Not long ago by popular request we added confirmation replies for items submitted via email. Xpenserites everywhere rejoiced and tears of joy flowed.

As with any good feature, there were also interesting side effects. In particular, our confirmation replies and your “out of office” replies decided to see who could out-do the other: you’d send in an email, we’d reply with a confirmation, your robot would reply with an “out of office”, we’d respond to that, and so forth.

We are now very cleverly avoiding this by looking for common “out of office” replies and ignoring them. We will be employing fancy artificial intelligence techniques to this in the future, but in the meanwhile we wanted to cover non-English responses as well.

So: how do you say “Out of office” in your language? If there’s a standard “Out of office” reply people typically setup in your language please either leave it in a comment below or email us at feedback@xpenser.com so we can add it to the ignore list.

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 .