Users can attach receipts directly to expense reports via e-mail, further streamlining the business process and reducing the chance that receipts may be misplaced. These receipts can be attached at the report level, the line level or placed in the user's repository.
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- E##102003 where 102003 is the employee id of the employee you want the attachment to go to their repository.
For example,
if David wants to forward a receipt to Lisa with employee id 93923, he just need to email to s##@emailexpense.com and in the subject needs to type E##93923 and and the receipt will be in Lisa’s repository/ Receipt EXPRESS.
This feature allows travel agents and administrative assistants to forward attachments to other employees' repository directly.
Email Receipts and request for OCR (
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this feature must be enabled on your site)
Now you can request for your receipts to get OCR'ed in advance. To request for your receipt to go through OCR you just need to add one of the following following to your email subject.
Key Option | Description |
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##OCRRECEIPT | This option is for general receipts to extract Date, Amount, Vendor and Payment Type (Duration between 4 to 8 minutes) |
##OCRFOLIO | This option will OCR your Hotel Folio and extract all the charges and help you with your hotel itemization. (Duration between 5 to 10 minutes) |
##OCRINVOICE | This option is for Invoices. (Duration between 4 to 8 minutes) |
Once you email the receipts the system will start the OCR process, and once it is complete you will receive an email.
Email Receipts to Your Repository or to your Receipt EXPRESS
When a user does not provide the R#### in the subject, the email attachments will be placed into the Repository by default.
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Receipt EXPRESS which includes all the receipts in your Repository. From Receipt EXPRESS you could either great a report or append to existing report. Click Here from More Information about Receipt EXPRESS
Attach receipts to the report level:
- To access the Repository first you would need to access your report that you want to attach the receipts.
- Go to Paper Clip (Attachments) tab on the left side of the screen.
- In the Paper Clip tab, click on the UPLOAD and then you will see two options options: Browser from Local Computer and Browser from Receipt Receipt Receipt Repository (#) link.
(You will only see the available receipt/attachment if the user has emailed receipt to the repository (not to an actual report)) - Check the box next next to Attachment and click on Attach.
5. The receipt should now be attached to the Expense Report level.
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- On the detail charges tab click on UPLOAD and then you will see two options options: Browser from Local Computer and Browser from Receipt Receipt Receipt Repository (#) link.
- Select the line you would need to attach the receipt and then click on the Receipts tab or click on UPLOAD and then you will see two options options: Browser from Local Computer and Browser from Receipt Receipt Receipt Repository (#) link.
- Check the box next to Attachment and select Attach.
- The receipt should now be attached to the Expense Report level.
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- Once logged in you will see an option for Receipt EXPRESS
- Within Receipt Express, you can see all the receipts in your repository.
- Select the receipt and click the arrow icon.an expense report by clicking the downward pointing arrow
- Select one of the following under the Action field:
- New - Travel Expenses Expense Report - Creates a new report and the expense related to the receipt can be created.
- Select an a saved report -Allows you to add an expense with the receipt to an existing report.
- Click NextSelect the checkmark on the receipt and click Apply.
Inside an Expense Report
- Go to My Expenses and select a report.
- Click on the edit edit icon to access the report.
- Select the icon Paper Clip to report icon then navigate to Attachments to view your receipts for the report (If the paper clip counter 0 to zero, means no receipts attached to the report but you could still click on it to access the Repository)
- Then click the icon to the icon to access the Repository (when it displays a 0, it means that there are no receipts in the Email Repository to select from).
- Select a document to attach from the Repository by clicking on the Click Box icon.
- It will promote you "Attach to Expense LineReport?" and click on yes Yes
- The Receipt should now be attached to the Expense Report or a specific line
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