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Expensify

Score7.7 out of 10

406 Reviews and Ratings

What is Expensify?

Expensify automates the entire spend management process. Scan receipts, track mileage, submit and approve expenses, manage corporate cards, reimburse employees, pay bills, send invoices, and book travel. Built for individuals and companies of all sizes, anywhere in the world.

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Top Performing Features

  • Employee Expense Reporting

    Allows companies to track employee expenses to make cost-effective decisions.

    Category average: 8.4

  • Payment Audit Trail

    Allows admin users visibility into the entire payment process, from receiving the expense claim or invoice to the payee receiving payment.

    Category average: 8.4

  • Payment Status Tracking

    Tracks what stage payments are at in the process, from approval to receipt.

    Category average: 8.3

Areas for Improvement

  • Duplicate Bill Detection

    Detects duplicate invoices or expense reports to prevent double payments.

    Category average: 7.9

  • Customizable Approval Policies

    Policies for different types of approvals can be customized, sent to multiple approvers, automatically approved, etc.

    Category average: 8

  • Advanced OCR

    Automatically imports information from invoices, receipts, expense reports, and other scanned documents into the platform.

    Category average: 7.8

Great for small business

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our company uses Expensify for our Petty Cash spending. Multiple employees have cards, all drawing from the same bank account. It's handy to have a bigger spending limit per card, as well as the automatic receipt generation for several types of purchases. Also, the repeated reminders to upload the receipt for larger purchases are a lifesaver. We have several employees who have historically thought of receipts as unnecessary paperwork, leading to accounting hounding the employees for receipts or spending time asking vendors to email missing receipts. This has led to discontent between departments. Initially, adding the new system created an organic change in procedure requirements that employees could understand but not take personally. Now, Expensify automatically does the "hounding," so forgetful employees no longer have a person to be mad at. When a card is lost or compromised, the ability to turn off a card and order a new one is very smooth. While waiting for the physical card to arrive, it is nice to still be able to use the virtual card. Altogether, I would recommend Expensify, especially for smaller businesses where all the employees know each other.

Pros

  • Spending tracking
  • Reminders for receipts
  • Detailed spending reports
  • Smooth turn around for replacing lost cards

Cons

  • Once a batch is closed I cannot edit any information, or add a receipt
  • Once a card is locked, I cannot order a new card. Your AI chat suggests to lock a card first, then order a new one, which then requires unlocking the card. The order of opperations needs to be switched or allow for ordering a new card once an old card is locked (which also makes sense).
  • Adding an option to talk to a person when openining Concierge. The AI is really good, but is still limited.

Return on Investment

  • Employees know we are able to see their spending in nearly real time - reducing questionable/vague purchases.
  • Accounting labor has gone way down, in reconciliation, fixing coding errors and in hunting down receipts.
  • General employee labor has gone down as cards are no longer being rejected at the register, and spending limits are higher.

Usability

Easy to use efficient and high value for the cost

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use the Co-Pilot function as an accountant and tax preparer. My clients use Expensify to create reports for reimbursements, quarterly expenses, and to store receipts digitally. This lets them save on storage and paper by prioritizing digital receipts. The ease of use, especially for the mobile apps, allows users to submit receipts in real time. None of my usage has used the expense claim tool, but I see that as a tool with high value.

Pros

  • Receipt Capture
  • Reporting
  • Accesibility

Cons

  • Integrations
  • I have little bad to say from my usage of Expensify

Return on Investment

  • Positive impact is the time saving and efficiency of this tool. One of my clients has saved hours each month and is better able to focus on his business instead.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Dext and Ramp

Other Software Used

QuickBooks Online, Drake Tax

Expensify - a great tool to save me time

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As a traveling business professional, the simplicity and ease of use in submitting expenses can save me valuable time. With Expensify, l love that i can quickly log on, enter an expense, reciept and description very quickly, and even if i dont complete it, the system saves my info so i can continue if i get pulled away from the initial task. Many entry processes which typically were very time consuming in other systems, are now able to be done without the hassles of delays, errors etc. Previously i would wait to enter reports because i knew it would be time consuming, which resulted in missed expenses, costing me $$$. I am able to enter expenses quickly instead of sorting through many receipts at the end of each week or month.

Pros

  • Travel mileage and maps - Very easy and accurate
  • Submission of receipts and tracking of expenses
  • Simplified Entry of expenses and associated data
  • Reminders - quick and timely, and adherance to company policies is informative and accurate

Cons

  • Ability to add multiple receipts for expense
  • Additional comments field on Expense Summary

Return on Investment

  • Frees up my time to sell and conduct business instead of procedural tasks

Usability

Alternatives Considered

SAP Concur

Organized expenses made easy

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Expensify for work travel, specially with the sales and implementation team when we travel onsite to customers. I enjoy using it because it’s so simple to forward your emailed receipts straight to your account and take pictures of receipts while on the road and it keeps them organized. Then at the end of of a trip I can dump them all in a report and send it off with ease to the accounting team.

Pros

  • Organized receipts by reports
  • Uploading receipts with central email address
  • Scans receipts for information

Cons

  • Custom expense report names
  • Recognize duplicate receipts

Return on Investment

  • Organized expenses
  • Ease of expense reports

Usability

Alternatives Considered

BILL

Other Software Used

BILL

My favorite expense management app - highly recommend

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I've used Expensify as a corporate employee when my small company had zero useful accounting tools of their own and I've used it for my own small businesses. If the corporate job I had would have chose Expensify (over the "other guys" who are terrible but have made a name for themselves in expenses/travel), I would have been a MUCH happier business traveler. Expensify is far and away my favorite expense recording program. The app is actually useful and truly makes capturing and organizing expenses a breeze. As a small business owner I love that I can set up reports for whatever I want, quarters, mileage tracking, whatever works with my business flow and can export them into a spreadsheet for accounting purposes.

Pros

  • Easy report building
  • Accurately scanning receipts
  • Capturing mileage in multiple ways

Cons

  • Settings for defaults are a little buried sometimes
  • Easier set up for sole proprietors
  • Ability to hide/archive old reports

Return on Investment

  • I've been able to easily track 6-10k with of write offs with mileage tracking
  • Has saved me many hours of trying to compile receipts for taxes ...pull expenses and go
  • Saves me money by making my business work better, more hours I can get to work with

Usability

Alternatives Considered

SAP Concur

Other Software Used

Google Drive, Canva, Dotloop