Creating an expense
FollowAn Expense Report can contain multiple expenses. An expense identifies the category (meals, lodging, transportation, mileage, etc.), costs, and additional information that occur within a specific time period—usually monthly—called an Expense Report.
To add expenses to an existing expense report:
- Click Expense reports > Expense reports from the main menu
- Find the Expense report to which you want to add the new expense using the search bar at the top
- Click the employee’s name
To create expenses not linked to an expense report
- Click Expense rreports > Expenses from the main menu
Then
- Click the New button > Expense > the window loads the categories, Reasons of type “expense”
- Click the category
- Fill in the form with the required data
- Click Save, the expense will be saved with the status Draft.
The form contains the following fields:
- Reason: Type of expense, preselected at creation
- Expense report: click Browse to search for the expense report to associate the expense with
- Employee: click Browse to search for the employee to associate with the expense; the expense’s employee must be the same as the one on the expense report
- Start date: expense start date
- End date: expense end date
- Contract: the contract the expense is linked to
- Client: the internal company the expense is linked to
- Payment type: e.g., Credit card, Wire transfer, Cash, Corporate credit card (Non-refundable), etc.
- Currency: e.g., EUR, USD, JPY, etc.
- Total spent: total amount spent by the employee
- Total refundable: total amount refundable by the company
- Receipt: attachment field (e.g., receipt, invoice, etc.)
Tip: instead of filling the form manually, you can create an expense by uploading the receipt directly and letting the AI pre-fill the main fields — see Create expenses from receipts with AI.
*Fields specific to Mileage-type expenses
- Calculated km: not editable; calculated as the sum of the Kilometeres of the itineraries.
For mileage expenses, you must add the trip itinerary (only after creating the expense).
- Click the New button in the expense form, Itinerary section
- Fill in the form with the required data
- Click Save, the itinerary will be linked to the expense
- The expense fields Total spent and Total refundable will be calculated from the Reimbursement rate of the selected vehicle and the Kilometeres of the itinerary
Itinerary Form:
- Vehicle: the Vehicle used by the employee on the route
- Reimbursement rate: the vehicle’s reimbursement percentage
- Departure: starting point
- Arrival: end point
- Kilometeres: kilometeres travelled
- Total refund: not editable; calculated from the vehicle’s Reimbursement rate and the itinerary Kilometeres
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