Spend Trends is our analysis of today’s most popular, fastest-growing, and emerging business expense trends. As you can imagine, after 10+ years in the expense management game, we’ve gathered some pretty cool insights into the top trends in business spending. We’re excited to share them with you!
Hopefully you’re settling in for the holiday season with a warm cup of cocoa, a list of Netflix specials, and a toasty fire fueled by burning receipts. In the meantime, we’re here to let you know that 2018 was our best year yet – we’re growing faster than ever, expanding our ExpensifyApproved! program like crazy, and building out new partnerships around the globe.
Here’s an abbreviated recap of our year so you can get back to doing what you love:
Want to hear more about what we’ve been up to in 2018? Check out the full press release here and join the Community for in-depth discussions on everything Expensify!
Hey there, I have some news to share that I think you’re going to like (and if not you, then definitely someone you know). In short: Expensify has just launched new plans for individuals at only $5 per month! As crazy as it sounds, this is by far our most commonly requested feature, but it has taken us 10 years to get around to it. Continue Reading…
It’s now easier than ever for your company to get a value-added tax (VAT) refund on international expenses. Just connect Expensify to Global VaTax or Taxback International and your expenses flow automatically across for VAT analysis, submission, and recovery. Even better, depending on the country and type of VAT, your company could be eligible for a VAT refund on expenses going back as far as 5 years!
If you’ll recall David’s last newsletter and blog post, Expensify has been growing rapidly in the last six months, and we’ve seen the toll it’s been taking from a customer support perspective:
It has been a busy, busy year. Just a couple months ago I mentioned we had 35,000 customers — well now it’s 43,000. We’re on track to add more customers in six months than we’ve added in the past *six years*. This has placed a pretty serious strain on our system and people, and I really appreciate your patience as we ramp up both to sustain this rate of growth as the “new norm”.
As the team discussed additional ways to offer timely support to our users, we realized one very important thing: we lacked a communal space for users to connect with other users, ask questions, trade tips, and share experiences in our common quest to build an efficient expense management workflow that works for everyone.
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Hanging with Xero at their SF office!
A few weeks ago we announced that Xero chose Expensify as its receipt and expense management system for all employees across 21 offices worldwide. This month, we’re continuing our celebration with the news that Xero has selected us as their Global App Partner of the Month! Continue Reading…
Duplicate expenses are a pain for everyone, so we’re finally doing something about it.
Whether intentional, or not, duplicate expenses are an issue. Duplicate expenses create more work for both the submitter and the approver. They are a core task in auditing to be sought out and destroyed!
When I was a child, my mom collected shoeboxes. Big boxes, tall boxes, small boxes, etc. Their varying sizes made them a great storage option.
My parents own a slew of vending machines in and around my hometown and keeping track of their expenses during the year was never a huge priority. As a result, my mom finds the best-priced soda at one store then travels to the next, even if it’s only because she has a coupon for potato chips. She had receipts from Sam’s Club (a retail warehouse), gas stations, grocery stores, and more. It’s a lot of driving and even more receipts.
When you upload receipts as HTML or text emails (or even upload them as original PDFs), we store them securely on our server as both a high-resolution PDF and a low-resolution JPG thumbnail. We typically only show the JPG, but your always welcome to go back and download the full PDF in all it’s glory. Just click on the receipt on the home or receipt page, then click “Download as PDF” in the upper-right corner:
Naturally, this option is only available for HTML, text, and PDF receipts — receipts uploaded as a photograph are kept in their original format.
