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Does your employer allow you to reimburse these items without receipts?

• sokoloff 8y ago
  Ubers have receipts. AirBnB has receipts. Amazon (tech/book/Kindle) purchases have invoices. NewEgg purchases have invoices. Hotels and Flights can always re-generate invoices or be looked up online. Items under $25 don't need receipts by our policy. Meals I probably have a photo of the receipt on my phone. There's a lot that can be captured and recovered after the fact if a system can surface "hey, this is 75% likely to be a business expense; have a look!" I have a business CC available for most of my expenses. It's enough of a hassle if I accidentally put a personal expense on the business card relative to the converse that many business expenses end up on my personal card. (This is typically where I use stored payment methods on the same vendor for personal and business charges [Uber, AirBnB, Amazon, Paypal, NewEgg, Monoprice, Delta].)
  • usaar333 8y ago
    Definitely true. It really affects what the ideal product is. If Truffle operates like KeeperTax (https://keepertax.com/ https://keepertax.com/), you can set the ground truth to the CC statements; the user only needs to augment this CC statements with occasional meta-data (what was the business reason for the meal?), etc. -- fundamentally the user can work completely in the tax app. If you need to submit expenses, working with your statements is a much worse model, because of the need for the user to associate receipts. Receipts are the model the employee should work with; statements are for validation.