Plendi - easy expense tracking

Posted on 14 April 2011 by Comments (3)

Plendi iPhone appPlendi, an expense tracking service that lets you capture receipt data on your smartphone, has just announced its new integration with FreeAgent.

With Plendi, users can take a picture of their receipts using Plendi’s mobile app. The receipts are transcribed by Plendi’s data entry staff into a personal online receipt manager, where the image and transaction data are permanently stored. Plendi has apps for the iPhone, Android and BlackBerry.

The service manages foreign currency conversions and tracks VAT. Plendi’s basic service costs €39.95 per year and offers a 1-month free trial.

The FreeAgent integration now allows this data to be seamlessly forwarded to the user's FreeAgent account, where they are added as Out of Pocket expenses. With no data entry needed at all, it makes capturing receipts on the go easy.

Find out more about the Plendi and FreeAgent integration.

Over to you...

Paul Miller, Sun April 17, 2011
This integration with Plendi is great, and I've already used it successfully to transfer expenses from a trip last week. I can see this being well worth paying for once the trial month ends.

BUT... having to pre-select a single category for every single expense is a problem.

Expenses with a category assigned 'look' finished in my accounts, and I can see it being far too easy to forget to go back in and manually alter all the expenses that are wrongly coded.

From a workflow perspective, I think it would be better to be able to assign a category at the time of capture (realistically, you're looking at a list of half a dozen expense categories most of the time?). If that's not feasible, I'd much rather have Plendi expenses categorised (correctly) as "Uncategorised" or "From Plendi" or something, rather than (wrongly) categorised as "Travel" or "Accommodation & Meals," or whatever I've had to setthe default to... At least then they'd be easy to find and deal with.
mobile budgeting, Mon May 09, 2011
Wow this kind of graphical expense tracking application is amazing. I really like your post. Thanks for posting.
Essex SEO, Fri May 20, 2011
This is awesome! I was looking into this a few months ago, but got side-tracked.

But the fact this integrates into my accounting package is awesome! I will be claiming on every single last purchase from now on!
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