The iPhone Mom

This review is for all of you hardworking moms and dads who work outside the home. ProOnGo Expense is an app that will help you keep track of your receipts for work expenses. I’m a stay at home mom so business expenses aren’t something I deal with. Mine would all fall under the category of mental health and probably involve large purchases of chocolate and cherry cokes from Sonic. I went ahead and made up some expenses and I’m going to do my best to explain the app.

Expenses can be added for regular expenses, mileage or time. You can manually enter in your receipt data or take a picture and use the app’s receipt reader. The receipt reader is supposed to take the data from your receipt and enter it into the app for you. Once you’ve entered in expenses you can export them. Exports can be done as an excel spreadsheet, xml file or fax. You can also export the data directly into a QuickBooks online account.

I was able to do the basics with the app without creating a ProOnGo account. I couldn’t get the receipt reader to work so I’m assuming you’d need an account to use that feature. It does seem like a great time saver. I liked how the app lets you edit out your personal information before you upload the receipt to the ProOnGo server. The features that I was able to try out were successful in keeping my pseudo receipts organized. I also really liked the fact that you can export your receipts. I tried it out with an excel worksheet and it worked like a charm.

I was unable to find the specific details about what’s required for a ProOnGo subscription. I do believe that there’s a limit on the number of receipts you can send off to the Receipt Reader.  The app is available for both individuals and businesses. I’m sure it’d be revolutionary for those who are using paper forms right now. One app quirk that I noticed involved the “headers” and buttons on the top of the screen. When I would switch between screens they’d often overlap and become unreadable. I’m sure it’s just a bug and hopefully something that can be fixed in an update.

Has anyone out there had real world experience using this app? You know…with actual business expenses?

**Update 2/18 – Max from ProOnGo has given me some additional details. Thanks!

• Receipt Reader is a monthly subscription. Prices found here.
• Receipt Reader can take from 1-4 minutes to upload a receipt and you have to keep the app open for about 5 seconds. After that you can shut the app down and when you come back your receipt should be there.  When you join you get 10 free receipt uploads. My conclusion, I probably wasn’t patient enough in waiting for my upload. Typical me.

Price when Reviewed: $.99

Seller: ProOnGo, LLC

Disclosure: I received a free copy of this app for review purposes.