Record Your Expenses With Your Voice: Jott
Jott is magic: you call and say a short message, and in a few minutes your message is transcribed and sent to you as text. It’s really quite fantastic; I highly recommend you open yourself an account (it’s free!).
Jott is also the engine that powers Xpenser’s voice capabilities: you call and say your expense, and in a few minutes it’s recorded in Xpenser.
Starting tonight, we’ve made the integration even better and easier.
To enable voice based expense recording in Xpenser, follow these steps:
- Open a Jott account. It’s simple and free.
- Log in to the Jott website and click on the “Jott Links” tab.
- Find Xpenser in the “Most Popular” links and click add.
That’s it! Now all you have to do to record your expenses is to call the Jott number (1-866-JOTT-123), say “Xpenser”, and then say your expense - for example, “taxi 43 dollars office to airport”. In a few minutes your expense will make its way to Xpenser and be recorded.
Love it! Outstanding product and wonderfully easy to setup and use.
3 questions:
- is the correct format “type” “value” “comment”?
- are the expense types pre-categorized or don’t you care? i.e. so long as I speak in the correct sequence you’ll take the type/value/comment as is?
- Can I do multiple entries in one Jott call? Have tried it a couple of times and it appears to take everything after the dollar value as being a comment (which means it’s still captured, and that’s vitally important), but doesn’t appear to trigger on ‘type’ and thus create a new record.
TIA. Pat.
Pat: Thanks!
- Yes, that is exactly the correct format.
- Expense types are free-form (as opposed to limited to a pre-set number of categories) at the moment. You can use any category so long as your expense is in the above format.
- One expense per call at the moment.
This will be such a great tool!
Question:
I just JOTT’d a test expense to xpenser via phone saying
“Meal five dollars test”
I see the entry in JOTT but it is missing in xpenser even after 14 minutes.
How long does it normally take for a JOTT entry to show up in my xpenser account?
Thanks!
Liz
Liz: the expense should show up in Xpenser as soon as you see it recorded in Jott. Contact us at feedback@xpenser.com with the details and we can look into it in detail.
I am using Xpenser with Jott and am ready to “upgrade” to using reports for various functions, including diet and exercise.
I can’t quite tell if I can categorize a jott to go to say, the diet report instead of the expense report or if I have to move the items online at xpenser.
Eliza, you can specify expenses to go to particular reports. For example:
- Create a report called “Diet”. Set a keyword for it. If you include this keyword in your expense submission, the expense will be filed into the Diet report. You can pick any keyword you like, perhaps “food”.
- When you submit your expense, say the keyword as part of your expense. For example,
“hamburger 280 from fatburger food”
Here “food” would indicate the expense should be filed in the “Diet” report, and 280 would be the calories.
We’ll have instructions and a video soon.