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Zoho Expense

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Zoho Expense is praised for its ease of use and efficient expense tracking, especially for businesses, but recent updates have introduced significant bugs, crashing issues, and unreliable receipt scanning and uploading.

4.8★ lifetime (8,001) Free + in-app purchases since 2015 by Zoho Corporation updated 0.1 mo ago recent negative 36% 120 reviews across 4 regions
Bugs & Crashes Ease of Use Receipt Scanning & Uploads Customer Support Integration & Features Mileage Tracking
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recent reviews across 4 regions, vs the 4.8★ lifetime average

Zoho Expense is generally seen as an intuitive and effective app for managing business expenses, with many users appreciating its ability to simplify reporting and receipt tracking. However, recent updates have led to a decline in user experience, with frequent app crashes, issues with receipt scanning and uploading, and unresponsive customer support, causing frustration among some users.

What users like

  • Simplifies expense reporting and receipt tracking, making it a breeze for many users.R1R3R4R9
  • Offers robust features like multi-currency support, credit card reconciliation, and AI-powered scanning.R4R9R10R12
  • Integrates well within the broader Zoho ecosystem, providing a comprehensive solution for businesses.R39R45R87
  • Customer service is responsive and helpful for some users.R52R69

What users complain about

  • Frequent app crashes, especially when trying to take pictures, edit expenses, or during initial setup.R26R36R62R117
  • Receipt scanning and uploading are unreliable, with issues like stuck receipts, blurry images, and sync failures.R6R8R18R41
  • Poor customer support, characterized by slow responses, unhelpful agents, and difficulty reporting bugs.R2R6R25R77
  • Mileage tracking is inaccurate or inconsistent, sometimes reporting absurd numbers or missing data.R22R55R63R67
  • Lack of offline functionality makes it unusable for users who travel frequently without internet access.R66
  • User interface is often described as unintuitive, clunky, or outdated, with some features difficult to find or use.R21R25R40R43
  • Issues with data management, including deleted expenses, duplicated entries, and difficulty in account setup/termination.R11R23R28R47
  • Limited customization and functionality compared to the web version, with some basic features missing or poorly implemented.R34R35R38R71

Latest update · v4.0.3

What the developer says changed (the verdict above weighs this against what reviewers report):

- The dashboard has been redesigned for easier access and improved user experience. Tasks that were previously available under the Zia Assistant tab have now been moved to the top of the dashboard, giving you immediate visibility into pending items the moment you land on the home screen. - The trip detail screen now features an all-new interface. The redesigned layout offers a cleaner, more intuitive look and lets users view full booking details directly within the trip, giving complete visibility. - We've unified the design of all list pages, including Trips, Reports, Expenses, Advances, and their respective approval lists for improved usability. Users can switch between two view modes: Compact view for a denser, data-focused layout, and Card view for a more visual, spacious presentation. Additionally, pending items now have a primary filter placed outside the filter dropdown for qui

Recurring themes

Ease of Use mixed
Many users find the app easy to use, intuitive, and efficient for tracking expenses and generating reports, especially compared to older manual methods or competitor apps. However, a significant number of recent reviews describe the app as unintuitive, clunky, or difficult to navigate, with basic functions being hard to find or execute.R1R3R4R9
Bugs & Crashes negative
A prevalent issue in recent reviews is the app's instability, with frequent crashes reported, particularly when attempting to use the camera for receipts, edit expenses, or during initial account setup. This directly contradicts the developer's notes that imply improved user experience.R6R18R26R36
Receipt Scanning & Uploads negative
While some users praise the AI scanning, a large number of recent reviews highlight significant problems with receipt scanning and uploading. Issues include receipts getting stuck in 'scanning' queues, failure to upload, blurry auto-captured images, and the app not allowing manual picture taking.R6R8R41R51
Customer Support negative
Many users report poor experiences with customer support, citing long wait times, unhelpful agents who lack product knowledge, slow email responses, and difficulty in reporting bugs or getting issues resolved. This is a recurring complaint across multiple reviews.R2R6R25R59
Mileage Tracking negative
Several users report that the mileage tracking feature is inaccurate, inconsistent, or difficult to use. Problems include incorrect mileage calculations, switching between miles and kilometers, and the inability to track total mileage effectively.R22R55R63R67
Integration & Features mixed
Some users appreciate the app's integration within the Zoho ecosystem and its robust features like multi-currency support and credit card tracking. However, others find it detached from other Zoho apps, lacking in basic features like sales tax breakdown, or having limited functionality compared to the web version.R10R12R19R21

Who it's for

Zoho Expense is for business owners and employees who need to track expenses, especially those who appreciate robust features like credit card reconciliation and multi-currency support R4R19. It is particularly well-suited for users already integrated into the Zoho ecosystem R39R87. It is not for users who require consistent offline functionality R66, expect flawless receipt scanning and uploading R8R54, or need highly responsive customer support for technical issues R2R25. It may also not be ideal for very small businesses or single entities due to perceived cost for limited features R16R30.

Evidence note: The recent reviews skew significantly negative, with many users reporting critical bugs and usability issues that contradict the high lifetime rating. While positive reviews highlight core strengths, the volume and severity of recent negative feedback suggest a downward trajectory in user satisfaction, especially concerning app stability and receipt handling. The developer notes for the latest update mention a redesigned dashboard and trip detail screen for improved user experience, but recent reviews indicate ongoing and new issues with crashes and scanning, suggesting these updates either didn't address core problems or introduced new ones.

Frequently asked

Is Zoho Expense easy to use for tracking expenses?
Many users find Zoho Expense easy to use, intuitive, and efficient for tracking expenses and generating reports, especially for simplifying monthly tasks R1R9R42. However, recent reviews indicate that some users find the app unintuitive, clunky, and difficult to navigate, with basic functions being hard to find or execute R25.
Does Zoho Expense reliably scan and upload receipts?
While some users praise the AI scanning feature, many recent reviews report significant issues with receipt scanning and uploading, including receipts getting stuck, failure to upload, blurry auto-captured images, and the app not allowing manual picture taking R6R8R54R119.
Are there issues with Zoho Expense crashing?
Yes, frequent app crashes are a common complaint in recent reviews, particularly when users attempt to use the camera for receipts, edit expenses, or during the initial account setup R26R62R117R121.
How is Zoho Expense's customer support?
Customer support receives mixed reviews; some users report excellent and responsive service R52R69, but many others describe it as poor, with long wait times, unhelpful agents, slow email responses, and difficulty in reporting bugs or getting issues resolved R2R25R77.
Is Zoho Expense free to use?
Zoho Expense is advertised as Free with in-app purchases, but some users report confusion about pricing, with the app stating it's free for advanced features but then indicating a subscription is over or that it's too costly for small businesses R16R22R30. One user also struggled to end a free trial R28.

What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.

  1. [R1] 5/5 · US Life is Simple: Before Zoho Expenses my report was pain staking. With Zoho Expense my reports each month are a breeze!!
  2. [R3] 5/5 · US Excellent app for businessman: In the beginning I was skeptical about the app, now I use it for all traveling purposes. 100 % recommended.
  3. [R4] 5/5 · US I miss Zoho: I currently have to use SAP Concur and I miss Zoho! The way Zoho is set up is so well thought out. The receipt matching with personal credit card line items is impeccable. It’s just perfect. If the User messes anything up, there is a group of administrative helpers that scan and review the submitted report and catch issues, duplications or anomalies, and corrects them before it goes t
  4. [R9] 5/5 · US Lifesaver for frequent business travelers: Easy to use, intuitive, accurate with AI features that makes scanning and submitting your expenses on the go a breeze.
  5. [R10] 5/5 · US Best App for Credit Card Receipt Tracking: This app well to track credit card expenses to reconcile with monthly statements.
  6. [R12] 5/5 · US Great Expense & Mileage Tracking App: I have been using this app for quite some time and I love all the different features it offers
  7. [R39] 5/5 · US Excellent platform - Zoho One: Highly recommend exploring all this ERP can do to run ALL aspects of your business ! Game Changer . We have so much more to learn, use and implement to maximize the value
  8. [R45] 5/5 · US ZOHO Expense: ZOHO CRM is not great, but ZOHO Expense app is fire.
  9. [R87] 5/5 · US Fits all needs: As a business owner, I can honestly say the Zoho applications cover every possible need. Zoho Expense is just one of many that we use and love.
  10. [R52] 4/5 · US I had a problem….: With cloning an expense on the mobile app that had yet to be approved. I asked about that and the team member Saiharikrishnan communicated with me and the issue was corrected within a few days. I sent the first email on July 1 and the new version was on the App Store the morning of July 3. They did a very nice job.
  11. [R69] 5/5 · US Great customer service: I had a few questions on how to use the app and their customer service is excellent. I got an email back within a couple of hours every time I reached out.
  12. [R26] 1/5 · US Crashed on first use: Tried to create a new account using my email address. Completed all the fields to register and the app crashed. This is not the way to impress a new customer.
  13. [R36] 1/5 · US Does not work: I tried 2x in one hour to establish a new account. The screen just hangs with a small white wheel spinning. ????? Hummm. ????
  14. [R62] 1/5 · US App crashes: This App crashes when you try to enter the date- it is useless. Is there a similar one that actually works?
  15. [R117] 1/5 · US Can’t upload picture receipts: My work pays for this and it’s frustrating to not be able to submit expenses. I can add an expense but every time I go to add a picture of a receipt from my camera roll the app freezes and crashes. I’ve verified the app has permissions to my camera roll, I’ve deleted the app and reinstalled it, and even deleted the app deleted the backup files in iCloud and then rein
  16. [R6] 3/5 · US Got buggy with last update: Things were good but then an update broke some things. Example I can no longer report bugs with the iOS app. It sends the bug report feedback to my own email address rather than the ZOHO support. I have 11 receipts stuck in “scanning” they have been scanned and added to reports however if I delete them from the scanning queue it deletes them globally even from reports.
  17. [R8] 3/5 · US Mixed bag: Has some features that make it my favorite expense app. However it consistently fails to upload captured receipts which need to be resubmitted. A fatal flaw which makes it non dependable, and ultimately unusable. Please let me know if you ever resolve the receipt upload issues and I will gladly return as a customer.
  18. [R18] 3/5 · US Glitchy: Currently not saving photos. Or adjusting dates based on WB. You
  19. [R41] 4/5 · US Overview: After two years of use. It’s a great little app if you keep on top of it. Easy to use once set up. However, there are two drawbacks. I live in the USA so would love it to be able to deal with dollars without converting to GBP. Which everyone else uses. By the time I submit the monthly reports big changes between the two currencies may of occurred. Second the capture of the receipt, take
  20. [R2] 3/5 · US Robust and versatile but poor support: It seems like a very good app, but simple vital features (that others have) like emailing receipts does not work and phone support calls are to people who don’t know the product. Live chats have 5 minute wait times after every response and support emails are responded to within 1-2 business days. I got this to save time. And so far the opposite is happening.
  21. [R25] 1/5 · US Horrible, unintuitive, no suppprt: This is not only the worst reimbursement app, but one of the most badly design apps I have ever interacted with on Earth. Who thought that they could publish this app without even testing it?
  22. [R77] 1/5 · US Totally unhelpful: This app is not user friendly at all, can’t even reach anyone in their help desk to assist properly.
  23. [R22] 1/5 · US Not recommended: Originally went downloading this app The description said it was free. It would only cost for advanced features and I don’t have any advanced features in my subscription is over ? Unsure but I wouldn’t recommend this app. When I was using the app, it wasn’t tracking my location properly and would come up with an absurd number on fuel.
  24. [R55] 1/5 · US Horrible: All I want is to keep a mileage log. I just want to know my total mileage. Not expenses. It tells me everything but total mileage!!!
  25. [R63] 2/5 · US Mileage: Keeps switching to kilometers instead of miles! Not in settings??
  26. [R67] 1/5 · US Very inaccurate with cost: I’d travel 8.7 miles and Zoho would say the company I drove for would owe me $95,000 US dollars for that trip.
  27. [R66] 2/5 · US Useless if not online: This is a great app full of features to log expense reports. However, it won’t work at all without an internet connection. I fly 3 to 4 times per week and do all my expense and travel reports while traveling, and find the lack of availability to work offline useless. The other apps I work with save their progress while offline, and then sync when I’m back online or with cel
  28. [R21] 2/5 · US Functions: This app is very detached from the rest of zoho, be prepared to have to make all sorts of detached elections and configurations again because it is not able to intelligently pull info from other zoho apps...the configurations make little sense and there is no real help or guidance on anything.
  29. [R40] 1/5 · US Useless: Couldn’t get setup. Can’t enter my own address. There are many items that return no data where there should be data. It is like they created an app and then never used it for themselves.
  30. [R43] 1/5 · US It’s not easy to use the app at all: There are settings and from there it’s nothing easily to find to upload the expenses for the food and espeqcilly for gas Have difficulty still to upload the expenses for gas and mileage and also for every day meal
  31. [R11] 1/5 · US Terrible!: The MFA has me going is circles and unable to login online.
  32. [R23] 2/5 · US Can’t submit a report: That seems OK, trying to submit my first report and it says I have to verify my email. When I verify my email, then it says I’m already verified. I have done plenty of times. Deleting now . Also, I can’t tell yet, but the expense report doesn’t add up amount by category, if the final expense report doesn’t do that then Having categories as a whole is just a waste. Looking fo
  33. [R28] 1/5 · US Seems impossible to end the free trial: I'm worried I'll get charged because I keep looking for where to end the free trial and it is impossible to find. This is not something my business needs right now. I do not use manipulative businesses. Fear and frustration is a horrible tactic to get business.
  34. [R47] 1/5 · US Deleted 2 years of expenses: They deleted my whole account. I don’t have any of my records now for the past 2 years. They claimed they reached out to verify but I don’t have any record of this. Keep your info safe, use a different app
  35. [R34] 5/5 · US Great Program, App Could be Better: I wish that more of the options/capabilities in the web version were also available on the app. Specifically, merging expenses. I use the app to take photos of my receipts, but then I need to merge them with the expense made from my credit card transactions.
  36. [R35] 1/5 · US Zoho expense review.: Some of the categories forced me to choose a type of expense. For example I put receipts in the material category and it forced me to choose from a list. None of which had material. So in the report is shows those receipts as other expenses. Because all the others wasn’t close. It was food etc.. When it comes tax time how will I know what other is? And if you make a categor
  37. [R38] 3/5 · US fine until i needed to do my taxes: 2023TY functions bogged down and locked me out for an hour due to “too many operations in one minute” which was absurd being one person sorting expenses manually. still using because of needing to save records for years, but functionality of app is limited. No bulk operations other than add to report, so to categorize many is tedious and time consuming. There is
  38. [R71] 2/5 · US Not enough features for us: I'm sure it's a great app for one business. But my husband and I need to sort receipts and manage separate expenses for reimbursement between 3 businesses: his shared profits music LLC, his personal art clients business, and my personal ministry. I'm looking for an app to scan receipts and categorize by who spent whose money for who so we can see which business owes mon
  39. [R51] 2/5 · US Glitchy: This mobile app will randomly change values, repeatedly scans the same receipts causing more glitches. You have to triple check everything and hope you’re not sending in a botched expense report beyond your control.
  40. [R59] 1/5 · US Automated messages: No contact to direct questions to.
  41. [R19] 3/5 · US Powerful and very flexible: + We use it with multi currency across several countries. Powerul online platform, only recommendation: - Please Add notifications on mobile experience!!
  42. [R42] 5/5 · US Life changer: I used to hate doing expense reports, so my husband ended up doing them. Now I’m having fun taking pictures of receipts and even manually entering info, because it’s so much easier than what we were doing before. So I’m sure it’s been a life changer for my husband, because I’m willingly helping him now!
  43. [R54] 1/5 · US Laughable Execution of Camera Capture of Receipts: I love the web and desktop app. I use Zoho One across my entire business. But this mobile app has one single job and fails so miserably at such a core function it’s hilarious. I only need this to capture receipts and mileage while on the go. But the camera capture is almost entirely unusable for one slight oversight: the app doesn’t allow the came
  44. [R119] 1/5 · US Great app. One fatal flaw: Great app. But it does not upload all pictures/receipts. Many of my receipts appear to be stuck, with the message “sync failed”. Even more troublesome, you really have to dig into the app to discover this is even an issue/you have receipts that didn’t upload. If this issue was fixed it would be a great app.
  45. [R121] 1/5 · US Ta da! Crash goes the Wiesel.: This app is either not supported properly on the ios or is a port from android with no quality check. Open the app, crash Open the app then the camera, crash Open the app then the camera then take a picture, crash. Might get two or three images before a crash Open the app got unreported expenses, crash Open the app got unreported expenses click on a receipt, crash
  46. [R16] 4/5 · US Recommend to business that can afford this app: There’s a crash course of this app on you tube that was very helpful. I like that there is a free part to this app. But it’s not going to work for me. My business is very small and I don’t have very much money. The cost of this app for what I need is way more than I can afford. I do like that you can add other organizations and not just one. This a
  47. [R30] 3/5 · US Decent but you can probably make a better one yourself.: It's relatively easy to use, but nothing exceptional or new here. The price point is decent if you have more than three people in a larger office, but for a single-entity business, it's kind of a waste of money.

Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store