Every showing is a deduction.

Smart Miles is designed for all-day use. It uses motion detection to activate GPS only when you're driving, and switches to low-power heartbeat mode when stationary. Most users see minimal battery impact — comparable to having Google Maps installed.

Yes. Smart Miles captures every field needed for mileage deductions: date, destination, business purpose, and miles driven. Records are created contemporaneously (at the time of travel), which is what the IRS recommends for substantiation. Export a CSV with all fields for your accountant or tax software.

Absolutely. Tap the + button to manually add a trip with start/end locations, date, time, and purpose. The app calculates the driving distance automatically.

Smart Miles offers three tiers of auto-classification (frequent trip rules, work hours, and manual), accurate road-level routes, and a full web dashboard — all included. We never delete your unclassified trips, and we don't gate exports behind a premium plan.

Smart Miles includes the official IRS Standard Mileage Rates, updated whenever the IRS changes them. For 2026 (as of July 1): Business at $0.76/mile, Medical/Moving at $0.235/mile, and Charity at $0.14/mile. You can also set custom rates if your employer reimburses at a different amount.

Yes. Every Smart Miles account includes a web dashboard where you can view, edit, filter, and export your trips from any browser. Same data, bigger screen.

It depends on your tax situation. If your home office qualifies as your principal place of business, then driving from home to a showing or client meeting is generally deductible. If your brokerage office is your principal place of business, commuting from home to the office is not deductible — but driving from the office to showings is. This is one of the areas where we strongly recommend talking to your CPA, because the rules around home offices and principal places of business are specific to your circumstances.

Most agents use the standard mileage rate (76 cents per mile in 2026) because it's simpler and often results in a comparable or larger deduction. The actual expense method requires tracking every vehicle cost — gas, insurance, maintenance, depreciation — and calculating the business-use percentage. Either way, you need a mileage log. Smart Miles gives you one automatically.

Smart Miles tracks every trip. When you review your drives, swipe personal errands to the left (Personal) and business trips to the right (Business). If you've set up work hours, most of this happens automatically — you only need to reclassify the exceptions.

The IRS recommends a contemporaneous mileage log with the date, start and end locations, business purpose, and miles driven for each trip. "Contemporaneous" means recorded close to when it happened — not reconstructed from memory at tax time. Smart Miles creates this record automatically with GPS, so your logs are always current and complete. Export a CSV and you have everything an auditor would ask for.