Maker Expense & Mileage Ledger | Schedule C Tax Spreadsheet (Google Sheets)

Form to sheet: log it in-the-moment on a Google Form on your phone, and the entry lands organized in your Google Sheet. No app, no re-typing. That's how every Ledger & Light tool works.

Your business costs and your business miles, logged from your phone into one sheet.

A bolt of fabric, a jug of resin, a sheet of vinyl — those are inventory. A Glowforge or heat press is equipment. A booth at the next craft fair is neither. A handmade shop buys in all three directions at once, and the tax form treats each one differently.

Your Expense & Mileage Ledger keeps those costs and your business miles together in one sheet. Log an expense or a trip from your phone and it lands sorted and totaled on its own — and the miles you drive for supply runs, post-office and shipping trips, craft fairs and markets, and materials pickups become a running deduction at the IRS standard mileage rate.

✓ WHAT YOU GET:
• Your Expense & Mileage Ledger for Google Sheets — a private copy link arrives with your instant Etsy download
• A setup instruction PDF, delivered the moment you check out
• An Expense Form and a Mileage Form, both opening in any browser — no app to install
• A short email tips sequence after you finish setup

✓ KEY FEATURES:
• IRS Schedule C categories built for maker work — no tax-code knowledge needed
• A Tax Summary tab, live Dashboard, and Budget that total and organize every cost on their own
• A heat press or cutting machine depreciates on Line 13, the vinyl and blanks it shapes belong in Part III cost of goods sold, and studio or maker-space rent files under Line 20b rent or lease — three homes on one form, kept straight all year
• Mileage Log with the current IRS standard mileage rate applied on its own
• Mileage Form on your phone — odometer start, end, destination, and purpose in one submit
• Customize Forms tab to add your own trip purposes to the Mileage Form dropdown
• Costs and mileage in one sheet — a single Tax Summary tab covers both at year end

✓ HOW IT WORKS:
1. Check out and download your instruction PDF from Etsy right away
2. Open your Expense & Mileage Ledger from the link inside, then Make a Copy into your own Drive
3. Set up your sheet and Mileage Form, then log expenses and trips from your phone as you go

✓ PERFECT FOR:
• Sewists, potters, woodworkers, and anyone who makes what they sell by hand, with the make-cost of each piece in view
• Craft-fair and artisan-show vendors carrying booth charges, canopy, and table rent across a season
• Print-on-demand and digital-download shops watching base cost against payout, plus the Etsy bill each month
• Makers whose week includes a photo shoot, a wholesale drop-off, and a Saturday craft fair, all of it mileage worth deducting

I designed this ledger myself — every category in it started as a question about a handmade shop: where a Glowforge lands on the return, which pile a bolt of fabric belongs in, what a booth charge counts as. I built the sheet around those answers, for how a maker really spends and drives.

Your instruction PDF is available immediately after purchase — no waiting, no shipping.

These tools help you stay organized. I'm not a CPA and nothing here is tax advice — your accountant has the final word.

The spreadsheet system, formulas, and tax categories are my own original design; AI tools assisted with the decorative illustrations.