http://blog.xpenser.com Expense Tracking via Email, SMS, IM, Voice, and Web Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:41:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As you may have noticed, we recently launched the “Projects” feature for Xpenser (www.xpenser.com/projects/). The idea is to allow you to attribute expenses and income to a particular Project, Client, Customer, Job, Cost center, or Location. Some call this “project based accounting” or “project based expense tracking”. Since this can be ... http://blog.xpenser.com/index.php/2012/02/01/project-based-accounting-project-expense-tracking/ ...to revive the Xpenser blog! We're back! We apologize for the absence and hope to get the conversation started once again. Quite frankly, we've been busy keeping up with the tremendous growth we saw over the past year (thanks to all of you for spreading the word!), adding new features (most ... http://blog.xpenser.com/index.php/2012/01/20/xpenser-blog-revival-new-feature-suggestions/ There was a subtle bug introduced in version 1.2 build 45 of Fresh Xpense Capture, the Xpenser iPhone app, that would cause expenses and receipts to not synchronize from the iPhone to the Xpenser website for some users. For the technically inclined, it was related to a thread locking bug ... http://blog.xpenser.com/index.php/2011/04/20/fresh-xpense-capture-unclogging-stuck-expenses/ You folks are wonderful. We love your emails and feedback, your extensions for Xpenser (by the way, here's new one for creating recurring expenses for Xpenser: http://rexpenser.com/), your tweets, and your writeups and blog posts. Here's a particularly brilliant post from Deborah Chang, a middle school science teacher in Houston, TX, ... http://blog.xpenser.com/index.php/2011/03/16/xpenser-overview-and-tutorial-from-a-user/ Quick note: Quicken (QIF) export now includes categories (thanks Chuck for pushing us to make it happen), just in time for tax preparation. Note that Categories are part of the premium version of Xpenser (Xpenser for Business), so if you'd like to use them let us know to convert your ... http://blog.xpenser.com/index.php/2011/03/06/quicken-categories-now-supported/ 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 ... http://blog.xpenser.com/index.php/2011/02/14/how-do-you-say-out-of-office-in-your-language/ We've had a long standing request to have tags copied along with expenses when copying between reports. Just today Buford requested this, and his request was the one that put it over the edge and caused us to fix it (thanks Buford). Copying of expenses now also copies their tags. Go ... http://blog.xpenser.com/index.php/2011/02/08/copying-of-expenses-now-also-copies-tags/ As you might know we've long supported response messages for SMS expenses: when you send us an expense via SMS, we respond with an SMS letting you know we received it and telling you the report balance. Well, we've long gotten requests to respond to email submissions in the same way: ... http://blog.xpenser.com/index.php/2011/02/02/emailed-expenses-now-get-a-response/ Xpenser for Business, the business version of our product that provides a comprehensive expense management solution for your company, supports the concept of Categories, defined company-wide, as well as the free-form Type supported in the basic version. We've updated the CSV export format to support this new field, so in ... http://blog.xpenser.com/index.php/2011/01/17/category-added-to-csv-export/ By popular request we've enhanced the Excel export capabilities to support the international date format - you should now see day/month/year style dates if you've set your date display style to international via the Account Settings page. http://blog.xpenser.com/index.php/2011/01/11/international-date-format-for-excel-export-now-supported/