7 Steps to Expense Submission Nirvana - Making Life Easy for Your Business Travellers
Expense management systems must provide several receipt submission formats, to match the different types of receipt format in use, as well as users’ own preferences. What types of receipt submission should your expense solution be able to support, to cater to the full spectrum of your organisation’s users and their travel profiles?
Expense Management, Expense ReportsWhat Should Companies Look For in an Expense Management System?
Corporate road warriors often complain about filing their expense claims, be they on spreadsheets or using their employer’s clunky, antiquated solution. The process can be time-consuming, making it easy to put off, which leads to delays in reimbursement. Finance teams also tire of having to manually process and code hundreds or even thousands of expense claims each month. If this sounds like your organisation, maybe it’s time to start looking for a new solution.
Life After the Laptop Ban: Could you Survive a Business Trip with Just a Mobile Phone?
As a result of new U.S. and UK legislation, some business travellers may choose to leave their laptops at home. What would happen, though, if you also accidentally left your wallet at home? Could you survive life on the road paying for everything with a mobile phone?
Business TravelLess Appy, More Happy: How the Mobile Web Can Lead to Easier Expense Management
Any expense management solution worth its salt these days will tout its mobile capabilities. Most of these solutions will highlight their iPhone or Android apps as a key selling point. However, for the both hard-pressed business traveller and the company for whom they work, apps aren’t always the best solution.
Business Travel, Expense ManagementHow Improving your Travel and Expense Policy Can Help Retain your Best Staff
Business travel is a topic that can engender huge differences in opinion among those whose jobs require them to spend time on the road. For some, it’s viewed as a perk, for others, a burden. Regardless of whether your employees love or loathe life on the road, it's essential to optimise the traveller experience.
Business Travel, Expense PolicyExpense Reimbursement, I’d Like You to Meet the Real World…
Combining expense reimbursement with the payroll slows your process to a crawl, making your employees wait weeks for payment. Decouple the two and see how much happier you make employees AND finance.
Accounts Payable, Expense Management, For CFOsChrome River FOLIO: Taking the Headache Out of Hotel Folios
With countless different line items such as food, parking and high-speed internet, hotel folios can be a pain to enter into expense claims - especially when your expense management provider doesn't take info from a certain hotel chain. Chrome River FOLIO solves this challenge with a single click.
Business Travel, Expense ReportsChrome River or Concur – How to Decide Which Works Best for You
Organisations who are looking for a full-featured, enterprise-grade expense management solution often find that the choice comes down to Chrome River and Concur. Once the shortlist has been created, how can finance, IT and procurement teams work out which solution works best for their team?
Expense Management, For CFOs4 Critical Things to Look for in Your Next Expense Management System
Your road warriors are complaining about your expense system having a clunky old interface that looks more like Frogger than Facebook. Your system administrators say that the level of customer service could put Basil Fawlty to shame. Your AP team tells you that the vendors’ invoices have more unexpected charges than a hospital bill. It’s time. Time to start looking for a new expense management system.
Expense ManagementChrome River in 2016: a Retrospective
Now that the dust has settled on 2016 and we’re full speed ahead in 2017, Chrome River's CEO and co-founder, Alan Rich, looks back over the company's many achievements over the past year.
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Our choice of Chrome River EXPENSE was made in part due to the very user-friendly interface, easy configurability, and the clear commitment to impactful customer service – all aspects in which Chrome River was the clear winner. While Chrome River is not as large as some of the other vendors we considered, we found that to be a benefit and our due diligence showed that it could support us as well as any large players in the space, along with a personalized level of customer care.
We are excited to be able to enforce much more stringent compliance to our expense guidelines and significantly enhance our expense reporting and analytics. By automating these processes, we will be able to free up AP time formerly spent on manual administrative tasks, and enhance the role by being much more strategic.