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Expenses Overview

This section explains how expense tracking works in Fiskl and helps you record, pay, and report on your business spending. Every expense you record posts to your accounting immediately — there is no separate posting step.

Why Track Expenses in Fiskl​

Recording expenses in Fiskl gives you a complete, always-current picture of your spending. Because expenses post to your accounting automatically, your reports and tax figures stay accurate without extra bookkeeping work.

Key benefits:

  • Upload a receipt and let AI extract the vendor, amounts, and taxes
  • Record bills before you pay them and track what is due or overdue
  • Categorise bank transactions directly with no extra steps
  • See all spending by category in the Expenses report

Key Concepts​

  • AI Expenses: The place to upload receipts and supplier invoices, or create expenses manually. Each saved expense becomes an Accounts Payable transaction.
  • Accounts Payable: The ledger account that tracks what your business owes and has paid to vendors. Expenses recorded through AI Expenses live here.
  • Expense category: The ledger account that describes what the money was spent on, such as Fuel & Mileage or Office Supplies. Categories display expenses — you never create expenses inside them.
  • Matching: Linking a bank transaction to an expense in Accounts Payable. Matching marks the expense as paid and never removes your categories.
  • Traditional Expenses: Fiskl's legacy expense list. It is locked for new entries, and existing records can be migrated to Accounts Payable.

How It Works​

There are two ways to record an expense, and both produce the same accounting result:

  1. Record it in AI Expenses — Upload a receipt or create the expense manually. It saves to Accounts Payable, and you match the bank transaction to it when the payment appears.
  2. Categorise the bank transaction — If the payment already shows in your bank account in Fiskl, select a category and save. Nothing else is needed.

See How to Add Expenses for a full walkthrough of both methods, and the Expenses report to review everything by category with payment status.

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If your account has records in the legacy expense system, a Traditional Expenses list is still visible. It is view-only — you can migrate eligible records to Accounts Payable in bulk. New accounts do not see this list.

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