Antonio
Wrote down some basic MVP + advanced features list, subject to change of course

SaaS Expenses Tracker

MVP:
- List of all tools and their subscription pricing
- Categorisation of most heavily / least used or maybe “needed”, “just trying out” etc.
- Recommendation of alternatives
- Calculation of wether the tool makes you profit
- Clear value in seeing where money goes in all these small tools
- “Target” goal by end of year, month, show clients how much money they can save by replacing / cancelling tools

Advanced:
- Smart reminders of rarely used, not needed, just trying out subscriptions
- Auto categorisation
- Chrome extension to detect when you are on stripe payment, any type of payment page (show popup “Are you adding a business expense?”
- Monthly / Yearly summaries
- Virtual cards like Spendesk? (too distruptive for micro saas IMO)
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Dave
Probably not mvp but if you got it off the ground maybe you could negotiate for discounts
Antonio
Thats really good! Thank you a lot!
Jesse
Did you know Stripe has API’s that allow you to issue and manage virtual debit cards?

https://stripe.com/issuing|https://strip...
Antonio
Had no idea about this! thats amazing. I just got very good feedback from a potential customer

> I think the must for me would be automatically filtering payments from my credit card statement or invoice reconciliation tool to populate which expenses we have. If I have to enter them manually into a tool, then I already know that I have them. Having to take the extra step of putting them in there still leaves open a point of failure. Not to mention there are more than just me in my business purchasing tools. I can’t expect everyone to go through a manual process.
Having a virtual card would make this much easier.
Jesse
That said, I think it's one of their apis you have to ask permission for… not sure what that involves…
Antonio
@U02R3KHR66Q is there a reason you don’t use any expense tool for your business? Did what exist not meet your expectations or did you simply not go about it?
Antonio
definitely worth checking out either way
Jesse
I guess I was satisfied with my excel spreadsheet?
Antonio
makes perfect sense :smile:
Jesse
I'm a one man shop though. There might be some in between from someone who has a larger business with a lot of expenses. Really big companies will have this all figured out.
Antonio
This might be exactly the field I am trying to break in - since big companies will probably use something like Spendesk, Expensify etc. packed with ton of features subscription managment being just one of it. I think solopreneurs like you who are satisfied with the excel spreadsheet might be my ideal customer profile. Now it’s a matter of features & value I can provide thats good for you, but not in target of large businesses. We will see :smile: