The shift log and its columns
Finding a shift, what each figure against it means, and editing or deleting one.
Last checked 12/09/2026.
What it is
The Shifts tab: every shift you have logged in the selected tax year, newest first. Each one is a card showing the date, the platform, the times, the hours, the business miles and the earnings, plus True £/hr and Take-home pay, the figures worth reading per shift. The coloured bar down the left is the platform's own colour, so a week of mixed work can be read at a glance.
Nothing is hidden: open a shift and it lists every figure, Compare ranks your shifts by any one of them, and the exports carry all of them. Search and the filters find a shift by platform, date or notes.
What the figures mean
| Figure | What it is |
|---|---|
| Business mi | Claimable miles only. Your commute is excluded. |
| Total mi | Business plus commuting. This is what the fuel cost is based on. |
| Fuel | Cost for all miles, at the price saved with that shift. |
| Business fuel | Cost for the business miles alone. |
| Allowance | The HMRC mileage allowance the shift earned. |
| Rate | What that works out at per business mile. A shift straddling the 10,000-mile threshold shows its blended rate. |
| Tax | The difference this shift made to your running tax estimate for the year. |
| Current balance | Earnings minus every cost and estimated tax. |
| Take-home pay | Earnings minus business fuel, insurance and tax only. |
Editing a shift
Open a shift and press Edit, and the wizard reopens with everything filled in. One thing worth knowing: an edited shift keeps the fuel price it was logged at, not today's. Correcting the notes on a shift from six months ago does not re-price its fuel. If a shift genuinely was priced wrong, you can change the price on the review step, and that changes only that shift.
Deleting a shift
Deleting removes it from every figure it fed - the year totals, the tax estimate, your mileage ring. That is the right behaviour and it is not reversible, so a full backup before a clear-out is worth the thirty seconds.
Mistakes to avoid
- Expecting the log to show another tax year. Change the tax year on the Earnings tab first.
- Deleting a shift to start it again. Edit it instead, and it keeps the fuel price it was logged at.
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