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If your new app starts counting from zero in September, every mile it records is priced at 45p, including the ones that should have dropped to 25p because of driving you did in May. Your claim ends up wrong in the direction HMRC cares about.",[11,23,24],{},"Bring the old trips across and the banding is calculated over the whole year, as it should be.",[15,26,28],{"id":27},"getting-the-data-out","Getting the data out",[11,30,31,32,36,37,40],{},"Most mileage apps can export a CSV, usually somewhere in settings under export, reports or backup. What you want is one row per journey with, at minimum, a ",[33,34,35],"strong",{},"date"," and a ",[33,38,39],{},"distance",". Anything else is a bonus:",[42,43,44,48,51,54],"ul",{},[45,46,47],"li",{},"Start and end location",[45,49,50],{},"Start time",[45,52,53],{},"Business or personal",[45,55,56],{},"Notes or purpose",[11,58,59],{},"If your old app can only email you a PDF report, you can still type the trips in by hand. Tedious, but a one-off.",[15,61,63],{"id":62},"check-three-things-before-importing","Check three things before importing",[11,65,66,69],{},[33,67,68],{},"Units."," Is the distance column miles or kilometres? Getting this wrong inflates or shrinks a whole year of claims.",[11,71,72,75,76,80,81,84],{},[33,73,74],{},"Date format."," UK exports are usually ",[77,78,79],"code",{},"dd\u002Fmm\u002Fyyyy",", but apps built elsewhere often use ",[77,82,83],{},"mm\u002Fdd\u002Fyyyy",". If the first twelve rows look plausible and the rest look mad, this is why.",[11,86,87,90,91,94,95,98],{},[33,88,89],{},"What \"category\" means."," Some apps export ",[77,92,93],{},"Business","\u002F",[77,96,97],{},"Personal",", others use custom categories like \"Client visit\" or \"Commute\". You will want to know which is which before you map the column.",[15,100,102],{"id":101},"bringing-it-into-milesheet","Bringing it into Milesheet",[11,104,105,106,109],{},"Settings, then Export & backup, then ",[33,107,108],{},"Import trips from CSV",". The wizard is three steps:",[111,112,113,119,125],"ol",{},[45,114,115,118],{},[33,116,117],{},"Pick the file."," Milesheet reads the header row and works out which column is which, including the common naming from other apps.",[45,120,121,124],{},[33,122,123],{},"Check the mapping."," Every field is a dropdown. Point Date and Distance at the right columns, set miles or kilometres, choose what unlabelled rows should become, and pick which vehicle they belong to.",[45,126,127,130],{},[33,128,129],{},"Preview and import."," You see how many trips parsed cleanly and how many rows could not be read, then confirm.",[11,132,133],{},"Anything that duplicates a trip already in Milesheet is skipped, so importing the same file twice is harmless. Rows with an unreadable date or distance are reported rather than silently dropped.",[15,135,137],{"id":136},"after-the-import","After the import",[11,139,140],{},"Two things worth doing:",[42,142,143,150],{},[45,144,145,146,149],{},"Open ",[33,147,148],{},"Insights"," and check the tax-year total looks like your year. If it is wildly out, the units or the date format were probably wrong; delete the imported trips and try again.",[45,151,152,153,156],{},"Tag your regular places in ",[33,154,155],{},"Locations",". Once the office and your usual sites are tagged, Milesheet sorts most future trips for you.",[11,158,159],{},"Then carry on driving. 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