Car Buddy finally comes to the BlackBerry! Car Buddy for BlackBerry is a port of the most common and used features of Car Buddy for PPC. Car Buddy for BlackBerry is the ultimate assistant for tracking economy, maintenance and statistics for your vehicles. Analyze economy trends, track service entries, track trips and more!

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Key features:

Powerful Fuel and Service 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.

Detailed Fuel Entries

Ability to enter fuel entry details: Date/time Vehicle Association of the entry to an existing trip 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 Distance Calculator Whether to add this fuel entry's distance to the recorded odometer of the vehicle Dynamic display of economy and price/unit Fuel station Payment type Purpose 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

Detailed Service Entries

Ability to enter service entry details: Date/time Vehicle Association of the entry to an existing trip Cost - supports itemizing by parts and/or labour entries User-defined purpose Invoice number Service station Payment type Ability to categorize entries of the service as warranty/recall Ability to track 2 different kinds of taxes Notes specific to the service

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.

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!

Detailed Vehicle Entry

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

Intelligent Import

Car Buddy allows the import of fuel entries via a comma-separated values file (CSV). This is a common file type that you can save Excel data as.

Imports from spreadsheet data saved to CSV format Allows specification of date delimiter (e.g. "/" or "-" characters) Allows different date formats (e.g. month/day/year, year/month/day or day/month/year) Allows association with an existing trip Allows mapping to specific columns in your CSV file. This is easiest to accomplish if you have a header row in your CSV file, which will be used as column titles. The import screen will try to automatically map your columns to the correct Car Buddy fuel entry format. If data doesn't automap, then you can specify manually what data is to go where. Will either overwrite or append to existing data for the selected vehicle.

Purge Data

Allows the deletion of fuel, service and/or specification data from a vehicle. Can choose to remove all data, data within a date range or data older than a certain date.

Vehicle Statistics

• 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 4 graph types available: Economy Fuel entry total costs Fuel entry unit costs Costs per month Ability to: Plot by trip Plot by date range Select specific vehicles to use

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