The van is the house. These are the bills.

Ask someone on holiday what the fortnight cost and they can usually get within fifty quid. Ask someone who lives in a van what last month cost and the answer is a pause. The money leaves in fourteen directions: four quid for a shower, seven for the laundrette, a cylinder swap in a garage forecourt, eleven euros at a borne, three nights at an aire and a week on somebody's driveway. None of it looks like a bill, so none of it gets treated like one.

That is the job this page is about. Everything in Stops & Stays was built for logging trips, and it turns out the same ten cost lines, the same readings and the same charts answer a household question just as well.

Pick a month. Get the month.

Reports is a screen of its own, reached from Trips. Choose a calendar month and it totals every stop that falls inside it, whichever trip each stop belongs to. September is September: the fortnight in Wales, the three nights on a friend's driveway and the stretch parked up behind the workshop all land in the same figure, because they all happened in September.

Or give it your own dates when the month is the wrong unit. A winter in Spain runs November to March. A stint of work runs from the day you pulled onto the yard to the day you left it. Set a from and a to, and it totals what sat between them.

The per-day average divides by the days in the period, not by the gap between your first stop and your last one. So a quiet month where you moved twice still reads as a month, and the daily figure means what a daily figure ought to mean rather than flattering you for staying put.

Trips still exist, and they are still the right thing for a journey with a shape: the Scotland run, the ferry over and back. You just no longer have to bend them into calendar months to get a calendar month's figures out. How trips work.

The ten lines that make the rent

Site and pitch fees are the obvious one. The other nine are the ones that disappear:

• Site or pitch fees: the aire, the campsite, the farm, the driveway
• Electric hookup: separate from the pitch, because it is often charged separately
• Wifi access: where it still costs money
• Laundry: the cost nobody budgets for and everybody pays
• Elsan disposal: the charge that arrives with the least dignity
• Fresh water: coins in a borne, or a fee at the service point
• Waste water: where grey disposal is charged on its own
• Rubbish: the bin charge, which is a real line in parts of Europe
• LPG cylinder exchange: the bottle swap
• LPG onboard top-up: the refillable tank at the pump

Keeping them apart is what makes a total worth reading. A month where the laundry doubled is a different month from one where the sites went up, and a single figure can never tell you which one you had. Fuel, tolls and ferries have their own entries on top, so a month of barely moving and a month of covering ground look as different on paper as they felt. How costs are logged.

Levels are a consumption rate, and rates move with the weather

Every stop takes two sets of readings: fresh water, waste water, cassette, LPG, leisure battery and power bank when you arrive, and the same six again when you leave. On a fortnight's holiday that is a nice-to-have. When you live in it, the gap between those two numbers is your consumption rate, and the rate is the thing that changes underneath you.

Gas that lasted a fortnight in July will not last a fortnight in January. Water goes further when the showers are at the leisure centre and less far when they are not. Two months of arrival and departure pairs shows you that shift as it happens, instead of leaving you to meet it on a cold Tuesday with an empty bottle. How levels work, and for the loop itself, where to fill and where to empty.

The power question, answered with your own numbers

Leisure battery and power bank get their own arrival and departure readings, separate from the vehicle's own fuel or charge level. Over a winter that is the record that settles the argument about whether the solar is pulling its weight, whether the hookup nights are actually cheaper than the diesel to move somewhere sunnier, and how many days off-grid your setup really manages in November. The arithmetic behind it is in what runs out first, and when.

Two currencies, one winter

A lot of full-timing involves crossing a border and staying put for a while. Every cost is logged in the currency you were charged, chosen per stop, so the Spanish winter and the summer back home sit in the same logbook without anybody converting anything at the till. The record says what you actually handed over, which is the only version that stays true when the rate moves.

What a month is made of

The report opens with the total spend, kept separate per currency, so a month that straddled a border does not quietly pretend the euros were pounds. Under it sit the distance covered, the fuel and the gas, an itemised breakdown of where the money actually went, and charts of the same figures.

That is a household account rather than a holiday reckoning. What did February come to. What share of it was pitch fees against fuel against gas. What happened to the daily figure when the weather turned. Whether the cheap month was genuinely cheaper or just quieter. Reports is Pro, on the same gate as trip summaries. What the summaries show.

A year, as a spreadsheet

The report answers a month or a range. The export answers everything else. Pro sends the whole record to CSV: every stop, every favourite, every vehicle, in a file any spreadsheet will open. That is where a year of living this way becomes something you can slice by country or by category, hand to an accountant, or simply keep somewhere that is not an app. Summaries, charts and CSV export.

More than one thing on the driveway

Plenty of full-timers run a van and a car, or a van and a motorbike, or swap vehicles partway through a year. Each one keeps its own profile, its own systems and its own figures on Pro, so the running costs never blend into one meaningless average. If one of them is electric, the app handles that too. Vehicle profiles.

It still works where you actually park

Full-timers spend more of the year than most people in places with nothing on the meter. The logging carries on with no signal at all and goes into your account once you are back in coverage, so the cost of a week in a glen is recorded in the glen rather than reconstructed afterwards. Logging with no signal.

What this page is not claiming

Stops & Stays records what you tell it. It does not connect to your bank, read your receipts, track your income, handle tax, or know what you spent in the supermarket. It is the running-cost side of living in a vehicle: what the parking, the services, the gas, the water and the miles came to, logged at the moment you paid and kept in a form you can still read in five years. If you want a full personal finance package, this is not it, and the two sit together perfectly well.