What's new in Expense Agent: Mobile App ( Preview) (2026 release wave 2)
The Expense Agent mobile app is in preview (beta) for 2026 release wave 2. It offers receipt scanning with auto capture, bulk upload, gallery share, mileage expenses, offline queuing, and submitting and approving expenses on a phone. The demo shows the mobile app giving the same agent experience as the Business Central web app. It is available on iOS and Android for environments that support the Expense Agent.
- Introduction to Expense Agent mobile app capabilities
- Receipt scanning with auto capture and bulk upload
- Uploading receipts from gallery via share functionality
- Mileage expense creation on mobile
- Offline mode for receipt handling and categorization
- Submission and approval workflow in mobile app
- Summary of mobile app feature parity with web app
- Availability and preview status of the mobile app
Overview
The video walks through the Expense Agent mobile app, which is in preview. It covers capturing one or several receipts with the operating system’s auto capture, sending photos from the phone gallery through the share function, and creating mileage expenses with route, vehicle type and distance.
It then shows offline mode, where receipts and expenses are added without a connection and processed after reconnecting. It ends with submitting and approving expense reports on the phone, and notes that the app is in beta and requires accepting beta conditions.
Key points
- All demoed mobile features are in preview, and the app is in beta. Users must accept beta conditions and join the beta program before they can download it.
- The app is available for iOS and Android. It can be used today with a Business Central environment that supports the Expense Agent.
- Receipt scanning uses the operating system’s native auto capture. It handles one or several receipts, so a batch can be uploaded at once.
- Photos already in the gallery can be sent to the Expense Agent through the operating system share function, where the agent appears in the share list.
- Mileage expenses can be created on the phone. The user picks a route and vehicle type, and the app calculates the distance and the amount from the rate.
- Offline mode lets users add receipts and expenses without a connection. Nothing is processed locally; items are queued and processed once the connection returns.
- Expenses can be submitted and approved on mobile. Approvers can review compliance issues and override flags, the same way as in the web app.
Features
| Feature | Status | At | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Receipt scanning with auto capture | preview, demoed | 0:51 | “you can try it out right now. But be mindful because it’s still in preview.” (5:59) |
| Bulk receipt upload | preview, demoed | 1:06 | “you can try it out right now. But be mindful because it’s still in preview.” (5:59) |
| Gallery share functionality for receipts | preview, demoed | 1:44 | “you can try it out right now. But be mindful because it’s still in preview.” (5:59) |
| Mileage expense creation on mobile | preview (roadmap Add date ranges and vehicle types in your mileage calculation), demoed | 2:13 | “you can try it out right now. But be mindful because it’s still in preview.” (5:59) |
| Offline mode for receipt handling | preview, demoed | 3:53 | “you can try it out right now. But be mindful because it’s still in preview.” (5:59) |
| Expense submission on mobile | preview, demoed | 4:30 | “you can try it out right now. But be mindful because it’s still in preview.” (5:59) |
| Expense approval on mobile | preview, demoed | 4:58 | “you can try it out right now. But be mindful because it’s still in preview.” (5:59) |
| Expense categorization and agent processing | preview, demoed | 3:24 | “you can try it out right now. But be mindful because it’s still in preview.” (5:59) |
A status with a roadmap link comes from the Microsoft 365 roadmap feature this part of the video covers (matched by Haiku; links Opus dropped are not used); other statuses need a status word in the video itself.
Quotes
- 0:06 “You can scan one or multiple receipts directly from the app, or you can also upload receipts that you have already in your um”
- 0:51 “we’re using here a native capability, which is called auto capture from the operating system.”
- 2:00 “you can see that Expensify agent is now going to pop up here in the list. And you can just choose Expensify agent”
- 3:53 “we have a feature which is also offline mode. So, let’s say that all of these that I’m doing um I’m actually doing it,”
- 4:07 “Notice we don’t process them immediately, we process them the moment your connection comes back.”
- 5:15 “you actually have also the full approver experience in the mobile app, where you can review the single expenses”
- 5:29 “from the mobile app, you have the same powerful um agent experience and the same powerful options that you have from the web application”
- 5:59 “you can try it out right now. But be mindful because it’s still in preview.”
- 6:21 “Please remember that the app is still in beta, which means you will get to accept some beta conditions and beta program before you”
- 6:21 “you can do it just today as long as you have an environment in Business Central that supports the expense agent.”