Getting Started
Set up Travel Logs, add your first vehicle, and start recording trips.
Getting Started
Travel Logs helps you record vehicle trips, expenses, maintenance, places, and fleet records from one app. Start with a vehicle, choose the tracking settings you need, then record trips manually or with automation.
Set up the app
- Open Travel Logs.
- Sign in or create an account.
- Review the permission prompts. Automation works best when Location is set to Always (iOS) or Allow all the time (Android), notifications are allowed, and Background App Refresh is enabled (iOS), Battery optimisation is disabled (Android).
- Open Settings to confirm your units, tracking, and location preferences.
See Permissions and Settings for the full setup checklist.
Add your first vehicle
- Open Vehicles.
- Add a vehicle.
- Enter the plate and optional vehicle details.
- Add a photo if you want the vehicle to be easier to identify.
- Save the vehicle.
After the vehicle exists, you can start trips, attach expenses and maintenance, configure automation, and submit records to a fleet team if your account supports fleets.
Start a trip
Use the Activity page to start a new trip for a vehicle. Travel Logs records the start time, start location when location access is available, and the starting odometer based on your prefill settings.
When you stop the trip, Travel Logs records the stop time, destination, distance, and route if live tracking and route recording are enabled.
Core sections
- Activity: Start and stop current trips.
- History: Review trips, expenses, and maintenance records.
- Vehicles: Manage vehicles and vehicle-level automation.
- Places: Set up location-based trip automation.
- Reports: Export trips, expenses, or maintenance.
- Fleets: Submit records to a fleet team and view submitted activity.
- Settings: Manage permissions, tracking, account, backup, Watch, widget, and Siri options.
Next steps
Set up the automation that matches how you use your vehicle:
- Use Bluetooth Automation if your vehicle has a hands-free Bluetooth device.
- Use Places and Geofencing for frequent start or stop locations.
- Use NFC Tags for tap-to-start and tap-to-stop trips.
- Use CarPlay Automation if you use Wireless CarPlay.
- Use Vehicle Motion Detection if you want motion-based trip detection.