An underground car park should not stop you recording your trip.
Shared cars often sleep exactly where there is no signal: underground car parks, closed garages, shared parking. That is precisely the moment when the driver has the odometer in front of them.
So you can enter the odometer, take the photos and confirm on the spot. Sending happens on its own once the connection is back.
Mobile app only. On iPhone and Android, Co-oto works offline for starting and ending a trip. The web version always needs a connection.
| Action | What happens |
|---|---|
| Opening the app | It starts on the last known state of your group and your vehicles |
| Starting a trip | Queued, then sent once the network is back |
| Ending a trip | Queued. The cost is only worked out once it has been sent |
| Odometer, fuel gauge and inspection photos | Kept on the phone and sent along with the trip |
| Scanning the QR Drive card | The vehicle is recognised from the data already on the phone |
| Action | With no network |
|---|---|
| Reading the odometer automatically from the photo | Unavailable: type the number in by hand, as usual |
| Booking, adding a fill-up or an expense | Unavailable |
| The other screens in the app | A screen tells you the page needs a connection |
The scope is deliberately narrow: only what happens at the vehicle works offline. Anything else would mean guessing at the state of the group, and the risk would be showing figures that are wrong.
Nothing for you to do. Sending starts as soon as the connection returns, or when you reopen the app.
You were offline and another member started their trip with the same vehicle. Your trip is still recorded, but Co-oto does not take the car back from the other member: their own trip would turn into a phantom trip with 0 km.
A banner then invites you to sort it out from the release vehicles screen.