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Expenses

✳︎ Manage employee expenses

Employees photograph a receipt, OCR reads it, managers approve in one click and accounting gets clean entries. No more shoebox of receipts at month end.

RECEIPT - SCANNED
CAFE RECEIPTVENDORAMOUNT €84.00VAT EXTRACTEDAPPROVED ✓PHOTOGRAPHED AT THE TABLE - BOOKED BY DINNER
VENDORAMOUNT €84.00
Death of the shoebox

Every finance team knows the shoebox: a month of crumpled receipts arriving on the 31st, retyped by hand into a spreadsheet nobody trusts. Odoo Expenses replaces it with a camera. The employee photographs the receipt at the cafe table; OCR reads the amount, date and vendor; the manager approves in one tap on the phone.

No more shoebox of receipts at month end.

Approval flows respect teams and amounts, reimbursement runs through payroll or bank, and expenses billable to a customer project attach themselves to the invoice. Accounting receives clean entries, not paper.

FIG.01 - THE EXPENSE PATH
PHOTOOCRAPPROVEDREIMBURSEDTEAM SALES · MARCH12 APPROVED ✓REIMBURSEMENTWITH PAYROLL ✓FROM POCKET TO PAYROLL WITHOUT PAPER
Technical drawing · approval flow
How it works
the loop runs itself
STEP 01Employee photographs the receipt
STEP 02OCR reads it
STEP 03Manager approves in one tap
STEP 04Clean entry lands in accounting
1 photo
is the whole expense report: OCR reads the rest
1 tap
manager approval from the phone, rules by team and amount
0 retyping
clean entries land in accounting automatically
Billable
project expenses attach themselves to customer invoices
Key capabilities
Spec sheet · 4 functions
Receipt scanning with OCR
Approval flows per team and amount
Reimbursement through payroll or bank
Expenses billable to customer projects
In an ERPSWISS project
Part of our 7-step delivery
STEP 1Configure
We configure expense categories, approval chains and reimbursement the way your teams actually work.
STEP 2Integrate
Approved expenses post to Accounting and re-bill to projects: month-end stops chasing receipts.
STEP 3Train✳︎
Your team learns Expenses in the training step of our 7-step journey, with your processes documented in your own Knowledge base.
Good to know

Odoo Expenses: one module, one shared database, zero double entry.

Odoo Expenses is one of the standard applications of the Odoo platform, part of the Finance family. Like every Odoo module, it runs on the same database as CRM, sales, inventory and accounting: information entered once is available everywhere, with no connectors, no sync jobs and no manual exports. Companies choose it to replace a patchwork of disconnected tools with one integrated system that is easier to maintain and cheaper to own.

In daily work, teams rely on Expenses for: receipt scanning with ocr; approval flows per team and amount; reimbursement through payroll or bank; expenses billable to customer projects. Because the module is part of the platform, every action leaves a clean trail for reporting: managers watch live dashboards instead of assembling spreadsheets, and the numbers stay consistent across departments and companies.

ERP SWISS is an official Odoo partner. We implement and configure Expenses for companies in Switzerland, France, Germany, the EU and Armenia, including localization, data migration, staff training and long-term support. A typical implementation takes weeks, not months: we configure the standard module to your processes first, and add custom development only where it truly pays off. Book a free demo to see it on your own scenarios.

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