Expense tracking software for every cost your business pays

Enter each cost, like rent or transport, straight from its receipt. If the total already includes tax, CIPHER CRM works out the tax part for you, so nobody has to do the sum by hand.

Expense tracking in CIPHER CRM
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Expense tracking in CIPHER CRM lets your team record every business cost with its name, amount, date, taxes, a reference such as the bill number, and the people responsible.

You can link a cost to the customer, 📋 project, estimate or 🧾 invoice it was for, so everyone knows what the money was spent on.

When a receipt shows only the total, mark it as including tax and CIPHER CRM works out the tax part for you. 192+ businesses run CIPHER CRM across 🏭 31 industries, with 92 built-in features, a ⭐️ 4.8/5 average rating and ⏱️ 99.9% uptime.

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Definition

What is expense tracking software?

Expense tracking software is a tool for recording what your business spends, so costs do not live on scraps of paper. In CIPHER CRM an expense is a record like any other, with its own amount, taxes and date, and it can be linked to the customer or project the money was spent on.

CIPHER CRM puts expenses in the same place as the rest of your work. Each expense has a title, an amount, one or more taxes, a date and a reference number, plus tags, a description and the people responsible for it. You can link an expense to a lead, a customer, a project or a sales document, so the cost of a site visit or a supplier bill sits beside the job it was for. When a receipt shows only the final total, switch on the tax-inclusive toggle, type that total and let CIPHER CRM back the tax out. Expenses also live in Drive, the hub for sales documents, where each staff member sees them only if they have been given access, and changes show up for teammates in real time. CIPHER CRM is used by 192+ businesses across 31 industries.

Expense tracking in CIPHER CRM
The problem

What happens without expense tracking

Receipts pile up in a drawer and get typed into a spreadsheet at month end, if they get typed in at all.

You suspect a project cost more than planned, but its expenses are not linked to it, so there is no way to check.

Receipts show a total with tax already in it, and someone has to work the tax out by hand before logging it.

Nobody knows who spent what, because expenses are logged with no name against them.

Finding last quarter's courier costs means scrolling a long sheet with no tags and no search.

What slips without Expense tracking
Capabilities

What you can do with expense tracking

  • Log every detail of a cost

    Record the title, amount, date, reference number, description and one or more taxes for each expense.

    multiple tax rates
  • Link costs to the work

    Tie an expense to a lead, customer, project or sales document, so it shows up where the job lives.

    project management crm
  • Type the total, get the tax

    Turn on the tax-inclusive toggle, enter the total from the receipt, and CIPHER CRM backs the tax out for you.

  • Tags and assignees

    Tag expenses for quick filtering, and assign the people who made or own each cost.

    crm tags
  • Sort by category

    File each expense under a category you set up, each with its own name and color.

    expense categories
  • Kept in Drive

    Expenses sit in Drive next to proposals, invoices and payments, with access set per staff member.

    sales document management
Why CIPHER

Why expense tracking is better in CIPHER

Most CRMs leave expenses to a separate tool, so costs never meet the customers they were spent on. We keep them together.

  • Costs sit next to the job

    Linking an expense to a project or customer means the cost of the work is visible on the work itself.

  • Built for real receipts

    The tax-inclusive toggle matches how receipts are printed, so logging one takes a few seconds.

  • More than one tax per cost

    Multiple taxes on one expense suit businesses whose costs carry more than one tax, in any country.

  • Access you control

    Drive permissions decide which staff can see expenses, so costs are shared only with the people who need them.

How it works

How expense tracking works in CIPHER CRM

  1. Add an expense

    Create a new expense and give it a title, amount, date and the reference number from the receipt.

  2. Set the taxes

    Pick the taxes that apply, or switch on tax-inclusive and type the receipt total.

  3. Link and label it

    Link it to the lead, customer, project or document it belongs to, then add tags, a category and assignees.

  4. Find it again

    Open Drive or the linked record to see the expense next to everything else about that work.

Compare

Expense tracking: CIPHER CRM vs spreadsheet vs generic CRM

What mattersCIPHER CRMSpreadsheet / manualGeneric CRM
Logging a receipt Type the total, tax worked out for you Tax split by hand Often manual tax entry
Linking to a job Link to a lead, customer, project or document A column you hope someone filled in Often kept apart from CRM records
Taxes per expense Multiple taxes on one expense One tax column, or none Usually a single rate
Who spent it Assignees on every expense Initials in a cell Varies
Finding old costs Tags, categories and search Scroll and hope Often in a separate app
Expense tracking

See expense tracking in action

Record every business cost, like rent or transport, with its amount, date and tax, all in one place. Expenses linked to a project or customer show the spending behind the work, not just the billing.

Why it's worth it

What expense tracking changes for your business

See how CIPHER CRM solves this

Know what each job cost

Expenses linked to a project or customer show the spending behind the work, not just the billing.

Receipts logged on the day

Because logging one is quick, costs go in when they happen instead of piling up for month end.

Fewer tax slips

Backing tax out of a total is done for you, so nobody splits it wrongly by hand.

Money in and out in one place

Payments and expenses sit together in Drive, close to the invoices they relate to.

Ready when you are

See expense tracking on your own data

Proof

Teams that switched to CIPHER

Our quotes used to take days and follow-ups just fell through the cracks. Now every lead has someone on it and a clear next step. We are closing a lot more than we did.
Rahul Mehta
Rahul Mehta Director, Logistics firm - Ahmedabad
I thought moving would take months. We were up and running in two days. I get back about two hours a day that used to go into updating sheets.
Priya Nair
Priya Nair Operations Head, Healthcare clinic chain - Kochi
Because it was set up for property from the start, we were not fighting the software. My managers finally trust the numbers on the screen.
Amit Shah
Amit Shah Founder, Real-estate agency - Surat

Expense tracking frequently asked questions

FAQ

Expense tracking - your questions answered

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What can I record on an expense in CIPHER CRM?

Each expense has a title, amount, one or more taxes, a date, a reference number, a description, tags and assignees. You can also give it a category and link it to a lead, customer, project or sales document, so every cost carries the context your team needs.

Can I link an expense to a customer or project?

Yes. Any expense can be linked to a lead, a customer, a project or a sales document such as an invoice. The cost then sits alongside that record, which makes it simple to see what was spent on a particular job or client.

How does the tax-inclusive toggle work?

Most receipts show one total with tax already inside it. Switch on the tax-inclusive toggle, type that total and pick the taxes that apply. CIPHER CRM works backwards to split out the tax, so you never have to do that sum by hand.

Can one expense have more than one tax?

Yes. You can apply several taxes to a single expense, using the tax rates your workspace keeps in its central list. That suits costs that carry more than one tax, wherever your business operates, and keeps each tax amount clear.

Who on my team can see expenses?

Expenses live in Drive, and each staff member's access to that section is set separately. You decide who can see, create or edit expenses, so spending details reach only the people who need them for their work. 192+ businesses run CIPHER CRM across 31 industries, with a 4.8/5 average rating.

Does CIPHER CRM read receipts for me?

No. Someone on your team types in the expense details. The tax-inclusive toggle keeps that quick: enter the total printed on the receipt, and CIPHER CRM works out the tax. You can keep a photo of the receipt in the record's attachments too.

Can I sort expenses into categories?

Yes. You set up your own expense categories, each with a name, a description and a color, and file each expense under one. Tags add a second way to group costs, such as by client or by season. 192+ businesses run CIPHER CRM across 31 industries, with a 4.8/5 average rating.

Glossary

Expense tracking terms, defined

  • Expense

    Any cost your business pays out, recorded in CIPHER CRM with its amount, taxes and date.

  • Tax-inclusive amount

    A total that already has tax inside it, as printed on most receipts.

  • Reference number

    The bill or receipt number from the supplier, noted on the expense so you can find the original.

  • Linked record

    The lead, customer, project or sales document an expense is tied to.

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