[Hidden-tech] Expense Tracking Apps

[Rob Laporte]

Often apps like expense tracking are essentially spreadsheets (or basic databases) with a front end and a price tag on top. Over the years, I've found that even my intermediate Google Sheets skills are sufficient to make a good app, with or without starting from a free or really cheap Sheets or Excel template. Just a thought.

Conditional formatting and data filters can be incredibly helpful in any Sheets use, and contextual help these days usually illustrates my quip, "We all know everything; it's just a question of how many search clicks."

Broadening the topic, at my firm for ~2 years now I've been structuring all folders/files such that even fairly complex procedures are guided right at the site of action, so that a good general tech user needs minimal training nor the need to click off to a separate instruction doc. Lots of labor up front, but medium- and long-term cost savings for sure, sometimes short-term as well.


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Just to be clear it’s expense tracking - not full on accounting.

Matt

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On Oct 22, 2022, at 4:38 PM, Mathew Jacobson <mathew.r.jacobson at gmail.com> wrote:

Expensify is terrific


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On Oct 22, 2022, at 3:19 PM, Tess Gadwa via Hidden-discuss <hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net<mailto:hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net>> wrote:

Hi, anybody have advice on great apps or services for self-employed people tracking business expenses?

I am thinking about things like mileage loggers for a cell phone, or integrations with existing services (QuickBooks, business credit cards) that simplify your record keeping and budgeting.

Thanks for any info you can provide!

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