Travel Log | Brick Books guides

If you drive for the business, Brick Books can keep a record of where you went, how far you travelled and what the trip was for.

Recording a Trip

Three ways to give a trip a distance: saved places worked out for you, the difference between two odometer readings, or typing it in.

There are three ways to enter the distance, starting with the quickest:

Saved places. Save places you use regularly, such as home, the post office or a supplier. After that, choose the start and destination and Brick Books works out the road distance for you.
Odometer readings. Enter the start and end readings and Brick Books uses the difference as the distance travelled.
Type it in. If you already know the distance, just enter it yourself.

Return Trips

Tick Return trip and Brick Books doubles a typed or looked-up one-way distance.

It does not double a distance calculated from odometer readings, because those readings already cover the journey you actually made.

Kilometres or Miles

You choose this during setup and Brick Books uses that unit everywhere afterwards.

If you picked the wrong one, change it under Set Up → Travel Log.

Keep the log as you go

Record trips when you make them, or catch up regularly while the details are still fresh.

A travel log built from actual trips is much more useful than trying to reconstruct months of driving from memory at the end of the year.

What You Can Claim Is Not Decided Here

Brick Books records the trip, the distance and what you said it was for.

It does not decide whether a journey is deductible or which vehicle-expense method applies to you. That depends on your country and your circumstances.

The finished travel log gives you, or your accountant, the record needed to work from.

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