Adding my side gigs

nomadintrovert

For the last three months, I have been driving for Uber and Lyft. Coming in a few months, I will be creating and selling merchandise.

Right now, I'm running the gigs as sole proprietorships, mostly because I have not had much of a chance to speak to an attorney forming LLC or accountant about business and tax planning. There are likely AI-driven solutions available or using ChatGPT-type platforms - neither of which I'm familiar with (I'm open to recommendations).

For the rideshare gigs, I have each expense and deposit to my Uber and Lyft cards tagged under "rideshare" and will eventually use something like "merchandise" for those expenses and payments.

I don't see an intuitive way to add the Uber and Lyft debit cards because they're not through a traditional brick and mortar bank; Uber is through Evolve Bank, and I forget who Lyft is through.

My question comes down to: What's an effective way to manage the gigs using Quicken?

NotACPA

A Debit card isn't an account … it's a method of accessing a bank account, usually checking or savings.

Evolve Bank & Trust (is that the same as you referenced?) is a Participating Financial Institution with Q for Windows, I don't know if they support QMac.

SO, take a backup (just in case) and create a checking or savings account for Evolve (as appropriate) and see if you can download into Q. Obviously, you'll need online access to Evolve to do that.

If that doesn't work, you can always restore from that backup and all you've lost will be a little time.

When you remember who Lyft supports, you can try the same thing.