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Expense reports get rejected over missing descriptions, not missing receipts. Typally works at the keyboard level, so anywhere Expensify accepts typing, it accepts your voice instead.
This is a vendor guide from the makers of Typally. Anything we say about Expensify is worth verifying — third-party features change without notice.Receipt scanning and automatic categorisation. The comment field is typed.
Scanning a receipt is instant. Explaining why a forty-euro dinner was a business expense takes a sentence, and that sentence is the one thing an approver actually needs.
In practice people use it for: Expense comments, report descriptions, policy violation explanations, and approver notes.
Nothing changes inside Expensify itself. Typally sits in the tray and types into the focused window:
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The cursor position is the whole instruction — Expensify routes the keystrokes from there.
Hold, talk, release. Long passages are fine.
The mobile flow is designed for speed and moves on quickly after a scan. On desktop, open the expense before dictating.
Typally types into the expense comment field, so the business purpose gets recorded while you are still in the taxi rather than reconstructed a week later. Approvers reject reports over missing justification far more often than missing receipts, and a spoken sentence removes that entirely.
A sales team told to justify every client dinner starts speaking the business purpose while still in the taxi. Report approval time drops from a week of back-and-forth to same-day, because the approver stops having to ask.
Dictate the business purpose at the moment you photograph the receipt. A week later you genuinely will not remember who was at the dinner.
The mobile flow is designed for speed and moves on quickly after a scan. On desktop, open the expense before dictating.
It reads receipts with OCR. The comment explaining the expense is typed.
Usually a missing or vague business purpose rather than a missing receipt.
Yes. The comment field is an ordinary text box.
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