Business Tool · Taxes
Everything you'd use QuickBooks Self-Employed for. Included.
Schedule C view, mileage log, receipt capture, home-kitchen deduction, and a one-click package for your tax preparer — built for a home food business, not bolted on. Part of Artisan Pro.
The problem
January is when cottage food sellers find out what they forgot to track
Every Saturday you drove to the market. Every week you bought flour, jars, and labels. Part of your kitchen is only ever used for the business. All of that is deductible on Schedule C — and almost none of it is written down anywhere your preparer can use.
Miles nobody logged
Two markets a week, 18 miles each way, is well over 3,000 business miles a year. At the IRS standard rate that is one of the largest deductions a market seller has — and the one most often left at zero.
Receipts in a shoebox
Ingredient runs, packaging orders, booth fees. If the receipt isn't attached to the expense, it's a number your preparer has to take on faith — and you have to defend later.
A second subscription
QuickBooks Self-Employed is built for rideshare drivers and freelancers. It doesn't know what a variant costs to make, what a market fee is, or that your sales already live on SellFood.
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Deduction Finder
A rough picture of what a typical year of selling generates on Schedule C. Drag the sliders. The real tool builds these lines from your actual trips, receipts, and orders.
Your year
Markets, deliveries, and supply runs all count.
Simplified method: $5 per square foot, up to 300 sq ft. "Exclusive use" has a legal meaning — a shared family kitchen may not qualify.
What lands on Schedule C
Mileage uses the IRS standard business rate in effect today (76¢/mi). Ingredients vs. packaging split 70/30 for the demo. Line mapping is a bookkeeping convenience, not tax advice — confirm with your preparer. This shows deductions, not tax owed; SellFood does not calculate tax.
In the real tool, none of this is a slider. Trips come from your mileage log, expenses carry their receipts, COGS comes from what your variants cost, and platform fees are already there from your orders.
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The Taxes page, feature by feature
One page a seller opens in January. Everything below is live today for Artisan Pro and Founding members — no add-ons, no separate bookkeeping subscription.
Schedule C view
Every expense category is mapped to a Schedule C line — ingredients to Part III, packaging to Line 22, market fees to 27a. Flip the tax-year summary into line order and the PDF gets a page your preparer transcribes directly.
Mileage log
Date, destination, miles, purpose — ten seconds per trip, with saved places, round-trip toggle, multiple vehicles, and odometer readings. The IRS rate for each trip's date is locked in when you save it, so a mid-year rate change never rewrites history.
Receipt capture
Snap the receipt from your phone and attach it to the expense. Stored privately on your account, viewable in one tap, and bundled into your preparer package renamed by date, category, and amount.
Home-kitchen deduction
Enter the square footage used exclusively for the business once. SellFood applies the IRS simplified method ($5/sq ft, up to 300) and carries Line 30 into every tax year.
Offline sales
Cash, Venmo, and market-table sales that never touch Stripe are logged in a few taps and flow into your P&L, tax-year summary, and exports — so market day doesn't break your books.
Stripe fees, tracked automatically
Processing fees on every order are pulled from Stripe and land on your P&L and Schedule C without you logging a thing.
Preparer package
One zip: tax-year PDF with the Schedule C page, plus expenses, sales, mileage and subscription PDFs, every receipt, and a README. Download it, or email it to your preparer with a private 7-day link — you're copied.
Quarterly deadline reminders
An email a week before each estimated-tax due date with the quarter's net profit from your SellFood data and a link to the Taxes page. A reminder, not a tax calculation.
Side by side
SellFood Taxes vs. QuickBooks Self-Employed
For a Schedule C sole proprietor with one income stream, no payroll, and no invoicing — which is nearly every cottage food seller.
| What you need in January | SellFood Artisan Pro | QuickBooks Self-Employed |
|---|---|---|
| Sales already in the books | ✓ Every order, automatically | Import from bank feed |
| Cost of goods per product | ✓ From your variant costs | ✗ |
| Offline / market-table sales | ✓ | Manual entry |
| Schedule C line mapping | ✓ | ✓ |
| Mileage log | ✓ Multi-vehicle, odometer | ✓ GPS auto-track |
| Receipt capture | ✓ | ✓ |
| Home-office (kitchen) deduction | ✓ Simplified method | ✓ |
| Package for your preparer | ✓ One zip, or one email | Reports export |
| Bank & card feeds | ✗ SellFood is a ledger, not a bank aggregator | ✓ |
| Knows cottage food rules | ✓ Built for it | ✗ |
| Extra monthly cost | Included with Artisan Pro | Separate subscription |
QuickBooks is a trademark of Intuit Inc. Feature list reflects QuickBooks Self-Employed as generally marketed; check Intuit's site for current plans and pricing.
On purpose
What SellFood Taxes doesn't do
A seller with one card and one income stream doesn't need most of what accounting software sells. We left these out so the part you use stays simple.
Go deeper
Each tax feature, explained
Ready for January?
Track it all year. Hand it over in one click.
The Taxes page is included with Artisan Pro alongside the full Accounting dashboard. Start free, upgrade when you're selling.