Applications no longer live in isolation. Finance employees need to update financial systems with expense report data, which isn’t an easy proposition. If your expense system doesn't integrate with the financial software, someone has to manually enter the expense data. If the system can handle Excel files, they must carefully edit the employee’s spreadsheet so that it will import correctly. That’s just a hassle, and is likely to introduce errors along the way.
Certify’s CloudConnect™ platform and services automate this entire process for your business. The service is perfect for companies that have enterprise software including HR, accounting and payroll, and/or ERP systems, which need to share data with the T&E system:
We take care of all the setup and daily integration feeds, maintaining integrations as they grow and change over time.
If you're using QuickBooks, you will be amazed at how quick, thorough and cost effective our integration suite is – it’s included in our standard service fees at no addition cost.
Integrations with Certify can be both inbound and outbound, allowing data to flow seamlessly between our cloud and your applications. For instance, Certify can update your AP system every time a batch of expense reports are processed. When HR managers update their systems with new employee information or departmental changes those updates automatically flow into Certify, creating new user accounts for new employees, or restricting access to recently departed employees.
System integration is simple, straight forward, and available as a “fixed price” service. On time and on budget – we promise.
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Friday, January 24, 2014
Work Related Travel Expenses
Common travel expenses programs you may be able to claim include air, bus, train & taxi fares. If you use a road vehicle designed to carry a load of one tone or more, or nine or more passengers, use a motor cycles, incur bridge/road tolls, parking, car hire fees, meal expenses or accommodation expenses whilst away overnight for work then you have incurred travel expenses.
You cannot claim a deduction for costs associated with travel to and from work however if the travel is from one job directly to a second job you can claim a deduction for costs incurred for that leg of the travel. Travel from the second job to home is not deductible.
You can claim a deduction for costs incurred travelling from your usual place of work to another location for the same employer, for example to a clients premises while still on duty then back to your usual work place or directly home. In this case you can claim the cost of travel to another work location and the cost of returning to your usual workplace or the cost of going straight home. Generally parking fees and tolls can only be claimed where there is also a deduction available for the travelling expense, there are a few exceptions to this rule.
The treatment of overnight travel for work is varied depending on an individual's circumstances.For an employee, this is where they undertake the travel for an activity which is directly related to their income earning activities as an employee. For a business person the expense must have been necessarily incurred for the purpose of producing accessable income.
You cannot claim a deduction for costs associated with travel to and from work however if the travel is from one job directly to a second job you can claim a deduction for costs incurred for that leg of the travel. Travel from the second job to home is not deductible.
You can claim a deduction for costs incurred travelling from your usual place of work to another location for the same employer, for example to a clients premises while still on duty then back to your usual work place or directly home. In this case you can claim the cost of travel to another work location and the cost of returning to your usual workplace or the cost of going straight home. Generally parking fees and tolls can only be claimed where there is also a deduction available for the travelling expense, there are a few exceptions to this rule.
The treatment of overnight travel for work is varied depending on an individual's circumstances.For an employee, this is where they undertake the travel for an activity which is directly related to their income earning activities as an employee. For a business person the expense must have been necessarily incurred for the purpose of producing accessable income.
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
A New Year for your Business Venture
There are a number of resolutions you could make on behalf of your company: You could promise yourself to put more time toward researching each potential new employee, to hold more company meetings, or just to promote a general sense of communication around the office. Your goals don't need to be financially based - they can focus on improving the inner workings of your organization instead. One will almost always follow the other, of course. If you can get your office running more smoothly, and your employees to do their jobs more efficiently, higher levels of revenue will surely follow.
One way you can get things running more smoothly is by instituting an automated expense report program among your employees. If you're completing your expense reports manually by using Excel or another spreadsheet program, you're costing your business innumerable work hours on a monthly basis. Your team needs to collect documents on behalf of their reports, personally format them, file them and much more. With automated programs, your team will need to spend but a few moments on their expense reports every single month. This will save them hours on a weekly basis - hours that they will then reinvest into your business. That'll have your revenue up in no time at all. Improving the expense reporting process increases profits - making an upgrade to such programs a worthy New Year's resolution for any organization who has yet to settle on one.
Using Certify can help to improve the efficiency of workflow at your office When you implement Certify's automated expense report management software into your office, you'll be saving hours for employees in many different departments. Your traveling employees, for example, won't have to save any of their paper receipts anymore, nor enter data from them: the program automatically parses through uploaded receipt images, collecting and entering the needed data automatically.
Accountants will see even more improvements to their day with the help of Certify. For example, they won't have to cross check a single reported expense against company policy ever again. Certify automatically places a red flag next to any expenses that may clash with company policy, allowing employees to correct their mistake before the reports are ever published. Your team won't need to reconcile data against company policy, nor deal with employees face-to-face when violations occur. Certify automates every single step of the process.
This will all help executives to better plan their budgets. Without the need to reconcile data, and with reports being put together faster than ever, reimbursements will be paid out at a rapid rate. Instead of waiting weeks and months for solid financial data regarding company travel and expense data, the information needed will be available almost immediately. Your office will be budgeting at a more precise clip than it has ever been capable of, thanks to expense reporting software. So if your working for an organization that's looking to improve in the new year, consider implementing automated expense report technology. All employees will get an efficiency boost from an improvement to the expense management system.
One way you can get things running more smoothly is by instituting an automated expense report program among your employees. If you're completing your expense reports manually by using Excel or another spreadsheet program, you're costing your business innumerable work hours on a monthly basis. Your team needs to collect documents on behalf of their reports, personally format them, file them and much more. With automated programs, your team will need to spend but a few moments on their expense reports every single month. This will save them hours on a weekly basis - hours that they will then reinvest into your business. That'll have your revenue up in no time at all. Improving the expense reporting process increases profits - making an upgrade to such programs a worthy New Year's resolution for any organization who has yet to settle on one.
Using Certify can help to improve the efficiency of workflow at your office When you implement Certify's automated expense report management software into your office, you'll be saving hours for employees in many different departments. Your traveling employees, for example, won't have to save any of their paper receipts anymore, nor enter data from them: the program automatically parses through uploaded receipt images, collecting and entering the needed data automatically.
Accountants will see even more improvements to their day with the help of Certify. For example, they won't have to cross check a single reported expense against company policy ever again. Certify automatically places a red flag next to any expenses that may clash with company policy, allowing employees to correct their mistake before the reports are ever published. Your team won't need to reconcile data against company policy, nor deal with employees face-to-face when violations occur. Certify automates every single step of the process.
This will all help executives to better plan their budgets. Without the need to reconcile data, and with reports being put together faster than ever, reimbursements will be paid out at a rapid rate. Instead of waiting weeks and months for solid financial data regarding company travel and expense data, the information needed will be available almost immediately. Your office will be budgeting at a more precise clip than it has ever been capable of, thanks to expense reporting software. So if your working for an organization that's looking to improve in the new year, consider implementing automated expense report technology. All employees will get an efficiency boost from an improvement to the expense management system.