Item: Expensify
Rating: 9
Author: Joshua Blau

Overall Satisfaction with Expensify

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As an employee, I use Expensify to log and get reimbursed for expenses. It couldn't make the process easier; in most cases it's as simple as forwarding an email, and in the rare case that I have to enter an expense manually, it's quick and straightforward with plenty of options but without being overcomplicated.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Allows automatic entering of expenses via email forwarding
Sends notifications when expenses have been approved for reimbursement
Allows for full customization of expenses
Allows for easy duplication of expenses

Cons

In reimbursement notification emails, would be good to see the breakdown of which expenses make up the total reimbursement.
Would be good to have a way to automatically generate certain manual expenses on a regular schedule rather than having to enter them individually.
Might be nice to have reimbursed and pending expenses in different sections.

Return on Investment

It saves me considerable time on expense reporting.
It saves me time checking on when I'm getting reimbursed.
It centralizes the expense process so I don't have to communicate with my manager to get reimbursed.

Usability

In most cases, it's extremely easy to use. Highly intuitive, with very minimal steps to generate expenses, even manually. There really doesn't seem like there's much to improve upon as far as usability is concerned.

Alternatives Considered

I haven't used others and I use Expensify because it's what my company chose for us to use.

Key Insights

Do you think Expensify delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Expensify's feature set?

Yes

Did Expensify live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Expensify go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Expensify again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Carta, Gusto, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Likelihood to Recommend

The best feature of Expensify in my opinion is the email forwarding to generate new expenses. I don't know much about other expense management software so I'm not aware of whether this is a common feature, but for most cases this makes expense recording basically a mindless process. Expensify also communicates thoroughly and clearly when relevant.

Expensify Feature Ratings

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Expensify makes expense reporting a breeze

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