Whip Around alternatives
Whip Around alternatives for NZ and Australian businesses
Whip Around: Quoted privately, billed by asset count across Standard, Pro and a tailored unlimited plan
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The options
What people compare Whip Around with
Whip Around bills by asset count across its Standard and Pro plans, with a tailored unlimited plan quoted directly, and no public annual figure to check against your invoice. Owners look elsewhere when that bill keeps climbing with every vehicle added, or when they want their inspection and defect records to live in a database they control rather than a subscription.
Yours to own
Vehicle Checks for Claude Code
The open-source vehicle pre-start inspection and defect system that is just a database and Claude Code. Built around your business, with your Whip Around data brought across.
See how it worksHow to choose
How to choose a Whip Around alternative
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What the bill is tied to
Whip Around's plan guide bills by asset count, with separate arrangements for trailers and equipment, plus a tailored unlimited rate quoted directly. Check whether your invoice grows every time you add a vehicle or trailer, and whether that matches how your fleet actually changes month to month.
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Whether your records stay yours
Whip Around stores your inspection history, documents and defect records inside its own system. Ask whether you can export everything you need, in headings you can map, or whether the records stay locked to a subscription you must keep paying to read.
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Whether it fits your own rules
Standard and Pro follow Whip Around's own checklist and escalation structure. Weigh whether your depot's checklist, hold rules and repair sign-off process match that structure, or whether you need a version built around the rules your own fleet already runs on.
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What the switch actually involves
Whip Around documents export for assets, inspection history and defects, but the headings vary and need mapping. Consider how much of that history, plus original photos and signatures, needs to move across before you can rely on the new system day to day.
The option that fits
Your own version, built around your fleet
Enterprise DNA builds each business its own version of Vehicle Checks for Claude Code, shaped around your checklists, hold rules and workshop process. It brings your Whip Around records across, mapped and reconciled, then runs the system for you day to day. You pay one setup fee, then a monthly retainer, with your records held in a database you own rather than a subscription you rent.
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Make it yours
Design your own Whip Around replacement
Everything starts from the open-source base. Then it gets your name, the parts you run, your rules and your data from Whip Around. Try it here, and we build the real one.
2. What it runs
3. Make it fit
4. Your colour
Answered from your own database
Good morning. Here is what needs you today.
We build it from the open-source base, bring your Whip Around data across and run it for you.
Questions
Whip Around alternatives, answered
Will switching from Whip Around mean losing our inspection history? expand_more
No. Whip Around documents export for assets, inspection history and defects, though headings vary and need mapping. Enterprise DNA maps your actual headings, previews the results and reconciles them against your records. Photos, signatures and past repair sign-offs need their original files reviewed separately before they carry across cleanly.
Can we keep using phones for driver checks after we move? expand_more
Yes, though it is built as a custom addition. The free version starts with the fleet office desk, holding entered checks, imported history and printable reports. A phone based driver capture workflow, with photos and connections, is scoped and built into your own version once your current process is confirmed working.
How does the cost of owning our version compare to Whip Around's plan? expand_more
Whip Around bills by asset count, with special arrangements for trailers and equipment, or a quoted tailored unlimited plan. Its current pricing page did not resolve to a checkable rate at review. Owning your version means one setup fee, then a monthly retainer, instead of a bill that grows with every asset added.
Do we need our own staff to run the new system? expand_more
No. Enterprise DNA can install, connect and run your agreed version for you as a managed service. If your team prefers to maintain it directly, the free version is available for that instead. Either way, your inspection and defect records stay inside a database your business owns.
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