Expensify vs. Navan

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Expensify
Score 7.2 out of 10
N/A
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.
$0
per month
Navan
Score 6.7 out of 10
N/A
Navan (formerly TripActions) headquartered in Palo Alto offers their corporate travel management application of the same name, supporting messaging, travel rewards management, travel booking, and company policy compliance.N/A
Pricing
ExpensifyNavan
Editions & Modules
Collect
$5
per month per user
Control
$9
per month per user
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ExpensifyNavan
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
ExpensifyNavan
Considered Both Products
Expensify
Chose Expensify
We use the two together, and they work very well for us at Hudl. I think trip actions could change some titles on their end so they matched up better when the receipts are pulled to Expensify.
Chose Expensify
Expensify felt like a perfect consumer app that you pick up and start using. The mobile app was so good that I rarely cracked open my laptop for expense reports. Workday would start a conversation in our office about how it felt like we were back in the early 2000s doing …
Navan
Chose Navan
We evaluated a number of products and landed on TripActions... flexibility about company policy; deployment of iPhone app and its integration with Expensify were key.
Chose Navan
TripActions stacks up exceptionally when comparing against similar tools such as Nexonia, or Certify. Both of which I have used at prior Sales Orgs. With expense tools, it all comes down to the mobile application. If you're traveling at all for your role/job, you will …
Chose Navan
We did not have a good experience with Concur. It was difficult to use and outdated. I spent many days helping our travelers try to find the correct flights on Concur, or helping them troubleshoot errors. TripActions was a huge improvement and both myself and our travelers …
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
ExpensifyNavan
Expense Management
Comparison of Expense Management features of Product A and Product B
Expensify
7.0
9 Ratings
13% below category average
Navan
-
Ratings
Employee Expense Reporting7.79 Ratings00 Ratings
Corporate Card Reconciliation6.34 Ratings00 Ratings
Payment Management
Comparison of Payment Management features of Product A and Product B
Expensify
6.9
8 Ratings
15% below category average
Navan
-
Ratings
Customizable Approval Policies6.97 Ratings00 Ratings
Financial Document Management7.24 Ratings00 Ratings
Payment Status Tracking6.66 Ratings00 Ratings
Payment Audit Trail7.85 Ratings00 Ratings
Duplicate Bill Detection6.77 Ratings00 Ratings
Advanced OCR7.18 Ratings00 Ratings
Electronic Funds Transfer5.94 Ratings00 Ratings
Travel Management
Comparison of Travel Management features of Product A and Product B
Expensify
-
Ratings
Navan
1.2
1 Ratings
9% above category average
Customizable Approval Workflows00 Ratings2.01 Ratings
Readily Available Support00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
Travel Spend Reports00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
Consolidated Invoicing00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
Easy Travel Booking00 Ratings2.01 Ratings
Mobile Travel Application00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
Centralized Itinerary Management00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
Collaborative Booking00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
Loyalty Programs00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
Reuses Traveler Information00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
User-friendly Interface00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
Integrated Expensing Tool00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
Travel Alerts00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
ExpensifyNavan
Likelihood to Recommend
5.1
(97 ratings)
1.0
(36 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(8 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
7.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.5
(42 ratings)
9.4
(15 ratings)
User Testimonials
ExpensifyNavan
Likelihood to Recommend
Expensify
Expensify has been incredibly useful to me for many years. Considering I am using the free version, it's hard to find a better value! If your company does not have a good expense-capturing system, Expensify will save you hours on submitting reports. You can take a picture and toss the paper receipts right at the point of sale without worrying about losing them during your travels. If you have a small business, you can use it to track and organize regular expenses to make billable expenses and end-of-year taxes a whole lot easier.
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Navan
A specific scenario where TripActions was well suited was when I needed to book a hotel stay in Cologne, Germany for multiple colleagues. The fact that they were registered users made coordinating their stays a seamless process. I have not had an occasion where TripActions was inappropriate to use.
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Pros
Expensify
  • Submitting expenses. It's easy to enter an expense, choose a category, enter the dollar amount and submit it. That's about it.
  • Uploading receipts. You can send receipts to Expensify from your phone, or upload them from your computer.
  • Entering hours worked. It's simple to move from expenses over to timesheets to submit the hours that you've worked.
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Navan
  • Provides a wide range of travel options within a wide budget.
  • It is reliable - if a trip gets canceled, they are quick to contact their customer and help sort out additional booking details to get you to your final destination.
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Cons
Expensify
  • Make it easier to submit multiple receipts/files in one expense
  • Often times I get a warning that the value of a receipt doesn't match what I manually I inputted. So making Smart scanner a little smarter, essentially.
  • It would be fun to see stats about my expenses
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Navan
  • Limited partnerships with all the major airlines, or if so, slowly just adding more airlines to their platform
  • Not a lot of information about the ratings of the hotels. I have stayed in hotels that I probably wouldn't have if their information was more up to date
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Likelihood to Renew
Expensify
We like using the tool and we receive positive feedback from employees and management who use the tool. It saves time and helps us concentrate on the value adding activities so we are very likely to keep using Expensify in the future
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Navan
This decision overall isn’t made by me. The company evaluates the product. While I am an influencer the overall review is my personal opinion and mine only. The company books flights or would like for us to book flights through trip actions everything else is suggested but done with a personal cc which makes it optional. My option will be to not use TripActions for anything personally.
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Usability
Expensify
Mobile works great, but let's be honest. It's just a photograph. Their OCR and human turk technology works great to scan that photo and enter the proper information. The web interface is decent and allows you to work with single expenses in great detail. What's missing is the ability to mass update expenses, and this sometimes hurts, especially if you're a heavy user of the system.
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Navan
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Support Rating
Expensify
Our rep has been amazing. He has built custom reports for us that have been very time consuming and difficult. Our reps are also currently looking into new submission solutions for us that we are excited about. They came up with this and recommended it on their own without me complaining about an issue. They are about our success and are very excited about the product they offer.
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Navan
- Easy bookings and quick expensing - Excellent chat support - Savings for the company since employees opt for rewards which require booking cheaper than average priced hotels - Rewards for employees - Easy to use customer interface - Great mobile applications for android and iOS - Ability to control payment methods for a different types of bookings like hotels or flights or car rentals.
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Alternatives Considered
Expensify
Concur was a great product as well but Expensify offers the ability to quickly upload expenses and submit reports just the same. There is no free version with Concur, so for a small business that's interested in keeping costs down I would highly recommend Expensify.
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Navan
I like TripActions more because everything is on a mobile app that is super user-friendly. The customer service team is also world class-I genuinely have never felt so taken care of. More so, Concur Travel and Expense never rewarded me for traveling, while I made over 200 dollars in Amazon money just for doing my job.
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Return on Investment
Expensify
  • Our organization no longer spends countless hours per month orchestrating the consolidation of data (MS Excel, typically) into our general ledger.
  • Our accounting department is no longer tasked with making sure the correct individuals have approved submitted reports.
  • Our accountants have a much easier time coding the reports that have been submitted by users. For the most part, we rely on users to code their submissions to the correct accounts.
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Navan
  • The ability to change flights while I am on the road in meetings. They actually call the agents for me.
  • It has put money back in my pocket with the Amazon rewards and my company has saved money by me booking the less expensive options.
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ScreenShots

Expensify Screenshots

Screenshot of the Expensify financial management app for expenses and corporate cards.Screenshot of The Expensify Card, which offers up to 2% cash back and 50% off the monthly Expensify bill. It includes realtime alerts, spend limits, and auto-reconciliation.