WooHoo! Now you can name your buttons. We received requests from folks who ran multiple businesses to be able to name their buttons. Well, if you want, now you can Name Your Buttons! You can change the top three button names and switch between deductible and non-deductible for each button. Here is a video on how this works. [embed]https://youtu.be/J-lOSLQNsBo%20[/embed]
The widget is designed to make switching status easy. All you have to do is pull down the menu and press a button. But, it also does something else for you! If you have killed MyRideTrac, the widget will restart the app for you. Simply pull down the widget menu and press a button. Apple users will see a "Start MyRideTrac" button. Android users will just need to press a button and MyRideTrac will automatically start. We did this because many folks didn't want to remember to start the app. By the way, you don't need to kill the app. It is very happy to stay running in the background. Here is a quick how-to video: [embed]https://youtu.be/9_LFzI_MbX4[/embed]
Yes! If you are using iCloud , switching phones is easy (see the SETTINGS screen). Just install MyRideTrac on your phone and start it up. It will automatically start restoring your backup data. This works if you lost your old phone or are upgrading your phone. Note: Free version of MyRideTrac on Android phones does not backup. Be sure to use the SEND REPORT feature to send the data in spreadsheet form to your email. Of course there are limitations... you can't go from Android to Apple or vice versa. But, you can always use SEND REPORT to send a spreadsheet with your data to your self. You can then combine spreadsheets for reporting for taxes. It's that easy!
Both Android and iOS manage the active applications in memory. Even if you have a 128Gb phone, not all of it is allocated to actively running programs. Most of it is used to store programs and their data BUT NOT RUN THEM. When your active program memory starts to run low, the operating system (Android/iOS) starts to put applications into hibernation - essentially shutting them down. It starts with background apps because they are... well... running in the background. When a tracking app gets put into hibernation, it stops tracking you! We were frustrated with the other tracking apps missing trips... and it was because they were put to sleep by the operating system! MyRideTrac gives you a choice to close apps before the operating system does. That…
Remember to change the PREVIOUS YEAR / CURRENT YEAR tax rates on the settings screen. The IRS mileage rate for 2020 is $0.58 and the 2019 rate is $0.575. By changing these settings, MyRideTrac will report your current and last year deductions appropriately.
MyRideTrac is designed to always be running in the background. Here's why It tracks your mileage using the GPS in the phone. To track your mileage, it has to be running. It runs in the background, because you are using your rideshare app in the foreground. MyRideTrac backs itself up to your iCloud or Google Drive automatically. It does this several times per day. It has to be running in the background to do the backup. If you kill the app, it WILL NOT backup your data!!! It backs up your data at approximately noon, midnight and every 3,000 GPS pings. The widget can be used on top of your rideshare app. It talks to MyRideTrac in the background to change your status... go ahead and see. Change your…
You can name each vehicle you want to track in MyRideTrac by keying a unique vehicle name in the settings screen. When you want to change vehicles, just go to the Settings Screen and type in the name of the vehicle you want to track (e.g. "Kens Honda", or "Infiniti"). MyRideTrac will immediately begin tracking your miles under the vehicle name in the Settings Screen. When you want to change back, just type in the vehicle name in the Settings Screen. If you are currently in a ride, you should hit STOP to end the current ride before switching vehicle names. Whatever vehicle name is current is what gets logged when you switch your status (from RIDER to NORIDER for example).
Both Android and iOS use the onboard GPS system. MyRideTrac works by dropping "bread crumbs" to track your driving. If you go behind buildings or take your phone and walk a distance with MyRideTrac in RIDER/NORIDER/PERSONAL mode, it will be recording your track. Use the STOP button when you want to turn of recording. You don't need to kill the app, the STOP button does the trick.
If you hit the wrong button, just hit the right button. MyRideTrac is constantly tracking your miles and tagging those miles with an event status (RIDER/NORIDER/PERSONAL). When you press a button, it changes the tag on the next distance traveled. If you want to fix an erroneous entry, you can do so on the detail spreadsheet that is sent when you use the SEND REPORT feature. Every event and its miles will be represented by a row in the spreadsheet, you can simply change the event tag. (see picture below)
You may need to "swipe" up on the MyRideTrac widget in the notifications menu. Doing so will display the buttons. If you get a lot of notifications, it may be pushed down on the list. Here is a quick video showing the widget in action. [embed]https://youtu.be/9_LFzI_MbX4[/embed]
