I am looking to use mileage tracking in Quickbooks Online. How do I use Odometer Readings instead of total Trip miles?

Greetings, rpujol.

You can either enter your total miles driven or by odometer readings in the distance section to track your mileage.

Please read this article for more information about tracking mileage in QuickBooks Online.

You can also check this article to manually track mileage for multiple vehicles.

The Community is always here for you if you have other questions. Feel free to comment anytime. Have a great day.

I understand. I have read all of that before posting.

How do I set up a vehicle to use odometer entry and not total miles? I edit vehicle and there is no option for odometer entry vs total miles. There is no option to enter Odometer start & stop.

Thank you,

Roger

Thank you for the response, @rpujol. 

Those trips can be tracked either manually or automatically. Currently, the feature to track those trips through odometer reading is unavailable. 

If you prefer to manually track your mileage, you'll just have to add trip date, starting/ending locations, distance, and trip purpose.

Let me know if you still need help in tracking your mileage. I'm always here to assist. Have a wonderful day!

This is very disappointing. 1st response says yes I can do it, this response says the feature is not available. What kind of mileage app does not allow odometer entry for tracking mileage for IRS purposes?

Let me shade light of your confusion, @rpujol.

As a way around, you can enter the odometer reading in the distance section as stated by my colleague ShiellaGraceA. 

I understand having this feature can make your work easier. I'll let our product engineers know of this feature so they'll consider adding this in the future.

In the meantime, you'll want to visit our QuickBooks Blog page to learn about the latest news and releases in QBO.

Let me know if you need other help with tracking mileage in your QBO account.

I'd just like to second that it would be nice to have odometer readings as an additional feature to log to avoid any ambiguity in meeting the IRS requirements on tracking data. Online, their example log shows both total mileage driving and start/end odometer readings. 

Obviously, Quickbooks does not understand the new IRS laws:

The IRS defines adequate records for your mileage log

Regardless of the circumstances of your employment, you will likely be asked to record the following:

• the mileage for each business use
• the total mileage for the year
• the time (date will do), place (your destination), and business purpose of each trip
• odometer readings at the start and end of the year

However, I have found my own solution to this matter. Unfortunately, it takes away from automatic tracking of mileage. Turn off auto tracking and then enter the start and destination address, and then separate it with a hyphen and the odometer reading.