Guest post by Jon Brinlee
If you are anything like me, you are looking for anything to help with managing your finances. In both your personal expenses and your ministry expenses. There are a couple of great apps that can help you manage these things. Some require a subscription, while some are free.
First of all, let's talk about tracking your miles. The most obvious and probably the most used app for tracking mileage is MileIQ. Created by mobile Data Labs Inc., MileIQ does a great Job tracking your miles. Once downloaded and opened you will be prompted to create an account. Then you will need to enable location tracking, this is how the app works. Once you finish, and after you drive a half mile the app will record it as a drive.
When a drive is complete you will need to classify the drive as personal or business. By swiping to the right you are classifying the drive as business. It will record the mileage, then it will give you the potential cost of that drive, based upon current mileage standards. You get 40 drives for free. Anything over 40 drives requires a subscription. The subscription is $5.99/mo or $59.99/yr. This is a great app and many of our pastors use it to track their mileage.
Other mileage trackers include Everlance, Mileage Tracker by Drivers, TripLog, Stride, and Quickbooks Self-Employed. Most of these have in-app purchases, meaning for the whole experience you will have to pay something. All of these apps are available on both Apple and Android devices. Next time we will discuss tracking your expenses.
The Teaching Technoid is a series by guest writer Jon Brinlee. If you would like to suggest an app for review or if you have any questions about this or any other app you can email him at ja4slovenia@gmail.com.