Setting up a Dongle for the First Time

Once in your car plug in the dongle. You can use the USB port or a good quality USB adapter, but the USB port usually works best:

1. Turn the engine on and wait for the dongle to sync with GPS satellite system. It might take up to a minute the first time.

2. Check the green light on the dongle is flashing.

3. If you start driving before the dongle’s finished syncing, it should still be able to record your journey accurately. After your first few journeys, upload them to MileageCount GPS Uploader and make sure everything’s working.

4. Take your odometer reading before you record your first journey with the dongle.

Uploading Journey Data from the Dongle to the Portal

Portal: http://mca.mileagecount.co.uk 

1. Take your end of month odometer reading. This should be taken on the last day of the month, after your last journey of the day.

2. If you’re using the dongle for the first time, you will need to download the GPS Software from the portal. If the 'Download GPS Software' option is not available - please contact your Administrator or Support Team to dongle enable the account.

3. Once you have completed journeys with the dongle plugged in, plug the dongle into your computer’s USB port and ‘MileageCount GPS Uploader’ on your desktop.

4. Log in with the same log in credentials you use for the portal, select your vehicle details and a default journey reason – for example, if most of your driving this month has been for business, choose ‘Business’. You’ll be able to change the reason for each journey individually, after it’s been uploaded.

5. Select ‘Next’ and your computer will search for the dongle. Once it’s found it, select ‘Get Track Data’ to transfer your journeys to your computer. After it’s finished the upload, select ‘Login to MileageCount website’ and check all your journeys now show in your Driver Journey screen.

6. Once you have confirmed the journeys are in the portal, you can now delete them from your dongle by selecting ‘Erase Logger’.  The dongle will hold around 6,000 miles worth of data, once the memory limit has been reached no more journeys will be recorded. We recommend you erase the dongle on a monthly basis to stop the limit being reached.