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.
Email Receipts to Your Expense Report
The email address to send your receipts to depends on your production site while domain for address is @emailexpense.com. The email address to send your receipts to usually it is posted on the ANNOUNCEMENTS page in DATABASICS after you login. If you could not find address please contact your administrator.
- If there is no e-mail subject or it is entered incorrectly, the receipt will be placed in your repository. You can access this repository from any expense report and attach it. (See Receipt Repository below)
- You may attach more than one receipt per e-mail.
- If an e-mail has no attachment, the e-mail message will be converted to .pdf and attached. This is useful for e-receipts from airlines and rental cars.
To attach a receipt to a specific report, enter the following in the Subject of the email (### is the Report ID):
- R###
- r###
To attach the receipt to a specific line on a report, enter the following in the Subject of the email (### is the Report ID and # is Line Number):
- R###-#
- r###-#
- R###_#
- r###_#
- R###@#
- r###@#
Examples:
To attach a receipt to Report 323, you can enter "R323" in the subject. If you want to attach the receipt to line 2 of Report 323, then enter "R323-2"
Body of the Email:
To include the body of the email and attachment to the report, you would need to the add the following in the subject:
- #bd
- #BD
- #BODY
- #Body
- #body
Email Receipts to someone else Repository or their Receipt EXPRESS
Now any employee will be able to email attachment to other employee in the same company so the receipts/attachments shows up in the Employee’s Repository/Receipt EXPRESS simply by typing the following in the email subject line:
- 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 the receipt will be in Lisa’s repository/ Receipt EXPRESS.
This will help all the assistants or travel agencies to forward attachments to other employees repository directly.
Email Receipts and request for OCR (Version 7.4 and higher and It must be enabled on your site)
Now you can request for your receipts to get OCR in advance. To request your receipt to go through OCR you just need to add one of the following to your email subject.
Key Option | Description |
---|---|
##OCRRECEIPT | This option is for general receipts to extract Date, Amount, Vendor and Payment Type (Duration between 4 to 8 minutes) |
##OCRFOLIO | This option it 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.
How to access my emailed attachments in the Repository?
On your browser standard version
There are two ways to access the Repository
- Receipt EXPRESS
- Inside an Expense Report
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 Browser from Local Computer and Browser from 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 to Attachment and click on Attach.
5. The receipt should now be attached to the Expense Report level.
Attach receipts to the line level:
- On the detail charges tab click on UPLOAD and then you will see two options Browser from Local Computer and Browser from 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 Browser from Local Computer and Browser from Receipt Receipt Repository (#) link.
- Check the box next to Attachment and select Attach.
- The receipt should now be attached to the Expense Report level.
On your mobile and tablet version
There are two ways to access the Repository
- Receipt EXPRESS
- Inside an Expense Report
Receipt EXPRESS
- 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.
- Select one of the following under the Action field:
- New - Travel Expenses - Creates a new report and the expense related to the receipt can be created.
- Select an saved report -Allows you to add an expense with the receipt to an existing report.
- Click Next
Inside an Expense Report
- Go to My Expenses and select a report.
- Click on the edit icon to access the report.
- Select the icon Paper Clip 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 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 Line?" and click on yes
- The Receipt should now be attached to the Expense Report or a specific line