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[CEO Friday] Please Don’t Call Us “Cockroaches”

[CEO Friday] Please Don’t Call Us “Cockroaches”

I won’t lie: it’s flattering and vindicating for the low-burn, efficient-growth strategies we’ve been championing for years to come into vogue. But “cockroach”?  Seriously?!

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.

Expense management with the most radical shorts company in the world: Chubbies

Expense management with the most radical shorts company in the world: Chubbies

What do you do when you love something so much and want to change the current industry standard?

You start a company (obviously).

For us, we had a vision to rid the world of expense reports that suck. For the guys at Chubbies Shorts, they envisioned an alternative, retro glam lifestyle from decades past. Two completely different businesses in every single way, but both ideas were born from a desire to change the status quo.

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. Find out more in this blog post.

Building the best expense report

Building the best expense report

This month marks the sixth anniversary of Expensify. In May 2008, David Barrett got the idea of a world where expenses reports don't have to suck. Learn more in this blog post.

Kilometer/Time support: A long time (and distance) coming

Kilometer/Time support: A long time (and distance) coming

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

We’ve added corporate card reconciliation for more banks!

We’ve added corporate card reconciliation for more banks!

Last month we announced Amex Corporate Card Reconciliation and received a huge enthusiastic response from our users. Due to the popularity of the feature and user demand, we have expanded Corporate Card Reconciliation to many more major banks.

New feature: Bitcoin reimbursement!

New feature: Bitcoin reimbursement!

Today, we are excited to announce Expensify has added Bitcoin as a reimbursement option for your expense reports. Fans of digital, decentralized, crypto-currencies rejoice! 

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