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Digital Car Service Book
A digital car service book is a timeline you can search: work, date, kilometers, and cost. It sits beside the stamped book. It does not replace it.
A digital car service book is the history of one car, written so you can find last year's oil change without opening a glovebox. Each visit keeps the work, the date, the odometer, and the cost.
The stamped booklet and the workshop invoices still matter. A dealer, a buyer, or an inspector may want those originals. The digital book is your index: the same facts, in order, on the phone you already carry.
RPMBase is built as that private book for cars you own. It is not a public catalog and it does not pull a dealer network into the timeline. You add the car, then you write what happened.
What a digital service book should contain
One car per book. Oil, filters, brakes, tires, battery, and the larger repairs each get a row when you have a source. The row names the job the way the invoice does.
Date and kilometers are the spine. Without them, 'we did the brakes' can mean any year. Cost is worth keeping so the year has a total, not only a feeling.
A next due date or kilometer target belongs on the visit that created it. That is how a maintenance reminder stays tied to real work instead of a floating alarm.
How it differs from the paper service book
The paper book is often a stamp and a line. It can be incomplete, written in a hurry, or sitting at a shop you no longer use. It is still the artifact some buyers expect to see.
A digital book can be searched, split by car, and exported. It can also be wrong if you type a guess. Confirm the numbers from the invoice. If the odometer is missing, leave the field empty.
Do not throw the paper away after you log it. How to keep a car service history makes the same split: the screen is the index, the invoice is the proof.
Receipts, drafts, and what you confirm
A photo of the invoice is useful next to the row. The receipt scanner can draft fields from that photo. Ask can draft a row from a sentence. Nothing is saved until you confirm it.
That confirmation step is the whole point of a service book. An unread draft is not history. A confirmed row, with the date and kilometers you checked, is.
When you will actually use it
You use it before the next oil change, when a second driver asks what was done, and when you sell. Service records when selling a car is an easier week if the book already exists.
RPMBase keeps this on the service history of each car. Free covers one car, including unlimited service rows and a PDF export allowance. The living book is the mobile app. This website explains it and does not store your log.