Give the buyer the records in a form they can check and keep: every service with its date, the odometer reading, the shop and the cost, and the receipts behind them. There are three ways to do it, and they work best together. All of this applies to a motorcycle, an RV or a boat just as much as to a car.
1. The paper trail. Gather the receipts and the stamped service book, sort them by date, and hand them over with the keys. It costs nothing and every buyer understands it. Its weakness is that it is only as complete as your glovebox: thermal-paper receipts fade, and a folder cannot be searched.
2. A vehicle history report. A CARFAX report shows what has been reported to it: accident and damage records, registrations, and the services some shops send in. Many buyers pull one anyway. It cannot show the oil changes you did yourself or the work done at a shop that does not report, so it complements your records rather than replacing them.
3. Your own logbook, passed on. If you kept the history in Maintano, there are two ways to hand it over.
- Share service history. On the vehicle, open the menu and choose Share service history. You get one PDF: the vehicle, a summary, every log entry, the reminders, the service locations, and every receipt printed again at full size. Email it, message it, or print it for the viewing. It is free, and the insurance card is never in it.
- Transfer ownership. The buyer gets the vehicle itself in their own Maintano app: the service history and the reminders, plus the receipt photos and notes unless you switch them off. You give them a code that starts with MTN-, read aloud or shown as a QR code. It works once, expires after 7 days, and you can revoke it until it is redeemed. The buyer needs only a free account, and you keep a read-only copy of the records. The insurance card and any income entries stay with you. Transfer needs Pro on the seller's side, and once the buyer accepts, it is final.
If you delete a vehicle and pick "Sold it" as the reason, the app offers both of these before anything is deleted.
Read it the way the buyer will, first. Share the PDF to yourself before you send it. Addresses you typed on entries travel with the history, so if one is somewhere you would rather keep private, such as your home, edit that entry first.
Hand the history over before the buyer decides, not after. A buyer who can read the car's past has one less reason to doubt it.
Oct 26, 2026