It's a delight for me that you love the Self-Employed setup, @ellsworthtile.
QuickBooks Self-Employed (QBSE) is mainly designed for freelancers or independent contractors, just like you. It helps in paying your quarterly estimated taxes and in filing your Schedule C when filing the annual tax return (1040).
QuickBooks Online (QBO) helps small business owners to perform some of these important tasks:
- Track income & expenses
- Maximize tax deductions
- Create invoice & accept payments
- Capture & organize receipts
- Run reports
- Send estimates
- Track sales and sales tax
- Manage & pay bills
To learn more about their comparison, visit this website: https://quickbooks.intuit.com/pricing/. It has in-depth information about the features and pricing of each program.
For mileage tracker, it's currently a beta version in QBO. However, you can manually track mileage by setting up an employee as a vendor. Then, create an expense account and a product/service item for mileage. Once done, enter a bill to track it. See this article for detailed steps: How To Track Mileage.
I also understand that being able to track your assets and bills in QBSE would be very convenient for your business. I want you to know that I'll take note of this, and make sure to pass along your feedback. To help you keep updated about the program innovations, I suggest checking out our blog posts.
In case you want a step-by-step guide before using the Online version, I’d suggest watching these video tutorials. This article helps you get started, set up products and services, use reports, connect accounts, and all information about the software.
Just drop me a line below if there's anything else you need. Have a great day, @ellsworthtile.
