What services does a car need, and can I order them all in one place?

Every physical job a car needs — inspection, transport, title and registration, detail, repair, storage — can be quoted from a single VIN and ordered on one record, with the free quote leading and the paid order the next step. The seventeen characters decode into the same facts a vendor would otherwise ask you for over the phone: year, make, model, engine, body, trim. That decode is what lets one address price the whole menu instead of one job at a time. You paste the VIN, every job on the catalog returns a price, and each service you actually order opens its own order record where the vendor's cost and the margin sit as separate itemized lines. Quotes are free. No account.

The whole menu, sorted into five lanes

The work a car needs is not one list — it is five kinds of work, and services.vin sorts the catalog into lanes so the menu reads the way the car actually consumes services.

MOVE — the car moves. Long haul, last mile, the border, the breakdown. Every move prices from the VIN plus two zip codes, because a carrier prices on dimensions and operability, and the decode already carries those. The move is its own order at its own address; the anchor routes to it rather than re-quoting it here.

FIX — work on the car itself. Mechanical repair, insurer-paid collision, the pre-purchase inspection, the detail. Four kinds of hands-on work, one order chassis. A finished fix posts its facts back to the record, so the completion is a fact the next reader inherits rather than a claim you have to repeat.

PAPER — the state paperwork. Title work and registration are co-canonical peers: the rare ownership transfer and the annual renewal each hold their own address and ride the same order. Where a given state's fulfillment gate has not cleared, the row says so plainly — "not yet offered in that state" is a fact, stated, not a silent gap.

KEEP — the car, kept. Scheduled service by the factory book, a month of storage, the keeping surface itself. This is the record's slow lane: recurring, quiet, attached to the same seventeen characters season after season.

POWER — charging. The act of charging is a Services order, dispatched from the VIN. The state of the battery is a Data fact that reads elsewhere; only the command to charge lives here.

How one VIN quotes every job

The reason a single number can price six unrelated jobs is that the decode does the interrogation for you. On the phone, a shipper asks the car's size and whether it rolls; a detailer asks the class and trim; a service writer asks the engine; a titling clerk asks the state. Each of those is a question the VIN already answers. So the quote arrives with its inputs filled in, and the one thing the job genuinely needs that the VIN cannot know — a destination zip for a move, a service address for a mobile inspection, a state for title work — is the single field you add.

That is the anonymous base of the precision ladder: a real, extractable quote from the number alone, with no sign-in. Add an account and the read sharpens where your own evidence on the record — an odometer reading, a prior completion — tightens a range into a confidence. The paid order is the top rung: the accuracy of a committed price against a specific vendor. Free face first; the cost-bearing order is the deepening step, never the gate you hit before you can see anything.

What an order looks like once you place one

Placing an order is the same four hops in every lane. Quote — free, from the VIN, with vendor cost and margin itemized before you commit to anything. Paid order — you pay the quoted price and the service order opens at services.vin/{VIN}, with vendor cost, the margin, and the total as three separate lines rather than one bundled number you cannot take apart. Webhook — the vendor's status posts as it changes, so distance-to-done is a line on the record you can read, not a phone call you have to place. Done — the completion posts to the record, and if the order is attached to an open deal it settles under that deal's single invoice.

The itemized-lines discipline is the point. The trade's oldest ritual is the price that firms up only at the counter, with the margin folded invisibly into a single figure. Here the margin is a line you can see next to the vendor's cost. The check digit — the one position in the VIN that certifies the other sixteen are internally consistent — is the emblem of the whole posture: it verifies the number, it never sells you anything.

The honest limits

Quotes are live today across the catalog. Paid orders render through a compliance gate: vendor agreements per service cluster and the per-state title and registration fulfillment gate are being cleared lane by lane, and until a lane's gate clears, its row quotes but does not yet take a paid order. That is stated on the record as a fact rather than hidden behind a form. And the anchor never quotes a move itself — the price for shipping computes at transport.vin from the VIN and two zips, because that is the member that owns the custody and the carrier margin. The anchor is the router and the ledger; the lanes own their crafts.

The result is the thing the trade never gives you: every job on one car as one order on one record — quoted from the number, paid as quoted, tracked to done. The record, then the deal.

Order or quote any job from the number at services.vin. For the two jobs most owners reach for first: shipping prices at transport.vin, and a pre-purchase inspection is ordered at inspection.vin.