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Expense Tracking Playbook

How to set up expense management that gives you real visibility into where money goes.

Expense tracking playbook covering categories, approval workflows, receipt capture, and budget monitoring.

Roles includedFields & workflowsReports

What This Playbook Gives You

Who does what — checklists by role.

Which fields to track — and why each matters.

Workflows that match your actual handoffs.

Reports that surface variance before it becomes loss.

Expense Tracking Playbook

Owner's Playbook Summary:

Playbooks are about execution. For a business owner, standardizing operations is the only way to scale without being involved in every single decision. Use this guide to design workflows that your team can run independently on ConfigBiz.

Who This Playbook Is For

Owners, store managers and finance coordinators who need receipts captured at the point of spend and reports that do not require detective work. If your month-end involves chasing photos in chats, you need this playbook.

Policy You Can Actually Enforce

Policy item	Setting	Example
Categories	Must match your codes	Fuel (GL-6120), packaging, staff meals
Required fields	Per category	Project + vendor for contractor fees
Receipt rule	Evidenced or pending	>RM25 must have photo; no photo = pending
Approval matrix	Amount + category	<RM500 store; >RM3k director + finance
Budget	Monthly + cumulative	Fuel 80% alert; stop at 100% unless overridden

Capture — the 30-second habit

Snap: Photo at counter — OCR fills vendor, date, total, tax
Confirm: Category suggested from rules; tap to confirm + add project/location
Submit: One tap; approver gets a push with image + context

Approvals That Don't Bottleneck

Delegate: Manager on leave? Auto-delegate with end date
Batch: Finance approves 20 in a table; exceptions first
Escalate: No action 24h → nudge; 48h → escalate to next level

Reports That Close the Books

Spend by vendor, project, location, category — this week, not last month
Budget burn with forecast to end of month
Pending receipts list for chasers

Habit to install	How ConfigBiz nudges it
Snap today, not Friday	Pending counter on home; daily 6pm reminder
Categorise correctly	Rule suggests; manager can recode with reason
Approve daily	Queue badge + email digest 08:00

Run this playbook in ConfigBiz

Tell ConfigBiz AI how your business handles this process and get a configured workspace — not a generic template.