How Motorledger works.

Sign in #

1. Open motorledger.co/app, or the iPhone app.
2. Enter your email. We send a sign-in link. No password.
3. Tap the link on the same device. It works once, for an hour.

The same email signs you in on the web and on the phone. Your records stay in sync.

Add a car #

1. Tap +, then Add a car.
2. Scan the VIN on the plate at the base of the windshield, driver side, or the sticker in the door jamb. Or type it.
3. The year, make, model and engine fill in, stamped Decoded. Pick the trim and add the odometer.

No VIN, or a car older than 1981? Choose No VIN? Enter it by hand and type the year, make, model and trim.

The schedule #

Each car gets the recommended schedule for its year, make, model and trim: every service with its miles and months, and when it's next due.

1. Open a car, then Schedule.
2. Tap a line to change its interval.
3. Looks right keeps it.

Every record you save resets the clock for the services it covers.

Scan a receipt #

1. Tap +, then Scan a receipt.
2. Hold the receipt flat inside the frame and take the photo.
3. Review shows the shop, date, odometer, total and each service. Fields with an ember dot were hard to read. Check them, then Save to history.

The photo stays attached to the record.

Upload a photo or PDF #

1. Tap +, then Upload a photo or PDF.
2. Pick the file. It's read the same way as a scan.

Good for invoices a shop emailed you, or photos already on your phone.

Scan a VIN #

When you add a car, Scan the VIN opens a wide frame for the windshield plate or the door-jamb sticker. The VIN is checked against its check digit; if it doesn't add up you'll see Read · check it.

A car added without a VIN shows + Add VIN on its card. Tap it any time.

Read an oil-change sticker #

Scan the windshield sticker like a receipt. The date and mileage on a sticker are usually when the next service is due, not when it was done, so Review says so and asks you to check both before saving.

Import a binder Pro #

1. Tap +, then Scan a receipt, then Multi.
2. Photograph each page of the binder: handwritten logs, dealer stamps, old invoices.
3. Motorledger reads them all, puts the history in date order, and marks each record Imported.

Needs review #

Anything the reader wasn't sure of, or couldn't match to a car, waits at the top of Records under Needs review. Tap one to finish it. A receipt that couldn't be read shows Retake.

Log a service #

1. Tap +, then Log a service by hand. Or Log a service on a car's page.
2. Pick the car and the services. Add the date, odometer and cost if you have them.
3. Save to history.

Work you did yourself is stamped In house. Manual records are free and unlimited.

Your filing address #

1. Tap the gauge icon, top left, to open Account.
2. Under File by email is your address, like name-7k2@in.motorledger.co. Tap Copy.
3. Forward a shop's emailed invoice there.

From

Only the address you sign in with. Mail from anywhere else is ignored.

Accepts

PDF and photo attachments (JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF), up to five per email. With no attachment, the email's own text is read.

Counts as

One scan per receipt. Free accounts can email in against their five scans; Pro is unlimited.

Then

It's filed under the right car, or waits in Needs review if the car isn't clear.

What's due #

The Due tab lists every car's services as Overdue, Soon and Later, by miles or by date, whichever comes first. Soon means within 30 days, or close to the mileage.

You get one reminder when a service becomes due and one if it goes overdue. No streaks, no daily nudges. On iPhone it's a notification; otherwise an email. Change it in Account, Reminders.

A record #

Tap any record to open it: the receipt photo, the shop, date, odometer and total, each service, and its stamp. Edit changes anything.

Verified

Read from a shop's own invoice.

Imported

From a handwritten log or a previous owner's binder.

In house

Logged by hand.

Share the dossier Pro #

1. Open a car, then Export dossier.
2. Choose whether to show the full VIN and what you paid.
3. Share a link for a private page, or Download PDF.

The link

Private, for anyone you send it to, for 30 days. Changing a setting makes a new link.

Covered

Names, addresses and card numbers on any receipt shown.

By default

The VIN shows its last five characters. Costs are hidden.

Plans and prices #

Free

One car, five scans, manual records and reminders without limit.

Pro

Unlimited cars and scans, binder import, the dossier. $29 a year, $3.99 a month, or $49 once.

Lifetime

The $49 plan is paid once. Nothing renews.

1. Account, then Go Pro. Checkout opens in your browser.
2. To cancel, change your card or see invoices: Account, then Manage subscription. Cancelling keeps Pro until the end of the period.

Lifetime

Refundable within 14 days of purchase.

Yearly, monthly

Refundable within 14 days of the first charge.

After that

Cancel any time and keep Pro until the end of the period you paid for.

To ask for a refund, write to hello@motorledger.co from the address on your account. The terms have the details.

Export and delete #

1. Account, then Export all data, then Download everything: a zip with every record as a spreadsheet and every receipt photo, on any plan. A big garage comes one car at a time. Records only gives just the CSV.
2. Account, then Delete account removes your records, photos, cars and login. It can't be undone.

Never

Your records are never sold, and nothing is shared with insurers or data brokers. Not named, not anonymized, not in bulk.

The privacy policy lists every service that handles your data and why.

Redeem a code #

1. From an invite link like motorledger.co/join/CODE: sign up as usual. The code is applied once your garage opens.
2. Or open Account and tap Have a code?, then enter it.

A code gives Pro on the house, shown as Pro · Founders. One code per account, and not on top of a paid plan.