Expense Management

Tell Them It Is Over the Limit Before They Submit It

Receipts photographed where the money was spent, category limits checked as the claim is written, manager and finance each answering their own question, and a status the claimant can see.

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  • Receipt at the moment
  • Limits checked live
  • Status visible
  • Evidence, not memory

    The receipt is photographed at the till, not found later.

  • Policy before rejection

    The breach is shown while the claim is being written.

  • Two different checks

    The manager judges the spend, finance verifies it.

  • Status without asking

    The claimant can see which desk it is on.

Rejection is the most expensive way to explain a policy.

Three gaps account for most of the friction in an expense process, and none of them is an honesty problem.

Unevidenced

The receipt was in a jacket pocket

Claims arrive weeks later with paper that may or may not exist, so finance is auditing memory.

Unchecked

Policy is enforced by rejection

Limits are discovered when a claim comes back, which wastes the claimant's time and the approver's.

Unpaid

The claim is somewhere between two people

Nobody can say whether it is with the manager or finance, so employees chase and finance apologises.

Neome closes all three by capturing the receipt at the till, checking the limit at submission, and showing the claimant the stage.

Claims

Raised where the money was spent

A claim is linked to the employee, classified by category and carries the receipt as an attachment captured on a phone at the time. A photograph taken at the restaurant is a better record than a paper slip found three weeks later, and it removes the argument about whether it existed.

  • Employee-linked claims
  • Receipt attached
  • Category classification

Policy

The limit is checked while it is being claimed

Categories carry configurable limits, and a claim above one is flagged at submission rather than at rejection. The claimant sees the breach as they submit, so they can correct it, explain it or expect the extra approval, instead of finding out a week later that the answer was no.

  • Configurable limits
  • Validated at submission
  • Breach shown to the claimant

Approval

Manager first, finance second, both recorded

Claims route to the line manager for the judgement about whether the spend was reasonable, and then to finance for verification before payment. Two steps because they are two different questions, and a claim crossing a limit picks up the extra approval automatically.

  • Manager-level routing
  • Finance verification
  • Extra approval over a limit

Visibility

The claimant can see where it is

Status is visible to the person who raised it at every stage, which removes most of the chasing that expense processes generate. The full approval trail stays on the claim, so an audit question about who authorised a payment is a retrieval rather than an investigation.

  • Status visible to the claimant
  • Full approval trail
  • Audit as retrieval

Reporting

See the spend by category, before the year closes

Set a date range and every figure below it is bounded by those dates.

Spend by category

Where is the money going?

Claims grouped by category across the period, which is what makes an unexpected line obvious while there is still a year left to do something about it.

Monthly trend

Is it climbing?

Claim value month by month, so a rise shows up as it happens rather than in the summary that arrives after the year has closed.

Approved against rejected

Is the policy doing anything?

The split between approved and rejected claims by category, which shows whether a limit is shaping behaviour or just creating rework.

All the features, done right

Expense claims

Linked to the employee who spent.

Receipt capture

Photographed at the time.

Categories

Travel, meals, accommodation, yours.

Category limits

Configurable per category.

Limit validation

Checked at submission.

Manager approval

Routed by reporting line.

Finance verification

A second, different check.

Multi-level routing

Extra approval over a limit.

Status visibility

The claimant can see the stage.

Approval trail

Who authorised, and when.

Spend reporting

By category and over time.

Mobile apps

Claim from where you spent.

Before you move claims across

The questions finance and HR teams ask before the first claim is raised in Neome.

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