Available for the following plans: Employment Lite, Employment Plus, Employment Unlimited Available for the following Payroll plans: Platinum
Available for the following user access levels: Admin
An expense workflow allows an organisation to set up a process for recording and managing expenses. This typically involves gathering, categorising, auditing, and approving expenses to ensure accuracy and accountability. You can use Expense workflows to automate this process. Also, this feature follows a "when-if-then" sequence. To learn more about this, please refer to The When-If-Then sequence and scenarios tab in the Further information section of this article.
Visualise the expense workflow
Getting started
- Click the WorkFlows menu.
- Click the Create New button.
- Select the Expenses template and click the Create New button.
- Click the WHEN button.
- Select from the following:
- Expense created.
- Expense approved.
- Expense declined.
- Click the Save button.
- Click the IF button.
- Complete the following fields:
- Field.
- Condition.
- Value.
- Click the Save button.
- Click the THEN field.
- Click the Add Action button.
- Complete the following fields:
- Then:
- Request approval:
- Approver.
- Backup approver
- Automatically approve:
- Approver.
- Automatically decline:
- Decline reason.
- Decliner.
- Send email notification:
- Type of recipients.
- Subject.
- Content.
- Request approval:
- Then:
- Click the Save button.
Helpful Hint
To add an additional step, click the button below the last step.
- Click the Save and Publish button.
Important
You need to publish this workflow for it to become active.
Daily activities
The option to unpublish the default workflow template is available to organisations on Platinum and Employment Unlimited plans.
This feature allows you to customise expense approvals to suit your organisation's needs. By unpublishing the default workflow, you can then create your own template that aligns with your approval hierarchies and avoid conflicts with the default settings.
Editing data
Deleting data
Further information
The Expense WorkFlows feature lets you create a set of steps that the HR platform will take regarding expense claims. Each step follows the When-If-Then sequence, which is like this:
-
When this happens -> If this condition is met -> Then do this.
- "When" is the situation that will trigger the workflow.
- "If" is the condition that decides what action should be taken.
- "Then" is the action that the platform will take.
To visualise this better, please see the examples below. "X" and "Y" in these scenarios refer to values you can pick and enter on the HR platform.
- When an employee submits an expense claim request, If the expense claim amount is more than "X", Then the request will be sent to the executive leadership team for approval.
- When an employee submits an expense claim request, If the expense claim category is "X", Then the request will be automatically declined.
- When an employee submits an expense claim request, If the expense claim currency is "X", Then the request will be automatically approved.
- When an employee submits an expense claim request, If purchase start date is after "X" AND end date is before "Y", Then the request will be automatically approved.
When you click the "IF" field when creating a workflow, the "Add conditions" panel will slide out. There, you will have to fill in the following: Field, Condition, and Value.
Below those is the Add condition button, which lets you set up an additional condition to come with the first one. When you click this button, you will be asked to choose between:
- And condition - This means the platform will take action only if BOTH the original and additional conditions are met.
- Or condition - This means the platform will take action if EITHER the original or additional condition is met.
To demonstrate this, here are some examples:
And condition:
For the image below, the platform will act only if the expense claim amount is over 5,000 AND has a category of Miscellaneous. The platform will not take the specified action in the "THEN" field if both are not met, even if one of the conditions is followed.
Or condition:
For the image below, the platform will take action if the expense claim amount is over 5,000 OR has a category of Meal Allowance. There just needs to be at least one condition met for the platform to act. So, the workflow will still function if two, three, or more conditions were met.
For our example, this means the workflow will act if the expense claim amount is over 5,000, even if it falls under a different expense category. The platform will also function if the request is under the Meal Allowance category, even if the amount is less than 5,000.
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