Industries · Auto repair shops

You fix cars. We handle everything else

A shop runs on good hands, but it gets into trouble over what happens outside the bay: a missing license, books nobody looks at or payroll set up the wrong way. That's our part, from the first permit to being found on Google.

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The Dennis Garage shop in Santa Clara, California, a DISSAU client

Your shop, in good standing

BAR License
Seller's Permit
Business License

We handle licensing in California. Books, payroll, brand and website, for shops anywhere in the United States.

Where to start

Four fronts, and each one is hired on its own

Hardly anyone shows up needing all four. Start with the one keeping you up at night.

Your shop's licenses

BAR License, Seller's Permit and Business License, prepared and filed by us. It comes first, because without them an inspection can stop your shop.

See licensing

Books kept up to date

Parts, labor and expenses sorted every month, so you know what each job leaves and taxes don't come as a surprise.

See bookkeeping

Payroll for your mechanics

Every payment with its withholdings and its forms on time. A team paid by the book is one less problem the day someone asks.

See payroll

A website that brings cars in

Your services, your area and a button to call or book. Built so you're found by whoever is looking for a mechanic nearby.

See web design

What we usually find

Good mechanics with the business half set up

None of this comes from carelessness. It comes from the day going by under a car while everything else waits for tomorrow.

The shop opened before the permits

Work started to cover the rent and the paperwork stayed pending. It works until an inspection shows up or a customer files a complaint.

Parts are bought paying full sales tax

Without a Seller's Permit, every part you buy to install costs more than it should. That's money leaving on every job.

The team is paid off payroll

In cash or as contractors. A mechanic who works in your shop, on your schedule and with your tools, usually counts as an employee, and the day it gets reviewed the owner pays the bill.

Customers only come by word of mouth

Word of mouth is good, but it has a ceiling. Someone stuck on the road searches on their phone, and if you don't show up, they call someone else.

Dennis Garage

One shop, start to finish

Dennis Garage: from the license to the first customer

We've been with this Santa Clara shop since before it opened. Today it runs with its company formed, its licenses, its own brand and a website where customers book a visit.