How to use
How to use ExpenseGauge, one step at a time.
The same answers the Help button in the app gives, gathered on one page. Each one says where to tap and what happens next.
Getting started
What ExpenseGauge does
Photograph a receipt, or send the PDF of one, and it is read for you: the shop, the date, the total and every line on it. A bank or card statement works the…
Signing in
There is no password. You type your email at expensegauge.com, we email you a short code, and you enter it. That is the whole sign-in. If the code does not…
Putting the app on your phone
There is no app store download - it is a web app. Open expensegauge.com in your phone browser. On iPhone tap Share, then Add to Home Screen. On Android tap…
How to add a receipt
Two ways, both take a few seconds: In the web app: tap the round green camera button above the bottom bar, then take a photo or pick one. You can pick…
Receipts
Adding a bank or credit card statement
Send a photo or the PDF of a bank or credit card statement the same way you add a receipt - in the app, or straight to the Telegram bot. Every payment on it…
A purchase with no receipt
Cash work often comes with no receipt at all, and a slip you threw away is gone. You can still record it. In the web app: open Receipts and tap Add one…
Voice messages
Yes. In the web app, tap the microphone next to the question box - the one in Help, or on the Ask tab - and say your question. To record a purchase by…
The receipt was not read correctly
Usually the photo is the cause. Lay the receipt flat, get the whole slip in frame including the total line, and avoid shadows and glare. If a receipt was…
Editing or deleting a receipt
Open the receipt - tap the photo button at the end of its row in your Receipts list - and you can: Details: change the shop, the date, the total and the…
When the app asks about a receipt
Most receipts need nothing from you. When the app is not sure of something - the lines do not add up to the total, a date could be read two ways, it may be…
How receipts are sorted into categories
Every receipt is sorted by what the money was FOR, not by what kind of shop it was. That is why petrol sits under Transport, beside parking, public transit…
The list of things you bought
Two different things are called a shopping list, so here are both. ExpenseGauge does not keep a list of things you still have to buy - there is no to-buy…
Returns and warranty
When a receipt says how long you have to bring something back, or how long the warranty runs, the app reads it and keeps it. Open any receipt and look under…
Your money
A monthly budget, and being warned in time
You can give the month a figure, and the app watches it against what you actually spend. Set it or change it: on the home screen, in the This month card…
Fixed costs: rent, bills and subscriptions
Rent, the phone, insurance - money that goes out every month and rarely comes with a receipt. Tell the app once: tap your name at the top right, then Fixed…
Where the money went: the Stats screen
The Stats tab shows everything spent in the period you choose, pocket by pocket, as a ring and as a list. Choose the period at the top: everything, a year…
What you can ask
Ask in plain words, by text or voice - in Telegram, or on the Ask tab at the bottom of the web app. For example: How much did I spend today / this week /…
Currencies
Each receipt keeps the currency it was actually paid in. Totals are always shown per currency and never added together, so a euro is never counted as a…
Getting your receipts out
Your data is yours and you can take it any time. A spreadsheet: open Receipts in the web app and tap the Excel button at the top. It holds exactly what the…
With other people
Projects and events
A project or an event is a bag for the receipts that belong together - a trip, a party, a renovation. Make one: the Projects tab, then + New. Put receipts…
Splitting a bill between people
Open the receipt and tap Split. Add the people, then choose how: equally, or a fixed amount each. Tick a person as paid when they pay you back; the receipt…
Connecting Telegram to the web account
Sign in at expensegauge.com, tap your name at the top right and choose Connect Telegram - one tap links the two. That item only shows while the account is…
Inviting a friend
Tap your name at the top right, then Invite friends, and share your link. When a friend signs up through it and adds a first receipt, you both get extra…
Your account
What it costs
Each plan gives a set amount every month; past it, credits are used. The Your plan page, in the account menu at the top right, shows what is left of yours…
Moving up to Plus, or cancelling it
Open Your plan in the account menu at the top right. To move up, press the monthly or the yearly button there; the payment is made on Stripe's own page and…
What you have paid
Tap your name at the top right, then Payments: what you have paid, month by month, and the months that cost nothing. Each payment is also written into your…
Where your data is kept
Your receipts and photos are stored on our own server. Only your account can see them. They are not sold or shared. Receipt images are sent to the AI only…
Deleting your data
To have your account deleted, ask for it in Help: tap your name at the top right, then Help & support, and write delete my account. It goes to the team as a…
Talking to a person
Of course. Tap your name at the top right, then Help & support, and write your question. It goes straight to the team with your account details, and the…
Still stuck?
Ask inside the app.
Tap your name at the top right, then Help & support, and ask in your own words. If the answer does not help, a person reads it.