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The Expensify card advantage for accounting firms

The Expensify card advantage for accounting firms

Accounting firms have the challenging task of managing the financial matters of multiple clients simultaneously. This responsibility becomes increasingly complex when dealing with the many receipts, invoices, and transactions generated by clients’ daily operations. Enter the Expensify Card – a revolutionary tool that is transforming how accounting firms manage their clients’ expenses.

Expensify’s mastery of autonomous work: a culture of trust and empowerment

Expensify’s mastery of autonomous work: a culture of trust and empowerment

Since 2011, Expensify’s unique and autonomous work culture has made our company a model for remote work. Our commitment to providing employees with the freedom to manage their own schedules and workloads has resulted in a reputation for innovation, creativity, and collaboration.

“What is the best expense management app?” According to ChatGPT?

“What is the best expense management app?” According to ChatGPT?

It’s been a while since we’ve encountered technology that every industry is talking about. ChatGPT is already changing the way we interact with each other, whether it’s students writing papers for class, marketers writing content for SEO, or people trying to figure out what the best taco is on the west coast. 

Scaling SQLite to 4M QPS on a single server (EC2 vs Bare Metal)

Scaling SQLite to 4M QPS on a single server (EC2 vs Bare Metal)

Expensify has an unusual technology stack in many ways.  For example, we don't use DNS internally — just configuration-managed /etc/hosts files — and it works great.  Similarly, we only make limited use of AWS — instead hosting our own hardware for the web and database layer — and it works great.  But most surprising of all is that we don't use MySQL or Postgres — instead using none other than SQLite — and it works great.

Duplicate detection will make your expense reports even better

Duplicate detection will make your expense reports even better

Duplicate expenses are a pain for everyone, so we’re finally doing something about it.

The simplest SQLite common table expression tutorial

The simplest SQLite common table expression tutorial

I've been trying to wrap my head around Common Table Expressions for a while, and all the tutorials I've read started out with "simple" examples that were way too advanced for me to follow. Here's my attempt to write a tutorial that starts as simple as possible.

Tracking distance? Now you can select a default category for mileage!

Tracking distance? Now you can select a default category for mileage!

Expensify covers a variety of reimbursable and non-reimbursable expense types. With mileage being such a common form of reimbursable expense, we’ve worked to improve the functionality in order to make it not only easier for the user, but for the admin and for accounting purposes as well. 

Check it out: Our shiny new automatic statement reporting feature is live!

Check it out: Our shiny new automatic statement reporting feature is live!

Howdy from Al and the Success Coaches! I want to take this time to share our newest feature, Automatic (yes, AUTOMATIC) Statement Reporting. Automatic Statement Reporting is a domain control feature that auto-creates and auto-populates a report with expenses for an assigned credit card in a given statement period.

Expensify streamlining continues: Submitting reports on the free plan

Expensify streamlining continues: Submitting reports on the free plan

As we continue towards our major realtime expense reporting push, we are continuing to streamline the Expensify product. This started with simplifying our pricing structure and now involves changing the way report submission and approval works for those people using Expensify outside of an expense policy. 

Kilometre/time support: A long time (and distance) coming

Kilometre/time support: A long time (and distance) coming

Great news everybody! We've just released support for kilometres in mileage expenses (both web and mobile) as well as time tracking on the web interface.

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