Claims · Advances · Approvals

Expenses.
No lost receipts. No month-end chaos.

Track what your team spends, approve it in minutes, and reimburse staff without spreadsheet archaeology.

Built on ERPNext inside SolutionsInc — expense claims, travel advances, departmental approvers, and automatic ledger entries work as one workflow. Finance stays in control; field staff get paid back fast.

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Expense claims in SolutionsInc ERP
Employee expense claim form

Claim #EXP-2026-041

Lunch · Client visit · £48.50

Log expenses in one form.

When staff pay out of pocket for the business, they raise an Expense Claim — date, type, amount, and taxes in a single record. No more photo dumps in group chats.

  • Multiple lines per claim Add several expenses in one submission — mileage, meals, supplies — each with its own Expense Claim Type.
  • Taxes & charges included Capture VAT and fees on the same document so finance does not rebuild the maths later.

Business Benefit: Staff submit costs while they are still fresh — finance gets structured, VAT-ready claims instead of chasing receipts at month-end, and every pound spent on behalf of the company is documented before reimbursement.

Managers set the sanctioned amount.

Each department has configured Expense Approvers. The employee picks their approver; the document is shared automatically and they get an email when assigned.

  • Approve, reduce, or reject Approvers adjust the Sanctioned Amount below what was claimed — with comments when a claim is refused.
  • Clear audit trail Every decision is logged on the claim — owners see who approved what, and when, without digging through inboxes.

Problem solved: “Everyone gets reimbursed in full” culture — you control spend before payment, not after.

Pending approval

Claimed £120.00

Sanctioned £95.00

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Accounting

“Approved an expense claim? Brilliant — but don’t stop there. In SolutionsInc, that same claim posts straight into Accounting: expense account, employee payable, and a clean Payment Entry when you’re ready to pay — without mixing refunds into payroll and triggering extra tax headaches!”

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Employee Advance

Site visit — £350.00

Status: Paid

Pay advances before the trip.

Staff shouldn’t fund long site visits on personal cards. Employee Advance records purpose and amount; approvers submit; accounts pay out via Payment Entry or Journal Entry.

  • Settle against claims Link the advance when submitting expenses — claimed, returned, or partly used — statuses stay visible (Paid, Claimed, Returned).
  • Return unused cash One click to return money that was never spent — no “mystery float” on your books.

From approval to ledger & bank.

On submit, the system books the expense and employee balance. Finance uses Unclaimed Expense Claims to see who is still owed — then pays via Payment Entry, not through payroll.

  • Automatic GL posting Expense account and employee payable updated on approval — your accountant works from live data.
  • Pay outside salary Reimbursements stay separate from payslips — important for UK tax treatment and cleaner audits.

Allocate one payment across multiple outstanding claims for the same employee — finance saves time at month-end.

Accounting integration
Projects

See the true cost of each job.

Tag claims to a Project or Task. Approved amounts roll into project costing — so margin reports include travel, subsistence, and site spend, not only supplier invoices.

  • Field spend on the P&L of the project Agencies and contractors finally see whether a client engagement was profitable after expenses.

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Integrated Finance OS

Expenses works better
with the full stack.

One SolutionsInc environment — claims, books, payroll, and projects share the same employee and company records.

Accounting Accounting Invoicing Invoicing
Payroll Payroll
Projects Projects
Taxes & Statements Taxes & Statements