Expense tracking for therapists: log it when it happens, not in January

Product tour · Psycounts Team

Room hire, supervision, insurance, the directory listing, the train to a CPD day — a private practice runs on small, frequent costs. Individually they're trivial to record; collectively they're the shoebox of receipts everyone dreads. Psycounts makes the recording so quick that the shoebox never forms.

A thirty-second habit

Adding an expense is one short form: date, description, amount, category — done before you've left the car park. Expenses are marked tax deductible by default, and you can untick the ones that aren't (that parking fine), so your Self Assessment and Making Tax Digital figures stay honest without any end-of-year sorting.

New expense form in the Psycounts iOS app with date, description, amount, tax deductible toggle and category — Date, description, amount, category — logged in under a minute.

Your own categories, your own picture

Expenses are organised into categories you define — room rental, professional fees, subscriptions, travel, whatever fits your practice. The expenses hub turns them into a live spend-by-category view, so you can see in one glance where the money actually goes.

Psycounts iOS expenses hub showing spend by category as a donut chart with a total — Spend by category, built live from your records.

Every record, always to hand

The full expense history sits behind it — searchable, categorised, and flagged deductible or not. When a quarterly Making Tax Digital update or your Self Assessment comes round, the expense side of the figures is already done, because you did it thirty seconds at a time all year.

Expense records list in the Psycounts iOS app with dates, categories and amounts — The running record: categorised, dated, and marked deductible or not.

Why this matters

Missed expenses are a tax on forgetfulness — every unrecorded receipt is deductible spend you'll pay tax on anyway. The fix isn't discipline in January; it's a tool quick enough to use in the moment. Log it when it happens, and the year-end takes care of itself.

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