Expense claims
Employees submit out-of-pocket costs; policy breaks are flagged for the approver rather than blocked; approval settles the claim as a bill or through payroll.
Purchases → Expense Claims (the Expense claims tab; Mileage sits beside it — see Expenses, receipts and mileage).
Submitting. An employee raises a claim with a title and lines: date, category, amount, an attached receipt, and whether it is billable to a customer or project. Lines can come from receipt capture.
Policy flags. Each employee has an expense policy (or the company default): per-category caps and a receipt threshold. A line over its cap or without a receipt above the threshold is flagged — visible to the approver, never silently blocked — so judgement stays with a person.
Approving and paying. An approver approves or sends the claim back with a note. Reimburse settles it one of two ways: as a bill in the employee's name, paid with the next bill run, or through payroll, added as a reimbursement line on the next run. Either way the expense posts to its categories on the claim date and the reimbursement is the settlement of that liability. A billable line waits in the unbilled queue for the customer's next invoice.