Work related expenses

[karimlakhani]

Hi,

I use my personal credit card for work related expenses. Say I take someone for dinner. I can then expense it and have it paid back. However I do not want to track that as my own private restaurant expense. Is there a category or plans for categories that can relate to work related expenses? I don't want to exclude those transactions because I do want to track them over all - not just in my private accounts.

Tx

K

[nkerzman]

I recently started using Mint and had to travel for work. My "work around" was to categorize under Business Services. I figured when I was reimbursed I'd assign the payment to my credit card back under the same category Business Services, essentially washing it out of that category.

I'd be open to some other ideas from Mint. I would think there is a decent number of people who are in a similar position with work expenses.

Keep up the great work Mint!

[Damon]

A category we will look at adding. Unless I am mistaken, here's the categories folks would like to see most:

Public Transportation
Business Expenses/Reimbursement

[sjanellem]

I've been having the same issue and I just check the box next to all my work expenses and Label them Co Reimb.

[hpbrad]

don't forget bars/clubs or boozing (j/k on that 2nd suggestion)

[Norcim133]

It would be good if labels allowed you to exclude transactions or give a cut of transactions in the graphs and such. That way I could label transactions "work" and then exclude them.

[kinnikinnick]

A category we will look at adding. Unless I am mistaken, here's the categories folks would like to see most:

Public Transportation
Business Expenses/Reimbursement
I would like to echo the need for a "Work Reimburse" category as some other people have said.

I realize this isn't Quickbooks, but it would be really nice to have some other business expense categories for people who do freelance/consulting work.

[kpfredericks]

When will this business expense category be online? I'd like to see business expense and reimbursement so I can make sure that I have zeroed out the transactions.

[eric1985]

They said they are going to do custom categories by year end.

[yekim]

I tried manually doing this by assigning work expenses to an empty category (kids ;-) ).

However, the Trends chart only seems to show what you're spending, and so does not "zero out" if you then deposit a reimbursement check and categorize it to kids.

Anyone know if there is a workaround for this (e.g. show net total of a category instead of spent?)?

[dolly.singh]

Has there been any update to address this?

How are most people handling their business expenses and then subsequent reimbursed "income" deposits?

I would like for these transactions to be excluded from my personal account trend analysis, etc.

[mburdsall]

I have a catagory called business related expenses and I have a tag for busienss related charges. Any charges that come in for business travel I assign to the catagory for business travel and I falg the transaction with a business tag. This way it does not effect my budget numbers and the tag allows me to exclude the charges from the trend pie.

It is not a pretty way to handle this but it works. I wish there was a way to compare the travel expenses with the reimbusement income. Maybe that it will occur in the future. There is some work in this area that mint neds to do.

[Interactive]

Curious to hear from Mint if there are any updates to this feature request. Seems like many of us are faced with similar challenges with work-related expenses.

Thanks!

[mburdsall]

I would like away to group business expenses into "Trip numbers" on the expense side. When the company reimburses me then I would like to assign the expense trip number to the income. This way I can see what trips are still open and which I;ve been able to reconcile.