Celebrating its 15th anniversary, the MSO Symposium brings together collision repair leaders for a day of executive-level insights, peer discussions and networking. This year’s event will explore the trends, challenges and opportunities affecting multi-site collision repair organizations and the broader market.
ÌÇÐÄÉÙÅ® today announced plans to expand its collaboration with Tractable through a proposed, exclusive agreement focused on optimizing the vehicle intake process. By connecting Tractable’s LumaScanner vehicle inspection system with ÌÇÐÄÉÙŮ’s automated estimating solution, ÌÇÐÄÉÙÅ® Intelligent Estimating, the companies intend to help North American multi-site operators (MSOs) and independent collision repair centers accelerate damage assessment and preliminary estimate creation.
ÌÇÐÄÉÙÅ® today announced the release of ÌÇÐÄÉÙÅ® Intelligent Estimating for U.S. and Canadian MSOs and independent collision centers. Already relied upon by North America’s leading auto insurers, the solution uses vehicle-damage photos to automatically generate a preliminary estimate in minutes, helping to streamline the appraisal process and improve estimator productivity and consistency.
ÌÇÐÄÉÙÅ® and Caliber Collision today announced the renewal of their multi-year enterprise licensing agreement. The new agreement extends Caliber’s access to ÌÇÐÄÉÙÅ® Cloud Estimating across the organization’s more than 1,850 locations nationwide while introducing new software applications including ÌÇÐÄÉÙÅ® MSO Suite to help simplify assignment management, accelerate estimate review and surface actionable insights.
ÌÇÐÄÉÙÅ® will once again join Simplicity Car Care at its annual Growth Conference in Banff, Canada from October 16-17, 2026.
When it comes to automotive parts, price is only one part of the equation. Host Ryan Mandell and Greg Horn, vice president of sales enablement at PartsTrader, explore how parts pricing, availability and delivery times affect collision repair decisions. They discuss supply chain disruptions, price matching, parts inflation and competitive sourcing, along with how carriers and repairers can balance cost with cycle time, throughput and profitability.
Among repairable claims, the gap in average severity between battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and gasoline-powered automobiles narrowed to a record low, although BEVs remain more costly to repair. In the United States, average severity was $5,684 for BEVs compared to $5,022 for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), $5,033 for mild hybrid electric vehicles (MHEVs) and $4,955 for vehicles with an internal combustion engine (ICE). A similar trend emerged in Canada with severity of $6,645 (CAD) for BEVs, $6,227 (CAD) for PHEVs, $6,080 (CAD) for MHEVs and $5,411 (CAD) for ICE automobiles.