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Pro Tips Monday: Linking Your Bank/Credit Card to Your Account

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The easiest way (second to SmartScans of course!) to add expenses to Expensify is to import your bank/credit card. Linking your bank/credit card is the best way to capture expenditures made on these accounts, and will let you see all of your spending in one spot! We’ll even update your transactions as soon as new purchases become available. Most transactions under $75 are also eligible for automatically generated eReceipts.

Before we get into any detail on how to get this set up, the first thing you want to do is to make sure that you can log in to your bank’s website. If you can’t, Expensify will not be able to communicate with them.

Link your account by clicking the Import credit card/bank account icon on your Dashboard and follow along with the step by step instructions.

Additional cards and accounts can be added by going to Settings -> Credit Cards and clicking on the “Import card/bank” button.

Step 1
Pick your bank from the list of most frequently added banks or type in its name to bring it up in a search

Step 2
Connect with your account by using the same Username and Password you use for online banking.

Step 3
We’ll pull in all of the accounts tied to your username; just pick and choose the ones you want to import. If you are importing a corporate credit card, or any other account that you don’t pay directly, make sure to un-check the box for “the expenses on these cards are reimbursable” when importing the card.

You can learn about this and more by visiting our help section at https://www.expensify.com/help or email Omar@Expensify.com!

Written by Omar Al-Agely

January 23, 2012 at 5:46 pm

Posted in Pro Tip

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5 Responses

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  1. What if bank is not on list??

    tim kellerman

    February 10, 2012 at 8:00 am

  2. I’ve managed to connect credit card to my account
    thanks for the tutorial

    Jacka

    February 10, 2012 at 8:18 pm

  3. @tim – Currently the best option in this situation is to download the transactions from your bank in OFX or CSV format and upload manually. More information is here, thanks! https://www.expensify.com/help/expenses/import

    David Barrett

    February 13, 2012 at 12:46 pm

  4. couldn’t link my thai amex card. Said it wasn’t supported. :(

    Andrew

    February 20, 2012 at 6:58 pm

  5. @Andrew – Is your AMEX card issued inside or outside the United States? Currently we only support US AMEX, though we’re working to add international before the year is out. Thanks for your patience!

    David Barrett

    February 22, 2012 at 11:10 am


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