Driving to shows adds up, and it's one of the easiest costs to lose track of. This short is the quick version: give a show a location and FairKeep logs the round-trip mileage for your tax records. The full walkthrough post on mileage and the tax report goes deeper.
Mileage Without a Logbook
FairKeep works out the round-trip miles to each show from your home address, then values those miles at your mileage rate. You can see what the driving is worth for each show without keeping a separate log in the glovebox.
Where It Ends Up
The full walkthrough also covers the tax report, which puts the main numbers for your season on one page:
- Income
- Booth fees
- Expenses
- Mileage
Having it in one place beats digging through receipts and calendar entries at tax time.
Check with a pro: FairKeep does the math, but I'm not a tax preparer. Check the numbers with your tax preparer before you file.
Mileage matters when you're judging a show, too. A far-away event has to earn more to be worth it, which is where income per hour comes in. For the whole picture, read the craft fair mileage and tax report walkthrough.
FairKeep is free to start and doesn't ask for a credit card, so you can try FairKeep with your own shows. If you haven't seen the app before, the two-minute tour of FairKeep covers the dashboard, events, applications, calendar, packing list, reports and integrations in one pass, and my FairKeep overview has the bigger picture. For the free calculators and tools that sit alongside it, see the VendorTools hub.
More short how-tos on the VARØ Industries YouTube channel.