Can inspection, shipping, and title work all be paid on one invoice?

Yes — services attached to one open deal settle on a single invoice; each job still opens its own order record, and a deal-attached order rolls up to the parent invoice instead of arriving as separate bills. So the inspection you order before the deposit, the shipping that brings the car home, and the title work that transfers ownership after the close are three orders on one record with one settlement, not three vendors sending three invoices on three timelines. Each order still shows its own vendor cost and margin as separate, itemized lines; the rollup is a total assembled from lines you can still read individually, not a mystery figure. Quotes are free. No account needed to see how a deal would settle.

Why three services usually become three invoices

Buy a car at a distance and the physical work fans out to strangers. A mobile inspector goes to the car for the pre-purchase read. A carrier hauls it across state lines. A titling service files the change of ownership with the state. In the ordinary trade those are three companies you found separately, three prices that each firmed up on a different phone call, and three invoices that land in your inbox on their own schedules — none of them aware the others exist, none of them attached to anything you could call "the deal." When something is late or wrong, you are the only party who can see all three, and you are the one placing the reconciling calls.

The single invoice inverts that. When the orders are attached to one open deal, the deal is the parent that the individual orders settle under. You still get the granularity — every order keeps its own line-itemed cost and margin — but the settlement is one total at one time, on the record both you and the vendor read.

How the deal ledger holds the total

The mechanism is the Deal ledger. An open deal is a parent record; each service you order against it — inspection, transport, title work — opens its own child order at its own address, and its total posts back to the parent as a line. The invoice is the parent's running sum of those lines. Nothing is hidden inside the rollup: the inspection's vendor cost and margin, the move's carrier cost and broker margin, the title work's fee and margin all remain readable as the lines they were when you ordered them. The one invoice is an assembly, not a black box.

This is why the settlement lives at the anchor rather than in any single lane. No individual door owns "the total across your services" — the inspection door owns condition, the move door owns custody, the paper door owns the state filing. What ties them into one bill is the ledger, and the ledger is the anchor's job. services.vin is the router that opens the orders and the ledger that settles them; the lanes own their crafts.

Each job still opens its own record

The single invoice does not flatten the work into one undifferentiated charge — that would trade one opacity for another. Every order keeps its own order record with its own webhook status, so distance-to-done is tracked per job. The inspection's condition report posts to its record point by point. The move's custody events — timestamped photos at pickup and again at delivery — post to its record. The title line updates on its record when the transfer clears. Three records, three status streams, one settlement. You can answer "is the inspection done?" and "where is the car?" independently while still paying once.

That separation matters when a job goes sideways. If the carrier is late, that is a status on the move's record and a conversation with that order — it does not stall the inspection or the title filing, and it does not collapse the deal's other lines. The single invoice coordinates the money; the individual records preserve the accountability.

Where the settlement is and isn't

Two honest boundaries. First, the move settles as a line on the deal, but it is quoted and custody-tracked at transport.vin — the member that owns shipping — and its line rolls up here rather than being re-priced here. The anchor never quotes the move itself. Second, the deal-attached settlement is a Commerce act: the parent invoice and its one total live at the buying surface, buy.vin, where the deal is assembled. Services opens the orders and posts their lines to that ledger; it cross-references the settlement, it does not claim to be the escrow. Where a lane's fulfillment gate has not cleared — the per-state title and registration gate, or a vendor agreement still in progress — that row quotes but does not yet take a paid order, and it says so plainly on the record.

The result is the thing three-vendor buying never gives you: several jobs on one car, each with its own record and its own proof of done, settling as one invoice you can still read line by line. The record, then the deal.

Order services against an open deal at services.vin. The parent invoice is assembled where the deal lives — at buy.vin — and an accepted offer opens its own pickup order at offers.vin.