Expensify Pricing: How Much Does Expensify Really Cost in 2026?

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For finance leaders, travel managers, and operations teams, the cost of expense management software depends on more than its advertised monthly price. The relevant variables include which employees count toward billing, whether the organization uses an annual subscription, how corporate card spending affects discounts, and how frequently employees book business travel.

Expensify provides receipt scanning, expense reports, approvals, reimbursements, corporate card reconciliation, and travel booking. Its U.S. pricing includes a free individual plan, a $5 business plan for eligible workspaces, and Control pricing based on committed seats or monthly activity. Expensify Travel also has a separate per-trip charge.

This guide explains the published 2026 rates, the billing units behind them, and how to model total annual cost. It also examines where Engine's modern travel management platform can bring corporate booking, spend controls, group travel, and billing into a single travel program without a booking-platform subscription.

Key Takeaways

  • Collect costs $5 per unique workspace member per month under the model for organizations whose first workspace was created on or after April 1, 2025. Members count even in months without expense activity. Earlier workspaces can have legacy pricing.
  • Control's standard annual subscription is $18 per committed seat per month. The published rate can fall to $9 with a qualifying Expensify Card discount. Annual subscriptions involve a 12-month seat commitment, and active members above that commitment can generate overage charges.
  • Control pay-per-use lists $36 per active member per month. An Expensify pricing table also lists a Card-associated rate as low as $18, although its accompanying discount instructions address annual Control subscriptions. This model bills by monthly activity rather than Collect's member count.
  • Expensify Travel's Help Center describes $15 per self-service trip and $25 total per agent-assisted trip. Its published travel terms separately describe a $25 Agent Support Fee in addition to the trip fee. Multiple reservations in a single trip do not each trigger a separate trip fee.
  • Submit offers free individual expense submission and receipt scanning. Company-administered approvals, reimbursement management, and accounting integrations are features of paid workspaces.
  • Total cost depends on both workspace billing and travel volume. A 25-member example and a 300-trip example below illustrate these separate cost components.
  • Engine's core travel booking platform and Engine Groups are free to use. No platform fees, no membership fees, no agent-assist fees, no contracts, no minimum spend. Optional cancellation products and travel purchases have their own applicable prices and terms. Engine pricing details explain the access model.

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Understanding Expensify's Core Features and Offerings

Expensify combines employee expense collection with administrative workflows used by finance and accounting teams. Its pricing is easier to interpret when each function is considered separately.

Receipt Scanning and Expense Automation

Expensify SmartScan uses optical character recognition to extract supported receipt information, including merchant, date, amount, and currency. Employees can photograph receipts, import digital receipts, or submit receipts through email forwarding. Expense coding, categorization, and transaction matching can then follow workspace settings and accounting rules.

Key capabilities include:

  • SmartScan receipt capture: Extracts transaction details from supported receipts for expense reporting.
  • Email receipt forwarding: Supports digital receipt submission through a connected account.
  • Card and bank feeds: Supports the Expensify Card and integrations with a broad range of third-party financial institutions.
  • Ride-share receipt imports: Supports receipt capture through connected services such as Uber for Business.
  • Mileage tracking: Provides mileage-entry options, including GPS-based functionality on supported devices.

Expense Reports, Approvals, and Reimbursements

Paid business workspaces support expense administration through reporting, approval routing, and reimbursement processes. Collect includes standard business workflows, while Control adds features such as multiple approval flows, custom expense rules, and additional ERP connectivity.

Expensify also supports transaction reconciliation for eligible corporate cards and accounting integrations. The particular combination of features depends on the selected workspace plan.

Travel Booking Capabilities

Expensify Travel supports bookings for flights, hotels, rental cars, and rail travel, with travel policies and approval workflows integrated into the broader product. It also offers event travel and centralized travel billing functionality.

The important pricing distinction is that travel is charged per trip, not as a separate fee for every flight, hotel, or car reservation added to that same trip. A travel-heavy business therefore has both a workspace billing calculation and a trip-volume calculation.

Is Expensify Free? Understanding Submit and Paid Workspaces

What the Free Submit Plan Includes

New Expensify's free Submit workspace lets individual employees and independent workers scan unlimited receipts, track mileage, enter or export expenses, and submit reports to an approver. The Submit-specific Help Center guidance also supports coding expenses with categories and tags. A separate general free-features Help Center page describes categories and tags as paid-workspace features, so the two pages do not present an identical feature list. The company's fiscal 2025 filing described a 25-scan monthly threshold for individual free plans; its current New Expensify guidance explicitly lists unlimited SmartScans. These statements refer to different documentation and product periods, rather than proving a single limit for every account.

Who Uses Submit?

The free offering is relevant to individual consultants documenting reimbursable expenses, freelancers organizing work receipts, and employees sending reports to an approver without a company-managed subscription. Submitting a report is different from operating a centrally administered approval and reimbursement program. Expensify also offers a 30-day trial for newly created paid workspaces.

Which Functions Use a Paid Workspace?

A paid Collect or Control workspace provides centrally administered capabilities such as company approval workflows, managed reimbursements, corporate card administration, and supported accounting integrations. Submit serves a different purpose from the organization-level workflows included in those plans.

Engine provides a distinct way to organize corporate travel. Its corporate travel booking brings hotels, flights, rental cars, travel policies, and reporting into a modern travel management platform, with a free core access model rather than a per-member booking-platform subscription.

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Expensify Pricing Plans: Published U.S. Rates for 2026

The following breakdown summarizes Expensify's published U.S. dollar pricing as of October 2026. The distinction between a unique member, a committed seat, and an active member determines the relevant subscription calculation.

  • Submit: Free. For individual expense submission and receipt capture.
  • Collect: $5 monthly. Per unique member, including members without activity, under the current eligible workspace model.
  • Control annual standard: $18 monthly. Per committed seat during a 12-month subscription.
  • Control annual with full Card discount: As low as $9 monthly. Per committed seat, subject to qualifying Expensify Card spending.
  • Control annual seat overage: $36 monthly standard. Per active member above the committed seat count, potentially $18 with the full Card discount.
  • Control pay-per-use standard: $36 monthly. Per active member in the billing month.
  • Control pay-per-use with qualifying Card pricing: As low as $18 monthly. Per eligible active member in the billing month.

Rates exclude applicable taxes, travel-trip charges, and other separately priced services. Collect's current $5 billing model applies to organizations whose first workspace was created on or after April 1, 2025. Expensify also documents legacy Collect subscriptions for earlier workspaces. An independent pricing overview provides additional context on the pricing structure.

Collect: $5 per Unique Member per Month

Collect is designed for teams using standard expense management and approval workflows. Under the current billing model:

  • Each unique workspace member costs $5 per month, including members who do not submit expenses in that month.
  • There is no annual subscription requirement for eligible Collect workspaces.
  • The Expensify Card is optional.
  • Supported features include reimbursements, corporate card management, expense and travel approvals, SmartScan, and QuickBooks Online and Xero integrations.

Expensify's May 2025 Collect announcement also lists Gusto and Zenefits sync, while its current plan-comparison guidance places HR and payroll integrations under Control. The available documentation therefore does not establish that all such connections are included for every Collect workspace.

For example, a Collect workspace with 25 unique members has a $125 monthly subscription calculation, independent of how many of those people submitted expenses that month.

Control: Annual Seats, Discounts, and Overages

Control includes additional administrative functionality, including multiple approval flows, custom expense rules, budgeting, custom reporting, SAML/SSO, and integrations with systems such as NetSuite and Sage Intacct.

The standard annual U.S. rate is $18 per committed seat per month. The commitment lasts 12 months. Committed seats remain billable during the term, including months without activity, and the commitment size can be increased during the term. Decreases ordinarily take effect at renewal.

The advertised $9 annual rate represents the maximum published subscription discount available through qualifying Expensify Card spending. Expensify's September 2026 disclosure describes the full discount at a Card share of at least 50% of total settled monthly spend. Its detailed billing guidance instead says the discount grows proportionally with the Card's share of approved U.S. dollar workspace expenses, up to a 50% subscription discount. The two descriptions do not reconcile the qualifying spending denominator or precisely how the maximum discount threshold is reached. The $9 rate is therefore a conditional scenario, not the standard annual rate.

Active members above an annual subscription's committed seat count have a published standard overage rate of $36 per member for that month, potentially reduced to $18 with the full qualifying Card discount. When the auto-increase setting is enabled, active membership above the commitment can instead increase the subscribed seat count automatically and begin a new 12-month term. Manually increasing the commitment also starts a new 12-month term.

Control: Pay-per-Use Billing

Control also offers pay-per-use billing without an annual committed-seat subscription. Its published standard rate is $36 per active member per month. Expensify's detailed U.S. pricing table also lists a Card-associated pay-per-use rate as low as $18 per active member per month, but the surrounding explanation defines Card-discount eligibility for annual Control subscriptions. The table establishes that a lower rate is published; the public guidance does not consistently explain how that rate applies to pay-per-use accounts.

Under Expensify's current billing definitions, qualifying activity includes creating, editing, submitting, approving, or exporting expense data, or chatting with Concierge. A person does not become billable under pay-per-use Control solely by being listed as a workspace member.

What Control Adds Beyond Collect

Control is relevant to organizations whose administrative requirements include:

  • Multiple or department-specific expense approval flows.
  • Custom expense policies and budgeting controls.
  • Advanced reporting and insights.
  • ERP integration with supported systems, including NetSuite and Sage Intacct.
  • Supported HR system connections such as Workday and BambooHR, which the current plan-comparison guidance lists under Control.

Expensify integrates with payroll and HR systems for supported workflows. It does not itself process payroll or file payroll taxes.

Expensify Travel Fees: Trip Charges and Agent Assistance

Expensify Travel charges separately from applicable workspace subscription fees. Its published materials describe the following structures:

  • Self-service trip: The Help Center and travel guide describe a $15 fee for a trip booked or managed through self-service.
  • Agent-assisted trip in Help Center guidance: The Help Center describes $25 as the total fee for a trip an agent books or changes. If a $15 trip charge has already been paid, it describes a further $10 charge, bringing the total to $25.
  • Agent support in the published travel terms: The Expensify Travel Terms, last updated June 6, 2024 and still publicly available, separately describe a $25 Agent Support Fee, charged once per trip for specified agent changes and expressly in addition to the Trip Fee. The terms therefore describe a different structure from the Help Center's $25 total.
  • Multiple reservations: Related flight, hotel, car, and rail reservations grouped into one trip are covered by the same trip fee rather than generating separate trip fees per reservation. The published Travel Terms define a trip as lasting no longer than 21 days.
  • Event travel: Expensify's event-management guidance specifies a $15 trip fee per traveler for its organized travel events, not one trip charge for the entire event.

For 300 chargeable trips per year, the following illustrations distinguish the two published descriptions:

  • 300 self-service trips at $15: 300 x $15 = $4,500 in trip fees.
  • 300 assisted trips under Help Center guidance: 300 x $25 = $7,500 in trip fees. If every trip instead incurred both a $15 Trip Fee and a $25 Agent Support Fee under the additive terms structure, the hypothetical result would be 300 x $40 = $12,000.
  • 150 self-service and 150 assisted trips: The Help Center interpretation gives (150 x $15) + (150 x $25) = $6,000. The same mix with a $15 Trip Fee plus $25 Agent Support Fee on each assisted trip would be (150 x $15) + (150 x $40) = $8,250.

The higher illustrations are conditional calculations of the additive language, not a claim that every assisted booking incurs $40. The calculations count separately chargeable traveler trips, not individual reservations or entire multi-traveler events. Neither set of trip-fee illustrations includes tickets, hotel rooms, rental cars, taxes, workspace subscriptions, or other applicable costs.

Engine offers another approach to corporate travel booking. For core access: No platform fees, no membership fees, no agent-assist fees, no contracts, no minimum spend. Travel purchases and optional products are accounted for separately under the Engine service terms.

Example: Expensify Subscription Costs for a 25-Member Business

This example assumes 25 unique Collect members each month, 25 active members each month for pay-per-use Control, 25 committed seats for annual Control, no annual seat overages, and eligibility for the current Collect pricing model. Each lower-rate Control illustration assumes the stated discounted rate applies in every month of the year. The $18 pay-per-use example is hypothetical because Expensify's published price table lists that rate but its accompanying discount explanation addresses annual subscriptions.

  • Collect at $5 per unique member: $125 per month, or $1,500 annually.
  • Control annual at $18 per committed seat: $450 per month, or $5,400 annually.
  • Control annual at $9 with the full Card discount: $225 per month, or $2,700 annually.
  • Control pay-per-use at $36 for 25 active members: $900 per month, or $10,800 annually.
  • Control pay-per-use at $18 for 25 eligible active members: $450 per month, or $5,400 annually.

If the same business also makes 300 separately chargeable self-service trips, $4,500 in annual trip fees is added to the applicable subscription calculation. For example, eligible Collect subscription charges of $1,500 plus those trip fees total $6,000, before the underlying travel purchases, taxes, and other applicable costs.

The calculation illustrates why a per-member software price and a per-trip booking charge need to be evaluated as separate components. For a multi-traveler event, the number of traveler trips, rather than simply the number of events, drives the trip-fee estimate.

Expensify vs. Travel Management Platforms: Comparing Total Cost

Expensify provides receipt capture, expense approval, reimbursement, accounting integration, and integrated travel booking. Its travel offering also supports booking policies, travel approvals, event travel, and centralized billing.

Engine is a modern travel management platform focused on corporate hotel, flight, and rental-car booking, pre-booking policy controls, spend visibility, group reservations, meeting and event venue discovery, and optional consolidated billing. The two products address overlapping travel workflows alongside different organizational finance processes.

A Total Annual Cost Framework

For a business with both travel and expense requirements, a practical cost model is:

Annual expense software subscription + annual travel-trip fees + actual travel purchases + applicable payment and service charges + administration and integration costs.

Under Expensify's current Collect model, the starting subscription calculation is 12 x $5 x unique workspace members. Annual Control starts with committed seats billed each month and adds any active-member overages. Pay-per-use Control uses each month's count of billable active members. Qualifying Card discounts change the applicable Control rate.

For an Engine-led corporate travel program, the comparison begins with free core platform access, the quoted travel purchases, and any optional services the company uses. This structure allows finance teams to evaluate the travel program's complete spend without assigning a per-member booking-platform subscription to Engine.

Integration and Policy Requirements

The appropriate workflow depends on the organization's accounting system, allocation fields, reimbursement processes, and travel approval structure. Teams frequently compare the role of pre-booking travel policies with the role of expense reporting after transactions occur. Both may be relevant in the same operating model.

Managing Expensify Subscription Costs

Model the Expensify Card Discount Separately

The Expensify Card is optional, including for organizations using Control. Companies with qualifying Card spending may receive discounted Control subscription pricing. Expensify also publishes U.S. Card cash-back rates of 1% on eligible purchases and 2% at its specified monthly spending threshold of $250,000, subject to program terms.

Card adoption affects payment routing, reconciliation, and the number of expenses that count toward subscription-discount eligibility. Keeping the full-discount and standard-rate calculations separate makes the financial model clearer.

Choose the Plan Based on Administrative Workflows

Collect covers standard expense reporting, business approvals, supported corporate cards, and QuickBooks Online or Xero integration. Control adds multi-level approvals, advanced controls, ERP connections, and other administrative features. The comparison is primarily about the organization's required workflows and the number of billable people.

Distinguish Members, Seats, and Monthly Activity

These terms represent different billing units:

  • Collect unique member: Counts under the current $5 model even without monthly expense activity.
  • Annual Control committed seat: Remains in the annual subscription billing count during the commitment term.
  • Annual Control overage: Applies to a billable active member above the seat commitment.
  • Pay-per-use Control active member: Counts based on qualifying activity during the month.

Member administration, staffing changes, and renewal planning can therefore affect the cost of each model differently.

Coordinate Travel Booking and Expense Processing

For companies booking frequent employee trips, conferences, offsites, sales travel, or team accommodation, travel cost is a separate budget category from employee expense processing. Engine can handle corporate booking and travel-spend workflows, while other finance systems can participate in the broader accounting and reimbursement process. Total costs depend on the combination selected.

Expensify Reviews: How Users Discuss Value

Reviews provide qualitative context for the published pricing rather than a replacement for the billing model. Feedback on G2 user reviews, Capterra reviews, and TrustRadius feedback reflects different business sizes, product versions, and implementation arrangements.

Receipt Capture and Employee Workflows

Review discussions frequently address SmartScan, mobile receipt submission, expense coding, and the employee experience of creating reports. These are central capabilities for organizations managing recurring expense submissions.

Finance Administration and Integrations

Finance-oriented reviews address approval flows, reimbursement processing, card reconciliation, accounting connections, and reporting. The relevance of individual experiences depends on the company's configuration and connected systems.

Pricing and Value Considerations

Cost discussions tend to focus on the selected Collect or Control plan, member or activity counts, subscription commitments, and use of the Expensify Card. Travel volume introduces the additional per-trip charges outlined earlier. These factors provide a more useful basis for budgeting than an overall review score alone.

Beyond Expense Reports: Expensify's Financial Management Features

Invoicing and Customer Payments

Expensify supports customer invoicing and associated payment tracking. A September 2026 product guide lists a 2.9% card-processing rate for customer invoice payments and free ACH customer invoice payments. Those are invoicing payment-processing terms, not Expensify Travel trip charges.

Bill Payment and Vendor Workflows

Expensify supports bill management alongside employee expenses, with associated submission, approval, and payment functions depending on workspace configuration. This allows organizations to consider vendor-payment administration and expense reporting as related workflows.

The Expensify Card

Expensify's corporate card offers transaction feeds, supported receipt matching, and configurable spending rules. Its published U.S. cash-back schedule lists 1% on qualifying U.S. purchases, increasing to 2% when the stated monthly settled-spend threshold is met. The Card is optional for business plan access.

HR and Payroll System Integrations

Supported integrations can connect reimbursement data and employee information with HR and payroll applications. The relevant capabilities depend on the connector and workspace plan. Expensify functions as an expense and spend management tool, with payroll processing handled by the connected payroll system.

Which Businesses Fit Expensify's Pricing Model?

Teams Focused on Routine Expense Workflows

The current Collect plan provides a straightforward calculation for companies using expense capture, reimbursements, standard approvals, and common accounting integrations. At $5 per unique member per month for eligible workspaces, the member count is the principal subscription driver.

Organizations With Advanced Finance Requirements

Control supports multiple approval flows, custom rules, advanced reporting, and eligible ERP connections. Annual and pay-per-use subscription models provide different ways to account for recurring membership and activity, with qualifying Card spending affecting available rates.

Organizations With Significant Business Travel

Travel-intensive companies have an additional cost driver in Expensify Travel's per-trip billing. Engine provides a modern travel management platform for hotels, flights, rental cars, corporate policies, reporting, group accommodation, and optional centralized billing, without a booking-platform subscription. For companies coordinating frequent travel across departments and locations, this offers a compelling basis for a dedicated corporate travel program.

Organizations Combining Travel and Finance Systems

Some companies use a dedicated travel platform alongside an expense or accounting system. In that arrangement, Engine manages travel booking and related spend controls, and connected financial processes support the organization's broader reporting and reimbursement needs. This approach can be evaluated against an integrated expense-and-travel subscription using the same annual cost framework.

Why Engine Stands Out for Business Travel and Spend Management

Engine is a modern travel management platform for businesses of all sizes. It brings booking, pre-trip controls, centralized travel visibility, group sourcing, and optional spend products into a coordinated corporate travel program. Engine reports access to more than one million properties, alongside flight and rental-car booking.

Its main pricing distinction is free core access without a per-user travel booking software subscription. The individual products below explain how that model supports finance managers, travel coordinators, executive assistants, and operations teams.

Engine Corporate Travel Booking: Hotels, Flights, and Rental Cars

Engine corporate travel booking enables businesses to organize hotel, flight, and rental-car reservations from one account. It supports travel policies, pre-negotiated business rates where available, booking records, and centralized reporting.

For the core platform, the pricing structure is explicit: No platform fees, no membership fees, no agent-assist fees, no contracts, no minimum spend. Hotel partner commissions support the free access model. The actual travel purchase and any applicable booking charges or taxes are reflected in the travel transaction under Engine's terms.

Travelers can also earn eligible hotel or airline loyalty points on qualifying bookings, depending on the reservation and loyalty program rules.

Engine DirectBill: A Credit Line and Consolidated Invoices

Engine DirectBill provides eligible businesses with an approved line of credit and consolidated travel billing. Engine extends a line of credit, Engine pays the hotels, and the customer receives one consolidated invoice after stays.

Finance teams can access itemized statements, export booking records and folios, and reconcile travel expenses from a centralized account. Billing follows the agreed statement cycle, and optional autopay supports scheduled settlement.

Engine Incidentals Coverage: Cardless Check-In for Eligible Stays

With Engine's Incidentals Coverage add-on, travelers skip credit card authorization forms at check-in. Cardless check-in is available for eligible reservations at participating hotels, including supported DirectBill stays, when the add-on is enabled. Coverage categories and limits depend on the reservation and property.

Engine Flex: Booking-Level Hotel and Flight Protection

Engine Flex is an optional paid add-on selected for eligible bookings. It provides cancellation flexibility for supported hotel reservations. For qualifying flights with Flex, travelers can cancel up to two hours before the first scheduled departure and receive Engine Travel Credit under the product terms.

This booking-level option complements Engine's company subscription product, FlexPro.

Engine FlexPro: Companywide Hotel Cancellation Protection

Engine FlexPro is an optional paid subscription for company hotel reservations, including eligible nonrefundable bookings. Eligible reservations can be canceled until noon on the scheduled check-in day. The default refund is an Engine travel credit valid for one year, subject to applicable coverage terms.

Engine's October 2026 Help Center guidance lists FlexPro at $299 per month or $2,999 per year. FlexPro is separate from the free core booking platform and from Flex's per-booking pricing.

Engine X: Business Charge Card Rewards and Spend Controls

Engine X is a business charge card, not a credit card, with no annual fee. Its features include physical and virtual card issuance, configurable spending controls, transaction visibility, and integration with Engine's travel and spend records.

Its published rewards program offers up to 10% back in points on eligible Engine travel purchases, with displayed travel tiers applying to qualifying hotel and rental-car purchases, and 1.5% back in points on other qualifying transactions. The rewards terms govern eligibility, applicable rates, and redemption. Card terms and eligibility apply. All applications subject to credit approval.

Engine Travel Policy Enforcement and Approvals

Engine Travel Policy Enforcement applies configured hotel, flight, and rental-car rules during booking. Travel administrators can set supported rate, class, traveler, and departmental parameters.

Out-of-policy selections can be handled through Not Allowed, Allowed with Reason, or Allowed with Approval settings. Engine Approvals supports routing eligible booking exceptions to designated reviewers before purchase. This connects travel policy with booking decisions, while finance teams retain centralized records for subsequent reporting.

Engine Travel Reporting and Analytics: Projects and Cost Centers

Engine Travel Reporting and Analytics supports company-defined booking fields, including departments, project IDs, job codes, and cost centers. Finance and operations teams can use those fields to organize trips, analyze spend, and allocate travel costs across business units.

Engine Groups: Hotel Room Blocks for Nine or More Rooms

Engine Groups sources and coordinates hotel room blocks for nine or more rooms, including conferences, company offsites, sales gatherings, and group business travel. It also supports complex team and crew lodging requirements.

The service supports property sourcing, negotiated proposals, room coordination, and group booking administration. Engine Groups is free to use, while hotel pricing and agreed reservation terms apply to the underlying group arrangements. The group room-block workflow is designed for coordinated lodging needs beyond an individual traveler booking a single room.

Engine Spaces: Meeting and Event Venue Discovery

Engine Spaces helps event organizers discover meeting rooms and venues for conferences, offsites, training sessions, and business gatherings. Planners can compare options by location, capacity, dates, and amenities, then submit venue inquiries to arrange event details with the provider.

Engine 24/7 Live Support: Eva and Human Agents

Engine provides 24/7 live support, including Eva, its AI assistant, with escalation to live agents by phone, chat, and email. This support model accompanies the booking, policy, billing, and group-travel workflows managed through Engine.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How does Expensify handle currency conversion for international expenses?

Expensify supports expenses and reimbursements in multiple currencies. The applied exchange rate can vary with the transaction and payment method. Expensify describes its own Card as having no foreign transaction fee; other card issuers and payment networks may have their own conversion practices.

Can I use Control without the Expensify Card?

Yes. The Expensify Card is optional, and supported third-party corporate cards can be connected. The published standard annual Control rate is $18 per committed seat per month without a qualifying discount, compared with as low as $9 under the annual full-discount scenario. Standard pay-per-use Control is $36 per active member per month, with qualifying Card pricing published as low as $18.

What happens to expense data after an Expensify subscription ends?

Expensify provides reporting and export functions for supported records, including expense data and report files. The duration and scope of record access after account closure depend on the applicable account arrangements. Organizations commonly preserve expense reports, receipts, and approval records in their own retention systems as part of financial recordkeeping.

Does Expensify offer volume discounts for larger organizations?

Expensify publishes self-service pricing for Collect and Control, together with qualifying Card-based discounts. Specialized enterprise arrangements may have account-specific commercial terms, but the published material does not establish a universal additional volume-discount schedule.

How does Expensify Travel compare with Engine?

Expensify Travel integrates hotel, flight, car, and rail reservations with expense workflows. Its Help Center describes $15 per self-service trip or $25 total per agent-assisted trip, while its published travel terms characterize a $25 Agent Support Fee as additional to the trip fee for specified agent changes. It also supports travel policies, group and event travel, and centralized travel billing. Engine combines corporate booking, pre-booking policies, reporting, Engine Groups room blocks, optional DirectBill invoices, and FlexPro cancellation protection. For the core booking platform: No platform fees, no membership fees, no agent-assist fees, no contracts, no minimum spend. The complete comparison includes the travel purchases and optional products used by each company.

Can Expensify integrate with project management or job-costing systems?

Expensify supports categories, tags, expense coding, and accounting connections that can help businesses allocate costs to projects. Control adds supported ERP integrations, including NetSuite and Sage Intacct. The project fields and data flows available in a particular environment depend on its connected systems and workspace configuration.