For drivers of company cars and the small employers who provide them: each journey is logged as business, commute or private, with date, route and kilometres, and at year end you have a record of business kilometres to support the BIK calculation.
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Sales rep in Cork with a company car. Each working day he logs his calls to customers in Munster; the drive from home to the office is marked as commuting, weekend trips as private. By October the running total shows 38,000 business kilometres, and at year end the logbook goes to his employer's payroll to support the BIK band used for his car.
Choose your planWhen an employer gives an employee a car that can also be used privately, the private use is a benefit in kind and is taxed through payroll. For company cars, the amount depends on the car's value, its emissions and the business kilometres driven in the year.
Business kilometres are the ones that lower the charge, so they need to be backed up. Revenue's guidance expects records such as a logbook showing the journeys, and commuting between home and the normal place of work does not count as business travel.
Many drivers only start thinking about this when payroll asks for the year's business kilometres, and then try to rebuild the year from calendars and fuel receipts. The result is a guess that is hard to defend.
The app keeps the logbook as you go. For each journey you record the date, where you started and where you went, the purpose of the trip and the kilometres. Regular destinations — customers, sites, the office — are saved, so logging a familiar trip takes a few taps.
Each trip is marked as business, commute or private. The app reminds you that the drive between home and your normal workplace is commuting, so the business total is not inflated by mistake.
A running total shows business kilometres for the year so far against the kilometre bands used for company car BIK, so you can see early in the year where you are likely to land.
Odometer readings at the start and end of the year, and when the car is changed, can be added so the logbook total can be checked against the car itself.
At year end the logbook is ready as a dated PDF and a spreadsheet: every journey, the totals by type and the business kilometres for the year. You keep it for Revenue and give a copy to your employer's payroll.
Small employers with several company cars can see each driver's totals in one place and collect the logbooks at year end without chasing paper.
Getting started takes a few minutes: your car, its registration and your usual destinations. It works in the browser on your phone, with nothing to install.
The app is built for company-car drivers and small employers in Ireland. It is in preparation: we are checking whether drivers and employers need it before it is built.
The app keeps your trip records; it is not tax advice, and the employer remains responsible for the BIK calculation in payroll.
For company cars, the BIK charge depends partly on the business kilometres driven in the year, so they need to be recorded.
No, commuting between home and your normal place of work is not business travel; the app marks it separately.
A dated logbook as PDF and spreadsheet with every journey and the year's business kilometres.
No. The app keeps your records; the employer remains responsible for the BIK calculation.
Not yet. The app is in preparation, and we are checking whether drivers and employers need it.