Vehicles and odometer readings
Add a vehicle
Section titled “Add a vehicle”Open Settings › Vehicles and add the vehicle’s year, make, model, and placed-in-service date. You can also give it a nickname.
Enter the date you started using the vehicle for your work as the placed-in-service date. Orphie stores the date you enter. It does not decide tax eligibility for you.
Before starting a shift, choose one active vehicle in Drive. Orphie normally preselects the last vehicle you used. If there are no vehicles, Add a vehicle opens the vehicle settings.
Add an odometer reading
Section titled “Add an odometer reading”Open the vehicle’s details in Settings › Vehicles. Add a reading with its date, odometer value in whole miles, and kind.
The five kinds are:
- Start of year
- End of year
- Started using
- Stopped using
- Other
These are readings you enter, not measurements that Orphie takes from your car.
The optional reading during first-run setup is dated when you enter it. It uses Started using only if the placed-in-service date is today. Otherwise, it uses Other.
Understand readings in Taxes
Section titled “Understand readings in Taxes”For the selected tax year, Orphie uses active readings dated within that year:
- For the starting reading, it prefers the earliest Start of year reading, then Started using.
- For the ending reading, it prefers the latest End of year reading, then Stopped using.
- An Other reading does not count as a starting or ending reading for the yearly total.
Taxes prompts you to add missing readings. It warns if the ending odometer is below the starting odometer, or if business miles exceed total miles. It does not silently change those values to make them fit.
Correct a reading
Section titled “Correct a reading”Edit the reading in the vehicle’s details. Orphie creates a replacement reading and keeps the earlier reading in the odometer correction history.
Archive or delete a vehicle
Section titled “Archive or delete a vehicle”If a vehicle has saved shifts, you can Archive it but cannot delete it. Archived vehicles leave the active vehicle list. You can restore them from the Archived section.
If a vehicle has no saved shifts, Delete is available with a confirmation.
Read Taxes and export to see how vehicle details appear in yearly records.