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Global reimbursements: Simplifying employee reimbursements worldwide

Global reimbursements: Simplifying employee reimbursements worldwide

Managing employee reimbursements can be a complex and time-consuming process, especially for companies with a global workforce. Luckily, Expensify recently launched its Global Reimbursement feature, aiming to streamline and simplify the reimbursement process for businesses operating across multiple countries. Let’s explore how Expensify can help you manage employee reimbursements worldwide.

Expense reports: The necessary evil of the working world

Expense reports: The necessary evil of the working world

Ah, expense reports—a dreaded but unavoidable aspect of corporate life, or any life, really. No one really savours the task (nobody in their right mind anyway), but it seems there have always been two types of employees: those who meticulously calculate every penny after every work trip and submit their reports on time every month, and those who put it off until they receive passive-aggressive threats from Brian in accounting.

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.

Earn $50,000 by referring your friends to Expensify

Earn $50,000 by referring your friends to Expensify

Expensify’s new referral program is here, and we couldn’t be more excited. As a community-driven company, we’re always looking for ways to connect with our users, and the referral program is designed to do just that.

“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. 

That's a wrap! 8 trends and takeaways from ExpensiCon: Bora Bor

That's a wrap! 8 trends and takeaways from ExpensiCon: Bora Bor

ExpensiCon has always been a unique conference experience, but attendees were in for a treat as they descended on the islands of Bora Bora. In addition to the lifelong memories being made, our curated list of guest speakers and roundtable discussions provided everyone with new outlooks and learnings — and that was before attendees had the chance to exchange their own tips and tricks!

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.

[Q&A] How Expensify helped a bookkeeping newbie manage his company's expenses

[Q&A] How Expensify helped a bookkeeping newbie manage his company's expenses

Expensify customer Hubdoc has (temporarily) handed the bookkeeping reins to a novice – Senior Product Marketing Manager, Geoff Gualano.

As interim bookkeeper at Hubdoc, Geoff has been tasked with learning his way through the company’s bookkeeping tools (including Expensify) and using his fresh perspective to uncover workflow inefficiencies.

Automatically reserve and expense parking with SpotHero + Expensify

Automatically reserve and expense parking with SpotHero + Expensify

If there’s one task as tedious as using spreadsheets to track expenses, it’s trying to find a parking spot when you’re running late for a meeting. SpotHero eliminates that problem by making it easy to reserve parking in advance, so we’ve teamed up so that you can expense your SpotHero reservations with the click of a button.

Better money management = more money to manage.

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