If, like me, your desk tends to get piled up with receipts that you mean to enter into bookkeeping but keep putting off because you have better things to do at your desk, XpenseTracker offers the enticing prospect of allowing you to do your bookkeeping on the road, on your iPhone or iPod touch.
Item entry is semi-automated: today’s date is inserted automatically, and “Client” (payee) is a customisable pop-up field you can choose from. If you’re abroad, it can enter the amount in the local currency and convert it into your home (“Master”) currency based on exchange rates that it downloads every two days (or more often, if you like). With the iPhone, you can also take a snapshot of the receipt and attach it to the entry.
Of course, all that information is of little use if you can’t get it onto your computer, so XpenseTracker allows you to export the current log of entries, or – if you prefer not to send such information online (like me), you can export it directly to your Mac. This requires the downloading of a sister app called SyncDocs, which, when launched on your machine, can be ‘seen’ by the iPhone/touch and exported it. When it has done so, it reports that it has exported the log file successfully “to the desktop”. In actual fact, it’s exported to a “SyncDocs” folder within your designated downloads folder. Another point which isn’t pointed out in the documentation is that the “Client” field isn’t exported, by default, so you need to make sure it’s turned on in the app’s Prefs.
Other than that, it works well and I commend it to fellow iPhone/iPod touch users.
Silverware Software | USD$4.99 | ^QQQQ