Mileage Tracking
Track business miles for the IRS standard mileage deduction.
Mileage is one of the most-underclaimed deductions for resellers. If you drive to estate sales, post offices, thrift stores, or storage units, those miles are deductible at the IRS standard rate. We make logging them painless.
The 2026 IRS rate
For tax year 2026 the IRS standard mileage rate for business use is 70 cents per mile. That number is set by the IRS each year — we update the app the day the new rate is announced (usually mid-December for the following year).
The rate already bakes in fuel, maintenance, insurance, depreciation, and registration. Pick either the standard rate or itemized vehicle expenses for the year — you cannot mix.
Logging a trip
You have two options:
Manual log
Click Mileage → Log trip. Enter:
- Date
- Start address (free text — does not have to be a real geocoded address)
- End address
- Round trip? — checkbox doubles the miles for the return leg
- Miles (one-way) — or click Compute to use the address fields with an approximate distance estimate
- Purpose — short label (e.g. "USPS drop-off", "Estate sale Cedar Park")
That is the whole flow. You can also import a CSV of trips from a prior tracker.
GPS-assisted (Pro)
On Pro you can start a trip from a mobile browser. We log the start lat/long, you tap End trip when you arrive, and we capture the route distance. The GPS path stays on your device — only the total miles and start/end labels are saved server-side. (We deliberately do not log the polyline; it is not needed for the deduction and would be a privacy footgun.)
Reports
The Mileage page has three views:
- Trips — every logged trip, sortable by date and purpose.
- By month — bar chart of miles per month, useful for spotting gaps.
- Year totals — total miles for the selected year multiplied by the 2026 rate, broken out for the Tax Report.
The year-total view is the number that feeds Schedule C line 9.
What counts as a business mile?
The IRS allows business mileage for:
- Travel to and from sourcing locations (thrift stores, garage sales, estate sales, auction houses).
- Trips to the post office or shipping carriers to drop off packages.
- Trips to suppliers (bubble mailers, polybags, etc.).
- Trips to storage units used for inventory.
- Travel to industry events, conferences, or training.
Commuting from your home to your "regular workplace" is not deductible — but if your home is your principal place of business (very common for resellers), the home-to-sourcing-location leg is deductible.
When in doubt, log the trip with a clear purpose; you and your CPA can scrub later.
Backing up your log
The IRS requires "contemporaneous" records — meaning a log you wrote at or near the time of the trip, not reconstructed from memory at tax time. Our mileage log timestamps every entry, which satisfies the contemporaneous requirement as long as you log within a few days of the trip.
You can export the full year as a CSV at any time from Mileage → Export.