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Use TripIt information to create a new expense
This was created from a question asked by Moira.
I spend a lot of time entering information into TripIt including, dates, times and costs. I think I expected to see these things pulled across into expens'd when I created a new expense.
I thought I would click create new expense, select the relevant trip and then item from within the trip (using the two existing drop downs) and hey presto, the correct dates and costs would be completed within my expense. I would then associate the tags I want, save and do the next one.
Instead, I create a new expense, tag it, name it, enter the information and then choose the TripIt items from the drop downs. I'm basically repeating the data entry twice and as the drop down for the item within a trip is unclear, it's a frustrating process.
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So, in essence, when creating a new expense, auto-populate the relevant fields in the expense form with the information from TripIt.
I spend a lot of time entering information into TripIt including, dates, times and costs. I think I expected to see these things pulled across into expens'd when I created a new expense.
I thought I would click create new expense, select the relevant trip and then item from within the trip (using the two existing drop downs) and hey presto, the correct dates and costs would be completed within my expense. I would then associate the tags I want, save and do the next one.
Instead, I create a new expense, tag it, name it, enter the information and then choose the TripIt items from the drop downs. I'm basically repeating the data entry twice and as the drop down for the item within a trip is unclear, it's a frustrating process.
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So, in essence, when creating a new expense, auto-populate the relevant fields in the expense form with the information from TripIt.
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Inappropriate?I don't even see the drop-downs. I find this frustrating to use (I've been trying for two hours to link a tripit trip with the expenses I entered into expens'd) with no documentation. Am I missing something?
I’m frustrated
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Inappropriate?YourGiant: not sure how I missed your reply here. You first need to allow your account to use TripIt. You can do that under Account -> Manage Connections. Then you can click on the Connections heading and link to TripIt.
We definitely need to document this better and will do so. -
Inappropriate?Sorry Robert, but there's still no documentation out there on this subject which I can find (just pointing people to Get Satisfaction when clicking on the help link is poor). And if there's supposed to be some integration beyond mapping expenses back to a individual trip or travel item then its at best poor.
For example, I may have trip parts in my tripit travel plan as directions or note - yet I can't map expenses to these. I can only map them to booked travel and accomidation.
Sorry, but I'm just not sold on the value of your application and will be looking for other tripit integrated expense managers until this application is given the kick in the pants it so desperatly needs.
I’m peeved
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This is one of the best points
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Hi Michael,
Thank you for all of your feedback here and for your other posts (marking expenses completed, errors, etc). We will be using it to make Expens'd a more usable application for TripIt users and should be getting some time in the near future to work out these issues. -
Inappropriate?I'm afraid I'm with Michael, partially at least. I really like the potential of the application and I really enjoy having the opportunity to contribute to its development, but nothing appears to have changed since I raised this question 7 months ago and so sadly I must look elsewhere for a more useable application.
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This is one of the best points
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Hi Moira,
Our keeping up to date on features with Expens'd has been greatly lacking, as our time has been invested in one of our other products - Scrum'd. Now that scrum'd is up to date, we are turning our attention back to Expens'd. It definitely needs some help on the UI side, and we are looking at adding additional features, including more advanced reporting. We are also in talks with a company to integrate Expens'd with a sales and lead-tracking application.
We appreciate you sticking with us this long w/out additional updates, and are sorry to see you go if you choose to do so. I understand and thank you for the feedback you've given along the way. Hopefully our upcoming updates will help to keep you, if not lure you back.
