# Adding cash expenses **URL:** \ **Category:** Feedback & Ideas\ **Created:** [22 December 2016 19:18 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/adding-cash-expenses/6994 "2016-12-22T19:18:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![anon83517055](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c37758/32.png) [@anon83517055](https://community.monzo.com/u/anon83517055)\ **Post date:** [22 December 2016 19:18 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/adding-cash-expenses/6994/1 "2016-12-22T19:18:05Z")
Hi One of the reasons I got a monzo card was because I wanted a better way to track my spending habits rather than use a budgeting app. It might have already been suggested, but could there be a feature to add misc cash expenses and categories? I’ll withdraw cash and spend on adhoc items but it’d be good to be able to track everything in one place. It’ll make it a better money education app if that’s one of Monzo’s social purposes. ---
**Author:** ![Andy1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a8b319/32.png) [@Andy1](https://community.monzo.com/u/Andy1)\ **Post date:** [22 December 2016 20:46 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/adding-cash-expenses/6994/2 "2016-12-22T20:46:33Z")
I was actually wondering recently if the was a budgeting app which allows you to add expenses via an API. That way you could write a little script which takes Monzo transactions and adds them to the budgeting app. A quick Google didn’t reveal any, but I haven’t searched very thoroughly. ---
**Author:** ![alexs](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/monzo/user_avatar/community.monzo.com/alexs/32/2443_2.png) [@alexs](https://community.monzo.com/u/alexs)\ **Post date:** [22 December 2016 21:58 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/adding-cash-expenses/6994/3 "2016-12-22T21:58:31Z")
Hi Caroline, welcome to the community 👋 > [@anon83517055](#): > > I wanted a better way to track my spending habits rather than use a budgeting app Are you an Android user by any chance? If not, there is a Targets feature which you can use to set a budget for each category, each month for you to use to track your spending more carefully & yes, it has helped me keep track of my spending in a way that I’ve never been able to before 😁 - > **[Monzo - Make money easy](https://monzo.com/us/)** > > See, save, and spend your money with Monzo If you are an Android user, this feature’s on it’s way - you can track what’s being developed & get a rough idea of when it’ll be ready, in the [roadmap](https://trello.com/c/NnoPIqWO/47-android-targets). I’ve shared my thoughts on why you wouldn’t want to assign your expenses to the existing categories [here](https://community.monzo.com/t/company-expenses/2797/21) but subcategories are a popular request in the community & perhaps they would solve your problem - if you’re trying to break down the Expenses category to a greater level of detail? Here’s my thoughts on how they might work - > [@Add Expenses + Another Category to the Same Transaction](https://community.monzo.com/t/add-expenses-another-category-to-the-same-transaction/6914/2): > > Hey nagra, Thank you for not making this another post about custom categories! sweat wink One of the ideas that have been suggested when looking for a solution to the custom categories problem, is creating sub-categories for transactions. However, I expect these would be more granular categories, while the main (parent) categories remain the same (& only one could be applied to each transaction, here’s Hugo’s explanation for why multiple categories can’t be applied to a single transaction … We don’t know whether Monzo is considering developing subcategories yet though… Breaking cash withdrawals down into multiple categories is a slightly tricky one & I’ve put together a summary of the discussion on that idea here - > [@Splitting Cash Withdrawals into Several Categories 3](https://community.monzo.com/t/splitting-cash-withdrawals-into-several-categories-3/6136/2): > > If you’re withdrawing cash for a single purpose, you [can](https://community.monzo.com/t/cash-withdrawals-link-able-in-app/3170/2) categorize it already. So you could of course withdraw several amounts separately & categorize each one differently, assuming that you’re going to spend multiples of £10 on something. But obviously that’s time consuming and you might not know what you want to buy in advance so I’m guessing you’d like to have this feature The last comment I can find from Hugo on this (quite a while ago) was So this challenge + the £3k annual withdrawa… Lastly, enabling custom categories definitely isn’t likely to happen in the foreseeable future, for the reasons that Hugo’s explained here - [https://community.monzo.com/t/custom-categories-1/649/14](https://community.monzo.com/t/custom-categories-1/649/14) but the categories are being reviewed (& I expect new categories will be added), [any minute now](https://community.monzo.com/t/category-splitting-feature-gif/6162/5). ---
**Author:** ![alexs](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/monzo/user_avatar/community.monzo.com/alexs/32/2443_2.png) [@alexs](https://community.monzo.com/u/alexs)\ **Post date:** [22 December 2016 22:13 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/adding-cash-expenses/6994/4 "2016-12-22T22:13:06Z")
I’m not aware of any budgeting apps that you can feed the transactions into directly, from Monzo (I haven’t searched either though). But if you can handle a two step process, you could feed Expenses transactions into a tool like [FieldBook](https://fieldbook.com/) or Google sheets, download that data as a CSV file & then upload it into a budgeting app…@anon73833041 has written some script to handle the first part of that process & shared the code here - > [@API: Webhooks not firing on updates notes/category](https://community.monzo.com/t/api-webhooks-not-firing-on-updates-notes-category/2029/3): > > Hi Richard, Thanks for the reply. I’m actually thinking about using webhooks for listing all my transactions into a spreadsheet (I’m using FieldBook). The reason I’m doing this - is because I use the card for business expenses, and I’d like to be able to tag the transactions with more than one tag (using a note at the moment) e.g. I’d like to know I spent £50 on eating out on business expenses. After compiling this list, I’d like to be able to search, filter and sort these transactions (whic… @Andy1 has also done some work on this - > [@Display running balance with each entry](https://community.monzo.com/t/display-running-balance-with-each-entry/6832/81): > > You can link it to Google docs via the API now if you want to do it that way. I actually automatically audit my Monzo card using a Google sheet, if anything goes wrong it emails me. but as far as I know, he’s not had a chance to share the code yet… ---
**Author:** ![Andy1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a8b319/32.png) [@Andy1](https://community.monzo.com/u/Andy1)\ **Post date:** [22 December 2016 22:33 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/adding-cash-expenses/6994/5 "2016-12-22T22:33:20Z")
I really must share my code. Google apps script doesn’t really integrate with github, but I can probably copy / paste it across. ---
**Author:** ![alexs](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/monzo/user_avatar/community.monzo.com/alexs/32/2443_2.png) [@alexs](https://community.monzo.com/u/alexs)\ **Post date:** [22 December 2016 22:38 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/adding-cash-expenses/6994/6 "2016-12-22T22:38:20Z")
I didn’t want to sound too demanding but that would be great! I have a feeling there will be more Google Sheets users than FieldBook users & there’s definitely a lot of interest in this type of automation in the community 👀 ---
**Author:** ![anon44204028](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed655f/32.png) [@anon44204028](https://community.monzo.com/u/anon44204028)\ **Post date:** [22 December 2016 23:53 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/adding-cash-expenses/6994/7 "2016-12-22T23:53:37Z")
Used Google Sheets a few times but then went back to Excel. What is FieldBook? ---
**Author:** ![alexs](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/monzo/user_avatar/community.monzo.com/alexs/32/2443_2.png) [@alexs](https://community.monzo.com/u/alexs)\ **Post date:** [23 December 2016 00:15 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/adding-cash-expenses/6994/8 "2016-12-23T00:15:12Z")
I don’t know much about FieldBook either, I skimmed through the website earlier but that’s it. I included a link to the site in my earlier post. ---
**Author:** ![alexs](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/monzo/user_avatar/community.monzo.com/alexs/32/2443_2.png) [@alexs](https://community.monzo.com/u/alexs)\ **Post date:** [26 January 2017 14:43 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/adding-cash-expenses/6994/9 "2017-01-26T14:43:01Z")
I missed this tweet in the [Monzo Love Tweets](https://twitter.com/MonzoLoveTweets) feed a while ago 🙈 @anon29962786 has created a really awesome integration between Monzo & his expense management tool (with the expenses details ending in in Salesforce ☁), as far as I can tell, the code’s not been published 😢 but this is a great example of what can be done using Monzo’s API! ![](https://cdck-file-uploads-global.s3.dualstack.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/monzo/original/2X/d/d77c15a7a2e1fa9890a24bfe44265a9f1de4f7ee.jpg) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddGU9EvE9rA&feature=youtu.be](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddGU9EvE9rA&feature=youtu.be) [https://twitter.com/nmyster/status/823225471768948737](https://twitter.com/nmyster/status/823225471768948737) ---
**Author:** ![anon29962786](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@anon29962786](https://community.monzo.com/u/anon29962786)\ **Post date:** [31 January 2017 13:53 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/adding-cash-expenses/6994/10 "2017-01-31T13:53:06Z")
Thanks @alexs for sharing the love! Glad you like it 🙂 I have actually just posted a blog post about the project here: > **[Monz. Expenses Automated.](https://blog.njsnet.co/monz-expenses-automated/)** > > Cloudreach .create() hackathon A couple of weekends ago I took part in a Cloudreach Hackathon. Known as .create() and the first in a series, Cloudreachers from across the globe got into teams of 2-3 to create something - with the theme being to... Check it out and let me know what you think, remember this is version 0.01 😛 I am currently waiting for the judging of the hackathon to complete and then plan to keep developing the project to refine it and make it more smooth. I’ll try and share what I can once I have tidied it up a bit. Neil ---
**Author:** ![anon48282739](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e95f7d/32.png) [@anon48282739](https://community.monzo.com/u/anon48282739)\ **Post date:** [22 September 2017 17:53 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/adding-cash-expenses/6994/11 "2017-09-22T17:53:58Z")
I have quite a lot of both ingoings and outgoings for Business expenses. It would be great if you could flag these, and then directly interface with third party expense management applications, for example Concur. That way one could record transactions as expenses as they spend, take a photo of the receipt (great feature) and then export these straight in to Concur. These outgoings could then have a flag e.g. ‘Awaiting expense payment’ that can be cleared when the expenses are paid by the company. It would also be good if you could apply two category flags to a spend, e.g. transport & expenses. ---
**Author:** ![jtame](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/monzo/user_avatar/community.monzo.com/jtame/32/84654_2.png) [@jtame](https://community.monzo.com/u/jtame)\ **Post date:** [22 September 2017 16:49 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/adding-cash-expenses/6994/12 "2017-09-22T16:49:07Z")
Sounds like your after > **[Coconut - The Current Account for Freelancers and Self-employed People](https://getcoconut.com/)** > > Coconut is the business current account for freelancers that works out your taxes, tracks your expenses and helps you get paid on time. ---
**Author:** ![anon48282739](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e95f7d/32.png) [@anon48282739](https://community.monzo.com/u/anon48282739)\ **Post date:** [22 September 2017 17:05 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/adding-cash-expenses/6994/13 "2017-09-22T17:05:48Z")
Not really - I am not talking about my own company here. Many businesses have now switched to personal liability business expenses - this means you pay using your own account (monzo in my case) and claim it back. Example - fuel, evening meals, etc. ---
**Author:** ![jtame](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/monzo/user_avatar/community.monzo.com/jtame/32/84654_2.png) [@jtame](https://community.monzo.com/u/jtame)\ **Post date:** [22 September 2017 17:46 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/adding-cash-expenses/6994/14 "2017-09-22T17:46:43Z")
Ok i follow you now, this sounds like something for the API once it’s available. The category idea is good though but would need to be treated as one spend on the you spent today figure. ---
**Author:** ![alexs](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/monzo/user_avatar/community.monzo.com/alexs/32/2443_2.png) [@alexs](https://community.monzo.com/u/alexs)\ **Post date:** [22 September 2017 17:57 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/adding-cash-expenses/6994/15 "2017-09-22T17:57:00Z")
> [@anon48282739](#): > > It would be great if you could flag these, and then directly interface with third party expense management applications, for example Concur. It sounds like you’re looking for something similar to this - > [@Adding cash expenses](https://community.monzo.com/t/adding-cash-expenses/6994/9): > > I missed this tweet in the [Monzo Love Tweets](https://twitter.com/MonzoLoveTweets) feed a while ago see_no_evil@nmyster has created a really awesome integration between Monzo & his expense management tool (with the expenses details ending in in Salesforce cloud), as far as I can tell, the code’s not been published cry but this is a great example of what can be done using Monzo’s API! [image] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddGU9EvE9rA&feature=youtu.be](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddGU9EvE9rA&feature=youtu.be)[https://twitter.com/nmyster/status/823225471768948737](https://twitter.com/nmyster/status/823225471768948737) as you can see, it’s technically possible via the API but unfortunately, it’ll [probably be a while](https://monzo.com/blog/2017/05/11/api-update/) before the API is stable enough for larger companies to build integrations for you. * * * _I’ve moved your post here to keep all of the discussion about this functionality in one place._