Business, private and commute

How does MoveJack decide the category?

The app checks in this order:

• If both the start and the end are at an address you saved as Train station, it is a train journey.
• If the journey goes from your home address to your work address, or the other way round, it is commute.
• If your office hours are on, a journey that starts within those hours is business, and outside them private.
• Otherwise the default applies: business, or private if you have turned on Trips private by default.

The app looks up which address belongs to the start or end among your own addresses on the phone, without internet.

Setting office hours

Under Settings › Trips & office hours you turn on Trips default business/private and choose the days and times. That switch is off by default; the suggested hours are Monday to Friday, 08:00 to 17:00.

The rule is fixed: business within office hours, private outside them; it cannot be reversed. Commute and train journeys take precedence. A window across midnight is not possible.

In the same place is the switch App is off outside these times. With it, the app does not start journeys by itself outside your office hours; you can still start a journey yourself with Start trip. See battery, distance filter and office hours.

Commute and train

The app recognises commuting once you have saved your home and work address. See addresses.

A train journey does not count towards your business, private or commute mileage. Separately, the app recognises whether you travelled by train: that sets the vehicle, not the category. See recognising the means of transport.

Changing a category

• In the journey list: tap the journey’s label. It cycles from private to business to commute.
• In the journey details: choose Private, Business or Commute.
• In the Trip added notification: with the Change to private button, or Change to business for a private journey, without opening the app.