RyeDC — Rideshare Drivers Companion — keeps the records a rideshare driver has to keep: how far you drove and how much of it was for work, what each trip earned, and when the car was last cleaned. This guide covers every screen in the app.
If anything here is unclear, email hello@ryedc.com and ask.
The main screens each have a menu button in the top left corner. Tap it to open the menu, which is in three groups.
Drive:
Records:
Set up:
Below them are Settings, Help (this document) and Account (linked sign-ins, privacy choices, sign out or delete your account).
Your name is at the top of the menu, with your email under it, or your business name and its ABN or tax number once Business details has what an invoice needs. Tap it to open Business details.
Screens opened from one of those — a drive, a shift, a report — have a back arrow in that corner instead.
The first time you sign in on a phone, the app asks which screen to open on: Mileage, Fare Meter, Around Me or Cleaning Register. Change it any time under Settings › Home Screen.
Menu › Account holds your sign-in and privacy choices, with Sign Out and Delete Account at the bottom:
| Row | What it does |
|---|---|
| Linked Accounts | Link Google or Apple to this account. |
| Help improve the app | Sharing which screens and features you use most. It is never linked to your name or account, and turning it off also stops the crash reports. |
| Ad privacy choices | Change what you agreed to about the ads shown in this app. Shown only where the law requires it. |
| Privacy policy | The full document: what this app records, where it is kept, and how to have it deleted. |
Tap Sign Up on the login screen and fill in your name, your email address and a password, typing the address and the password twice. The password needs at least 8 characters, with upper and lower case letters, a number and a symbol. You can also tap Continue with Google — or, on an iPhone, Continue with Apple — and skip the form.
We send a verification email to the address you gave. Open it and follow the link. If it never arrives, sign in anyway — the app offers to send it again.
Enter your email address and password and tap Login. You stay signed in on that phone until you sign out.
Forgotten the password? Tap Forgot Password?, enter your email address and tap Send Link. A reset link arrives by email.
Account › Linked Accounts shows Google, and on an iPhone Apple as well. Tap Link Account beside one and you can sign in with it from then on, to the same account and the same records. If your Apple ID uses a different email address from the one on your Google account, you can still link them here to access your data from both providers.
Both are at the bottom of Menu › Account.
DELETE to confirm.Export your logbook before you delete. The ATO needs a logbook kept for as long as you rely on it, and then for five years after the last tax return it supports was due.
Almost everything in RyeDC is recorded against a car, so add one before you do anything else.
Menu › Vehicles, then Add Vehicle. You are asked for:
| Field | Notes |
|---|---|
| Vehicle Registration Number | The only one you have to fill in. It is how the car is named everywhere else in the app. |
| Name/Business Name | Optional. Printed on the cleaning register report. |
| Accreditation Number | Optional. Some states require it on the register. |
| Vehicle Make & Model | Optional, but an ATO logbook needs it. |
| Engine Capacity | Optional, in cc — a 2.0 litre engine is 2000 — but an ATO logbook needs it. An electric car has none, so leave it empty. |
Registration numbers have to be unique — the app will not let you add the same one twice.
You can save a car without its make, model or engine capacity. Its logbook then prints Not recorded in their place — right for an electric car's engine, and something to add for anything else, because the ATO asks a logbook to record all three.
One car is the default. The first car you add becomes it, and while you have only one car it always is. The cleaning register, the Mileage screen and any drive the app detects without knowing which car you were in all use it.
To change it, open Menu › Vehicles and tap the tick box on the left of a car's row. Tapping the rest of the row opens that car instead.
With more than one car, you can also tap the car's registration on the Mileage screen and choose another. That car becomes the default, and the whole screen moves to it: its shifts, its drives, its odometer readings and its History. End an open shift first; the screen stays on that car until you do.
Tap a car to open Vehicle Details. Update saves your changes. Delete, below it, removes the car and everything recorded against it: its cleaning register logs, its shifts, its odometer readings, any drives the app recorded in it, and the logbook's record of changes to them. That cannot be undone. If the connection drops part-way through, some of those records may already be gone while the car remains; delete it again once you are back online.
If you use automatic mileage, each car can be matched to the Bluetooth stereo in it, so a detected drive is filed against the right car. The control is Your car on Vehicle Details, and it only appears for a car you have already added. See Your car, under Automatic mileage, below.
The Mileage screen is where your driving is totalled, for your default vehicle. What it shows depends on whether automatic tracking is on. With no default vehicle, it offers Add Vehicle, or Select Vehicle if you already have a car.
The headline figure is the share of this car's distance that was for work, over the current income year. It is worked out as business distance divided by the distance your odometer actually moved — not by the distance the app managed to detect — so a drive the app missed counts against you rather than quietly disappearing. That is the figure a logbook claim rests on.
Business distance is every shift you recorded plus every detected drive filed as business. Fare Meter trips are never counted. Because it is a share of distance, a busy week counts for more than a quiet one.
You can record driving without automatic tracking at all.
The reading is filled in for you. When the figure was worked out rather than read off your dash, a note under it says Estimated; check your dash until you type over it.
At Start Shift, if your reading is 250 km (about 155 mi) or more past the figure filled in, the app shows you the distance and asks whether it is correct. At End Shift it asks the same when the shift covers 250 km or more, or averages more than 100 km/h (about 62 mph).
The distance is the span between the two readings, so it is worked out rather than typed. While a shift is open the Mileage screen shows it, History marks it, and Settings › Automatic Mileage says tracking is paused for it.
Automatic tracking pauses while a shift is open, so the same driving is not recorded twice. It starts again when you end the shift.
If a shift and a detected drive do cover the same hours — a shift started on another phone, say — both are counted. The app flags the shift in History, on the shift itself and above the total in your report, and you delete or edit whichever record is wrong. It never quietly subtracts one from the other, because only you know which is right.
A shift you started and never ended stays open forever, so end it even if you forgot at the time and have to correct the reading afterwards.
Open a shift and, under Where, tap its start or its end to set the suburb. Your logbook prints where a shift ended as that journey's destination. The suburb is all the logbook needs.
With automatic tracking on, Add a shift manually on the Mileage screen shows the Start Shift and End Shift buttons. For a shift that has already happened, tap Start Shift and End Shift with the two readings, then open the shift from History and set its start and end times.
Open any shift, drive or odometer reading from History to change or delete it. A shift's distance is always the span between its two readings, so you change the readings rather than the distance. A reading has to stay between the readings either side of it.
For a week after an entry is recorded you can correct it freely. After that you still can, but your logbook lists the change: what the entry said before, what it says now, and when you changed it. A drive deleted after its first week keeps a line in the logbook with its dates, distance, destination and reason; its route is deleted.
If the app says a change was not saved because the entry is over a week old, the change reached us after the week was up — usually because your phone was offline. Make it again; your logbook will list it.
The ATO expects a logbook entry to be made as soon as possible after the journey, so check your drives while you still remember them.
History, from the Mileage screen, is one list of everything recorded for this car — shifts you typed, drives the app detected and odometer readings you took — newest first. Filter it with All, Drives or Shifts. Tap any row to open it, edit it or delete it.
A shift whose hours contain detected drives is flagged in this list. That is not an error: it means the same driving may be recorded twice, once by you and once by the app. Open either record and delete or edit whichever one is wrong.
Deleting a shift takes its two odometer readings with it. Deleting a reading changes no drive.
With automatic tracking on, the Last 30 days card at the top of the Mileage screen shows your recent drives as small route drawings and your shifts by their distance — a different mix each day when there are more than fit. Tap it to open History.
Update odometer is worth doing every few weeks. Enter what your dash reads now. Reach it from the speedometer icon in the top right of the Mileage screen, from the same icon at the top of History, or from the automatic layout's own link.
This is what keeps the app's figures and your dash in agreement. As you type, the sheet compares your reading with the drives the app detected since your last one:
It also says when your reading matches the app's figure and when the dash has not moved since your last reading. The comparison is in the sheet because that is the moment you are looking at the dash and can check.
A new reading has to come after your last one, and cannot be lower than it. To correct an old reading, open it in History and edit it.
A logbook needs the odometer at each end of the income year. While your year has no opening reading, or only an estimate carried over from last year, the Mileage screen shows a card asking for your dash reading, and the app works out from it where the year opened. Readings the app worked out rather than read off your dash are marked as estimates. Not now puts the card away for the moment.
Automatic mileage records your drives without you tapping Start Shift. It is off until you turn it on.
Settings › Automatic Mileage, or the link on the Mileage screen. The screen opens with Track drives automatically.
Under the toggle is What tracking needs — a list of every condition. A red mark is one that stops tracking altogether; an amber one means some drives may be missed. Most rows have a Fix button that takes you straight to the setting; the rest say what to do. On Android the Bluetooth rows are red from level 5 up and amber below it, because only levels 1 to 4 can record a drive with nothing connected.
Below that list is Reminders, then two groups: Detection, with your car on Android and the detection threshold, and Filing, with File detected drives as business and combining drives split by a short stop.
| Requirement | Why |
|---|---|
| Location set to Always (iPhone), or Location allowed all the time (Android) | Without it, no drive is detected at all. |
| Precise location | Approximate location cannot measure a distance you would put in a tax record. |
| Background App Refresh (iPhone) | With this off, iOS will not let tracking start in the background. |
| Motion & Fitness, which Android calls Physical activity | Used to tell driving from walking. |
| Nearby devices (Android) | Lets RyeDC notice your phone connecting to your car stereo. |
| Bluetooth on (Android) | Your phone cannot connect to your car stereo with Bluetooth off. |
| Low Power Mode off (iPhone), or Battery Saver off (Android) | Power saving suspends background location, so drives are missed. |
| Unrestricted battery use (Android) | Battery optimisation can stop tracking without warning, especially on Samsung, Xiaomi and Oppo phones. |
| Your car selected (Android) | RyeDC needs to know which paired device means you are in your car. |
| Leave RyeDC running | Not something to switch on — it explains what force-stopping the app costs. See Leaving RyeDC running, below. |
Location in the background is the one that sounds alarming, so plainly: RyeDC collects location data to detect your drives and record their route and distance in your mileage log, even when the app is closed or not in use. Detected drives are saved to your RyeDC account. Nothing about your location is sent to an advertiser. You can turn automatic mileage off on that screen at any time, and turning it off stops the collection.
Each car can be matched to the Bluetooth stereo in it. The control is Your car on that car's Vehicle Details page; on Android, the Your car section of the Automatic Mileage screen takes you there.
Until a car is set, detected drives go to your default vehicle, and each is filed as Not categorised rather than business, because the app cannot tell whose car it was in.
A slider from 1 to 10, set to 5 until you change it. It sets how sure the app has to be that you are driving your own car before it records a drive, and it is there so you can tune out the rides that are not yours: a bus or a train, an Uber, a lift in a friend's car.
On Android, levels 1 to 4 also use the phone's own driving detection. They remember where you are when you end a shift, read the odometer or open the app, so a drive that leaves that spot can be recorded with Bluetooth off. The spot stays on your phone.
At every level, a drive picked up without your car's stereo is filed as Not categorised rather than business, so a ride that was not yours is easy to find and delete. Setting Your car is what lets the app tell your car from every other Bluetooth device.
If drives you did not make keep turning up, raise the setting. If your own drives are being missed, lower it.
With Combine drives split by a short stop on, two drives that end and restart in the same place are recorded as one journey — a quick stop for fuel, say. Longest stop sets how long the car may be stopped and still count as the same journey. A long setting may join a work drive to a personal one that follows it. Both settings are kept with your account and come back when you sign in again.
Two drives are only combined when they are in the same car on the same day, the second starts within a short walk of where the first ended, neither has been filed yet, and neither looks like public transport.
A detected drive is filed as business by default and marked as the app's assumption, not your decision. Turn off File detected drives as business and new drives stay uncategorised until you file them. The Mileage screen tells you how many drives need checking; tap it to open History.
Each drive can be Business, Personal or Not categorised. Where the app is not sure — it may have been public transport, or it could not tell which car you were in — it files the drive as Not categorised and says why, rather than guessing. It never files a drive as personal on your behalf.
Open a drive to see when it ran, where it went, how far, and its route on a map. Tap the map to see it full screen. The list rounds each distance to a whole number; the drive itself shows two decimals, the figure your logbook prints. From there you can move it to another car or delete it. Deleting changes your business-use percentage, so the app asks first.
The ATO asks a logbook to say why each business journey was made. A business drive or shift shows its reason; tap it to choose another. A new business drive or shift is given your default reason, which you pick under Settings › Business journey reasons. Until you pick one, it is the first reason in the list. You can add your own reasons there too, and remove any you don't use, except the last.
If you drive for a ride-sourcing platform, pick Ride-sourcing: carrying a passenger for a fare on the journeys that carried one.
Changing the default, or removing a reason, changes new journeys only. The ones already recorded keep the reason they were given, so your logbook reads the same after the change as it did before.
Reminders, under Settings › Automatic Mileage, sends a notification when your logbook needs something from you. Drives are recorded with it off, but leaving it on is recommended: the app measures each drive by GPS, and readings from your dash are what keep that distance true over a year.
It reminds you to:
Tapping a reminder opens Update odometer, or History for drives to categorise. Reminders work the same on iPhone and Android.
On Android at levels 1 to 4, it can also ask you to read the dash next time you are at your car, when a week has passed since the app last knew where you parked.
On an iPhone, it also tells you to open RyeDC after the phone restarts, because no drive is recorded until you do (see below).
If the app is stopped in the middle of a drive, that drive is left unfinished. Settings › Automatic Mileage tells you so once the drive is eight hours old.
Menu › Reports, choose the car, then Mileage.
| Period | Covers |
|---|---|
| This week | Monday to today. |
| This month | The 1st to today. |
| Custom dates | Any two dates you pick. |
| Financial year | One income year, which starts on the date set in Settings › Financial year starts. This is the period a logbook claim rests on. |
| Logbook periods | Described below. |
Every period's percentage is measured against how far your odometer moved over it. Every report comes as a PDF to read on screen and an Excel file to send to whoever does your tax. Both have a share button, and on an iPhone the files are also kept in the Files app, under RyeDC.
At the foot of each page, and at the end of the Excel file, is the line Made with RyeDC · ryedc.com.au, which links to our website.
The report opens on its figures: business usage, the distance from shifts and from detected drives, and the odometer at each end. View PDF and Excel are at the bottom.
Four sections, in this order:
Where a shift's hours contain detected drives, a note above the total says so and gives the distance involved. Both are counted in the total. The report does not try to work out which record is right — delete or edit whichever one is wrong and produce the report again.
List private drives, above the two buttons, is on unless you turn it off. Off, private and uncategorised drives are counted in the totals but not listed, since the ATO needs only business journeys listed. A line for what was not listed keeps the sum honest: business plus not listed is the total. No total changes either way, and the app remembers your choice.
An Australian logbook has to run for at least 12 continuous weeks, needs an odometer reading at each end, and has to be broadly representative of your travel. It may have to run longer if the car has no regular pattern of use, and you need a new one when your circumstances change. A logbook is then valid for five years.
Logbook periods — under the report's list, or Find your representative period on the Mileage screen — looks through your year's records and shows, in order:
Shifts and business drives are counted the same way the report counts them, so a period's percentage is the one its logbook prints.
The app finds the representative period with an equivalence test, which compares each period with the rest of your year rather than with the year that contains it, and with change-point detection, which looks for the week your pattern of use changed. A period across a change is never representative. When there is a change, the page names the week, and each side of it gets its own period. The projection is a ratio estimate of business to total distance, with a range.
Early means only a few weeks are on record, so the answer may still move. When the page finds no representative period, it says what to do: keep recording, keep the logbook running longer, or wait for a period after the change.
Where the page cannot suggest a period, it says why: the year has fewer than two odometer readings, or none 12 weeks apart; nothing records a journey; the car's distance for the year cannot be told; or too little of the year's driving was detected to judge. Until this year has a 12-week period, it shows last year instead. An odometer reading at each end of the year is usually what it needs.
On the Mileage screen, Projected business use shows the projection from your first week, and Representative period shows the period once there is one. Tap either to open Logbook periods.
Use the representative period as your logbook, and the logbook estimate for the year as your business-use percentage. The estimate is the period's percentage applied to the car's odometer distance for the year. If your pattern of use changed, each side takes its own period's percentage. Write the estimate down before you lodge; the logbook prints it on its first page.
If you recorded the whole income year, with an odometer reading at each end, the whole year is itself a logbook, and its share is your percentage. Once the year is over, the page shows Your whole year, as a logbook first. A logbook is valid for five years, whatever its length, unless your circumstances change and it no longer represents your use. If your pattern of use changed during the year, the year is still its own logbook; for the years ahead, use a period after the change.
What you cannot do is claim a year's share with no logbook behind it. The first year you use the logbook method for a car needs one.
Each period shows its percentage, dates, odometer readings and, unless it is early, how far it sits from the rest of your year. Details shows the rest. Tap a period and the report opens as the car's Vehicle logbook. It holds what the ATO asks a logbook to hold:
Two marks explain themselves in a footnote. ‡ is a reading worked out from the nearest odometer reading and the drives in between, rather than read off the dash. † is a shift that ran past midnight: it is one entry across two days, because the odometer was read only when it started and ended.
Private distance is the period's odometer span less its business distance. Distance the app did not record counts in the total and never as business.
The last section lists every change made to an entry after its first week. See Correcting an entry, above.
The logbook is in your distance unit, as set in Settings. The ATO's figures are in kilometres, so set the unit to Kilometre before exporting a logbook for the ATO.
Each car keeps its own logbook, and Logbook periods looks at one car at a time. Three of the ATO's rules reach across cars:
Fare Meter is a meter for a single trip. It is separate from Mileage: a trip here records a fare and a route, and it does not become a shift. It was called Live Meter in earlier versions.
A service is one rate card — private bookings, airport runs, a company account, Uber or anything else. It holds the base fare, minimum fare, per-minute and per-kilometre rates, surcharges, booking fee, and the service fee or commission that is taken off what you are paid. It also asks for a marketplace fee and other fees, which are kept with the service but not used in the fare.
Open Services and rates from the menu, then tap Add. Set up as many as you drive for. Tap one in that list to change or delete it. Deleting a service deletes its trips with it. A service cannot be deleted while a trip is running, or while a trip the app closed on is waiting for Resume or End trip. A change to a service during a trip applies from the next trip.
The ticked service is the one Fare Meter opens on. The first service you add is ticked, and while you have only one it always is. To choose another, tap the tick box on the left of its row.
The card at the bottom of the Fare Meter screen shows the service in use. Tap the name to switch between them. You cannot switch while a trip is running.
Swipe the button reading Start and the name of your service. The card then shows the fare, the distance and the time as they run, and the map draws your route. Swipe again to end.
The map follows your car. Drag, pinch or turn it to look around, then tap the arrow in the corner to bring it back. While the map follows, that button shows the whole route.
During a trip you can open other screens from the menu, and the meter keeps running. Open Fare Meter again to end the trip.
While a trip runs, the fare and distance stay on the lock screen under the app's name, with the service and a clock from the start — a notification on Android, a Live Activity on iPhone in the app's amber — so you can glance at the meter without unlocking the phone. When you start a trip after Use as agreed price on a quote, it also shows the two places and a bar that fills as the trip goes. On iPhone, an agreed price is marked Agreed, and the Dynamic Island shows a ring beside the clock that fills the same way. Android asks once to allow notifications the first time you start a trip.
If the app closes during a trip, Fare Meter opens on that trip next time and says when it stopped. Resume carries on with the same trip: the distance driven while the app was closed is estimated, and Trip details shows how much. End trip saves the trip as it stood when it stopped. With no signal, an ended trip is kept on the phone and sent when the signal returns.
Tap Add toll or surge on the card during a trip to enter a demand price multiplier or top-up, or a toll, and the fare follows.
Tap Quote to price a trip before it starts: type where it starts and where it goes — suggestions appear as you type — and RyeDC works out the road distance, the time without traffic and the fare for your service, and draws the route on the map. Tap the two places to change them. Use as agreed price carries the figure and the two places onto the trip: the card shows them with the quoted distance beside the agreed price, the route stays on the map until the trip starts, and during the trip the card shows how far along the quoted distance you are.
For a booking with a price agreed in advance, tap Agreed price before you start, or Add toll or surge during the trip, and type it. The meter still measures the drive and Trip details shows what it would have charged, but the fare is the price you agreed. Tips and tolls are added on top.
Ending a trip shows what it came to, with room for a tip or a toll. Done closes it. Invoice makes an invoice for it (see below). Trip details opens the trip you just finished: the route on a map, the suburbs it ran between, the fare and what you get, and every line that made up the total — distance and time amounts, demand pricing, booking fee, surcharges, the fare, the service fee, tips, tolls and the amount to you. A trip that came to less than your service's minimum fare shows the difference on its own line. Tap the map to see it full screen. Tap Edit to correct the agreed price, the distance, the time, demand pricing, a tip or a toll. Invoice makes an invoice for the trip. Delete trip removes it; the app asks first.
Tap the clock in the top right of the Fare Meter screen to open the list — every trip you have recorded, whichever service it was under, grouped by day, with each day's fares added up and this week's total at the top. Each row names the service and, once the app has looked them up, the suburbs the trip ran between. Tap a trip for its details. Swipe a trip to delete it; the app asks first. A trip from before September 2026 may still have an audio recording, which you can play, download or delete.
Your earnings are under Menu › Reports: tap Earnings for fares, tips, tolls, service fees and what you took home across every service, for this week, this month, the financial year or any dates, with a PDF or Excel copy to share. At the foot of each page, and at the end of the Excel file, is the line Made with RyeDC · ryedc.com.au, which links to our website.
You can make an invoice for any Fare Meter trip and share it as a PDF. Tap Invoice when a trip ends, or on a trip's details.
The invoice is from your business, not from RyeDC. You issue it, so check it before you send it.
The first time, the app opens Business details. An invoice needs your legal name and, in Australia, your ABN. The rest is optional: a trading name, your phone, email and address, your bank account or PayID, whether you are registered for GST, and when payment is due. Neither name can include RyeDC or Pincab. Save, and the invoice opens. You can change these details at any time from Business details in the menu. They are kept with your account.
Country starts on Australia. If your business is somewhere else, choose Another country, and an invoice needs only your legal name. In place of the ABN you can give your tax number and what it is called, such as VAT no. or EIN. In place of the bank details, you write one line saying how to pay you. Only the details for the country you chose are saved.
On the invoice screen:
Tap Share PDF to send it by message, email or any other app.
The invoice lists the trip — its date and time, the pickup and drop-off, and how far and how long it ran. When it can, it shows how Fare Meter's fare was made up: the base fare, the distance, the time and the rest. An agreed price is one line. Then come any tolls and tip, and the total. That is what your passenger pays. The service fee and what you take home are never on it. Amounts are in the currency you chose in Settings.
If your business is in Australia and registered for GST, the invoice is titled Tax invoice and shows the GST included in the total. Otherwise it is titled Invoice, with no GST.
Each invoice has its own number. Share it again with nothing changed and it is the same invoice. Change anything on it — the trip, the pickup or drop-off, your details, who it is billed to, paid or not — and the next one gets a new number and names the invoice it replaces.
At the foot of each invoice is a small line, "Made with RyeDC · ryedc.com.au", which links to our website.
If the trip was booked through a platform that already gives the passenger a tax invoice for it, don't make a second one.
They both run. A fare drive becomes a trip here and a detected drive under Mileage, in separate records. They are never added together, and Fare Meter trips never count towards your business-use figure.
The cleaning register is the record that your car was cleaned, which some regulators and some rideshare platforms ask to see.
Menu › Cleaning Register lists every log, for all of your cars; a new one is recorded against your default vehicle. Add one and the app shows the two checklists — the driver's high-touch surfaces and the passenger's — and then two buttons:
Tap whichever you did and the log is stamped with the time. Swipe a log and tap Delete to remove it.
The figures at the foot of the screen are this week's shifts — hours and distance — not cleaning.
Menu › Reports, choose the car, then Cleaning Register, then This week, This month or Custom dates. It comes as a PDF or an Excel file you can hand over. At the foot of each page, and at the end of the Excel file, is the line Made with RyeDC · ryedc.com.au, which links to our website.
Around Me is a map of places other drivers have marked: the toilets that are open late, the rank that actually has cars, the petrol station worth the detour.
The map opens whether or not you have granted location — without it, it starts at world view and a strip across the top offers to fix that.
Settings is in two groups. General:
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Home Screen | Which screen the app opens on. |
| Appearance | System, Light or Dark. |
| Distance Unit | Kilometre or Miles, everywhere in the app and in every report. Shifts and readings typed before a change are shown in the new unit. |
| Currency | The symbol shown against every fare. |
| Financial year starts | When your income year opens. Australia opens on 1 July. Business use is worked out one income year at a time. |
Mileage:
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Automatic Mileage | Opens the automatic tracking screen described above. |
| Business journey reasons | Add or remove reasons for business journeys, and pick the default used for a journey without its own. |
Linked sign-ins and the privacy choices are under Menu › Account, above.
No permission is asked for when you first open the app. Each is requested at the moment the feature that needs it is used, with an explanation first, and refusing one only disables that feature. The one exception is the ads shown in the app: after you sign in, you may be asked about them once. Saying no still shows ads, just less relevant ones.
| Permission | Asked when | Used for |
|---|---|---|
| Location while using the app | You swipe to start a trip, tap the location button on a map, or add an Around Me card | Measuring a trip's route and distance, centring a map |
| Precise location | The same moments | A distance accurate enough for a fare or a tax record, and pinning a card where you are actually standing |
| Location all the time | You turn automatic mileage on | Detecting drives while the app is closed |
| Motion & Fitness, or Physical activity on Android | You turn automatic mileage on | Telling driving from walking |
| Nearby devices (Android) | You turn automatic mileage on at level 5 or above, or tap Fix on its row | Noticing your phone connect to your car stereo |
| Notifications | You turn automatic mileage on, switch on Reminders, or start your first trip on Android | Reminders, and the meter on Android's lock screen. Drives are recorded without them |
| Allow tracking (iPhone) | Once, after you sign in | Letting Google show ads that suit you. Change it in iOS Settings › Privacy & Security › Tracking |
On iPhone, Location all the time comes in two steps: iOS first offers While Using the App, then asks again about Always. If it sends you to Settings instead, tap Location and choose Always. On Android, choose Allow all the time.
RyeDC does not ask for your camera, your microphone, your contacts, your photos or your files.
Your records — vehicles, shifts, detected drives, odometer readings, trips and cleaning logs — are stored in your account and are readable only by you. Reports are built on your phone and shared only when you share them.
The privacy policy has the full account: what is collected, who processes it, how long it is kept and how to have it deleted. It is also under Account › Privacy policy. When it changes in a way that matters, the app tells you once, with a link to it. The short version:
Using RyeDC is covered by its Terms and Conditions.
A lift in someone else's car, an Uber, a bus or a train can look like driving, particularly at a low threshold. Open the drive and delete it, or mark it personal. If it keeps happening, raise Detection threshold under Settings › Automatic Mileage — see Detection threshold, above — and make sure Your car is set, so the app can tell your car from the rest.
On an iPhone the first few minutes are usually estimated, and the drive says so. Raise the distance you get by leaving RyeDC running in the background and keeping Background App Refresh on.
Three things move it:
If a shift you recorded and a drive the app detected cover the same hours, the report counts both and says so above the total. Delete or edit whichever record is wrong. If business distance comes to more than the odometer moved, the percentage stops at 100%: check your readings, and look for a drive recorded twice.
Tap the location button on the map, or Turn on location on the strip across the top. On Android, if the phone asks whether to turn on more accurate location and you say no, RyeDC stops asking until you leave the app and come back, or until you tap either button again.
Check the connection and try again. If it keeps failing, email hello@ryedc.com and say which report and which dates.
Email hello@ryedc.com. Tell us what phone you have, what you were doing and what happened, and we will come back to you.
If RyeDC is useful to you, a rating on the App Store or Google Play helps other drivers find it. The app may ask you for one now and then, after a report or an invoice. The card is your phone's own, and you can close it without answering.
RyeDC is made by Pincab Pty Ltd.
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