PDA Initiative Car Buddy v1.0 windows phone

PDA Initiative Car Buddy v1.0
Requirements: WM2003/WM5/WM6

Car Buddy is the ultimate in vehicle economy and service tracking, and statistics.

Key features:

Powerful fuel, Service and Schedule Entry History

* Sort by vehicle, date, entry type or cost.
* Filter by one or more vehicles.
* Group entry entries by vehicle, date or entry type.
* Filter by specific entry types.

Ability to enter fuel entry details:

* Date/time
* Vehicle
* Cost
* Quantity and its respective type (gallons or litres)
* Distance travelled and its respective type (miles or kilometers). This can be either entered directly or calculated by the Odometer Helper
* Association of the entry to an existing trip
* Whether to add this fuel entry's distance to the recorded odometer of the vehicle
* Dynamic display of economy and price/unit
* User-defined fuel stations
* User-defined payment type
* User-defined purpose
* User-defined fuel type (e.g. regular, diesel, etc). Allows you to decide whether your economy is affected by fuel types
* Personal/business purchase type classification, including area to include a client/project code (if applicable)
* Notes specific to the fuel entry

Ability to enter service entry details:

* Date/time
* Vehicle
* Cost - supports itemizing by parts and/or labour entries
* User-defined purpose
* Invoice number
* User-defined service stations
* User-defined payment type
* Association of the entry to an existing trip
* Ability to categorize entries of the service as warranty/recall
* Ability to track 2 different kinds of taxes (via percentages or explicit values)
* Notes specific to the service

Ability to enter schedule entry details:

* Due by odometer and/or date
* Set a corresponding calendar reminder
* Set recurrence patterns based on time passed or distance traveled
* Notes specific to the scheduled entry

Quick Calculation

Want to get a quick economy calculation? No Problem! The Quick Calc tab allows quick and easy economy calculation for your one-time economy needs!

Trip Management

Car Buddy allows association of its fuel and service entries with a trip so you can see how much a trip has cost in total. One or more vehicles can be included as well as trip-specific expenses.

Detailed vehicle entry ability

* Year, make and model of your vehicle.
* Currently odometer value that is optionally updated with each fuel item entry.
* Vehicle Identification Number.
* Tag information, including Plate Number, Tag expiry date/cost, and an optional reminder for tag renewal.
* Unlimited spec information, for things such as oil type, filter types, etc
* Notes specific to the vehicle.

Vehicle statistics

There's a handy dialog that shows a vehicle's statistics:

Fuel Consumption

* Best economy
* Worst economy
* Average economy
* Total cost of fuel
* Total fuel quantity
* Total distance
* Current odometer value
* Lowest fillup cost
* Highest fillup cost
* Average fillup cost
* Longest distance travelled
* Shortest distance travelled
* Average distance
* High fuel cost/unit
* Low fuel cost/unit
* Avg fuel cost/unit
* Last economy
* Last fillup cost
* Last fuel cost/unit
* Last distance travelled

Cost of Ownership

* Days in period
* Distance in period
* Cost/distance
* Cost/day
* Projected cost/month
* Actual cost/month
* Projected cost/year
* Actual cost/year
* Total cost

Miscellaneous

* Vehicle creation date
* Vehicle last updated date
* Fuel entry count
* Service entry count
* Schedule entry count
* Vehicle's trip association count

These statistics can also be copied to your device's clipboard for easy pasting into any editor!

Graphing

Graphing is very useful in determining how a given service or fuel type may have affected your vehicle's economy.

There are 3 graph types available:

* Consumption
* Costs by entry
* Costs per month

Ability to:

* Plot by trip
* Plot by date range
* Select specific vehicles to use

Set the program to default to different kinds of quantity (US & UK gallon support!), distance, and economy types.

Intelligent Import ability

Do you keep all your economy data in a spreadsheet and don't want to exert the energy to manually enter it all into Mileage Wizard? No problem! Car Buddy now has an intelligent Import Wizard that imports csv (comma-separated values) files. You can quickly and easily create a csv from your current spreadsheet. There's no exact format expected and the Import Wizard detects the imported file's column count, names and allows you to map each of these columns to Car Buddy's fuel entries!

If you currently have Mileage Wizard data, you can import that information as well. You can choose to import a complete vehicle or just its fuel entries