A neighborly message from the Concierge assures you that it's now taking care of everything.įrom then on, the app will open at your Inbox, which shows any outstanding tasks waiting for you. You are then guided through the process of selecting a password, connecting to a business email account (if you have one), using your location to track mileage, and scanning your first receipt. Since I wasn't going to submit my expenses to anyone, I chose the last. You set it up with the help of a computerized "Concierge" that asks if you want to submit receipts (if you're an employee of a company that uses Expensify), collect receipts (if you're a company manager or accountant) or track personal expenses (for individuals and sole proprietors). According to the site, the company uses "bank level security" to protect user data, including HTTPS+TLS data and password encryption. Since Expensify is a cloud-based application, you have to sign up to use it. A summary screen includes the scanned images - including the occasional failures (right). IDGĮxpensify scans the data from your receipt and drops it into the appropriate fields (left). Corporate plan adds more functionality, such as corporate card reconciliation (which matches receipts to credit card statements) and custom reports. Team plan adds unlimited SmartScans, basic expense approvals for businesses and ACH reimbursement, among others the $9/user/mo. The Free version (the one I reviewed) offers five SmartScans (scans of receipts) per month, expense reports, unlimited receipt storage and the ability to categorize and tag entries. ExpensifyĮxpensify is a cloud-based expense tracker that offers personal, small business and enterprise-level versions with a wide variety of feature sets. Markus Hintersteiner's Expense Manager is simple to use and could be a good app for personal budgeting however, it's a bit too limited to be used for any but the most basic expense reporting. There are no options for taking photos of receipts. You can also watch your spending via a budget page, and set up expenses or income that repeat on a regular basis.įor a one-time payment of $2.60, you can get three additional features: analysis of your expenses by category, analysis by time frame and automatic backup via Google Drive. You can manually back up your data by sharing it with whatever services you have on your phone and set a lock pattern for extra security. In the Settings screen, there are a number of other tweaks you can make: You can choose a currency and opt for a daily reminder to enter your expenses. You can filter the screen by category and export an Excel report from the setup manager. Reports and other featuresīesides the Overview screen, there is a nicely formatted History screen that lets you see all your past expenses (also by the week, month or year). You can add more categories if you want, but because there are no subcategories or tags, you have two choices - either use the Notes field (to, say, differentiate plane fare from gasoline expenses under Transportation) or to create a large number of categories (for example, make Plane Fare and Gas their own categories), which could get unwieldy. Hintersteiner's Expense Manager doesn't offer as many options for categorization as some of the other apps reviewed here. Upgrades: $2.59 to unlock income backup via Google Drive, statistics, income distributionĮach time you save an expense, the app goes back to the Overview page, and you have to hit the plus sign again to enter the next one. The entry screen starts with a pop-up number keypad once you've recorded the amount, the pop-up disappears and you can then choose a category for your entry, change the date (the default is "Today") and type in a freeform note. The standard Android plus sign in the lower right corner lets you record an expense amount. The app opens on an Overview screen that offers a line chart illustrating your weekly, monthly or yearly expenses you can set it up for one of the three. Its History screen lets you see past expenses, with the categories accompanied by icons (right). Markus Hintersteiner's Expense Manager offers a very simple entry method (left). The second Expense Manager app in our roundup, from Markus Hintersteiner, is a fairly simple budget app that offers some good features but doesn't have the range of features that competitors like AndroMoney and Expense Manager by Bishinews do. Of 2 Expense Manager (Markus Hintersteiner)
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