Flat-rate just hides how much you overpay on easy jobs.

Learned that one the hard way too @robinc60, friend lost a thesis to a dead drive once.

Right?? @taylor.brooke nailed it.

Ngl, "you've been idle for 5 minutes" sounds like exactly the kind of tough love I need when I'm sick and pretending I'm fine. Honestly, maybe the app was trying to tell you to actually rest instead of trying to power through invoices with a cold.

Wait, have you actually tried tracking just the home office deduction separately from the coffee receipts? I did the same thing for years and finally realized I was basically working for free on that admin time. The standard deduction is way simpler and honestly unless you have a ton of expenses the math usually doesn't work out anyway. I just take a photo of my big receipts now and toss the rest. Saves me like an hour each year and the aggravation isn't worth the pennies.