Mileage Tracker is a new tool from The Miles Consultancy, the UK’s market leading mileage capture specialist to help employees record their business journeys in a quick and easy way, and to review their previously entered journey information.
As a user, Mileage Tracker is integrated with your corporate mileage capture application from TMC and allows you to keep your records up to date painlessly and seamlessly.
MILEAGE TRACKER – tracking and recording mileages
This neat mobile app allows you to track your journey for yourself. You press start at the beginning of your business trip and the application uses GPS to track your exact journey. Whenever you have reached your destination you can stop the tracker and the app will ask you for the purpose of your trip, the app will already know how many miles you have travelled, as well as your start and ending postcodes. On typing the purpose you can submit the details and these update your personal mileage account.
And, if you don’t want to use the tracker, you can use the postcode to postcode mileage entry facility, merely type the number of miles, from and to postcodes and the reason for your trip, and once again this will be uploaded to your personal mileage account.
Creating and maintaining your daily trip log couldn’t be simpler, and allows you to reduce your regular administration tasks and remain compliant with policy.
MILEAGE TRACKER – recording VAT fuel receipts
If there is a corporate requirement for you to upload your fuel receipts the app makes this as simple as possible. Enter the key details from the receipt, such as date, amount and number of litres purchased, and then take a photo, or upload from your photo library. The full details, including the image of the receipt will be uploaded to your personal mileage account.
MILEAGE TRACKER – notifications
Should there be any problems with your mileage entries then the app will let you know, enabling to log into your personal account whenever next convenient.
MILEAGE CAPTURE AND FUEL MANAGEMENT – Corporate System
The Mileage Tracker app is integrated with the Mileage Capture corporate system from TMC.
This solution is the market leading application and service to enable organisations to gather accurate, compliant and timely business and private mileage information to carry out validation and audit.
The solution is also integrated with the UK’s fuel card providers as well as TMC’s own fuel card to allow mileages and fuel to be aligned to help drive substantial savings for a corporate fleet.
This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease device battery life
The mobile app UX is extremely poor. It feels like collection of & maximisation of movement data has been given higher or equal priority to user experience.
I’ve used the app for over 2.5 years and there’s no obvious attempt at modernisation or improvement in any way to benefit the poor end users that are burdened with its use.
Postcodes known to be true are often rejected. The auto track functionality is so glitchy, the additional admin burden to verify accuracy makes the features use avoidable at all cost.
Manual calculation of distance by postcode makes consultation with google maps or another 3rd party app necessary and time consuming; highliting:
The freely available functionality within google maps is so wildly beyond that of TMC, it really makes you wonder how TMC manages to hoodwink companies into paying for the service. If someone from google was to spend 10 minutes of their lunch break on a competing service, TMC would be out of business within a year.
It would be funny how awful the TMC App is, if it were not for the web hosted version of the service, which is so criminally bad it ought to be used in computer science courses to illustrate how poor UX can actually get.