Hey, are you going to SXSW? If so, can you do me a favor and drop by my panel “How the Wallet Was Won: The End of Paper Receipts” on Tuesday at 11am?
http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP9924
I’d love to see some friendly faces in the audience! Also, because everyone tries to outdo everyone else with crazy SXSW promotions, we figure we’ll go with a classic: free beer (or the beverage of your choice), on us. Just send me an expense report at sxsw@expensify.com with a receipt photo showing you drinking heartily (with an Austin or SXSW landmark in the background as evidence), and I’ll reimburse you $5 via PayPal. Extra points for creativity, because what happens in Austin stays in Austin… except for what you send to me and I put on our blog.
But really, that’s not the exciting news. More interesting is that we’ve just released a *major* update to iPhone*, Android, and Windows Phone*. Now you can see all your past receipts and expenses, add expenses to reports, and even submit full expense reports from the app itself. It’s been a long time coming (and there are still a million improvements to be made), but it’s finally here!
On that note, after a million requests we’ve added *GPS mileage tracking*! That’s right: just click “Start” and “Stop”, and we’ll measure the distance traveled (using background GPS — ooh fancy) and log a mileage expense. Available on iPhone and Android.
Anyway, we’re working hard to make everything a little better every day. I still have a huge number of responses to the last newsletter that I haven’t yet replied to, but I will. Please hit Reply on this and I’ll get to you as soon as I can, thanks!
-david
Founder and CEO of Expensify
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* It’s still called “Expensify Lite” on iPhone, as “Expensify” is still slightly more feature rich — we’ll switch out the old with the new once it has it all. Also, we’re awaiting approval from Apple and Microsoft, so any day now… Thanks for your patience!
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