Garrett leaked the information: we are going to Thailand this year.
Everybody is really excited. Some of us are so excited that we are already on our way.
We are all going to meet in Bangkok, before moving south. With more than 20 people going, it is our biggest offshore so far.
PS: the picture is a view of Hong Kong. My flight to Bangkok is doing a layover there so I took the opportunity to explore the city.
As some of you may know, we here at Expensify go on an offshore trip every year. This trip is a very valuable time for us to re-gel as a team and focus on our plans for world domination the coming 12 months. This time around we’ve decided we’re headed to Thailand. For a closer look at our M.O. on offshores and past trips, check out our Offshore Trips page.
What does this mean for our users?
First (and only), we will not be hosting our live workshops for this month as the time change would make this outrageously inconvenient. We will still be available anytime by email to help with anything and everything Expensify. Please feel free to contact us at help@expensify.com if you have any clarifying questions about our support.
To atone for our lack of workshops, we’ve put together this post denoting how to learn about and use Expensify.
For Individual Users and Employees
For Company Inquiries and Setup
Three big things going on:
– Can’t use Expensify because your company requires you to use some lame Excel template? We’ve got your back. Sign up for the SmartReport beta and we’ll learn your company’s Excel template and *fill it out for you*. So you can create your expense report using all of Expensify’s features (SmartScan, card import, mobile apps, etc) — but then submit a totally standard Excel expense report. Your company needn’t even know you’re using Expensify under the hood (though I can’t see why they’d complain). Free. Click here to learn more:
https://expensify.com/smartreports
– Wish our Salesforce integration were better? We did too, so we totally overhauled it to provide central employee management and tagging to both Accounts and Opportunities. We also added FinancialForce PSA integration (so tag to Projects and Milestones), and FinancialForce Accounting (so you can submit to Salesforce and use its awesome workflow features). Sign up for the ExpensiForce beta at this link to get early access — we’d love your help making it perfect.
– If you haven’t heard of Concur, they’re the Microsoft of expense reports. (They’re even in Seattle.) We don’t really compete because they’re primarily for huge enterprises while we’re all about SMB. But we’re being pulled into ever-larger customer deployments, and we’re getting compared to them more and more. Can you help us figure out how we stack up? Price, features, everything — if you have any thoughts, please share them at this link:
Thanks, I really appreciate your help with Concur, and am excited to get your feedback on the betas. Big things underway, it’s great to have your help!
-david
Founder and CEO of Expensify
Follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/expensify
You can add receipt images to your reports with or without expense information. Depending on the information you’ve added to your receipts, you’ll find them in different locations of your report.
Receipt Thumbnails
Receipt images added to a report with corresponding expense information are listed in the expenses list and the Receipt Thumbnails section immediately below it.
Report Attachments
Report Attachments are images added to a report that are not attached to an expense and do not contain minimum expense information. Minimum expense information includes a Merchant Name, Date, and Amount. Without these distinctions, receipt images will be added to the Attachments section of a report. Why attach an image without any expense information? Report Attachments serve as supporting documentation for the expense report. The most common uses of the Report Attachment are pre-approval documents and insurance forms, but you can utilize this feature for any of your supporting documentation needs.
While this distinction is basic, it’s definitely a good thing to know when putting your report together. If you have any questions about Report Attachments, Receipt Thumbnails, or any of our features please feel free to contact our support team at help@expensify.com.
A little over a year ago we did a post entitled, How to Sell it to the Man. (The Man = your boss, their boss, your accountant, your colleagues, etc.) Since we didn’t spend the last year just twiddling our thumbs, selling Expensify to the Man is even easier for you and we thought we’d give you some updated ammo for the good fight.
Expensify is easier on your wallet.
Expensify vs. our Competitors
Expensify bills $5/$10 (depending on plan) per active submitter per month, plus the first two for free. What’s the difference? The “active submitter” part. We only charge you for a user if they actually used the product that month – that is, if they submitted an expense report. At the end of the month, no matter how many employees you have signed up, you will only be billed for your active submitters. Each active submitter can submit an unlimited number of expense reports at no extra charge.
Compare this to your current expense reporting costs and you’ll find that in the overwhelming majority of cases our price is simply unbeatable.
Expensify vs. your wasted time
Don’t have an expense reporting software? Using Excel or cut/paste documents? Let’s do the math. Your salesperson earns 50K per year, which translates to roughly $20/hour. It takes them 4 hours and a lot of frustration to fill out expense reports each month. That’s $20/hour x 4 hours = $80. If it takes them 20 minutes to submit a report with Expensify, that’s $20/hour x 0.3hrs + $5 or $10 for Expensify = $11 or $16, frustration-free.
Expensify is easier on your employees.
Stop making your employees dread that envelope stuffed with receipts that just sits on their desks. No more endless papercuts as they scramble to find that one report your accountant wants to review, NOW.
Expensify is easier on your accountants.
Does your accounting department use NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics, Oracle, Sage, another accounting package? Not a problem, Expensify allows you to export expenses and reports into custom CSV formats, acceptable by your accounting package. Perhaps they use QuickBooks? Awesome, because Expensify connects to your QB account to sync everything back and forth. Save your accountants hours of manual input, save your company money.
Bonus: We also integrate with your payroll solution!
We’re happier to provide you support
You will also have email access to one of the best support teams in the business. With a 24 hour turn around time on emails (and usually quicker), we can get any issues you have sorted out quickly.
Care for a second opinion?
Check out our Twitter feed some time. I don’t know about you, but this is the first company I have worked at and been comfortable saying THAT to a potential user. Our users can’t seem to stop showering us with love! With the usual state of public discourse towards companies being rather negative this is something we are quite proud of.
Do you have a complex, outrageous expense reporting setup?
Not only can Expensify manage it, we can make it simpler and more intuitive for you, your employees, and your accountants. Email our support team and tell us about your current setup. We’ll tell you how we can make expense reporting a quicker, easier necessary evil.
