Welcome to Xpenser!
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Hello to everyone from LifeHacker, Delicious Popular, Kedrosky, and everywhere else. Today we launched Xpenser to the world, and in a few short hours we’ve quintupled our beta test user base. It’s great to have you here.
This is the inaugural post, the start of the conversation. We like nothing more than hearing from you. This blog will be a way for us to inform you of news, new features, fixes, etc. But more importantly, it’ll be a way for you to tell us what you think, what we need to implement and improve, and anything else that’s on your mind.
A couple of quick notes while we’re here -
Several people have pointed out issues with Jott integration. We’re looking into this and hope to provide a better solution soon.
Our non-US users are asking how they can make use of SMS. Unfortunately SMS is currently only supported in US and Canada, but we’re working on an international solution.
There have been several questions on integrating with other services and products (eg. quicken). At Xpenser we realize your data belongs to you and we’ll never attempt to keep it trapped. You can already download your expenses as Comma Separated Values (csv), which can easily be imported into Excel, and we’re working on integration with a number of other products. We also have RESTish/JSON APIs under the hood, although they’re not quite documented for external use yet.
Let us know which integrations are most important to you; leave a comment here, or email us at feedback@xpenser.com .
So take a moment to let us know what’s important to you. Here are a couple of existing suggestions, and we’ll look forward to more from you. Leave a comment with which you want first:
Integrate with:
- Quicken, QuickBooks
- Document and release the Xpenser APIs
- Your Suggestion Here…
I was thinking of writing something like this up for personal use for so long… you guys are god sent… of course, i won’t be able to use the SMS part (I am in India)… but the Yahoo IM and Email helps as well.
Just wondering, what is the time delay in submitting an expense and the nit showing up on the Expense Report. I sent an email with the Expense, and it didn’t show for 10 minutes now… hasn’t shown up as of writing this comment..
Vaibhav, expenses should get added within a few minutes. There was a problem with email processing that we’ve resolved, your expenses should appear now. Sorry about the inconvenience.
So cool! I saw the post on Kedrosky’s blog, and immediately showed it to our controller. You guys are geniuses.
Yup.. they are working just fine now… Now I want to see what I can do with the API….
Beautiful! I work at a church and am constantly trying to keep track of receipts and how things should be reimbursed – personal account, expense account, etc. Thank you for making my life a little bit easier!
FWIW, sending expenses via SMS works from Canada.
Now this could be very, very cool. Except, unless I’m missing something, there is one HUGE missing piece. Outside of the US we need to manage multiple currencies. There needs to be a way to identify a “home” currency (what I’m going to get re-imbursed in as well as what my credit card will need to be paid in) and it must be possible to use (say) ISO4217 currency codes in the messages that come to the service. So that I can record expenses in GBP and SGD and HKD and AUD and USD and EUR and have everything stored in those currencies (so I can track ‘em once the credit card statements come in) and in my home currency (which happens to be GBP) so that I know what I’m out of pocket. I’ll need to tweak the exchange rates when I actually submit my expenses (Visa does horrid things to FX rates — and they are way better than Amex), but I’ll have a good idea and often times it will just come out in the wash. There is a great *free* FX cross-rate web service that the Fed provides somewhere… http://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/pilotfx.html
which would probably be just fine for this exercise. Anyway… ping me when you have this part up and running! Sorry to be a bit more complicated. Great start though!
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Any chance of a jabber/gtalk interface?
why does the password sent by you over email doesnot work?
cool app!
Great app. I setup something like this with SMS to ME, and then had the SMS messages sync’d with my inbox to one folder. It kept everything in one place, but this is better.
One question: Is there a way to put in MULTIPLE expenses into ONE SMS line or message. I don’t like have to send so many SMS messages, I have unlimited but still, cumbersome. Normally, I would send an SMS to ME that was say
NEW YORK
Hotel
Diner
Meals
Stripper
etc.
Hi there,
I have been looking for this EXACT application for so long. Thank you for making it, and making it free!
One small note – the Holy Grail (for me, anyway) would be if I could set up rudimentary budgets on Xpenser, and then compare my spending each month to the budget for that category. No other online app offers this kind of functionality, and combined with your amazingly simple capture mechanism, I think adding this could make yours a truly killer financial management app. (ie: Watch out wesabe and Mint!)
What do others think? Would this added functionality be useful?
[...] completely, we use freshbooks to do our invoicing and now we use xpenser.com to track expenses. Launched this week, xpenser provides an extremely simple and streamlined interface to track expenses via email, SMS, [...]
It looks like an Account bucket is required to send the expenses To and reporting then should roll up the expenses by an Account. The Status Paid should also allow to select an Account from which the payment is made…
Thanks
I’d like to ask for a mileage field, with a default mileage rate stored in the settings somewhere – if you could, please?
Xpenser — Spesen endlich im Griff…
Es ist nicht immer einfach, sich am Monatsende an all seine Spesen zu erinnern. Sei es drum Belege zu finden oder einfach nur um eine Aufstellung zu haben, ob man vom Arbeitgeber auch alles zurück bek……
This is a really awesome product. Like other mentions, this is exactly the kind of thing that I have been looking for. Here are a few ideas:
1. An input interface like Google Calendar’s Quick Add
2. Integration with Google Calendar (there are quite a few possibilities here)
3. Integration with other personal accounts software such as the GPLed MoneyManagerEx, Grisbi and GNUCash.
Best of luck with this. It has radically changed the way I maintain expenses.
Great tool. I have been using http://www.oanda.com/products/fxpense/ but I can see this tool to have a better future. Some ideas
-Add a field for attaching images/pdfs so we can scan receipts.
-When someone sends an email, convert the body of the email as a memo or attachment
-Create a category table to maintain consistency on the classification of expenses.
-A small work flow for a submitting process. Like send expense report to manager ->change status to open by manager->observed by manager and resubmitted later or if no problem approved.
-Add some custom fields
-Add a notes field for commenting on report
-Import CSV for people that creates their expenses offline in a spreadsheet
-Integrated with Paypal for receiving payment or submitting payment request
PLEASE PLEASE, the one thing we need THE MOST is what the first poster “Erick” was smart and visionary enough to see; which is the ability to import data into Xpenser. Without that ability this program/site is pretty much useless to me since at my office all expenses are first entered offline in Excel or CSV files.
Thanks!
Thanks for the feedback and please keep it coming. Data import is going on the roadmap…
Hello,
One of my clients has started to use xpenser and loves it. He also uses Freshbooks which unfortunately does not meet my needs. Like it or not I am stuck with Quickbooks. Can you update me on the progress with Quickbooks integration? What I would like to do is to enter expenses in xpenser as they happen and then import them into Quickbooks. This would require that they be tagged according to my chart of accounts, etc. Is this possible? I read a blog post where it may have be in the IIF format?
Thanks for the help,
Norm
Norman, we’ve sent you an email about your plans with Quickbooks. Anyone interested in Quickbooks connectivity: let us know at feedback@xpenser.com and we can get you further information and possibly into the early tester program.