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lindak1119
Level 7
October 16, 2018
Question

How do I track vehicle mileage with quickbooks simple start?

  • October 16, 2018
  • 2 replies
  • 21 views

Need to figure this out, need to record miles driven to my rental properties

2 replies

AlcaeusF
AlcaeusF
Level 14
October 16, 2018

Thank you for reaching out to us, jbstuch,

Tracking mileage in QBO is the ability to enter a vendor bill and making the employee who is to be reimbursed a vendor/supplier.

This option, however, is not available in QuickBooks Simple Start.  If you need this feature, I recommend you upgrade to QBO Essentials.

You will need to enter a vendor bill until you pay/reimburse, a vendor/supplier, because there is no automated way to track mileage.

In doing so, make sure to set up an expense account for mileage, here’s how:

  1. Click the Gear icon at the top and choose Chart of Accounts.
  2. Click New on the top-right corner.
  3. Follow the new account interview and click Finish once complete.

Then you’d have to set up a Product/Service for mileage. After doing so, you can start to enter and pay the bill.
That should do it. If you need more information about tracking mileage, please click the link below:
https://community.intuit.com/articles/1146022.

Stay in touch if you have any other concerns. Have a great day!

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psneathen
October 16, 2018
Since Quickbooks simple start only allows 'Sales Information' and not 'Purchase Information' for 'Products and Services', how would you use a 'Sales' based 'Product and Services' as an expense.  I would think you would need to upgrade to a subscription that allows one to enter 'Purchasing Information' within 'Products and Services'...so you can show it as an expense and not a sales income.  Any additional insight you can provide would be appreciated, as I have the QuickBooks Simple Start subscription and I would like to know if there is a way to enter mileage without me having to upgrade my subscription.  Thanks in advance.
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anonymousComment
July 19, 2019
Tracking milage on a personal vehicle for doing business activities is a must-have on any small-business accounting software. When I'm traveling to pick up parts at my vendors, I can deduct the mileage; that is different than charging people for the miles I drove. If Quickbooks self-employed already has milage tracking software embedded, I imagine it's possible to add it to Quickbooks Simple Start. Because Simple Start doesn't offer milage tracking on a personal vehicle for business purposes, I'll continue using my free version of Quickbooks Self-Employed software until the milage tracking feature is available on QB Simple Start.
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smbusowner
February 11, 2020

Like some others that have written in, I have a small business and have mileage for 2019 entered, but will have to add it to my P&L for the accountant. It would be great if Simple Start could accommodate this feature because I really don't a lot of the bells and whistles; I barely use some of the features on SS.

Thanks!!

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