Search by amount (or any text field for that matter) - this is tablestakes....

anguscook

Great product but if you don't have the ability to search by any field, your development managers are probably not users of the system. Every financial entity considers this a checklist item, so come on folks, get with. It's super frustrating to not be able to do a quick search to see if 'that lunch' or 'that parking fee' was processed.

brettrandall

I agree - searching by amount or description is tablestakes ... please add this.

RPMaura

Searching expenses by a specific amount is needed!

glglasser

searching by amount seems like it should be easy to add and would really be appreciated.

RGT

Agree!

DRB_Propela

Yep - a bit silly in this day and age to not have that as an option

DRB_Propela

it was asked back in 2018 - still not a function.

Cortney Ofstad

Hi @DRB_Propela — thanks for reaching out! With our Ideas section, our team compares the proposed update with our current roadmap plans, and the popularity of the idea to see when it will be implemented.

While this is not in our plans currently, this does not mean that this will not be released in the future. With that being said, we appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts on this, and please do not forget to vote on the post if you have not already.

If you have any other questions or need anything else, please let us know!

DRB_Propela

Come on - not being able to search an accounting software using an amount is crazy - please explain why this isn't possible?

MJ_BeaconMark

Please, I agree that this is an important feature, we are paying for this service.

Rachael Hopkins

+4 Votes from this Idea.

ShaneDS

The inability of the system to do this is causing a ton of additional hours for our accounts team. I cannot believe this isn't a thing.

Rachael Hopkins

Hi @ShaneDS Welcome to the Expensify Community! Thanks for your feedback. To help me build out my business case for this, can you tell me what it is about the lack of a global search that is causing so much additional work?

I look forward to hearing from you!

ShaneDS

Hi @Rachael Hopkins

Thank you for following up. Many times the names on the receipts that are scanned to not match the bank transactions. For instance, if we get gas, the receipt may say Shell Gas but it comes through on our statement SG632.

Therefore it would be ideal for us to reconcile missing expenses by searching the expense reports by amount.

Further, this should just be a standard table that's searchable. Every accounting software, banking, and financial software all has the ability to search by amount. It seems odd that this wouldn't be available.

Will69

I agree!

Jul

Being able to search fields - especially the Description field - is a basic essential.

Example use case:

One of my hard drives failed. I don't recall who I bought it from, or whether it's still under warrenty. I had to search through 2 years' worth of receipts manually before I found it, by guessing at what I might have paid and looking at every single likely-looking amount. Big task. Thanks to Covid my transactions are down, I hate to think how long it would have taken me if I'd had the usual number of receipts going through.

Had I had a Description search available, I could have searched 'disk' knowing I'd have put that in the description when I saved the receipt.

Others have requested a search by Amount; that would help too.

Jul

https://community.expensify.com/discussion/comment/14864#Comment_14864

Rachael, in case you don't see this post further down, may I add my use case to ShaneDS's?

Being able to search fields - especially the Description field - is a basic essential. Others have requested a search by Amount; that would help too.

Example use case (1):

A hard drive failed. I have quite a few and I don't recall who I bought this particular one from, or whether it's still under warrenty. I had to search through 2 years' worth of receipts manually before I found it, by guessing at what I might have paid and looking at every single likely-looking amount. Big task. Thanks to Covid my transactions are down, I hate to think how long it would have taken me if I'd had the usual number of receipts going through.

Had I had a Description search available, I could have searched 'disk' knowing I'd have put that in the description when I saved the receipt.

Use Case (2)

Query to my accountant about whether they claimed VAT on an item I thoight was VATable, they didn't. I found evidence that it is. Now we have to find it. I know what the thing does, but don't recall what it was called. I do recall it cost £400. Again, I'll have to scan though all my receipts to find it.

Matt Cole

@Jul yep you can add this here. Appreciate the input being added and we'll continue to take note of this for review.

David_Schorr

I agree! Should be a top priority. Very odd this was not included as a basic function. Please develop this functionality ASAP!