The shared logbook for neighbours who lend each other their cars
Book a neighbour’s car and log your kilometres when you return. The indemnity is calculated, balances update, and you settle up when your community decides to.
Are your neighbours already using Autopartage? Ask them for an invitation link.
How it works
Borrowing a car takes four steps.
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Book
Choose a car and a period. Its owner accepts or declines your request.
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Borrow
Once your request is accepted, the address, where the keys are and the owner’s phone number appear for you.
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Log the kilometres
When you return, enter the distance driven and the fuel you paid for. The indemnity is calculated, with fuel deducted.
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Settle up
Each trip moves the balances. When the time comes, the app suggests the payments that bring every account back to zero.
Example: 18 km at €0.40/km, which comes to €7.20 for the owner.
In place of the shared spreadsheet
A spreadsheet is enough to get started. Over time, its limits show.
With a spreadsheet
- Changing a rate recalculates the trips already logged.
- There is no calendar: you have to call to find out whether a car is free.
- Anyone can change a row or a formula without leaving a trace.
- The address, the phone number and the key-safe code are visible to everyone.
With Autopartage
- The rate is copied onto each trip: history no longer changes.
- Each car has its own calendar, and two bookings cannot overlap.
- Every correction to a trip is kept.
- These details are reserved for the borrower whose booking is accepted.
What the community gains
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A shared logbook
Every trip in the community is gathered in a single logbook: who borrowed which car, when and over what distance.
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Up-to-date balances
Each trip updates the balance of both households. You know at any time what you owe and what you are owed.
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Protected keys and addresses
The address, where the keys are, the key-safe code and the phone number are shown only to the borrower, once their booking is accepted.
Your information stays within your community
Lending a car means sharing an address, a phone number, sometimes a code. This information travels no further than necessary.
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Separate communities
A community’s members, cars and accounts are visible only to its members.
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Handover details, at the right time
The address, the keys, the key-safe code and the owner’s phone number appear for the borrower once the booking is accepted, until the end of the borrowing. Other members do not see them, administrators included.
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One account per person
Each member signs in with their own email address and password. A community can only be joined by invitation.
Frequently asked questions
How is the indemnity calculated?
The indemnity equals the distance driven multiplied by the car’s per-kilometre rate, minus the fuel you paid for during the trip. The rate includes fuel.
For example, 18 km at €0.40/km gives an indemnity of €7.20 for the owner.
If you fill the tank during a short trip, the indemnity can become negative: the owner then owes you the difference.
How are balances settled?
When the community decides to. The app then suggests the payments to make to bring every balance back to zero in few transfers.
You make these payments between yourselves, by whatever means you choose, then record them in the app. Autopartage does not collect money and does not transfer any.
A community can also turn on a common fund: payments then go through it.
Who sees my address and my key-safe code?
Your household, and the borrower whose booking you have accepted. They see the address, where the keys are, the key-safe code and your phone number from acceptance until the end of the borrowing.
Other members of the community have no access to them, administrators included.
Create your community
Add your cars, invite your neighbours with a link, then log your first trip.