Plus if you're really keen to approve expense receipts in real time then the Oracle/Blackberry combo works fine.
Funnily enough the least painful expense report I've ever had to send simply involved filling in a spreadsheet, which lacked the abundance of compulsory fields that software designed for proper expense auditing seems to have.
The automated bank account monitoring sounds like the biggest potential timesaver, but it also sounds like something I really don't want to grant to my employer.
Yea — we're trying to avoid the bajillion separate fields you have to enter, typical of Oracle or Concur. We try to do some smart things — for example if you're at a place (gas station, restaurant, etc.) you can select the place from our 'nearby' list with one tap, and then we're working on using that location data to automatically categorize the transaction, put it on a map, etc.
I hear you on not wanting to grant your employer access to all your card data. Your employer will only be able to see the transactions that you pass through to them as business expenses.
I've lost days of my life to the Oracle expense processing "solution". This is no exaggeration either, and I would guess that most companies using it are losing a surprising amount of their employee's time and energy fighting it.
It's particularly inept at dealing with international situations like different currencies or compliance requirements, but the interface as a whole is an archaic mess.
The news that someone, anyone, wants to walk in and disrupt this nonsense is music to my ears.
Funnily enough the least painful expense report I've ever had to send simply involved filling in a spreadsheet, which lacked the abundance of compulsory fields that software designed for proper expense auditing seems to have.
The automated bank account monitoring sounds like the biggest potential timesaver, but it also sounds like something I really don't want to grant to my employer.