TyreSync FAQ: straight answers on tyre inspections, scrap surveys and honest reporting

A tyre scrap survey is a structured audit of every casing a fleet or shop removes from service. Each tyre is recorded with its serial, DOT age, remaining tread, damage reason, damage location and kilometres run, then dispositioned as scrap, repair or return to service. A scrap survey pays for itself because the data answers three money questions: how much usable tread was thrown away, which brands and positions fail early, and which failures support a warranty claim.

A scrap survey done on paper produces a pile of paper. A scrap survey in TyreSync produces per-brand tread-loss figures, damage patterns by position, and a shareable scrap report your client can act on.

A defensible truck tyre inspection records, per wheel position: tread depth (inner, mid and outer), measured pressure against a per-axle target, damage codes, and photos where an issue exists. It also flags irregular wear and axle-level tread deviation, since uneven wear across one axle is an early mechanical warning.

TyreSync's tyre inspection software records exactly this on car, truck/bus and OTR layouts, including up to two spares per vehicle. Each position is evaluated server-side against the shop's own thresholds (default warn at 10% pressure deviation or 3mm tread, critical at 20% or 1.6mm), so the OK / WARNING / CRITICAL status is computed, not guessed.

Cost per kilometre is a function of how much tread rubber you buy and how many kilometres it survives. Under-inflation and misalignment destroy tread life, and you only see that if readings are accurate, per-position and captured consistently over time. One wrong figure quietly corrupts an average.

That is why TyreSync excludes blank and unparseable fields from denominators instead of coercing them to zero, evaluates every reading against fixed thresholds server-side, and reports re-inspection deltas, the change in tread and pressure per position between visits, rather than snapshots alone. Repeating tyre inspections on the same vehicle turns readings into a wear rate, which is the number that actually moves CPK.

The TyreSync scrap report computes, from the tyres captured on that ticket and nothing else: total tread left on scrapped casings, usable tread scrapped above the shop's removal limit (default 2mm), usable tread lost per brand, top scrap reasons by brand, damage locations, steer-axle failures, average casing age from DOT, and retread counts per casing.

Each figure maps to an action. Usable tread scrapped is premature removal, either a maintenance problem or a warranty claim. A brand dominating the tread-loss table is a purchasing decision. Steer-axle failures and repeat damage locations are driver or route problems. The per-tyre table sits under every summary figure, so if a client questions a number, the raw rows behind it are one scroll away.

TyreSync reports are computed from captured data only: no estimation, no external data mixed in, no AI-generated figures. The report maths is fixed code, covered by unit tests, and documented so a client can reproduce any number by hand.

The record itself is protected the same way. Scrap tickets stay editable as drafts and freeze permanently on submit. Stock movements write a ledger entry per transition: from-state, to-state, vehicle, odometer, actor and note. Shared edits are last-write-wins per position, and every overwrite lands in the audit log. If two versions of a number could exist, TyreSync keeps the ledger and recomputes from it.

Every report reads from a single event ledger, and the views on either side of a relationship read from the same rows. A tyre's journey timeline on the stock page and its mount history on the vehicle page are both rendered from the same movement events, so the two views can never disagree. Consignment works the same way in both directions: stock on your floor consigned from a supplier, and your stock sitting on a client's site (the tyre hotel), each tracked per serial with settlement reports.

That is what makes this tyre stock management auditable. The report is not a document someone typed; it is arithmetic over rows that already recorded what happened, when, and who did it.

Yes. TyreSync is an offline-first progressive web app: captures write to the device first and sync continuously, not on demand. Paid tiers drain the outbox every second while capturing and every ten seconds idle; the free plan drains every ten seconds capturing and every minute idle. Queued photos and keystrokes survive a dead phone, and a draft survey started on a phone in the yard is open on the office PC by the next sync tick.

Paid plans add a warm-cache read path: clients, vehicles, stock, surveys, incidents, proposals and locations mirror to the device, so the tyre inspection app is usable offline, not just writable. Cached data never time-expires; a Friday sync still works on Monday.

Any phone or PC with a browser. There are no proprietary handhelds, tread-depth probes or RFID kits to buy or maintain. Serial capture on Dealer and Chain plans uses the phone camera to read barcodes and QR codes.

This is a deliberate cost position. Competing tyre management systems commonly price probes, scanning kits or TPMS hardware on top of the software. TyreSync's capture device is the phone your tech already carries.

Yes. TyreSync is brand-agnostic tyre management software by design, which makes it the practical choice for any shop carrying more than one brand, and nearly every shop does. The multibrand tyre reference catalogue covers the makes a mixed stock room actually holds, your own catalogue sits alongside it, and no tyre maker owns, sponsors or feeds the system.

That last point matters more than it sounds. Dealer tools from Michelin, Bridgestone, Bandag, TrenTyre and Leadertread are built by companies that sell casings: their tooling is part of a supply relationship, and the reporting quietly serves the brand's channel. TyreSync treats a scrapped premium casing and a scrapped budget casing with the same arithmetic, so the purchasing signal you get is honest. Independence is also why the product travels by recommendation: a shop whose reports carry its own name has every reason to tell the next shop where they came from.

The Free plan is the toolkit for one person: manual capture, standard survey layouts, offline sync and single-document reports under the TyreSync brand.

Paid plans turn tyre data capture into a business system:

• Solo (R200/month, R167/month on annual billing): the multibrand tyre and vehicle reference catalogue (roughly 94,000 records) for fast, accurate lookups; your client and vehicle book; your branding on reports and quotes; CSV exports; the offline warm-cache read path; and live-share, which lets two people work one document at once.
• Dealer (R2,500/shop/month, R2,084/month on annual billing; five seats plus R100/month per extra seat): serial-level stock with consignment in both directions, proposals, the shared inbox, proactive alerts, camera serial scanning and tyre position rotations.
• Chain / Depot / Fleet (negotiated): group oversight across entities, live axle layouts and horse-trailer fleet linking. Franchises expose aggregates only; branch books stay siloed.

The reason paid produces better tyre data is structural: reference lookups replace typed guesses, serial tracking makes every tyre traceable, and the reports catalogue aggregates across clients and time instead of one document at a time.

Free suits an individual tyre fitter evaluating the workflow or doing occasional single-document inspections.

Solo suits an independent tyre fitter whose reports need to carry his own brand and whose client book needs to persist between visits.

Dealer suits a tyre shop with staff, stock on the floor, consignment arrangements or quotes to get out the door.

Chain / Depot / Fleet suits a group needing fleet tyre oversight across branches, depots or franchisees without absorbing their books.

Every new workspace gets 90 days of full Dealer access free with no card required, then drops to the Free plan if you do not subscribe. The paid tier is what you trial by default.

South African tyre management software splits into three camps: the tyre makers' dealer tools, fleet-side lifecycle suites, and generic fleet or inspection software. TyreSync is a fourth position: the tyre shop's own system. Our comparison page has the longer version.

On price, the gap deserves plain numbers. Fleet lifecycle suites and generic fleet platforms are priced like the enterprise systems they are: implementations commonly run into the hundreds of thousands of rand before the first survey is captured, and monthly bills in the tens of thousands once per-vehicle, per-site and module licensing stack up. TyreSync's published price is R200 to R2,500 a month. A shop does not need a spreadsheet to see which line empties a wallet and which one pays for itself.

What the money actually buys. Read a fleet suite's feature list and count how many lines serve a fleet head office: route-level CPK dashboards, telematics integrations, tyre-population analytics across hundreds of trucks, AI wear forecasting. Genuinely powerful tools, for the fleet they were sold to. A tyre shop paying that invoice funds a headquarters it does not have. Now count what TyreSync spends the money on: serial-level stock, consignment in both directions, a scrap report a warranty clerk can act on, offline capture on a phone, reports on your letterhead. One list is impressive at a trade show. The other runs a shop.

Where competitors genuinely lead. Michelin's QuickScan plates and Tirematics sensors, AFTECH and similar TPMS products measure tyres continuously, which a survey system does not replace. Budini and Intasect carry decades of fleet-side features and field teams; a fleet buying tyre management for itself is their market, and a fair one. Bandag's BASys runs the retread production floor, which TyreSync does not attempt. CONCAT and Kal Tire's TOMS go deeper on mining-scale OTR. Fleetsense's telematics-linked mileage automates a data point TyreSync records manually.

Where TyreSync leads. It is the only tyre management system in this comparison sold to the shop rather than to a tyre maker or a fleet; the only one modelling two-way consignment and client tyre storage per serial; the only one whose reports print the shop's brand; and the only one whose offline capture needs no purchased hardware. For a commercial tyre shop's core workflow (survey, scrap, stock, quote, report), that combination is the category.

The right-hand column is not magic; it costs less because it does less. TyreSync serves the shop's book and nobody else's, so none of the price funds a fleet command centre, a telematics platform or a supplier's channel programme.

On savings, we state the arithmetic rather than the anecdote: no hardware purchase, no implementation invoice, no per-vehicle line items, and a 90-day full-access trial that lets you verify everything above before a rand moves. When shops share their real figures, we will print them with their names on, the same standard we apply to reports.

Your workspace is scoped to your organisation. Client-group access keys let your fleet clients see their own book and nothing else; franchises in a Chain group expose aggregates only, and one depot can never see a sibling depot's rows. Every reference-data read writes a permanent access log, and every record carries your organisation's ID at the database level.

Exports are a paid feature, CSV export of your book on Solo and above, because a shop should never be locked in, and the audit trail means what leaves is the same data the reports showed.