Child Care 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.

Snacks, supplies, licensing fees, even the room where you run your daycare — a family child care business has real costs most templates never think to ask about.

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 grocery and supply runs, field trips and outings with the children, licensing and compliance visits, professional development courses, equipment 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 child care work — no tax-code knowledge needed
• A Tax Summary tab, live Dashboard, and Budget that total and organize every cost on their own
• The percentage of your home you use for daycare, your licensing and CPR renewals, even the snacks you serve — each has its own line on Schedule C, sorted the moment you log it.
• 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:
• Licensed home daycare and family child care providers
• In-home caregivers navigating Time-Space Percentage deductions
• Providers using the IRS standard meal and snack allowance
• Daycare providers who drive for supplies, outings, and licensing visits

I designed this ledger myself — the category logic, the Schedule C mapping, the formulas, the dashboard, and the mobile forms are all my own work, built for how a family child care provider 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.