Expense Agent: Mobile Experience (2026 release wave 1)
Expense Agent mobile app for iOS and Android, announced as a preview coming very soon. Employees can capture receipts on a phone without a Business Central license, and AI extracts the expense details. In offline mode, receipts are queued until the phone reconnects to Business Central. The demo ran on Android.
- Introduction to Expense Agent mobile app
- Key capabilities: receipt capture, no license requirement, offline mode
- Demo overview and platform support
- Mobile feed view and expense details
- Agent extraction and itemization, expense modification
- Receipt scanning with native OS capabilities
- Upload, processing, and sharing receipts
- Offline mode and synchronization
- Submitting expenses to reports
- Release timeline and conclusion
Overview
The video shows the Expense Agent mobile app, which is in preview. It lets employees capture receipts on their smartphones. No Business Central license is needed, and the app integrates directly with Business Central. The demo was done on Android, and iOS is also supported.
The mobile app lists expenses in a social-media-style feed, one expense per entry, where the web app groups them into reports. Receipts are scanned with the phone’s native OS capabilities, which detect edges and adjust brightness for AI processing. The agent extracts the amount, date, description, payment means, category and line items. Users can edit these details, share receipts from the photo library, scan offline, and add an expense to a report by tapping “ready”. The presenters say the preview is coming very soon.
Key points
- The Expense Agent mobile app is announced as a preview coming very soon. It supports iOS and Android, and the demo used Android.
- Mobile users do not need a Business Central license, the same as for the web app. The app integrates with Business Central automatically.
- The mobile app shows expenses as a feed with each expense listed individually. The web app groups them into reports.
- The agent extracts total amount, date, description, payment means, category and itemized line items from the receipt image. All of it can be edited in the app before submitting.
- Receipt capture uses the phone’s native OS capabilities to detect edges and adjust brightness, so bent or poorly lit receipts can still be processed.
- Receipts can be shared into the app from the device’s photo library.
- In offline mode receipts can be scanned without internet. They are queued and processed only once the app is back online and reconnected to Business Central.
Features
| Feature | Status | At | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Expense Agent mobile app | preview, demoed | 0:00 | “you can expect this new preview mode very soon as Claudio explained” (5:36) |
| Receipt capture with native OS detection | preview, demoed | 2:33 | “you can expect this new preview mode very soon as Claudio explained” (5:36) |
| Social feed view for expenses | preview, demoed | 1:05 | “you can expect this new preview mode very soon as Claudio explained” (5:36) |
| AI extraction of expense details | preview, demoed | 1:37 | “you can expect this new preview mode very soon as Claudio explained” (5:36) |
| Inline expense modification | preview, demoed | 2:19 | “you can expect this new preview mode very soon as Claudio explained” (5:36) |
| Itemization tab for line items | preview, demoed | 1:50 | “you can expect this new preview mode very soon as Claudio explained” (5:36) |
| Receipt sharing from OS photo library | preview, demoed | 3:21 | “you can expect this new preview mode very soon as Claudio explained” (5:36) |
| Offline expense capture | preview, demoed | 3:56 | “you can expect this new preview mode very soon as Claudio explained” (5:36) |
| No Business Central license required | preview | 0:25 | “you can expect this new preview mode very soon as Claudio explained” (5:36) |
| iOS and Android support | announced, demoed | 0:52 | “but of course, we also do support iOS and we are planning to release it to you very soon” (5:25) |
Quotes
- 0:11 “We wanted to follow employees really where they actually work. So, wherever you are, what you have in a general, you have your phone”
- 0:25 “You don’t need Business Central license the same as the for web app. Everything will be integrated automatically in the Business Central”
- 0:40 “if you’re out of internet, now you can use offline method as well, so you can use without any problem. And once when you”
- 1:05 “This is the feed where you’re able to see your different expenses. This is different from the web application, where you know, your group”
- 1:50 “we also have the itemization tab, which basically resembles all the line items on your original expense”
- 2:33 “we have actually uh enabled these native capabilities of the phone of the OS to detect different edges, to detect receipts”
- 5:13 “all I need to do to actually add it to an expense report and submit it, I just need to tap on the ready”
- 5:36 “you can expect this new preview mode very soon as Claudio explained and we hope you will enjoy into new app”
Disclaimers in the video
- 5:36 preview: you can expect this new preview mode very soon
Presenters (as heard): Claudio.