Maintano

Ownership transfer

Sell the vehicle. Hand over its history.

Every service you logged, every receipt you photographed, every reminder you set — that record is worth something on the day you sell. Maintano hands the whole logbook to the next owner in one step, and leaves you a read-only archive of what you built.

How a transfer works

  1. You choose what goes

    The consent screen lists exactly what the new owner receives, counted from your real records — not a terms wall, a short factual statement you read once, just before it happens.

    Always included
    • Vehicle details — type, VIN, plate
    • The full service history
    • Reminders

    The consent screen counts them from your real records before you confirm — “10 entries”, not “your history”.

    Included unless you switch them off
    • Receipt photos
    • Notes

    Both start switched on. A receipt can carry your name and address, so either one is a single tap away from staying behind.

    Never included
    • Income entries
    • Insurance card

    There is no toggle for these. What you earned stays yours: income entries stay in your account and in your read-only archive. The insurance card’s pictures and details stay with you, and your own card for that vehicle is removed when the new owner accepts. Place names and addresses you typed — “Jiffy Lube” — travel with the entries.

    Transfer consent screen listing what the new owner receives — 10 service entries, 3 reminders and the vehicle details — with receipt photos and notes as toggles

  2. You get one code, and a QR of it

    Six characters after MTN-, with no 0, O, 1, I or L in them — a code gets read aloud across a car hood as often as it gets scanned. Share it however the two of you already talk: your phone’s share sheet sends it over SMS, WhatsApp, email, anything.

    • No addresses change hands. Neither of you types the other’s email into Maintano, and neither of you learns anything about the other’s account.
    • Single use, seven days. The code works once and expires after seven days — and you can revoke it at any point until it is redeemed.
    • Change your mind and nothing happened. Revoking leaves the vehicle exactly where it was; a new code is one tap away.
    Transfer ownership screen showing a scannable QR code above the code MTN-K7P2Q9, a single-use expiry date, and Share code and Revoke code actions

  3. They scan it, or type it in

    Any phone camera reads the QR and offers to open Maintano straight at the transfer — there is deliberately no scanner to hunt for inside the app. Typing the six characters does the same job. Then they see a preview of what is coming (the vehicle’s name and the counts, never the records themselves) and decide.

    A free account is enough to receive. Receiving costs nothing and needs no plan — and if their garage is already full, the vehicle still arrives and waits read-only until a slot opens. A handover should never fail at the kerb.

  4. Their copy is theirs. Yours becomes an archive.

    A transfer is a fork, not a move. They get the live copy in their garage; you keep a frozen, read-only archive of every entry and receipt, filed under a quiet TRANSFERRED section at the bottom of your garage — yours to read, and yours to delete whenever you want.

    The hand-off is written into the vehicle’s own history as a dated “Ownership transfer” entry, so an owner two sales from now can see the vehicle changed hands. That entry names nobody. And Reports follow one rule on both sides: they count what you spent while the vehicle was in your garage. The buyer’s timeline still carries everything — the record is the point — it just doesn’t report the previous owner’s money as theirs.

    After they accept, it is final. Their copy sits in their account and nobody can reach into it — which is why the app tells you so before you confirm, not after.

What a transfer is not

A transferred history is a copy of what the previous owner typed in. Maintano does not check, verify or certify any of it — it is not an inspection, a warranty, or a guarantee about the vehicle’s condition, and a buyer should still look the vehicle over the way they always would. Moving records between two Maintano accounts is also not a sale or a registration: the paperwork that changes who owns the vehicle is the same paperwork it always was.

What a transfer discloses, and what it never does, is written out in the Privacy Policy; the terms it runs under are in the Terms.

Transfer is part of Pro

Sending a vehicle’s history rides on the same cloud sync Pro provides, so transfer comes with the paid plans. Receiving stays free, forever: the person you hand a vehicle to needs nothing but a free account.

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