Hey there, I just wanted to share a couple major developments on the Expensify side:
- Named Preferred Partner by the AICPA and CPA.com
- Launched Concierge Inbox on mobile
- Launched a new Zenefits integration
- Launched a new Greenhouse integration
Archives For November 30, 1999
Winter is in full force across the US and we have been in full force rolling out all kinds of new features. The team also took a couple of weeks to focus on product stability and take care of some bugs that have been lingering for a while. All in all, a productive January indeed!
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We’re very excited to announce the release of our new mobile design today!
The team spent months rethinking the mobile experience and the result is a beautiful interface with more intuitive design that makes the process of snapping photos of receipts and submitting reports easier than ever. A few things to highlight about the new design are the Expenses tab as the new home screen, the Launcher, the seamless tab bar and general refreshes all around. Continue Reading…
Hey there, I hope you had a great holiday season and that 2015 is off to a great start. I won’t bore you with the details, but needless to say 2014 was a big year for us — most notably by adding 4000 new customers, including the BBB, ZenDesk, and most recently Yahoo! At this scale of growth, just keeping the lights on is a lot of work. But in addition to the mundane details of scaling a mission-critical, global-scale financial application processing $billions of expenses, I’m very happy to share details on our latest creation: our new mobile camera! Continue Reading…
Whether you work at a startup, a large corporation, or something in between, the end of the month always means one thing: it’s time to get those expense reports in!
People often consider expense reporting to be a pain in the elbow, and that’s why we’ve made it our mission to make expense reports suck less. Using Expensify can help significantly reduce the overall time it takes to finish a report. Even better, pair it with an incremental behavioral change and you might actually look forward to submitting your expense report every month (we can dream right?). Continue Reading…
This week we’re releasing version 4.3.0 of our mobile app on iPhone and Android. In addition to the many small bug fixes and other improvements, this release includes the ability to use Wingman on your phone. With Wingman, you can give someone full access to your account full access to your account without having to share your password. Expensify will continue to keep a paper trail of each user’s actual actions. So when your Wingman performs an action on a report, we record that it was them, not you. Continue Reading…
Expensify, just like all tech companies in the world, fights bugs on a daily basis. Most of them affect an insignificant part of our users (i.e. an app crash when resuming on a specific page). Some of them have an important impact on the main flow (i.e. taking a picture takes 10 seconds longer than usual).
But sometimes, one small line of code will produce a bug that critically affects 100% of our users. Continue Reading…
Here’s a quick look at a few things we’ve done in the past few months to make sure Expensify runs faster than a <insert inappropriate joke here>.
Cache, Cache, Cache
Before (dashed) and after (solid blue) chart of API response times – from New Relic
The biggest change we’ve made to speed up our API was introducing a global caching layer, aware of the relationships between the data we handle, and capable of prefetching resources in bulk when necessary. This has reduced the read load on our database server by around 25% (!), freeing resources to serve more customers at any time, especially at peak load. The API is used by all of our apps, including expensify.com – so the benefits of this can be perceived across all of our services. Continue Reading…
First and foremost, we’ve made two HUGE upgrades: Continue Reading…
You’ve asked for it, and we listened. Now you can upload your scanned, digitized, text, html, and pretty much any other type of receipt directly to your account or directly to an expense that needs a receipt image.
Upload digital receipts directly to your account
For detailed instructions on how to use the new direct receipt upload feature, as well as to check out all the supported file types for receipts, check out our uploading receipts help page.