Bringing Garages and Motorists Together Through Unbiased Comparison
BookMyGarage provides motorists an easy-to-use website that compares all relevant options by the measure they choose, transparently and fairly. While also giving garages valid, legitimate bookings along with offering a range of marketing services to expand their online brand. Our vision is to become the leading MOT and car servicing comparison site, serving the needs of motorists and garages alike.
Our History
BookMyGarage was initially conceptualized in 2013 in Portsmouth, United Kingdom by husband and wife: Douglas and Karen Rotberg. The idea came from customers of a previous company, Carsite, who would ask: “you’ve given me a great discount on a great car, but where do you recommend that I get it serviced?”
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- 2013
Birth of The Motorists Organisation
The initial design and market testing of service schedules created for garages to use with their customers. This was also the beginning of development for the back-office system.
- 2014
Launch of Tootcompare
The beginning of a company that helped consumers decide which service their car needed, at what price, and at which garage. We launched Tootcompare with only 1,500 garages.
- December 2014
Partnership with RAC
We soon traded in the playful TootCompare name to leverage a well-known one, becoming RAC Garage Compare with 3,000 garages listed.
- April 2015
Relaunch as BookMyGarage
We soon re-launched the company and re-branded as BookMyGarage.com with 5,800 garages listed. Our aim was to provide essential B2B services for those garages who wanted to become more digital for their own clients.
- March 2016
Launch of View My Auto
An affordable app based solution to allow garages to send the vehicle owner a short video highlighting the issue with the car.
- September 2017
Trial of Secret Service
The initial trial of Secret Service with a large Volkswagen dealership. Trial results indicated successful thus leading us to introduce to more franchise dealerships.
- January 2018
Ranked 35th Fastest Growing Company
BookMyGarage ranked 35th in SyndicateRoom’s list, Top 100: Britain’s fastest-growing businesses.
- March 2018
Launch of SecretService
Taking inspiration from last minute deals and secret hotel providers, we launched SecretService to provide motorists with a franchise experience but at an independent garage price.
- July 2018
1,000,000 People
A big milestone for BookMyGarage with reaching 1,000,000 drivers who obtained instant prices to book servicing, MOTs and repairs with UK garages.
- January 2019
Medium Business of the Year - Winner
BookMyGarage was awarded with the Portsmouth Medium Size Business Excellence award.
- January 2020
Vertu Joined SecretService
Launched SecretService across whole of the Vertu franchise network and achieved over 400% ROI for the whole group by the end of 2020.
- January 2021
Launch of JustPark and Whatcar Partnerships and Lookers Joined SecretService
Launched JustPark and Whatcar ‘powered by BMG’ partnerships with WhatCar sponsoring SecretService for Franchise partners. We also launched SecretService with Lookers.
- March 2021
Pendragon, Evans Halshaw and Stratstone Joined SecretService
Launched SecretService with Pendragon, Evans Halshaw and Stratstone.
- January 2022
5,000,000 People
A big milestone for BookMyGarage with reaching 5,000,000 drivers who obtained instant prices to book servicing, MOTs and repairs with UK garages.
The BookMyGarage Office
We're based in Portsmouth, a beautiful city on the south coast of England.
1000 Lakeside, North Harbour, Portsmouth, PO6 3EN
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