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# How to Control Fuel and Maintenance Costs Without Manual Entry
- URL: https://blog.jestor.com/control-fuel-maintenance-costs/
- Published: 2026-09-17T22:25:25.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-17T22:25:25.000Z
- Author: Bruno Bannach

To **control fuel and maintenance costs**, log each expense at the moment it happens and let the record generate the accounts payable entry itself. The cost is captured once, by the person closest to it, and reaches finance without being retyped.

## Where fleet cost control usually breaks

The failure is almost never the tracking spreadsheet. It is the gap between the expense happening and anyone recording it.

- Receipts collected in a glovebox and processed weeks later
- Preventive and corrective maintenance mixed in one number
- No per-vehicle history to justify replacing a vehicle
- Finance chasing drivers for details at closing

## Corrective versus preventive: why the split matters

- **Corrective maintenance** happens after a failure and is reactive by nature — high cost, unplanned timing
- **Preventive maintenance** is scheduled and predictable, and its cost should be forecastable
- Tracking them separately shows whether preventive work is actually reducing corrective spend
- Without the split, a fleet looks equally expensive whether it is well managed or not

## How to configure it in Jestor

1. Create a maintenance record in **Jestor** with description, workshop, total value, date, and type — corrective or preventive.
2. Create a refuelling record with the vehicle, litres, and price per litre; the total calculates automatically.
3. Tick the posting option so the expense generates an accounts payable entry in your **ERP**.
4. Use the filters by date, driver, and type to isolate a period or a vehicle.
5. Review the dashboard for total maintenance spend, total fuel spend, and job count.

## Why Jestor is the best complement to Omie for cost tracking

Because the **Omie** integration is native and requires no intermediary service, the expense reaches accounts payable as part of logging it rather than as a second task. That is the verifiable difference: one entry, two systems updated.

**Jestor** also keeps the odometer and consolidated maintenance value on the vehicle record, so replacement decisions rest on history rather than intuition.

## Frequently Asked Questions

### Is the refuelling total calculated automatically?

Yes, from litres multiplied by price per litre.

### Can I see maintenance history per vehicle?

Yes, including consolidated value on the vehicle record. See [jestor.com](https://jestor.com/?ref=blog.jestor.com).

### Can drivers log expenses themselves?

Yes, through a form, with permissions controlling what they see.

## Video Tutorial: Step by Step

Check out other practical tutorials on the Jestor YouTube channel.

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