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title: "Expense report automation | Roundly"
description: "Photograph a receipt and you're done — expenses extracted, checked against policy with the rule cited, approved and exported to accounting."
url: https://roundly-consulting.com/use-cases/finance/expense-report-automation
language: en
---

Category: Finance Use case: Expense management For: Finance teams & employees

# Expense report automation

Employees photograph a receipt and they're done. The agent extracts the data, assigns categories and cost centers, checks each expense against your policy with the rule cited, routes approvals and exports clean records to accounting.

## What it solves

01

### Receipt shoeboxes

No more month-end pile of crumpled receipts to retype.

02

### Policy checked by sampling

Every expense is checked against the policy, not one in ten.

03

### Slow reimbursements

Approvals route automatically; employees get paid back in days.

## How it works

1. 01

    ### Capture

    Employees snap a photo or forward an e-mail receipt — any language, any format.

2. 02

    ### Check

    Category, cost center and policy compliance are assigned, with the rule cited.

3. 03

    ### Approve

    Clean expenses route to approval automatically; violations explain themselves.

4. 04

    ### Export

    Approved expenses land in accounting and payroll, audit trail included.

## Before & after

### Without it

- Receipts pile up until the month-end deadline
- Finance retypes every crumpled receipt
- Policy checks cover a sample at best
- Reimbursements take weeks

### With it

- Expenses filed in seconds from a photo
- Every expense checked against the policy
- Violations flagged with the exact rule cited
- Reimbursements approved and exported in days

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