> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Log a service

> Record a cleaning, repair, inspection or regular service on a piece of gear. Logging a regular service schedules the next one for you.

To log a service, open the piece of gear, tap **log service**, choose the **service type**, check the **service date**, and tap **save**. Logging a **regular service** also moves the gear's next service date forward by its service interval.

## Log a service

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open the gear">
    On the gear list, tap the piece of gear. If it's new, save it first: **log service** appears only on saved gear.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Tap log service">
    It's at the foot of the **service history** section. The form opens titled **log service**, with the gear's type and model at the top.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Choose the service type">
    Pick from **service type**: **cleaning**, **repair**, **inspection**, **regular service** or **other**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Check the date">
    **service date** starts as today. Tap it to pick an earlier date. It can't be in the future.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Add the rest (optional)">
    **serviced by** (the shop or technician), **notes**, and a photo of the **work order**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Save">
    Tap **save** at the top right. You go back to the gear's page, where the service is at the top of its history.
  </Step>
</Steps>

Both the type and the date are required. Without them, the app says "choose a service type before saving" or "set the service date before saving".

**serviced by** holds up to 80 characters and **notes** up to 2,000. When a field reaches its limit, typing stops and a line under the field says so, for example "80 characters max".

Once you've logged a service, the next **log service** form starts with that service's type and **serviced by** filled in, which helps when several pieces come back from the same shop. Change them if they don't apply. Your phone remembers them for your account, including after the app restarts.

## Regular service reschedules the next one

When you choose **regular service** on a new record dated on or after the gear's latest regular service, a line appears under it: "next service will be set to" a date. That date is the service date plus the gear's **service interval** (1 year unless you've changed it on the gear's page). Change the service date and the line updates.

When you save, the gear's next service date changes to that date. Back on the gear's page, the next service date at the top changes to the new one.

The other service types are recorded in the history but don't change the schedule.

Only a newly logged regular service moves the schedule. Editing or deleting an existing service record never changes the next service date.

### Logging an older service

The next service always counts from the latest regular service on record. If you backfill a regular service that's older than one you've already logged, it's added to the history but the next service date stays where it is, and no "next service will be set to" line appears. You can log old services in any order.

## View, edit or delete a service

Tap a service in the gear's **service history** to open it. The page is titled with the service type and shows the date, who did it, notes and the work order photo. Tap the photo to see it full size.

* **Edit:** tap the pencil, make your changes, tap **save**.
* **Delete:** tap the pencil, scroll to the foot, tap **delete service record**, then confirm with **delete**.

<Warning>
  Deleting a service record removes it and its work order photo from the gear's history. It can't be undone, and it doesn't change the gear's next service date.
</Warning>

## Offline

Saving, editing and deleting a service record work without a connection. The app tells you the change is on your phone and will sync when you're back online. Adding a work order photo needs a connection.

## Related

* [A piece of gear](/docs/gear/gear-page)
* [Track your gear](/docs/gear/gear-list)
* [Get ready for a trip](/docs/trips/readiness)


## Related topics

- [A piece of gear](/docs/gear/gear-page.md)
- [Track your gear](/docs/gear/gear-list.md)
- [Back up your logbook](/docs/logbook/backup.md)
- [Get ready for a trip](/docs/trips/readiness.md)
- [SCUBAzen docs](/docs/index.md)


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