How We’re Killing Expense Reports
The expense report is broken. The entire concept was a necessity of a previous era when it was simply more cost effective and efficient to process stacks of paper in batch. Today, the secular shift in customer expectations that has fueled market challengers in B2B services like accounting (Xero) and payroll (ZenPayroll) has put pressure on the rest of the back office to mirror the experience that customers have come to take for granted in their personal lives. It’s not enough anymore for a SaaS provider to just offer an online expense report - that’s essentially the digital equivalent of giving businesses a faster horse.
We’re building Abacus. We intend to eliminate the need for expense reports altogether. Ted, Josh and I are reimagining the expense management workflow born mobile, from the ground up to mirror the speed and simplicity of sending a tweet. To understand the impact...