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…
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Last week I spoke with Byron Reese, the host of Gigaom’s “Voices in AI” podcast. We chatted about everything from what the “artificial” in AI really means to the importance of what’s in front of the curtain rather than what’s behind the curtain, and how AI can be used to solve real-world problems by focusing less on advanced technologies and more on what we can do with that technology.
Read or listen to the full podcast here!
Can you believe that Expensify turns 10 this year? I’m 42, so that’s nearly a quarter of my life devoted to the dark arts of expense management, and it has gone by so fast. It feels like just yesterday we launched our app for the iPhone (which also just turned 10), making us the first cloud-hosted, receipt-scanning expense management app, ever, for any phone. Since then, we’ve added more customers than the next four competitors *combined* — doubling our customer count this year alone. Continue Reading…
Tips and tricks for scaling SQLite for 4M real-ish queries per second on a single server, and how bare metal compares to EC2 for this workload.
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Hello! I hope you’re enjoying the height of summer (or winter) wherever you are. I just wanted to give a quick update on some incredible progress with one of our lesser known but increasingly important features: receipt integrations.
Everybody knows what accounting is:
Accounting [uh-koun-ting] (noun)
The theory and system of setting up, maintaining, and auditing the books of a firm; art of analyzing the financial position and operating results of a business house from a study of its sales, purchases, overhead, etc.
But what is “preaccounting”? Not everybody is as familiar with this newer concept, so I’ll go ahead and define “preaccounting” as:
Preaccounting [pri–uh-koun-ting] (noun)
The system through which financial data is gathered, coded, aggregated, and normalized so as to enable accounting to occur; accounting processes executed by non-accountants, including expense management, time tracking, etc.
In layman’s terms, preaccounting is the super boring, tedious work that nobody wants to do, but that absolutely needs to be done before the truly valuable accounting work can begin. Unlike accounting, which is clearly the job of accountants, preaccounting is nobody’s job. Continue Reading…
Innovation is a tricky thing in that it makes the impossible seem boring. I think it’s amazing that my 2.5 year old daughter will never really understand why it’s called “rolling up the window”, that google wasn’t always a verb, or that rocket ships were actually thrown away like garbage into the ocean after each use. People innovate to change the world, but once changed, we forget it wasn’t always that way.
Howdy! Just wanted to check in and share some updates from Expensify:
1) Expensify crosses 35,000 global customers
Did you know that Expensify now has more customers than Concur? Continue Reading…
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
Hello! To celebrate the arrival of a new fall season (or, for our new friends down under, a sunny spring!) I wanted to introduce you to our newest creation: “Concierge”, the product of many months of effort, and possibly your new best friend.
In short, Concierge is our artificially intelligent virtual assistant, built right into Expensify. That means Concierge knows everything Expensify knows — which, given the billions of dollars in expenses we process, is a lot — and is eager to use that knowledge to make your life easy. Continue Reading…
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