Company car mileage tracking app

[Still Mulling]

Hi All. I'm just about to take delivery of my first company car. Can anybody recommend a good iPhone app for tracking journeys for personal and business mileage categorisation, please?

[Still Mulling]

Wee nudge...

[Still Mulling]

Final nudge, then I’ll leave this thread to the PH archive hamsters.

[55palfers]

I used to keep a small notebook and pen in the car.

[BlindedByTheLights]

Drivers note app but it is monthly subscription, I’ve just bought a mileage log book off eBay for a few quid instead.

[Frik]

I've always used Road Trip MPG for tracking fuel. It does trips too, though I can't vouch for how easy this part is to use.

[interstellar]

I don’t bother daily now, I find it a pain.

I just get my start and end mileage each month then write down my business trips before I send my expenses in and calculate the business miles using google maps.

[PisstNBroke]

I've used a diary for the last 9 years. But occasionally... majority end up taking photos daily and then entering it into the diary for monthly expenses.

[Still Mulling]

Thanks Folks. A few ideas in there, and a notepad seems to be majorative! The simplicity of interstellar’s approach also appeals. I’ll check with Payroll as to what level of detail they require.

[Pit Pony]

Why would you need an App.

Use your outlook calendar to put in your meetings, Use Google maps time line to check you did what the calendar plan shows. Use a spreadsheet to list trips and distances.

In the last 35 years, I've done a few business journeys, and only been questioned by finance once, and that was when they had "official" distances between sites, and I put the actual distance travelled, that wasn't as the crow flys through the centre of Birmingham, and Wolverhampton and would take 2 hours but instead, used the M42, M6 and M54 and saved over an hour and a quarter each way. I suggested that they pay me the overtime for and extra 2.5 hours to my day instead. I think they agreed to the actual miles.

[surveyor]

I use Triplog. It starts recording when attached to the bluetooth and moving.

Easy to merge stops and creating a report at the end of the month is easy. I then print the business mileage sheet, and upload into our expenses system. No one shouted at my yet.

[worsy]

surveyor said:

I use Triplog. It starts recording when attached to the bluetooth and moving.

Easy to merge stops and creating a report at the end of the month is easy. I then print the business mileage sheet, and upload into our expenses system. No one shouted at my yet.

+1 on this. Used to use it when I contracted. Nowadays HR supply me witha mileage report annually.

[Moos3h]

You may find if your company has a Microsoft 365 subscription that you have access to MileIQ.

It’s not perfect, none of these things are, but in reality, it does work pretty well. I used it for years until I got an EV and now given the ridiculous HMRC mileage rate there’s just no point in bothering…

[MDMA .]

Ask them to fit a Masternaut tracker to it with the privacy button. They can then run your mileage reports in real time and whenever you use the car for personal use, press the button and it stops logging. You can have the app on your phone too. We fit lots of them.

[loskie]

55palfers said:

I used to keep a small notebook and pen in the car.

I've done this with no issue for 30 odd years