Rocketrip vs. Shoeboxed

I was assigned to fly from Amsterdam to Silicon Valley as a young professional to present our idea to a huge international corporation. A budget for two nights' lodging and flights as specified in the invitation. I was 24, and this was my first trip to the West Coast, so I knew I wanted to stay longer than two days. I began looking for cheap hotels in order to fit five nights into the budget. I booked something cheap and was looking forward to my trip despite knowing nothing about San Francisco and having done no homework. I grabbed an Uber from the airport when I arrived. When I told the driver where I wanted to go: Tenderloin, he gave me an odd look. This makes Rockettrip less appropriate.

Incentivized

I'm not sure how Shoeboxed can be used in a large organization, but for our small business, it is perfect. I'm the only one who deals with our finances and works with our accountant and for that Shoeboxed is simply my lifesaver and worth so much more for not just all the time it saves me but all the worries and headaches too.

• Rewards employees for being frugal travelers.
• Saves company a ton of money on T&E.

Incentivized

• Hassle free ways to submit (mobile, snail mail, etc.) with virtually no workload for us
• Digitalizing business cards to facilitate contact management
• Categorizing of receipts to make them searchable

• Receipts can be auto-uploaded. Sounds great on paper, but sometimes it can misread the numbers, and then you have to manually enter the data anyway. So that can definitely be improved with time.
• Points that you earn can go to waste if you don’t earn enough of them in a certain amount of time.
• If there's a change in travel plans, it can lead to a lot of hurdles.

Incentivized

• I had some issues with the mobile app in the past - where it crashes or gets stuck uploading. I think they fixed most of that, however, I transitioned to simply mailing my documents off to them.

Support staff was always available to help if I had questions

Incentivized

Works Recipe scanning is simple. It allows you to easily track and manage your expenses. Automatic debit collection. Tax calculation and information are simple. Support for mobile applications. Expensify is a highly automated expense calculator that detects and computes all expenses stored in the system. There is no need to add a single transaction. It also allows you to edit data if you discover an incorrect transaction. Overall it was a great experience with Expensify but create glitches.

Incentivized

We felt we got more customized support through Shoeboxed and pricing was competitive.

• It has helped our organization save a small but discernable margin on travel expenses.

Incentivized

• It saves me, I would say, at least 2-3 hours each week
• We probably generate 'better' tax returns - more deductions and save on our accountant in the process, since they have everything perfectly prepped