Today we’re excited to announce our latest update to expens’d, the simplest way to track your expenses from anywhere.

The biggest news is that expens’d now connects with the just-released TripIt API, so you can track expenses on any element of a trip itinerary. For those of you not using TripIt, it’s an online travel itinerary and trip planner. Check it out, it’s cool. The TripIt connection is the first of many connections we intend to add.

The next biggest thing we’ve added is the Two plan. For $6 a month, two users can share 250 MB of storage. As with all paying plans, expense approval, SSL, and a 30-day trial are included. Thanks to AdamJ who requested this plan be added.

Daniel Schierbeck asked us to add his currency – the Danish Krone – so he could use expens’d. Done! We welcome our Danish users with open arms. It’s great to have you.

Lastly, we have a minor update to the account tab. Moving from a list of links to a tabbed interface will make it easier to navigate between the different account management activities.

Getting Started with the TripIt Connection

So, I’m sure you are wondering just how to get started with tracking expenses on your TripIt travels. Here’s the step-by-step. I’ll try to keep it non-techy

Once you log in to expens’d as the account owner, click on the Account tab. You’ll be greeted by a new tab, “Manage Connections.”

Once there, check the box under “TripIt” and click the Save button. This will allow anyone in your account to link their expens’d account with TripIt.

Now, to establish the link to TripIt, click on the “Connections” link on the main nav.

From the Connections page, you’ll be able to connect with TripIt, and any other connections we add. To allow expens’d to talk with TripIt, select TripIt from the Available Connections section and click “Get Connected.”

This will redirect you to TripIt. If you’re not already logged in, log in. Once logged in, you’ll be asked to grant access to expens’d. Click the “Grant Access” button.

Please note that by granting expens’d access to your TripIt account, you are giving it read-only access. Expens’d won’t be updating TripIt in any way. Also of note is that we don’t store your TripIt email or password, so your information stays secure.

Next you’ll be redirected back to expens’d, where you’ll be greated with a nice little message letting you know that your expens’d account is connected to your TripIt account.

Next time you create a new expense, you’ll have two additional drop-downs. The first is where you select a TripIt trip. Once you choose one, the second drop-down will be automatically filled with all of the items from your itinerary.

That’s it. You’re ready to rock.

What’s Next for Expens’d?

In addition to the Two plan, AdamJ has asked us to add in the ability for him to enter in bills, and be able to track expenses against them. Dan Frederickson asked us to add printable expense reports – both for the web and email. These are what we’ll be working on next. If you have any features you’d like to see added to expens’d let us know, we’re listening.

In today’s update of expens’d, we’ve added expense approval for paid accounts, and updated the UI to make managing your account a bit easier.

<h2>Setting up Expense Approval</h2>

To set up expense approval log in, and click on the “Account” tab to the right of the expens’d logo. Once there, select the “Edit My Account” tab, check “Use expense approval,” and hit save. You’re now ready to go.

<h2>Approving and Rejecting Expenses</h2>

To approve or reject expenses log in, and click the “Expenses” tab to the right of the expens’d logo. Next, click on the “Approve Expenses” tab. You’ll see a list of unapproved and rejected expenses. To approve or reject expenses, use the drop down at the end of the row to update the status.

<h2>Filtering Unapproved Expenses</h2>

To quickly filter the expenses to be approved, click on the “Pending” or “Rejected” links.

If you’re using expense approval, then any time a user in your account adds an expense it’s automatically set to pending.

<h2>Want More Stuff?</h2>

Have any other features you’d like us to add to expens’d? Let us know on the expens’d support site. We’re listening.

It’s been one month to the day that we launched expens’d, our expense tracking and reporting tool. In celebration, I thought I would publish the stats:

• 402 active accounts
• 895 total expenses
• 763682.18 in total currency tracked (10 currencies supported)

We’re very happy with the way things are going, and there is more to come. We are currently working on adding expense approval, followed by bills, and integration into the ADS AppSuite.

Keep up with the latest expens’d updated, here, on Twitter, or on our support site. If you are an expens’d user, or could be, and have any feature suggestions, let us know. We’re listening.

We are happy to announce that prioritiz’d, our getting things done style task management app, has gone prime time. Bask in the productivity of an ultra simplified user experience. Jump effortlessly from context to context and project to project. Create your tasks in bulk, then drag-and-drop them from inside a project to prioritize them. And the best thing? Access prioritiz’d from anywhere you have web access.

Prioritiz’d is the second application in the ADS AppSuite. Soon it will be integrated with expens’d, and then scrum’d, once it’s released.

We plan to keep prioritiz’d FREE for everyone, so please, hop in and enjoy the productivity. If you’ve been using prioritiz’d since the Rails Rumble, you will find that all of your data in intact. Please keep using it as you have been. If you have any ideas on how we can make it better, let us know. We’re listening.

Big thanks goes out to Stephen for asking us to add scanned copies of receipts to expenses. Stephen, we listened, and you got it! Users can now add a file to an expense for later viewing. How much storage you get depends on your plan. Here’s the breakdown:

• Crowd – 10 GB
• Group – 5 GB
• Few – 1 GB

If you have a need for a feature in expens’d that you think others can benefit from as well, let us know. We’re listening.

With tonight’s site update you can now run an expense report by date range AND filter by tags. Log in to your expens’d account and try it out.

Thanks to Marty Martin for asking for this feature on our support site. If you have a feature you would like to see let us know. We’re listening.

Expens’d has been up for a little more than a week now, so I decided to look at our stats and our analytics. Here are some stats as of the time of this post:

1,524 visitors from 62 countries
48% of traffic is from referring sites
96 accounts

I was surprised by the number of non-US visitors to the site, and the number of non-US visitors that signed up. While the largest number of our users are from the US, other countries represented include Mexico, the United Kingdom, Canada, the Philippines, Australia, and India, among others. I then realized that the currency symbol we were using throughout the application was the dollar sign. Does that help our non-dollar symbol using users? No, it doesn’t. We have now remedied that with tonight’s update. We’ve added currency support for the top 12 represented countries by expens’d users. If you are an expens’d user and don’t see yours listed, let us know and we’ll add it.

To select your currency, log in, click on the “Account” tab, select “Edit My Account,” select your currency, and save. That’s it. From now on all of your expenses and expense reports will show the correct currency symbol.

What else can we expect?

We have a number of features we’ll be adding in the coming weeks, including:

• Exporting expenses to CSV
• Exporting an expense report to PDF
• Printable view of an expense report
• Searching for expenses by tag, instead of or in addition to date
• Running an expense report for multiple users

While that’s all well and good, and we can develop features that we’d like to use, we want to you what YOU want in the app. Let us know! We’re listening.

Simplify expense tracking for your company – take it online with expens’d. Eliminate the hassle of expense management by tracking and reporting on business expenses easily from anywhere.

Expens’d is the first of a suite of software as a service (SaaS) applications that we are releasing. Also in the works are:

• scrum’d: project management for teams using agile development with scrum
• prioritiz’d: get things done style task tracking

Sign up for expens’d today and then let us know what you think.