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Expensify logo

Expensify.

Receipt scanning and expense reports with SmartScan OCR, corporate cards, approvals and accounting sync for small teams.

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78Avg fit

Best fit

Document extraction

88/100

Category
Finance
Pricing
Paid, from $5/mo
Popularity
82/100
Setup
Moderate
Listing
Needs verification
expensify.com
Expensify website
Homepage, captured October 2026

Overview

What it does.

Expensify is expense management software where employees photograph receipts and SmartScan reads merchant, date, amount and category, then merges them with card transactions into expense reports. The Collect plan covers receipt capture, basic approvals, reimbursements and sync to QuickBooks, Xero and NetSuite; Control adds multi-level approval chains, custom expense rules and policy enforcement. The Expensify Card issues virtual and physical cards with real-time spend limits and reduces the subscription price. Small businesses use it when staff buy supplies, travel or entertain clients and the owner wants receipts attached to the ledger without chasing people. AI features include duplicate detection, automatic categorization and receipt-to-invoice matching. Integrations include QuickBooks Online, Xero, Gusto, Slack, Uber and Lyft. A pilot would enroll three or four employees on Collect, forward existing receipts, and sync one month of reports to accounting. Caveat: Control pricing varies widely depending on card usage and annual commitment, so the headline price is easy to misread.

Pricing
Collect $5 per member/month pay-per-use; Control $18 per member/month on annual subscription (as low as $9 with the Expensify Card) or $36 pay-per-use (Oct 2026).
Works with
QuickBooks OnlineXeroNetSuiteGustoSlackUberLyftGoogle Workspace
Features
API accessDocument extractionIntegrationsPolicy enforcementSpend controlsWorkflow builder
Checked
October 2026

Fit

Where it fitsbest.

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Use caseFitEffortRisk
  • Document extraction

    Reading receipts into structured expense lines with minimal typing.

    3-6 weeks to value · Medium effort · High risk · moderate

    88Best fit
    MediumHigh
  • Spend policy review

    Flagging out-of-policy expenses and routing them to an approver before reimbursement.

    2-5 weeks to value · Medium effort · Medium risk · moderate

    85Best fit
    MediumMedium
  • Accounts payable automation

    Capturing vendor bills by email and pushing them to accounting for payment.

    3-6 weeks to value · Medium effort · Medium risk · moderate

    62Review
    MediumMedium

Verdict

Who it suits.Who it doesn’t.

Best for

  • Small teams with several employees spending on behalf of the business who need receipts matched and approved quickly.
  • Capturing vendor bills by email and pushing them to accounting for payment.
  • Reading receipts into structured expense lines with minimal typing.
  • Flagging out-of-policy expenses and routing them to an approver before reimbursement.

Not ideal for

  • Solo operators who can just photograph receipts into their accounting app for free.
  • Bill pay is lighter than dedicated AP tools and better suited to employee expenses.
  • Crumpled or foreign-language receipts still need manual fixes.
  • Custom rules and multi-level approvals require the Control plan.

Pays back on

Relatedopportunities.

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  • 01Automate invoice and spend review
  • 02Automate document intake
  • 03Analyze diligence document sets
  • 04Analyze recurring business reports
  • 05Triage eDiscovery document sets

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Not paid placement. Verified means the listing passed our current editorial checks; it does not guarantee fit for every workflow.