How can I get customer service?

TDeGrace
TDeGrace Expensify Customer Posts: 16 Expensify Newcomer
I have been having a problem with Expensify since Thursday, I am unable to export to QuickBooks and cannot sync. I have not received a response via the so-called Concierge since Friday afternoon - most of the responses I have received are canned responses. I am on a deadline and am really frustrated, especially since is not the first time the export function doesn't work - it seems completely random when it stops working. At this point, I would really like to speak to an actual human not a bot

Answers

  • David_T
    David_T Approved! Accountant Posts: 6
    I feel your pain!  I have been having horrific problems getting a bank account verified for weeks!!!  Keep getting asked for info, and then 2 days later, another email.  I have employees that cannot get reimbursed. Concierge/bot is NOT acceptable!

    EXPENSIFY, if you are listening, you have the WORST customer service of any SaaS platform I have ever used!  Can you at least try to help us?
  • TDeGrace
    TDeGrace Expensify Customer Posts: 16 Expensify Newcomer
    Agreed, I cannot think of any other vendor that I work with that provides such poor customer service.
  • lechols
    lechols Expensify Customer Posts: 2 Expensify Newcomer
    I agree customer service is seriously lacking.  No telephone resolution available ever - only emails.  Horrible! 
  • TDeGrace
    TDeGrace Expensify Customer Posts: 16 Expensify Newcomer
    The fact that three of us have posted about our problems with the lack of customer service and there has been no response from Expensify speaks volumes about how little they care about their customers - absolutely shameful!
  • Jason Li
    Jason Li Expensify Success Coach - Admin, Expensify Team, Expensify Student Ambassador Posts: 229 Expensify Team
    Hi everyone - I'm sorry to hear about your experience with Expensify! I'd like to assist in getting your issues resolved.

    @TDeGrace - are you able to provide me with the Report ID on your end? I had a look through your account and it looks like your connection was last synced 4 days ago, and your recent Reports have been successfully exported.

    @David_T - I had a look at your account, and it looks like you need to validate the bank account. This is the last step to getting your account verified - please navigate Settings > Account > Payments > Validate to bring up this window:



  • TDeGrace
    TDeGrace Expensify Customer Posts: 16 Expensify Newcomer
    Yes, you are correct, last night at 7:30 the export randomly started working again, after not working since Thursday. The reason why it was not synced in 4 days was that I was actually not able to sync, I kept getting an error message when I tried to sync. All of this was shared (with screen shots) with your so-called Concierge service and hours would go by without any kind of response. This is not the first time that I have experienced difficulties exporting to QuickBooks or problems syncing, I am convinced based on the  last couple of times that I have experienced these outages that these are random problems with your platform.  Unfortunately, there is no reliable customer service or assistance during these outages and that adds significantly to the frustration. If I can't rely on your service to work all the time and if I can't receive any real assistance during the random outages, then I am not sure what I am paying for.
  • fannyortega2311
    fannyortega2311 Approved! Accountant Posts: 2
    So is this the only way to get customer service? So not pleased! I am setting up a client with Expensify instead of Concur, not sure why now?!  Need to do autofeed of amex transactions to Expensify and they send me links to webinars.  I need real customer service support!!! Today! not a week from now.
  • Mark Louis
    Mark Louis Expensify Team Posts: 167 Expensify Team
    Hi @fannyortega2311 – To begin the process of setting up a feed of Amex transactions, you'll need to fill out Amex's required forms and send them on over to Amex. Please review this post which outlines the process in detail.
  • TDeGrace
    TDeGrace Expensify Customer Posts: 16 Expensify Newcomer

    I am once again experiencing problems with Expensify, this time the credit cards are not flowing in correctly - I am getting two reports with 2 different titles and I am not able to combine them. I have reached out the "Concierge" repeatedly and I don't think they understand what is going on. Expensify really needs to improve its customer service, this is unacceptable!

  • Julia
    Julia Expensify Customer Posts: 164 Expensify Pro

    @TDeGrace good luck. It looks like Expensify is now crowdsourcing it's problem resolution. They will only fix known issues if it affects a large enough amount of it's users, and the onus is COMPLETELY on you to prove there is an issue in the first place.



  • TDeGrace
    TDeGrace Expensify Customer Posts: 16 Expensify Newcomer

    @Julia, I am so sorry that you are also experiencing issues with the customer service. I didn't realize they were crowdsourcing the problem resolution, but I too have been experiencing the frustration of trying to get them to understand the problem that I have been dealing with since Thursday. I really think if they had a real customer service system that included the ability to actually speak to a customer service representative they would be able to resolve issues much more quickly. Part of the problem with the current system is that it appears that the "Concierge" doesn't actually read the request for help or just doesn't understand the question, so they respond with canned responses or links to documents that don't address the problem fully. I don't know what is going on with Expensify but it hasn't worked properly for us in at least two months and my patience with the glacially slow responses from the so-called "Concierge" is wearing pretty thin. I have explained that I am working under an extremely tight deadline and it literally takes days to receive a response!

  • Julia
    Julia Expensify Customer Posts: 164 Expensify Pro

    @TDeGrace I feel your pain. It is extremely frustrating. I have felt the same issues with concierge lately. They must be outsourcing support, or leaving it to chatbots entirely. It seems like they are truly missing the human element of it all. I have provided detailed information in my inquiries in recent months, only to get responses that have just left me dumbfounded.

    They are stretched too thin trying to support the roll out of their own corporate card offering.

  • Deirdra
    Deirdra Expensify Customer Posts: 1 Expensify Newcomer

    We cannot even get their chat bots to reply and we're trying to spend money. Good luck to you guys!

  • TDeGrace
    TDeGrace Expensify Customer Posts: 16 Expensify Newcomer

    Truly sub-par customer service, I still don't have a resolution to my issues and came in this morning to find yet another problem with the platform. I haven't even bothered to reach out to the Concierge since they are so slow to answer. I have had to manually enter credit card charges and out of pocket charges in QuickBooks because once again the export function is not working (it has not worked consistently in months). As soon as I am finished with the month-end close, I will be searching for another solution to manage our credit card and out of pocket expenses. Expensify obviously does not care about retaining our business and I just cannot have another month with a platform that malfunctions as much as this one does.

  • evgeniya_a
    evgeniya_a Expensify Customer Posts: 22 Expensify Newcomer

    I agree :( Just a little over a year ago they had a dedicated support person for our account, and now this.. Any time we have a question, they'll just send a link to one of the "how to's", which half the time don't even answer the questions we had in the first place. Also, it takes so long with the back and forth emails!

    Asked for domain migration two weeks ago - not even a status update. How long does this process take?

    And I remember that when they first got rid of the phone support, the responses on the chat were much faster - within a few minutes/couple hours. It takes forever now.

    Should we add this to the ideas section? "Bring back phone support"? Or increase # of customer service reps..? I think I might just do that.

  • Zany Renney
    Zany Renney Approved! Accountant Posts: 171 Expensify Team

    Hi @evgeniya_a

    I am sorry to hear that your experience with Expensify has been disappointing.

    I want to take a second to explain how we changed our philosophy of support so that you have a bit more context, especially in relation to phone support and having a dedicated coach.

    We want you to have the most efficient experience when using Expensify, of which, we don't believe sitting waiting on "hold" lends itself to.

    When we did previously provide a designated Coach to larger customers, we were reliant on one Coach to respond, which led to us seeing bottlenecks which decreased response times and meant it was harder for customers to get their issues resolved in a timely manner.

    However, we are currently looking into how to provide the best support to our customers, so thank you for contributing here and provided us with candid feedback.

    For you Domain Migration - Our Operations team are currently working on this for you. This case has been a bit more complicated than usual.

    Thank you for your patience.

  • TDeGrace
    TDeGrace Expensify Customer Posts: 16 Expensify Newcomer

    I really hope Expensify steps up their customer service, it has really been so frustrating trying to deal with them so far.

  • FinanceManagerACSCC
    FinanceManagerACSCC Expensify Customer Posts: 4 Expensify Newcomer

    It's 8 - 7 months later and I'm having the SAME issues with Expensify customer service not responding. They haven't been able to figure out a QBO to Expensify sync errors and now stopped responding to my messages. We have an audit coming, which I've stated clearly, but still no response. I was even told that several months ago that Expensify has millions of customers and can't focus on one customer (see screenshot)

    I've had to wait MONTHS now. Unfortunately, our entire time on Expensify has been filled with problems and headaches. I even had to create manual journal entries for a broken sync, which took several hours of my time. It's unacceptable at this point.

  • FinanceManagerACSCC
    FinanceManagerACSCC Expensify Customer Posts: 4 Expensify Newcomer

    I just want to make clear that this is an infrastructure issue (looking at the executives and board of directors here) and the Concierges shouldn't be blamed. I understand that they're doing their best, but there's a greater problem at hand that needs review at a higher level...

  • Sasha Kluger
    Sasha Kluger Expensify Success Coach - Admin Posts: 126 Expensify Team

    Hi @FinanceManagerACSCC - It looks like you received a response in Concierge earlier today, and we can make sure review the conversation and get back to you again.

  • Oakcliff
    Oakcliff Expensify Customer Posts: 3 Expensify Newcomer

    I AGREE - THIS IS THE WORST WORST WORST EXPERIENCE I HAVE EVER HAD IN DEALING WITH CUSTOMER SERVICE - I have wasted days of my time on trying to fix what they have fucked up and everytime I write I want a human not a bot - I get the same 'but I'm not a bot – I'm a human.' BS

  • Sonia Liapounova
    Sonia Liapounova Expensify Success Coach - Admin, Expensify Team Posts: 211 Expensify Team

    @Oakcliff I'm sorry to hear that you're having a hard time with the app!

    But you really are talking to a human. Our only automated messages are proactive messages where we reach out with something like, "thanks for smartscanning that receipt". All troubleshooting is done by humans.

    Looks like the last question you asked is, "How do I delete a layout". You can delete a company card CSV upload layout under Settings > Domains > [Domain Name] > Company Cards. Click Manage/Upload Layout then select the layout you'd like to delete and click the red trashcan icon.