Add your home postcode once, then a site postcode the first time you use it — DayGraft calculates the driving distance and applies HMRC's simplified rate automatically, without you measuring a single route by hand.
Enter a site postcode once and DayGraft remembers the distance from home for that site every time you log a day there afterwards.
55p per mile for the first 10,000 business miles in the tax year, then 25p after — updated automatically from the rate that changed on 6 April 2026, the first rise since 2011. Earlier tax years correctly keep the old 45p rate.
Work two sites in one day and DayGraft works out the real route — home to first site to second site to home — rather than assuming two separate round trips and overstating your claim.
Mileage is a personal tax deduction, not something a contractor pays you for — DayGraft keeps it entirely separate from your weekly statement, exactly as HMRC intends.
If you logged weeks of hours before setting up mileage, DayGraft can apply the correct figure to already-logged days without deleting anything — including handling a mileage rate that changed partway through the year.
HMRC's simplified mileage rate: 55p per mile for the first 10,000 business miles in a tax year, then 25p after that. This rose from 45p on 6 April 2026. DayGraft applies whichever rate applied at the time, so figures for earlier tax years are unaffected.
That depends on your own circumstances. HMRC's simplified rate generally applies to travel to a temporary workplace, not ordinary commuting to a permanent one. DayGraft calculates the distance and the allowance figure, but doesn't judge whether a specific journey qualifies — check with an accountant if you're unsure.
Automatically, from postcodes. Add your home postcode once in Settings, then a site's postcode the first time you use it — DayGraft calculates the distance and remembers it for next time.
DayGraft detects same-day entries at different sites and works out a sensible total route — home to the first site, to the second, and home again — rather than counting two full round trips and overstating the claim.
No, and it shouldn't be. Mileage is a personal tax deduction against your own income, not part of what a contractor owes you for the work. DayGraft keeps it out of the statement entirely.
Yes, in Simple Hours. Set the correct mileage figure on the job, and a section appears to apply it to already-logged days — either the whole tax year or from a specific date, and it can be run more than once if your mileage changed partway through the year.
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