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Expensify

Overview

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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Pricing

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Collect

$5

Cloud
per month per user

Control

$9

Cloud
per month per user

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttp://use.expensify.com/pricing

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $5 per month per user
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Product Demos

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Features

Expense Management

Expense management features

9.5
Avg 8.1

Payment Management

Features that allow for the management of payments across various forms of finance/accounting software.

9.3
Avg 8.0
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Product Details

What is Expensify?

Expensify helps users to save time on expense management whether they are self-employed, starting a small business, scaling a startup, or managing a global enterprise company.

Here are just a handful of its capabilities:

  • Scan receipts - snap a photo of any receipt (or forward digital receipts to receipts@expensify.com) for automatic scanning.
  • Submit expenses - automate expense categorization with smart rules and schedule reports to submit on a custom cadence.
  • Approve reports - set up multiple levels of approval and use Guided Review to keep approvers focused on risky or outlier expenses.
  • Book travel - book from a global inventory of flights, hotels, cars, and trains right in Expensify.
  • Track mileage - log trips in miles or kilometers for tax purposes or for reimbursement.
  • Import cards - sync existing corporate cards to Expensify for full visibility into company spend, automatic receipt matching, and reconciliation.
  • Expensify Card - the Expensify corporate card creates cash back on every US purchase and up to 50% off an Expensify bill, with real-time alerts, spend limits, and admin controls.
  • Reimburse employees - pay back teams as soon as the next business day, across town or around the world.
  • Pay bills - capture details from vendor bills for automatic approval and payment.
  • Invoicing - create and send invoices, collect payments, and sync with accounting software.
  • Sync with accounting - connect major accounting packages such as QuickBooks, NetSuite, Sage Intacct, and Xero.

Expensify Features

Expense Management Features

  • Supported: Employee Expense Reporting
  • Supported: Corporate Card Reconciliation

Payment Management Features

  • Supported: Customizable Approval Policies
  • Supported: Financial Document Management
  • Supported: Payment Status Tracking
  • Supported: Payment Audit Trail
  • Supported: Duplicate Bill Detection
  • Supported: Advanced OCR
  • Supported: Electronic Funds Transfer
  • Supported: PCI Compliant Security Measures

Additional Features

  • Supported: Travel Booking & Management

Expensify Screenshots

Screenshot of the dashboard used to manage expenses, book travel, reimburse employees, and create expense reports.Screenshot of corporate cards. The Expensify Card offers cash back on every US purchase.

Expensify Video

Expensify: Travel and expense, at the speed of chat.

Expensify Competitors

Expensify Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsMac
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Mobile Web
Supported LanguagesEnglish, Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Expensify starts at $5.

Microsoft Excel, SAP Concur, and Brex are common alternatives for Expensify.

Reviewers rate Employee Expense Reporting and Payment Status Tracking highest, with a score of 9.7.

The most common users of Expensify are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Comparisons

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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Expensify-- easy to use mobile app for all your business expenses

Rating: 10 out of 10
May 14, 2019
RT
Vetted Review
Verified User
Expensify
3 years of experience
At Numerify, we use Expensify to log all expenses, from entertaining clients, to transportation, to travel related meals, and more. We also use a travel booking software, which has seamless integration with Expensify so that all of our airfare and hotel expenses automatically sync with Expensify, which makes it very convenient.
  • Ease of use of the mobile app with push notifications that keep you updated on the status of your expense report(s).
  • Direct integrations with travel booking software that automatically pulls those expenses into the Expensify app.
  • The receipt reader that allows users to take a picture, and the data is extracted into Expensify.
Cons
  • The receipt reader sometimes can't automatically put the expense in the correct category, as each company categorizes expenses differently.
  • Sometimes you'll receive an error alert, but it doesn't specify why. This is usually related to your company admin's settings, however.
  • If you accidentally press the + sign sometimes, it creates an additional report where you can't delete the report on the app and have to do it on the web page.
It's very appropriate for employees where you incur several expenses. I can't think of a situation where it's not well suited for working professionals that have to track/submit expense reports. It's less appropriate for those that don't incur a lot of expenses, as it might be inconvenient for employees like that to have to submit a report for a dollar amount that is so small.

The modern approach to expenses for professionals with a powerful mobile app experience!

Rating: 10 out of 10
June 03, 2019
Vetted Review
Verified User
Expensify
1 year of experience
Our team travels a lot, usually twice a month to meet with clients and such. We use to do expenses by entering line items into an Excel form and manually submitting these for approval by our manager and then to finance for reimbursement. Since bringing in Expensify, my time spent doing expenses has been significantly reduced and it actually made it this task an enjoyable experience. First off, the mobile experience is clean and powerful. I now enter expenses on-the-go by using the app's built-in camera function to snap a picture of the receipt and using the "SmartScanning" function which uses an OCR-like software to read and complete the expense fields from the receipt. I've found it to be very accurate and I've rarely had to adjust any of the auto entries. Another great function of the app is the ability to generate a receipt for mileage by selecting two points on a map and letting it calculate mileage. Between the "SmartScanning" or receipt and automated mileage entries, this alone makes Expensify the tool to have to bring your expenses into the 21st century. The web portal is also very easy to use but I am mostly a mobile user.
  • Powerful mobile experience, truly designed for professionals on the go. The mobile app isn't just a data entry tool, it scans receipts, generated mileage receipts and manages expenses. You can also do it all from the app, from creating reports to submitting them for approval and seeing the status of your reimbursement.
  • The interface on both mobile and the web is clean, well laid out, easy to use and a breeze to navigate. My team and I needed zero training on how to use this, it is THAT simple. I tend to have several expense reports going at once and they need to be segregated as they're billed back to clients, the ease with which I can classify my individual expenses is a great timesaver.
  • The help feature within the app is easy to use, articles are available through a built-in search and you can also start a conversation with support.
Cons
  • The OCR algorithm for the "SmartScanning" isn't always right and it seems to make the same mistakes, I wish it could learn from user corrections.
  • When entering receipts manually or through "SmartScanning", I ALWAYS have to enter my department although it never changes. I wish I could set this in my profile and have it entered automatically into every receipt.
  • The app and web interface should allow for 2FA given the confidential nature of the information stored on their systems.
Expensify is very well suited for professionals on the go, the mobile experience is fully featured and there's no need to even use the web portal unless you're tired of looking at your phone screen. The ease and speed with which I can enter, organize and segregate my expenses have allowed me to spend more time on other tasks as I now enter m expenses in real-time as soon as I get the receipt by using the built-in camera. In the event that I lose a physical receipt, I already have it in the app and this is now a non-issue.

Expensify Scales w/ Hypergrowth Tech Company!

Rating: 10 out of 10
June 19, 2019
Vetted Review
Verified User
Expensify
5 years of experience
  • Expensify is being leveraged across the organization as the de-facto expense tool
  • It has a simple and easy to use interface that enables employees to quickly submit expenses and therefore spend more time performing their core competencies
  • It has a sleek mobile app that is highly leveraged at the company
  • I have leveraged Expensify for the past 5 years
  • Great mobile app for snapping pictures of receipts on the go!
  • Simple and intuitive user interface helps users get up to speed quickly
  • Smart scan feature, which scans your receipts and auto-populates data, has a fairly high success rate
  • Integrates well with other products
  • Pricing is fair and flexible
Cons
  • Smart scan feature is good but could be great with a higher success rate
  • Smart scan feature is slow at times
  • More security could be helpful for your IT team
Pros. - Fair pricing - Solid mobile app - Effective smart scan feature - Intuitive user interface - Great for rapidly growing companies - Effective at streamlining expense process so employees can work on more value-add projects
Cons. - Smart scan feature could be faster - Smart scan feature could be more accurate - Security could be more robust

Great Product! Helps our business in more ways than one. Great for traveling business personnel.

Rating: 7 out of 10
March 18, 2015
Vetted Review
Verified User
Expensify
2 years of experience
We are currently using Expensify across our company. My services as an assistant is shared by both Century Bridge and Sweetwater Capital. We use this for Sweetwater which; owns, trades, slaughters, sells cattle all over the world. (Dubai, Turkey, Tanzania, Dar, and more) The men have to travel to different regions of the country often. Losing receipts, incomplete expense reports were a major problem. A problem that lead to a not so positive audit. Expensify allows our guys to take pictures of their receipts and quickly type in the needed info before the information is lost. My CFO and I manage and keep track of expensify online, while our CPA can easily generate reports and keep track of expenses. We are so much more efficient and can spend time on more urgent tasks at hand. The expenses were such a mess before it was causing us to be un-organize in other areas. Expensify has helped us be more organized all around.
  • Is easy to see which reports are processing, open, and approved. If you are waiting to be refunded it's assuring to know that it is being worked on. If you forgot to 'submit' your report it is always good to see that it is still open. On the flip side, if someone is behind it makes it easy to keep track of what is being done so your bothering someone for good cause, and not to hear 'I'm working on it.'
  • Shows the receipt in the individual expense. If you have any questions about the information in the expense you just click the picture and bam! There is the receipt.
  • Love the mobile app. You take a picture of the receipt, just enter the basic information, click the report you're adding it to. Done! If you lose the receipt or it goes through the wash, no worries it's there.
Cons
  • When looking at a report I think the receipt thumbnails at the bottom are distracting and unnecessary. I like things to be simple and there is already a separate bucket for un-tagged receipts, so why are some random thumbnails for the report there? Typically they have some missing info or are "past due"? Perhaps a different name than report thumbnails.
  • I've had problems inviting people on the same 'group'. (like a new employee) For some reason it's hit or miss for the invite to go through to their email.
  • Really enjoy expensify better since the update. It's more user friendly as far the admin is concerned.
How much do you travel? How often are employees in the office? -Better suited for companies that have employees that travel often, or office away from each other. Some of our employees live in separate parts of the US AND travel internationally. It's hard to get expenses settled the old fashioned way when everyone are very often in separate time zones, or even driving a lot. Do you have to re-reimburse employees often? If you only have to reimburse an employee or two a few times a year it's not enough to validate paying to use something such as expensify.

Smooth app

Rating: 10 out of 10
April 30, 2025
MK
Vetted Review
Verified User
Expensify
3 years of experience
I am a regional sales manager. I use Expensify to track and submit all of my monthly expenses. I have used several over the years at different companies, and this one is by far the most seamless to use. Just pull out my phone, snap a pic of the receipt and I am set. A quick review at the end of the month and its done.
  • receipt photos
  • auto submit reports
  • Mileage tracking by GPS, or through maps function
Cons
  • Warn me right away if a photo is blurry
  • tie to my email to pull receipts
Based on my knowledge of a couple of other apps in the past, this one works the best of any I have tried. It is well suited for any company who has employees with company cards, or even just submitting expenses. It is easy and clean to use. Pretty simple
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