What is a digital service record?
A digital service record is the paper service book’s replacement: a record of a car’s maintenance history that lives online against its registration, rather than a booklet that can be left in the previous owner’s glovebox, filled in inconsistently, or lost entirely.
Why not just keep the paper book
The paper book has three structural problems: it travels with whoever currently has the car rather than with the car’s permanent record, a garage’s stamp in it is trivial to write in without the work having happened, and a lost or damaged book takes the entire history with it. A digital record fixes the first and third by design, and the second by attaching a verification level to every entry instead of treating every stamp as equally trustworthy.
How a digital service record works
Add a record from an invoice.A photo of any invoice — from any garage, past or present — becomes a structured record on the car’s page.
Every record is marked with its verification tier. Owner reported means you logged it yourself; invoice attachedmeans it’s backed by the original document; garage confirmed means the garage has confirmed the work directly, by email, against that specific record.
Records are permanent. Nothing gets edited away — a correction is logged alongside the original entry, not used to quietly rewrite it.
Start your car's digital record
Look up your car by registration to see its free vehicle page, then add your first maintenance record from a photo of any invoice.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a digital service record?
- A digital service record is an online record of a car's maintenance history, tied to its registration rather than a physical book kept in the glovebox. Each entry can carry a verification level — owner reported, invoice attached, or garage confirmed — so a reader can tell how solid the evidence behind it is, not just what's claimed.
- Is a digital service record the same as a full service history?
- A full service history is the claim; a digital service record is the evidence for it. A digital record that shows exactly which services happened, when, and how each one was verified is more useful to a buyer than the phrase 'full service history' on its own with nothing to check it against.
See also: selling a car without a full service history and service history guides by make.