Driving to shows adds up, and it's one of the easiest costs to lose track of. This short video shows how FairKeep handles mileage and pulls a season together into a tax report.
Mileage Without a Logbook
FairKeep works out the round-trip miles to each show from your home address. It then values those miles at your mileage rate, so you can see what the driving is worth for each show without keeping a separate log.
One Tax Report
The tax report 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.
The mileage also matters when you're judging a show. A far-away event has to earn more to be worth it, which is where income per hour and the booth fee reports come in.
Try It Yourself
The step-by-step guide on the FairKeep site walks through tracking your mileage screen by screen, so you can follow along at your own pace. FairKeep is free to start and doesn't ask for a credit card, so you can set up an account and try it 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.
I recorded this video on a demo account for a made-up candle company, so the shows, names and numbers on screen are examples, not real data. For the bigger picture of what FairKeep does, see my FairKeep overview, and for the free calculators and tools that sit alongside it, the VendorTools hub.
More short how-tos on the VARØ Industries YouTube channel.