For Tradespeople

Per Diem, Mileage & Expenses
Tracked for the Road

The expense tracker built for traveling trades. Log per diem and tax-home days across states, snap every receipt, and hand your preparer a CPA-ready report at tax time — W-2 and 1099 assignments each done right.

Why It Matters

Per Diem Is a Five-Figure Line on Your Year

Document it, keep it

A non-taxable per diem needs a tax home and a day-by-day trail. Track it here and more of that money stays yours.

Every state, the right way

Log which state you worked each day so multi-state filing is clean — no reconstructing your year from memory in April.

Nothing in a shoebox

Snap receipts as you go and log mileage at the IRS rate. Tax time is a download, not a weekend.

The Money Toolkit

Everything You Spend to Work, Captured

Per-Diem & Tax-Home Tracker

Set your tax home and every assignment, with a day & state log that supports a non-taxable per diem — based on the GSA rate for where you are.

IRS Mileage Tracker

Log the miles from your tax home to the job at the current IRS rate — one of the biggest deductions travelers miss.

Receipt Capture

Photograph a receipt and it is filed — tools, boots, lodging, whatever it takes to work.

One-Click Expense Report

A split-year summary your tax preparer can run with — W-2 and 1099 assignments each reported the right way, as a clean PDF.

Money-Protected Number

See one running figure — per diem, mileage and expenses — for everything you have documented this year.

Bring a Travel Partner

Add a +1 so a spouse or travel partner tracks their own expenses alongside yours in one household report.

Go Paid — $24.99/mo

The Tool That Pays for Itself

Start free and see your documented number. Go Paid for the full toolkit — unlimited receipts, the mileage tracker, the day & state log and the one-click CPA report — and one assignment’s per diem covers a year of it.

14-day free trial on monthly billing · $249/yr — 2 months free.

FAQ

Expense Tracking, Answered

Is this tax advice?

No — RoadTrades documents what you earn and spend on the road so your own tax preparer has clean records. We track; you and your CPA file.

Does it handle W-2 and 1099 work?

Yes. The report splits your year by assignment so W-2 and 1099 stints are each reported the right way.

What is free vs. Paid?

Free shows your documented number. Paid unlocks unlimited receipts, the mileage tracker, the day & state log and the one-click report.

Can my spouse use it too?

Yes — a +1 household user is included on Paid, so a travel partner tracks alongside you.

Guides

Know the Rules Before You Track

What is per diem?

How per diem works on the road, what the GSA lodging and M&IE rates mean, and when it counts as taxable income.

What is a tax home?

The rule that decides whether your travel expenses are deductible at all — and how you keep one while you are on the road.

How does mileage work?

The IRS standard rate, what counts as a business mile, and what your log has to show.

Keep more of what you earn.

Start free, see your number, and let RoadTrades handle the paper trail.