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 job history 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 work was done
  • Jobcard reference + status
  • The customer who was linked at the time
  • The garage where the work was done (across your company)
  • Mileage at the time
  • Summary of jobs done

Vehicle-level reminders

The MOT, service and timing-belt due dates also live on the vehicle, not the customer. So when a car changes hands, the reminders keep ticking — they fire to the current customer (per the latest jobcard's customer link).

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