Owner Driver
Coming to the App Store
Upload your manifest in the morning. Drive your route. Upload the statement when you’re paid. Owner Driver turns all of it into MTD-ready records and sends those confirmed records to your accounting software.
See how it works
Most courier apps can scan a receipt and track mileage. What they can’t do is follow through into finished, MTD-ready accounts. Owner Driver can, because it was built by a courier who knows how a shift actually runs. Everything gets captured during the workday with minimal fuss, saved automatically, and held ready to check against your statement. No more Sunday nights at the kitchen table. No more guessing where you stand with your tax and VAT.
32 seconds of the real app. A manifest goes in, a recorded workday comes out. No sound needed.
PDF, photo or screenshot. Most depots send it on WhatsApp, and that’s fine: screenshot it straight from the group chat and Owner Driver reads it on your phone. That’s your day started, with the route and expected pay on record.
Start mileage, finish mileage. Snap receipts as they happen. The app doesn’t need you again until you’re back.
Owner Driver matches it to your workdays and lays out every deduction and the VAT. Nothing counts as income until you’ve looked.
An accountant-ready workbook whenever you want it, and confirmed mileage and expenses sent to QuickBooks, Xero or FreeAgent for you.
You do two things in Owner Driver: upload, and confirm. The rest happens on its own.
The app reads the manifest into a workday. Your two odometer readings become the day’s confirmed business mileage. A snapped receipt is categorised and stored as evidence. When the statement lands, the app matches it to the days it paid for, lays out the gross, every deduction and the VAT, and puts each deduction in the right tax box for you to approve. You check what it found and tap confirm. That’s the whole job.
And it always shows you where you stand:
Five lights on the Dashboard: VAT, tax, deadlines, VAT pot, this week. They update as your records confirm. Green is fine, amber is worth a look, red needs you.
Income tax and National Insurance worked out on your profit so far, with a figure to set aside. The January bill stops being a surprise.
Anything needing you becomes a door: a workday awaiting its statement, an overdue payment, a receipt to confirm. Empty means you’re up to date.
Flat Rate or standard, plus the £90,000 registration watch. If your DSP or accountant holds a VAT pot, you get an independent check on it: the difference is shown, and nothing is concluded for you.
Each quarter totals itself from your records. Anything still holding it open is listed, with a door straight to fixing it.
The full workbook: every figure evidenced, categorised and ready for your accountant or accounting software to file from.
Net pay recorded as turnover, so the deductions are claimed twice or not at all.
Van rental claimed on top of the mileage rate.
Statements that never got matched to the days they paid for.
A VAT pot “taken care of” by someone else, with no way to check it.
Miles estimated at year end, not read off the dash on the day.
Receipts in a drawer with no business-use decision recorded.
Quarterly MTD totals built from a bank feed that only ever saw the net.
Expenses typed into the accounting software and on a spreadsheet.
Switching DSP and losing the records that lived in the old company’s system.
Discovering all of it in January.
Your records live in your own account, not your carrier’s. Change DSP tomorrow and nothing moves. If HMRC ever asks, the evidence is already there, kept for the five years they require.
The thresholds come down every year. Over £50,000 is in it now, over £30,000 from April 2027, and over £20,000 planned from April 2028. If you are under them today, you probably won’t be for long.
Start recording now and by the time your turn comes your evidence is already years deep. Nothing to migrate, nothing to catch up on, no scramble the month it applies to you. Owner Driver grows with your business instead of being another job you take on when the deadline lands.
Fifteen years driving for the big carriers. Fifteen years of Sunday nights at the kitchen table with a spreadsheet, a shoebox of receipts and a bad mood. I built Owner Driver for me. Now it’s yours.
It’s not another carrier app, it’s not an employer and it’s not a job board. It’s your own record of the work you did, the miles you drove and the money you’re owed. Ready for Making Tax Digital.
Instead of a mileage app, a receipt app, a spreadsheet and an evening with your statements. This is the launch price for couriers who get in early, and when it rises you stay on it. There’s no free trial to remember to cancel: your first recorded shift is already real bookkeeping, so the app earns its keep from day one. Cancel any time in your Apple account.