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Dont know if its the best, bit t works: http://mileiq.com
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I use everlance.
http://www.everlance.comIt’s not perfect, but it is convenient and easy. If you can remember to consistently turn the app on and off at the beginning of every trip, it will be much more accurate. I just leave it in auto mode, which is not as accurate. Battery life effect isn’t too bad either.
Still, automatic mileage tracking on my phone that I can go weeks without even thinking about? Awesome!
Categorizing trips is easy too – just swipe left or right. -
We use MileIQ. Best out of several we used.
Auto mapping of every trip you take over 5 MPH. It records mileage as long as I have my phone with me. It will eventually learn certain address and auto classify them as personal and business. example your Doctors office vs. a thrift store or auction house. It shows every trip as a one line summary and you either swipe it left for personal and right for business. It also shows you 2 small postage size maps side by side. Your start from and go to. So if you don’t remember where you went, enlarge the map and it shows you that you went to the local Home Depot.
Also you don’t have to classify your trips at the exact minute you are done, it synchs with the cloud and you can sit down at your laptop or desktop and just do it every couple of weeks. The maps help us remember where we went. It also recognizes when you have stopped and not moved for a while. It records those as separate trips. example. Leave office and go to a yard sale=business then that swipes right for business, then crank up and go to lunch, so that is recorded as a trip, but you would swipe that left for personal, then crank up and go to an estate sale, then that would swipe right.
It has a dashboard that shows the numbers and shows what they add up to. How many personal and how many business miles per month. Also has a great, tidy IRS report of your cumulative mileage for year end. How many business miles vs. how many personal. And things like Doctors, dentist visits once categorized in the very beginning are reported because those trips are deductible also. It also constatnly shows you the IRS deductible amount you will receive. We have had several thousands of dollars of deductible trips the last few years, all tracked by MileIQ and all we do is include that printed hard copy of the report to our CPA.
Going to Staples for Office supplies, also a business trip. It does all this automatically and all u have to do is swipe the line alert left or right. Once it memorizes repeat addresses and you classify as a certain category, it remembers that and you will have to swipe it less and less.
It is a very valuable business tool and takes the pain of the effort of keeping a small written diary in the car and always having to write the start and end mileage down and the reason for the trip.
If you are a serious part time or full time business person this is a must. The fact that it goes with you on your phone and not attached or plugged in to the car, you never have to remember to go get it especially if you jump into another car as a passenger. It is on your phone and where ever you and your phone go it is automatically recording your trips.
Check out it’s web site to see screen shots of how it works and the various views and data it presents. You get 40 trips per month for free. If you go over it is like a buck or so for unlimited. I think we do $12 or so for a yearly subscription. Considering it tracked almost $3,000 worth of business deductions last year, it is well worth it.
Hope this helps…
Mike at MDC Galleries and Fine Art in Atlanta
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