We’re investigating support for export into various formats, including more sophisticated Excel export. If you use Excel to record or submit your expenses, please send us your templates so we can include them in the testing / compatibility corpus. Email them to feedback@xpenser.com .
As you may have noticed we’ve been launching a significant new release over the last few weeks, adding many of your most frequently requested features. Here’s a quick overview of some of the most prominent features and improvements:
Tagging. This had been your top request for some time: the ability to tag expenses with one or more terms of your choosing. For example, you could tag an expense with “deductible”, “amex”, to indicate it’s a tax deductible expense paid with American Express.
The Web interface is fairly straight forward; go to the Expense page and click on the Tags column to add your tags. To use tags via Email, SMS, Twitter, and IM, use the “hashtag” syntax:
Lunch 34 with Jack #deductible #amex
For voice services such as Jott and Dial2Do, you can also use the word “tags” followed by your tags. For example:
Lunch 34 with Jack tags deductible amex
Search. We’ve added a comprehensive search facility, available from the Expense page. It’s fairly self-explanatory; click the search button and give it a try. The beta test group had particularly good feedback on this, and we hope you enjoy it as well.
Dial2Do - Free US, UK, and International Voice Transcription Service. We’ve been working with the good folks at Dial2Do for some time, and we’re very excited to launch our integration. Dial2Do is a free voice recognition and transcription service with service in the US, UK, and 17 other countries. It’s a very effective service, is international, and signup is available directly from the Xpenser Account page. Give it a try, we know you’ll love it.
Expense Import. As easy as it is to enter expenses into Xpenser, sometimes it makes sense to import your bank statements in batch. To import expenses, download your statement in QIF format from your bank or credit card provider onto your computer, then go to the Expense page and click the Import button.
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You may have also noticed our new home page. We’ve been working towards a minimalist, simple homepage that explains Xpenser as quickly and as simply as possible. Hopefully we’ve come a long way since the original “Halloween” homepage 
We’ll be publishing more detailed posts on each of these features, as well as some of the feedback you’ve sent us on how you’re using these features in your workflow.
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Speaking of which: there’s a nice and rapidly growing community around Xpenser and related topics - expense management and tracking, small and medium business cost strategies, tax advice, and so forth.
We’re looking for ways to foster this community and help it grow. Guest posts to this blog have been suggested, as well as a mailing list with periodic (say weekly or monthly) news and advice. We’re open to any and all of these, so please let us know what you would and would not like to see by leaving a comment here or sending us email at feedback@xpenser.com .
Vote Xpenser in the Mobile Application category for Mashable’s Open Web Awards! It’s your civic duty!
We’re getting close to our next release and we’re looking for users to take a look at the new features and give us feedback.
If you’d like a sneak peak and are willing to provide feedback, please let us know by sending email to feedback@xpenser.com . We’ll get you setup and add you to our early tester group (or you can volunteer for just this release).
And as we’re finally getting finished with this release (we made the mistake of piling too many things into this one; we prefer small, frequent releases), this is a great time to put in your request for your favorite features and improvements for future release. We tabulate all your requests and use them to prioritize what we implement, so get your requests in by sending us email or leaving comments here.
We’ve been hard at work on the next release of Xpenser (which will include some fairly significant improvements, look for it in the next few weeks), and nothing picks us up and gives us an extra boost of energy like your fantastic emails. Whether a quick “love Xpenser” or the epic two page tomes some of you are sending, it’s sure to put a smile on our faces. We collect them and circulate them to the team in the mornings and afternoons and we definitely enjoy them (even the ones advising us to employ a designer ). Thank you Emma, Georges, Berthold, Brett, Carrie, Armin, and everyone else who’s written in recently.
We love to hear from you, even (and specially) when you tell us what we need to improve, so please keep the feedback coming: feedback@xpenser.com .
Photo by CarbonNYC.
If you’re a Basecamp user and are interested in helping us formulate and test the Xpenser + Basecamp integration please let us know by leaving a comment here or dropping us a line at feedback@xpenser.com .
Another quick note - by popular request we’ve added Taiwan New Dollar to the list of supported currencies for currency conversion. To use it include the currency code TWD in your expenses. For example:
Lunch 200 twd in Taipei
Quick note - you can now add multiple Jott accounts to each Xpenser account. Once you’ve registered your first Jott account with Xpenser, log out of the Jott site and log back in with your second Jott account, click “Add Jott Links” and add the Xpenser link once again. You should see two “Jott Account Setup” lines on the Xpenser Account page.
The Xpenser iPhone interface is now live, available by visiting http://xpenser.com/ via your iPhone.
We wanted to express our sincere thanks to all of the testers; the quality of your feedback was unbelievable. We’ve incorporated the first round of feedback into the interface and will be rolling out the rest over the next few weeks and months. We still want to hear from you, so leave comments here or email us at feedback@xpenser.com . Don’t be shy about direct and honest feedback; we’re just as happy to hear about what could be improved as “it looks great”.
To make it easier to get to Xpenser, once you visit http://xpenser.com/ with your iPhone hit the “+” icon at the bottom of the screen and select “Add to Home Screen”. This will put the Xpenser icon on your iPhone home screen and allow you to enter your expenses with a single click.
The iPhone interface for Xpenser is starting to look pretty good. If you’re an Xpenser user with an iPhone and want to test (or to get a sneak peak) let us know at feedback@xpenser.com and we’ll send you instructions.