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Expense receipt capture

Receipts sent by email or chat are read, coded, and ready for approval.

How it works · Expense receipt capture

In

  • Email inbox
  • Slack
  • Receipts
  1. 1

    Receive

    Photo or PDF of a receipt

    Receipt in

  2. 2

    Read

    Amount, date, merchant, tax

    48.20

  3. 3

    Code

    Category suggested

    Travel

  4. 4

    Approve

    Manager approves the claim

    Approved

    Human checkpoint

Out

  • Accounting entry
  • Approval trail
  • Monthly report
Expense receipt capture. Inputs: Email inbox, Slack, Receipts. Steps: Receive, Photo or PDF of a receipt; Read, Amount, date, merchant, tax; Code, Category suggested; Approve, Manager approves the claim. Outputs: Accounting entry, Approval trail, Monthly report.

How it works

01

The problem

Receipts are lost before month-end, and expenses are typed in by hand.

Step by step

  1. 01Receive. Photo or PDF of a receipt.
  2. 02Read. Amount, date, merchant, tax.
  3. 03Code. Category suggested.
  4. 04Approve. Manager approves the claim.Human checkpoint

Tools and control

02

Connects

  • Xero
  • Gmail
  • Slack
  • OpenAI

Built on n8n. Equivalent tools can be swapped in.

Human control

A person stays in control at the "Approve" step. Everything else runs on rules you agree, with every run logged.

Next step

What would you like to improve?

Tell us what is taking too much time, what is difficult to manage, or what you would like your systems to do differently. You do not need a technical specification to start.