For independent techs on Field Nation & WorkMarket

$168 an hour.
Until you count the drive.

A marketplace work order quotes the time you're on site. It doesn't count the 10% service charge, the fuel, the parts, or the 2.6 hours behind the wheel. FieldLedger counts all of it — and tells you what the job actually paid, while there's still time to decline the next one like it.

Check a work order → See what it does

Email & screenshot import USD → CAD Odometer-photo log CRA-ready records Keeps your Excel

WO #45821 imported from email ✓

Receipt filed → 2026/08/Fuel

Friday · 21 Aug 2026

Today's board

Live

Gross$1,240

Fee 10%−$124

Expenses−$168

Net cash$948

3 work ordersAuto-synced to calendar

08:00 Network service · FN #45821Surrey, BC · 38 km Closed

12:30 Equipment install · WM #7714Burnaby, BC · 26 km On site

16:00 Site survey · FN #45903Vancouver, BC · 19 km Scheduled

$78 .40

Effective rate today
after fee, expenses & 2.4 h driving

10%service charge deducted from every Field Nation provider work order¹

73¢ / 67¢CRA 2026 per-km deduction — first 5,000 km, then after²

$40–60/motypical mileage + receipts + bookkeeping app stack³

20,000+independent technicians working Field Nation's marketplace⁴

Work order #45821 · Surrey, BC

The marketplace shows gross. Your bank shows a deposit. Neither says which jobs are worth taking.

Here is one real-shaped install, all the way down. Five on-site hours at $840 reads like $168 an hour — right up until the service charge, the parts run and 214 km of driving land on the same page.

Gross → net · CAD

Where $840 goes

5.0 h on site · 2.6 h drive · 1.5 h wait

$840.00Work order

−$84.0010% service
charge

−$116.00Parts, fuel,
parking

$640.00Net cash

$156.22Mileage
deduction

The hatched bar isn't cash — it's the 214 km logged against this job at the CRA 2026 rate, which only exists if somebody wrote the trip down. FieldLedger writes it down.

Live · rate check

Run a work order through it.

Drag the sliders the way a real assignment reads. This is the same calculation the system runs on every job you close — here it's just running on yours.

Work order pays $840

Paid in

Hours on site 5.0 h

Hours driving & waiting 4.1 h

Kilometres driven 214 km

Parts, fuel, parking $116

Marketplace + dispatch cut 10%

Your hourly floor $85/h

True rate per hour

net cash ÷ every hour the job took

As advertised $168.00

True rate $70.33

Your floor $85.00

Work order$840.00

Marketplace + dispatch cut−$84.00

Parts, fuel, parking−$116.00

Net cash in your account$640.00

Hours the job really took9.1 h

Mileage deduction @ CRA 2026$156.22

▲ $14.67/h below your floor. Countering at $988 would clear it. Log three of these and the pattern shows up in your monthly report, not just your gut.

What it does

Enter it once. It shows up everywhere it's needed.

Eight modules, one record. The work order carries its own schedule, hours, receipts, kilometres and payout — so the reporting is a by-product of doing the job, not a second job.

01 · Work orders

The assignment email becomes the job.

When a “you are assigned” email lands, the work order is created and filled in — schedule, pay, location, customer, platform reference. Or take a screenshot in the Field Nation app and let it read the job off the picture.

Inbox → work order

FN You are assigned: Network service — Surrey, BC
received 06:41

WM Assignment confirmed: Equipment install — Burnaby
received 07:02

WO: #45821 · Field Nation
PAY: $840.00 CAD (fixed)
WHEN: Fri 21 Aug · 08:00–13:00
NET: $756.00 after 10%

One central work-order list
USD → CAD at platform or custom rate
Commissions & deductions applied
One click back to the original WO
Map view of the day's stops
Technician assignment for teams

02 · Schedule

Booked work lands in the calendar you already carry.

Scheduled work orders sync to Google or Apple Calendar. No second calendar to keep honest.

MONNetwork service08:00

TUESite survey10:30

WEDEquipment install09:00

03 · Receipts

Attach the receipt. That's the whole task.

Photograph it against the work order, pick a category, and the filing happens for you: standardized filename, right folder, expense record, linked back to the job your accountant will ask about in March.

Home Depot21.08.26

Conduit 3/4"28.94

Anchors ×2011.40

GST2.42

TOTAL47.28

→

/Tax records/2026/08 Aug/
2026-08-21_HomeDepot_47.28_WO-45821_Materials.jpg

              ✓ expense created · ✓ linked to WO #45821 · ✓ category: Materials
            

04 · Mileage

One odometer photo a day. No GPS following you around.

Shoot the odometer at the start or end of the day — both, if you want the extra check. The log is built from the jobs you actually worked: distance, stops, work-order numbers, deductible amount.

128 472 .6

            21 Aug · 214 km business

            Surrey → Burnaby → Vancouver

            WO #45821, WM #7714, FN #45903

            deductible $156.22 · 18 km personal excluded

Records shaped for a CRA vehicle logbook
Personal trips flagged out of business totals
Separate books for each vehicle

05 · Money

Every dollar in and out, including the ones that aren't jobs.

Recurring expenses entered once and posted every month. One-off costs in seconds. Income that never touched a marketplace. Accounts, cards, balances and what's owing — so cash flow adds up on its own instead of being rebuilt every Sunday night.

Cash position · 21 Aug

Income MTD$14,820

Expenses MTD$6,240

Owing on cards$3,715

Projected 30 d$11,190

06 · Reports

Daily cash flow, forecast earnings, and the profitability of each job.

Cash in and cash out for the day with the detail underneath. Actual against expected by day, week or month. And per job: earnings, work hours, driving hours, travel hours, expenses, effective rate.

Effective rate by job type · last 30 d

07 · Field & desk · 08 · Excel

Phone in the van. Excel at the kitchen table. Same numbers.

Update a job, attach a receipt or shoot the odometer from the phone — one-handed, on a tailgate, in the rain. Then pull the same data into the spreadsheet you've already built: your formulas, your PivotTables, your charts, refreshed instead of retyped.

Phone and web, same record
Built for gloves-on updates
Import once, refresh after
Your existing reports keep working

Today 3 jobs $1,240 expected

+ ODOMETER

+ RECEIPT

+ HOURS

WO_export.xlsx · refreshed 21:04

45821	Surrey	840.00
7714	Burnaby	310.00
45903	Vancouver	90.00
AUG MTD		14,820

One connected chain

Nine steps that currently live in nine places.

This is a real sequence — each step is the previous step's output. Break the chain anywhere and the numbers at the end stop being true. Keeping it unbroken by hand is the admin work nobody bills for.

01AssignmentEmail or screenshot from Field Nation / WorkMarket

02Work orderPay, currency, customer, location, platform link

03ScheduleBooked, mapped, pushed to your calendar

04DriveOdometer photo, stops, business vs personal

05HoursOn site, driving, waiting — all three counted

06ReceiptsFiled, named, categorized, linked to the job

07IncomeNet after cut, converted, plus non-platform work

08Cash flowAccounts, cards, recurring costs, what's owing

09ReportsEffective rate, forecast, Excel, tax records

Typed once at step 01 → reused at every step after it. No re-keying, no month-end reconstruction, no spreadsheet that's two weeks stale.

Vs. the stack you're running now

Four subscriptions that have never heard of each other.

Mileage app, receipt scanner, solo bookkeeping, plus a spreadsheet holding it together. Each one is good at its column. None of them knows a Field Nation work order exists, and none can tell you what Tuesday paid per hour.

Capability	Mileage app MileIQ, Everlance	Receipt app Dext, Shoeboxed	Solo books QuickBooks, Wave	FSM suite Jobber, Housecall	Spreadsheet	FieldLedger
Imports Field Nation / WorkMarket work orders	○	○	○	○	○	●
Net pay after the 10% cut and USD → CAD	○	○	◐	○	◐	●
Effective $/h including drive and wait time	○	○	○	○	◐	●
Mileage log from an odometer photo, no GPS	◐	○	○	○	◐	●
Receipt auto-filed and linked to the job	○	◐	◐	◐	○	●
Cash flow with accounts, cards and recurring costs	○	○	●	◐	◐	●
Built for a tech who doesn't invoice the customer	◐	◐	◐	○	●	●
Keeps your existing Excel reports alive	◐	○	◐	○	●	●
Typical cost³	$8.99/mo	$8–25/mo	$0–20/mo	from $39/mo	free + hours	one system

● does it◐ partly, or by hand○ not its job FSM suites are built around quoting and invoicing your own customers — a step marketplace techs don't have.

Tax records

March is when a missing logbook gets expensive.

The per-kilometre deduction is one of the largest a field tech has, and it survives review only if the trips were written down as they happened. Same for receipts: a photo in your camera roll isn't a record — a named file against a work order is.

Canada · CRA 2026

Per-kilometre rates

First 5,000 km	73¢
Each km after	67¢
NT, YT & NU add	+4¢

Applied automatically to every business kilometre in the log, split at the 5,000 km line.²

United States · IRS 2026

Per-mile rates

Jan 1 – Jun 30, 2026	72.5¢
Jul 1 – Dec 31, 2026	76¢

Mid-year changes are handled by trip date, so a January job never gets valued at July's rate.⁵

What a log has to carry

Written down as it happened

✓Date, destination and purpose for every business trip
✓Kilometres per trip, business separated from personal
✓Odometer at the start and end of the fiscal year
✓Kept for six years, retrievable job by job

Hand-off

Your accountant gets a folder, not a shoebox.

Every receipt already carries its date, vendor, amount, category and work-order number in the filename, sitting in the month it belongs to. The mileage log and the expense ledger export beside it.

/Tax records/2026/08 Aug/
├── 2026-08-21_HomeDepot_47.28_WO-45821_Materials.jpg
├── 2026-08-21_PetroCanada_88.14_WO-45821_Fuel.jpg
├── 2026-08-21_EasyPark_12.00_WM-7714_Parking.jpg
└── mileage-log_2026-08.xlsx · 3,412 km · $2,490.76

Why odometer, not GPS

The tracker that isn't watching you.

Always-on GPS drains the phone, invents trips when you walk past your van, and records every personal errand you ever ran. A photo of the odometer, matched against the jobs you worked that day, produces the same deductible number with none of that.

No background location permission
No battery cost on a 10-hour day
Personal trips stay personal
Optional start- and end-of-day photos for verification

Who it's for

One tech with a van. Or five.

Same records, different vantage point. The system was built for a solo operator and scales to a small crew without turning into an enterprise deployment.

Solo The independent tech

You take work from Field Nation and WorkMarket, you drive your own vehicle, and your bookkeeping is a spreadsheet plus a folder of photos. You want the admin to stop eating Sundays, and you want to know which jobs are worth the drive.

Every job's real rate, the day it's closed
A mileage log that's ready in March
Receipts filed the moment they're taken

Small team The two-to-five crew

You subcontract work out and need to know who's assigned to what, what each job nets after the technician's share, and whether the week's dispatch actually cleared its costs.

Assignment per technician on every work order
Commissions and splits applied to net pay
Cash flow across the whole board, not per app

Questions

Before you ask.

Do I have to hand over my Field Nation or WorkMarket login?

No. Import works from the assignment emails those platforms already send you, and from screenshots you take in their app. Your marketplace credentials stay yours.

Is this another GPS tracker running in the background?

No. Mileage comes from an odometer photo — one at the end of the day, or one at each end if you want the extra verification — matched against the jobs you worked. Nothing follows you around.

Does it replace my accountant?

It replaces the shoebox you hand them. Records come out organized by month, category and work order, with the mileage log alongside — which is usually what their fee is going toward reconstructing.

I have a spreadsheet I've spent years on. Do I lose it?

No. Data imports into Excel once and refreshes after that, so your formulas, PivotTables, charts and dashboards keep working on current numbers instead of numbers you retyped.

What about work orders in USD, or with a company commission on top?

Both are handled on the work order itself: convert at the platform rate or one you set, then apply your commission or deduction structure, so the figure you see is the figure that reaches your account.

I work in the US, not Canada. Does the tax side still apply?

The mileage engine carries both rate sets — CRA per kilometre and IRS per mile, including the mid-2026 change — and values each trip by its own date. The logbook fields are the same on both sides of the border.

Early access

Stop reconstructing last month. Start knowing this week.

We're onboarding a first group of independent techs and small crews working Field Nation and WorkMarket. Tell us how you work now and we'll set the system up against your real jobs — not a demo dataset.

No card required Bring your spreadsheet Export your data any time