What (free?) Expense Tracking and Mileage Tracking apps do U use?

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I'm looking to upgrade my systems and trying to do it as cost effectively as possible.  Any recommendations?

Gita Faust · Answer

Use QuickBooks Self Employed for $5/month for 12 months.

Sheldon Morgan · Answer

I use Intuit Self employed. It has mileage tracker, and receipt tracker with pictures. It's either $9.99 or $16.99 a month if you want Intuit Turbotax. Their doing a special right now for $5 a month for 3 months. I like everything in one place and don't have time to have multiple apps or software. I couldn't find any free ones that worked well. Pretty sure you can write it off as well. Hope this helps

Ron Rohrssen · Answer

This is the progression of what I've used in the past, up to what I'm using now.

Google calendar -> search at the end of the year for keywords -> enter into Excel sheet -> to CPA

Quicken (desktop) -> Mileage Tracker (Ok. but no advantage over Excel)

TrackURMiles (Android)->Export to Excel occasionally)->to CPA

I'm currently using TrackURMiles to try it out. I had some glitches initially with licensing the app. The developer was very quick to respond and fixed the problems within a couple of days. Since then I haven't had any problems.

With TrackURMiles I can specify business, charity, personal (why track this), or anything. The categories are configurable. The hardest part is training myself to start the tracker before I leave on a business related trip. If I forget, I can manually create an entry using the odometer readings or simply enter a starting odometer reading of 0, and and ending reading equal to the total miles to record.

The GPS tracker feature (see screen shot) is simply to use. I occasionally forget to stop tracking when I get back home. So, I just manually adjust the ending odometer reading.

Whenever, I want I can export the data to a CSV file to open in Excel. It's simple and it works. The downside (potentially) is not having the data on your phone stored in the cloud. So, I can't access it from my computer or insure that it's backed up if the phone is lost or destroyed.

I've been using it for a few months now. Part of this system, and I think it's true for all systems, is training yourself to make an entry in the system as near as possible to when the driving event occurs.

I tried MileIQ for a while. One of the nice features is that you can define locations like addresses where you have properties, the usual stores or services centers that you frequent, etc. It will automatically record those locations as you travel, and you can classify it later. That's a nice feature. It seemed to work well. I just didn't want to pay the fees.

Good luck!

Daniel P. · Answer

I do it the old fashion way for now, Excel.

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