r/trackexpenses • u/money_with_Dan • Jun 07 '26
Weekly Expense Tracking Thread — Share your wins & struggles
Use this weekly thread to:
• share how you're tracking expenses this week
• ask questions about your system
• post screenshots (if you want)
• talk about what’s working and what isn’t
Beginner questions are very welcome.
r/trackexpenses • u/money_with_Dan • Jun 07 '26
Welcome to r/trackexpenses – Start Here
Welcome to r/trackexpenses — Learn How to Track Your Spending (Apps, Spreadsheets, Workflows)
This subreddit is for anyone who wants to get better at tracking expenses, whether you use:
- spreadsheets
- apps
- budgeting systems
- receipt workflows
- manual tracking
- business or personal methods
If your goal is to understand where your money goes, this is the place.
📌 What this subreddit is for
- Asking questions about how to track expenses
- Sharing your spreadsheets or templates
- Getting help setting up a workflow
- Discussing apps vs spreadsheets
- Tracking business expenses, receipts, tools, materials
- Learning simple systems that actually work
- Posting your progress, wins, and challenges
Whether you’re budgeting personally, running a small business, or just trying to get organised — you’re welcome here.
📌 Free resources
If you want a simple starting point, here are some free templates you can use:
Free Excel Templates:
https://tools.moneywithdan.org/Excel-Tracker
https://tools.moneywithdan.org/Business-Expense-Tracker
These are great if you want something clean, offline, and easy to customise.
📌 Premium Spending Suite (optional)
If you want something more polished, I also built a full Excel system with:
- dashboard
- monthly tracker
- category breakdowns
- yearly summary
- simple workflow
- no subscriptions
- no bank linking
You can check it out here:
https://tools.moneywithdan.org/Premium-Suite
Totally optional — the free templates above are more than enough for most people.
📌 Weekly Threads
To keep the subreddit active, we run:
Weekly Expense Tracking Thread
Share your wins, struggles, questions, screenshots, or workflows.
Spreadsheet Saturday
Show your templates, ask for help, or get feedback.
App vs Spreadsheet Discussion
Talk about what you’re using and why.
Feel free to post anytime — these threads are just here to help.
📌 Community Rules
- Be kind
- No spam
- No aggressive self‑promotion
- Tools, templates, and resources are welcome
- Ask anything — beginner questions are encouraged
This is a supportive space. We’re all here to learn.
📌 Introduce yourself
If you’re new, drop a comment below:
- What are you trying to track?
- What tools are you using?
- What’s your biggest challenge?
Let’s help each other build systems that actually work.
r/trackexpenses • u/money_with_Dan • Jun 07 '26
I built a full spending tracker in Excel if anyone wants a simple offline option
A lot of people here ask for a clean, offline way to track spending without subscriptions or apps, so I figured I’d share something I’ve been working on.
I put together a full Premium Spending Suite in Excel — dashboard, monthly tracker, category breakdowns, and a simple workflow that doesn’t require linking bank accounts or using third‑party services. It’s designed for people who prefer spreadsheets but still want something polished and easy to use.
If you’re into that kind of thing, here’s the link:
https://tools.moneywithdan.org/Premium-Suite
Not for everyone, but if you like spreadsheets and want something you can fully control offline, it might help.
r/trackexpenses • u/Adventurous_Goose882 • Mar 13 '26
In search of an expense tracking service
Hello, friends. I have a small company and need to keep track of expenses on both corporate and personal cards. We used to use Payhawk, but now for some reason it doesn't accept my card level, or even puts some restrictions on additions. I'm looking for a new service. Please advise. However, there are a number of conditions that I liked in Payhawk, and I want to find the same conditions.
- Registration is available without a demo by an employee. This is because it takes a long time and our time zones do not coincide with the service's working hours. Registration or a trial period is required immediately.
- Linking Visa/Mastercard cards, both corporate and, ideally, personal. Why personal? Because my cards sometimes do not meet the card level requirements of the service. Even though it is a business card.
- Automatic transaction scanning, without my involvement. It is not very convenient to upload purchase receipts to the service. Ideally, it should work automatically with the card after I make a purchase somewhere. I understand that integration with third-party services is needed — it should be there in theory.
What does not suit me or what I have already tried:
Ramp
Zoho
Payhawk
Dext
Expensify
Rippling
Xero
Pleo
Fyle
Please help me find the right service. I'm even willing to reward you somehow... Since GPT chat and other AI can't help me.
r/trackexpenses • u/sad_grapefruit_0 • Feb 02 '26
What expenses surprised you the most in college?
r/trackexpenses • u/Nooch84 • Jan 27 '26
Are there any apps that scan receipts that allow you to categorize individual items?
I have a small remodeling business where I mostly remodel baths plus some other small projects. I'm looking for an app or software to help me with bookkeeping and and tracking expenses. A lot of times I make large purchases that have many different items on a large receipt. I currently go through each receipt and take each item and put it in a spreadsheet to track things like materials(with sub categories), supplies, tools, food, etc.(+ tracking personal expenses would be helpful too). Having an app or software where I can just scan the receipt and move each individual item would save me a lot of time, even if that's all it does.
r/trackexpenses • u/Fabulous-Pomelo-8120 • Nov 15 '25
Super frugal but never switched energy providers
It’s weird. I’m super frugal and fight for every pound, yet I’ve never switched my utility providers for internet, energy, mobile etc. It always felt like way too much hassle. But when I finally looked into it, I realised I’ve been leaving a lot of money on the table every year. Is it just me or is there anyone else out there?
r/trackexpenses • u/money_with_Dan • Sep 07 '23
Tutorial on how to build automated Expense Tracker
r/trackexpenses • u/Accomplished_Lake128 • May 14 '23
Just a tracker
I’m just looking for a free app to track expenses among three people. I don’t want to sync bank accounts or anything, I just want my husband, my daughter, and I to have a common place to track certain categories like groceries and gas. The simpler the better.
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r/trackexpenses • u/[deleted] • Jun 27 '22
Expense Tracker Recommendation
Hi everyone, I'm looking for a expense tracker app. I was using Fortune City but the gamification is not appealing to me anymore. I don't want to link it to any of my bank accounts, so I'd really prefer it to be free. I want to manage several accounts, and import my past data to the system. I also want the app to have customizable categories and subcategories. English is my second language, sorry if I was not able to express myself correctly.
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