric Marketing, the add-on priced at $345 a month per shop for online booking, reminders, review requests, campaigns and a website, and the two-way texting that Tekmetric's pricing page lists in its Scale plan at $439 a month.

If you want reminders that fire from your repair orders, declined-work follow-ups from the ticket, and one number for everything, Tekmetric Marketing does that and LeadGasket does not. If you are on Tekmetric Start or Grow and want two-way texting, online booking, a website, web chat and missed-call text-back, LeadGasket Essential adds $97 a month plus usage, against $435 or more to move to Scale and add Marketing. For the full marketing stack the totals come out close (see the price example below), and the difference is what each one does. Nothing syncs between the two: your customer list comes over as a spreadsheet, and your front desk adds new LeadGasket customers to Tekmetric when the car comes in.

Choose Tekmetric Marketing if

You want reminders and follow-ups that fire from the repair order: declined jobs, oil-change intervals and customers you have not seen in a while, without entering anything twice.
You want one number and one inbox for texting, approvals, reminders and marketing, inside the system your advisors already use.
You run local ads and want them tied to repair orders, revenue and gross profit (Digital Ads, $149 a month per shop plus your ad budget).
You are already on Scale or Enterprise, so texting is included and Marketing is the only add-on you need.

Choose LeadGasket if

You are on Tekmetric Start or Grow and want two-way texting, online booking, a website, web chat and missed-call text-back for $97 a month plus usage.
You want new-customer tools Tekmetric does not list on its website: funnels and landing pages, forms, sales pipelines, a social media planner and Facebook Messenger in the same inbox.
You want every missed call texted back automatically, on every plan.
You want month-to-month terms, a 30-day 110% money-back guarantee and a 45-minute onboarding call.

Feature by feature

Tekmetric column: tekmetric.com pricing and feature pages, October 22, 2026. LeadGasket column: the plan each feature comes with. "Not listed" means we could not find it on Tekmetric's website that day; Tekmetric may offer it another way, or through a partner.

Feature	Tekmetric	LeadGasket
Running the shop
Estimates and repair orders	Included. Every plan, from Start at $199/mo, with digital authorizations and invoicing.	No. LeadGasket has no repair orders.
Digital vehicle inspections	Included. Every plan.	No.
Parts ordering and inventory	Included. Inventory and vendor management in every plan; parts ordering through PartsTech and Advance Auto Parts.	No.
Labor guide and maintenance schedules	Included. Grow, $349/mo, and up.	No.
Technician time clocks and technician board	Included. Time and job clocks from Grow; technician board and real-time shop dashboard in Scale, $439/mo.	No.
Card payments at the counter	Available. Tekmetric Payments, price on request; included in Enterprise.	Partly. Invoices paid online by card, and text-to-pay links, on Professional. No card terminal.
Booking and website
Online booking	Add-on. Tekmetric Marketing, $345/mo per shop. Adds a Book Online button to your Google Business Profile and website; declined services show up in the booking flow.	Included. Essential, $97/mo.
Website	Add-on. A LITE website comes with Marketing; the PRO website is $99/mo more (Tekmetric Marketing FAQ).	Included. Websites and funnels, Essential.
Website chat	Not listed.	Included. Essential.
Messaging
Two-way texting	Included. Scale, $439/mo, per the pricing page, from a new local number or your hosted landline. The Marketing page also describes texting from one number.	Included. Essential. Text, call and email usage billed separately; most shops pay $20 to $75 a month.
Missed-call text-back	Not listed. The Phones page describes caller details and one-click calling.	Included. Essential. Every missed call gets a text.
Facebook Messenger in the same inbox	Not listed.	Included. Essential.
Reviews and reminders
Automatic review requests	Add-on. Marketing. Sent a few days after the visit; customers pick a public Google review or private feedback. Reply to reviews inside Tekmetric.	Included. Professional, $397/mo.
Appointment confirmations and reminders	Add-on. Marketing. By text, email or both.	Included. From your LeadGasket calendar, by text and email.
Service-due reminders	Add-on. Marketing. Canned Job Reminders go out after a specific service, such as an oil change, from the repair order.	Included. Timed by date, from your calendar or customer tags. LeadGasket has no repair-order data.
Declined-work follow-up	Add-on. Marketing. Declined Service Reminders come from the repair order.	No. LeadGasket does not see your repair orders.
Win-back for customers you have not seen in a while	Add-on. Marketing (Lost Customer Follow-Up).	Included. Professional, by last-visit date or tag.
Text and email campaigns	Add-on. Marketing. Target by spend, visit count or average repair order.	Included. Professional.
Phones and AI
Caller details on screen	Available. Phones, for shops on RingCentral: caller, vehicle, repair order and appointments appear before you answer, with call notes, history and voicemail. No Tekmetric price listed; RingCentral is billed separately.	Partly. Calls to your LeadGasket number are logged on the customer's record. No repair-order history.
AI phone answering	Not listed on Tekmetric's website as of October 22, 2026. Third-party services sell AI answering that works with Tekmetric.	Available. AI voice receptionist on the Voice AI plan, $399/mo.
Call tracking	Available. Tracked calls are part of Digital Ads, $149/mo per shop.	Included. Call tracking in Professional.
Getting new customers
Local ads	Available. Digital Ads, $149/mo per shop plus your ad budget (minimum $10 a day), on Google Maps, Google Search, Yelp and Nextdoor. Results are tied to repair orders and gross profit.	Partly. Google and Facebook ad manager; ad spend is paid to Google or Meta. Results are tracked by calls, forms and bookings, not repair orders.
Funnels and landing pages	Not listed.	Included. Essential.
Sales pipeline for new leads	Not listed. Tekmetric's CRM means customer records plus marketing automations.	Included. Pipelines from first call to finished job, Essential.
Forms and surveys	Not listed, apart from the private feedback option in review requests.	Included. Forms and surveys, Essential.
Social media planner	Not listed.	Included. Professional.
Invoicing and text-to-pay	Included. Digital invoicing in every plan; text-to-pay through Tekmetric Payments.	Included. Professional.
Your data and your team
Repair-order data behind reminders and bookings	Yes. Tekmetric is the system of record, and Marketing reads from it.	No. Customer lists are imported from a spreadsheet. Nothing syncs with Tekmetric.
Users	Unlimited.	2 on Essential; 10 on Professional.
Contacts	No limit stated. Unlimited repair orders.	1,000 on Essential; 5,000 on Professional.
Price and terms
Monthly price	$199 Start, $349 Grow, $439 Scale, per shop, billed monthly ($179, $309 and $409 billed annually). Enterprise by quote. Marketing is +$345/mo per shop; Multi-Shop +$70; Tire Suite +$39.	$97 Essential, $397 Professional. Usage billed separately.
Contract	Month-to-month or discounted annual billing. No long-term contract required (pricing page).	Month-to-month. Email [email protected] at least 7 days before your renewal date to cancel.
Guarantee	None stated on the pricing page.	30-day 110% money-back. Email us within 30 days and we refund 110% of what you paid for your plan. Phone, text and email usage is not refunded.
Onboarding	Included. Dedicated onboarding manager; data migration from 150+ shop systems.	A 45-minute onboarding call is included. We import your customer list.
Support	Included. Email and phone support, US-based, every plan.	Email and text support, every day 9 AM to 7 PM Pacific.

What each costs, like for like

Monthly list prices from each pricing page on October 22, 2026. Example: a shop on Tekmetric Grow ($349) that wants two-way texting, online booking, review requests, campaigns and a website.

Tekmetric only

Move from Grow to Scale, which adds two-way texting: $439

Tekmetric Marketing (booking, reminders, review requests, campaigns, LITE website): $345

Per month, per shop: $784

The PRO website adds $99, for $883. Tekmetric's pricing page lists two-way texting under Scale; its Marketing page describes texting from one number. If Marketing alone gives you two-way texting on Grow, the total is $694.

Tekmetric Grow plus LeadGasket

Tekmetric Grow (repair orders, inspections, labor guide): $349

LeadGasket Professional (texting, booking, website, web chat, missed-call text-back, review requests, campaigns, social planner, invoicing, call tracking): $397

Text, call and email usage (most shops): $20 to $75

Per month: $766 to $821

Essential at $97 covers texting, web chat, missed-call text-back, booking and the website: $466 to $521 with Grow. Review requests and campaigns start on Professional.

The two full-stack totals are close. What differs is the work each one does. Tekmetric Marketing reads your repair orders and keeps one number. LeadGasket adds web chat, missed-call text-back, Facebook Messenger, funnels, forms, pipelines and a social planner, and texts from a second number. A shop on Start ($199) comes out at $616 to $671 with Professional, against the same $784, because Scale is still the plan that lists Tekmetric's two-way texting.

Running Tekmetric and LeadGasket together

There is no switch here. Tekmetric stays. Here is how the two run side by side:

1. Tekmetric keeps estimates, repair orders, inspections, parts, invoices and payments.

2. Export your customer list from Tekmetric as a spreadsheet: name, phone and email. We import it on your 45-minute onboarding call and set up your texting number, booking calendar, website, web chat and missed-call text-back.

3. Pick one system for texting. On Start or Grow that is LeadGasket, since Tekmetric's pricing page puts two-way texting in Scale. On Scale, choose one, or customers will hear from two numbers.

4. If you also have Tekmetric Marketing, send review requests and reminders from one system only, so nobody is asked twice.

5. Nothing syncs. When a customer books or texts through LeadGasket, your front desk adds them to Tekmetric when the car comes in. New Tekmetric customers reach LeadGasket when they text or book, or through a fresh import.

What you give up compared with Tekmetric Marketing: reminders fired from the repair order (declined jobs, oil-change intervals), declined services shown in the booking flow, and one number for everything. Reminders in LeadGasket run by date, from your calendar or the tags you put on customers.

Questions shops ask

Can LeadGasket replace Tekmetric?

No. Tekmetric runs the shop floor: estimates, repair orders, inspections, parts, labor guide, technician time and payments. LeadGasket has none of that. It stands in for Tekmetric Marketing and the texting Tekmetric puts in Scale: booking, two-way texting, review requests, campaigns and a website, plus web chat, missed-call text-back, funnels, forms, pipelines and a social planner.

Does LeadGasket connect to Tekmetric?

No. Nothing syncs. Your customer list comes in from a spreadsheet, and new customers are added when they book, text, call or fill out a form. Tekmetric's integrations page offers its API to approved partners, and LeadGasket has not built a connection.

I'm on Tekmetric Start or Grow. How do I get two-way texting?

Tekmetric's pricing page lists two-way texting in Scale, $439 a month as of October 22, 2026, and its Marketing add-on describes texting from one number. LeadGasket Essential includes two-way texting at $97 a month from a LeadGasket number, plus usage. Most shops pay $20 to $75 a month in text, call and email usage.

I already pay for Tekmetric Marketing. What would LeadGasket add?

Marketing covers booking, reminders, review requests, campaigns and a website. LeadGasket adds web chat, missed-call text-back, Facebook Messenger in the same inbox, funnels and landing pages, forms, sales pipelines and a social planner, and the Voice AI plan adds an AI receptionist. If you keep both, send review requests and reminders from one system.

Does either one answer the phone?

Tekmetric Phones shows caller, vehicle and repair-order details to shops on RingCentral. As of October 22, 2026 its page does not list automatic answering or missed-call text-back. LeadGasket texts back every missed call on every plan, and the Voice AI plan at $399 a month adds an AI receptionist that answers calls and books appointments.

What if it doesn't work out?

Email [email protected] within your first 30 days and we refund 110% of what you paid for your plan. Usage charges are not refunded, the guarantee is one refund per business, and a refund closes your account. After 30 days, cancel by emailing us at least 7 days before your renewal date.

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Sources and notes

Tekmetric information was read on October 22, 2026 from these pages:

tekmetric.com/pricing (plans, add-ons, billing, support, migration, no free trial)

Feature pages: Marketing, Online Scheduling, Automated Reminders, Scheduled Campaigns, Two-Way Texting, Google Reviews, Websites, Phones, Digital Ads, Integrations

Tekmetric tours: Marketing Automations and Setup Two-Way Texting

Tekmetric Marketing FAQ for Shopgenie customers (LITE and PRO website pricing)

LeadGasket information comes from leadgasket.com/pricing, our refund policy and our cancellation policy.

Tekmetric, Tekmetric Marketing, Tekmessage and Shopgenie are trademarks of their owners, as are RingCentral, Google, Yelp, Nextdoor, Facebook and Meta. LeadGasket is not affiliated with or endorsed by Tekmetric. Prices and features change; if you see something here that is out of date, email [email protected] and we will fix it.