Intuit QuickBooks for Business: Mileage tracking frustrations with QuickBooks
Users are experiencing significant frustration with the mileage tracking feature in Intuit QuickBooks for Business due to its unreliability and the need for manual entry of trips. The auto tracking functionality is often ineffective, leading to missed trips and the necessity for users to repeatedly log their mileage manually.
7 different people have complained about this since 03 Oct 2024, most recently on 29 Oct 2026. 1 of them in the last 30 days.
- “Any claim about it being simple and straightforward is bogus as I’m having to regularly go back and manually add missed trips because of course I’m signed out again.”
- “Intuit QuickBooks for Business — Mileage auto tracking is useless.”
- “It’s a pain having to manually log every trip you do everyday!”
7 people in 8 posts across 1 source · 1 in the last 30 days, 2 in the 30 before
The pain
shares of 7 peopleWhat goes wrong, and for whom
- Who
- 7 people using Intuit QuickBooks for Business
- What goes wrong
- Automatic mileage tracking fails to record drives7 people · 100%
- Asks for login or verification code repeatedly3 people · 43%
- Since
- 03 Oct 2024 → 29 Oct 2026
Is this a startup idea?
Not directly. These are complaints about a product or service people already use — the fix belongs first to that provider.
- Complaints are about
- Intuit QuickBooks for Business
- Looking for something else
- 0% want an alternative · 25% ask the provider for a feature
- What the numbers say
- Almost nobody is looking for a different product — people want this provider to fix it, not a new option.
The pain — what people say
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What people were doing
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- Complaint675%
- Request225%
Sources
8 signals · 1 sources
Evidence
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…bitrary times, and because of this will stop tracking your mileage. Any claim about it being simple and straightforward is bogus as I’m having to regularly go back and manually add missed trips because of course I’m signed out again.
Manual workIntuit QuickBooks for Business — Mileage auto tracking is useless Mileage auto tracking works 1/10 trips, if that. Even when all troubleshooting steps have been taken, and all checkmarks appear on the setup screen, it never tracks mileage.
Strong complaint…d they’re looking into it and will get back to me, but they never do. It’s a pain having to manually log every trip you do everyday!
Manual workIntuit QuickBooks for Business — Mileage tracking nightmare All settings are set, correct according to QuickBooks silent logout are probably the main problem, but the app for the last few months has not been tracking accurately and for the last few weeks, not at all! Now I must go in and reconstruct everything from…
Intuit QuickBooks for Business — Highly Unreliable Mileage Tracker This app used to reliably track my mileage. Now, it auto tracks one out of every 10, maybe. Updated to add: Intuit’s response was to send me instructions on how setup the tracking feature. As previously stated, I’ve been tracking my mileage. The app…
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Score unchanged at 39.7 · 04 Nov 2026, 17:00 → 18:15 UTC
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Questions about this idea
- Is Mileage tracking frustrations with QuickBooks a startup idea?
- Not directly. These are complaints about a product or service people already use, and the fix belongs first to that provider. The page shows what is frustrating users and how badly — not an open market to start a company in.
- How many people have this problem?
- 7 different people described it independently, in 8 mentions, the earliest from 03 Oct 2024 and the most recent from 29 Oct 2026. The quotes, with dates and links to the originals, are in the Evidence section.
- Is this problem getting worse?
- Status: steady — no change the counts can show. 1 people raised it in the last 30 days and 2 in the 30 days before; the status compares its share of everything collected from the same source, so collecting more or less cannot create a trend.
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