Using the Vehicle cost feature

Step 1: Create the vehicles categories

Create some categories for each of your vehicle. You can use categories or subcategories as well. Optionally you can set the default vehicle for the vehicle-cost report window from the wallet dialog.

For example, create an 'Audi 80' category:

• open the category dialog
• create a category named 'Audi 80'

Step 2: Fill some transaction with vehicle-cost data's

Modify or add some transaction with necessary data for the vehicle cost to work:

• assign the category 'Audi 80' to every transaction for this vehicle, this includes refuel, maintenance, repair, insurance, or any others costs.
• add the specific vehicle cost data into each refuel memo field transaction, as follow. The memo field can also contains other texts as well.

d=xxxxxx	the odometer at refuel time ex.: d=92458
v=xx.xx	the fuel volume for a full refuel ex.: v=45.23
v~xx.xx	the fuel volume for a partial refuel ex.: v~15.41

Step 3: View the results into the vehicle cost report

Open the vehicle cost report, select 'Audi 80' Vehicle and view the results.