Vehicle job history

Every jobcard a vehicle has been on, across every customer and every garage — on the vehicle record forever

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Each vehicle's record carries a Jobcards tab listing every jobcard that vehicle has ever been on. It's the workshop's-eye view of a car: not "what has this person spent with us" but "what has happened to this metal".

Why it's separate from customer history

Cars get sold. A vehicle might have three different customers over a decade. The customer history shows you what that customer has had done; the vehicle history shows you what the car has had done, regardless of who owned it at the time.

When a car comes back under a new owner, the new owner can't see the previous customer's name on a printout — but the workshop sees the full service history so the technician knows when the timing belt was last changed.

What's in each row

  • Date the jobcard was created
  • Jobcard reference + status
  • The customer who was linked at the time
  • Mileage In recorded on that visit
  • The jobcard title, with the full jobs / parts / labour breakdown one click away (each row expands)

The list covers jobcards from every garage in your company, subject to your access in each garage.

Vehicle-level reminders

The MOT due date lives on the vehicle, not the customer. MOT, service and timing-belt reminders are scheduled when a jobcard containing a tagged job is completed, and they go to the customer on that jobcard. When a car changes hands, the next completed jobcard schedules reminders for the new owner.

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