Top 5 tips for new users

New to MileIQ? Welcome aboard! 🚗 Here are five smart tips to help you get the most out of your mileage tracking from the start:

1. Personalize Your Experience

Make MileIQ work for you with a few easy customizations:

Named Locations: Give your frequently visited places custom names (like “Main Office” or “Client HQ”) so they’re easier to recognize and classify.
Custom Purposes: Move beyond just “Business” and “Personal.” Create tailored categories like “Volunteer Work,” “Client A,” or “Tax Deductible.”
Vehicles: Add your vehicles to track mileage per car. Start with your current odometer reading for accurate reporting.

👉 Pro tip: Custom purposes also make it easy to track multiple businesses if you juggle more than one.

The more often you classify, the easier it is to stay organized (and avoid a month-end rush!).

Add a Home Screen Shortcut: Place MileIQ front and center on your home screen for quick access.
📲 iPhone instructions | 🤖 Android instructions
Make It Routine: Set a recurring calendar reminder (weekly or bi-weekly) to review and classify your drives.
📅 Set it up in Google Calendar | Outlook Calendar
Idle Time = Drive Time: Waiting for coffee? In line at the store? Take 30 seconds to classify a few drives.

Drives may take up to 15 minutes to appear in the app after ending, so be patient!
Gamify It: Challenge yourself! Try classifying yesterday’s drives before you finish your morning coffee or aim for a 100% classification streak this month.
Learn how to classify drives

Let MileIQ do the heavy lifting for you:

Set Work Hours: Define your working hours and MileIQ will auto-label trips outside those hours as Personal.
Frequent Drive Detection: Drives you take often can be automatically classified with your preferred label.

👉 Bonus: You can always override any automatic classification if your routine changes.

Take control of your drive history with the powerful MileIQ Web Dashboard:

Search Drives: Quickly find trips by date, purpose, vehicle, or location.
Bulk Classify: Select and classify multiple drives at once—perfect for catching up quickly.
Edit and Annotate: Add notes, adjust distances, change vehicles, or update purposes with ease.
Build Custom Reports: Generate detailed reports filtered by business, vehicle, custom purposes, and more.

Get helpful insights and reminders delivered right to your inbox:

Weekly Mileage Summary Emails: See your drive value, get classification reminders, and enjoy tips to stay on track.
Drive Detection Alerts: If drive detection stops working, we’ll alert you so you can fix it before missing any mileage.
Product Updates: Be the first to know about new features and improvements to help you get even more from MileIQ.

You're all set! These tips will help you get more mileage out of your tracking—literally and figuratively. Enjoy the ride!