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Customers & Vehicles

The people and the cars. How to add them, look up their details, keep them tidy, and stay on the right side of marketing law.

Adding a customer

Three ways to add a customer, what fields are required, and how the ABR ABN lookup auto-fills the legal name and GST status for business customers.

4 min read21 May 2026

Adding vehicles

Linking a vehicle to a customer, manual entry versus VIN/rego lookup, and how to handle fleet customers who own dozens of vehicles.

4 min read21 May 2026

VIN and rego lookup

How the InfoAgent integration turns a plate or a VIN into a complete vehicle record. Tiers, credits, and what to do when a lookup fails.

4 min read21 May 2026

Vehicle Visuals animations

How to attach short repair animations to quotes, jobs, and inspections — and what your customers see when they tap the link.

4 min read21 May 2026

Service history

The job timeline behind every vehicle — what counts as a service event, how it appears to the customer, and how to export it.

4 min read21 May 2026

Marketing consent

How PitlaneHQ tracks marketing consent, what the YES/NO SMS opt-out looks like, and how to import existing consent from another system without breaking the law.

4 min read21 May 2026

Merging duplicate customers

How duplicates creep in, how to find them, what the merge flow does to vehicles, jobs, and consent — and what it can never undo.

4 min read21 May 2026