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📸 Submitting Receipts
Employees can submit expense receipts directly from their phone or desktop. BlissNeat's AI automatically extracts merchant, amount, and date.
Submitting a receipt takes less than 30 seconds:
- Go to your Employee Dashboard
- Click Scan Receipt or Upload Photo
- Take a photo or upload an image of your receipt
- BlissNeat AI automatically fills in the merchant, amount, date, and category
- Review the details and click Submit
Some expense policies require a business purpose note. Always add context when submitting:
- Business Purpose — e.g. "Client lunch with Acme Corp" or "Travel to NYC office"
- Category — BlissNeat suggests a category automatically, but you can change it
- Project — if your company uses project codes, select one from the dropdown
If your company uses Trip Budgets, you can link multiple receipts to a single trip:
- When submitting a receipt, select your trip from the Trip dropdown
- All receipts linked to the trip are tracked against the approved budget
- You can see your remaining trip budget in real time on the dashboard
🔍 Tracking Receipt Status
After submitting, you can see the real-time status of every receipt in your dashboard.
Every receipt goes through a status lifecycle:
- 🟡 Pending — submitted and waiting for manager review
- ✅ Approved — your manager approved it, reimbursement is in process
- ❌ Rejected — not approved. Check the reason and resubmit if needed
- 🚩 Flagged — needs more information or exceeds policy limits
BlissNeat sends email notifications at key moments:
- Receipt approved — your manager approved your expense
- Receipt rejected — includes the reason from your manager
- Submission reminder — if you have unsubmitted receipts after 5 days
- Overdue notice — receipts more than 7 days old that haven't been submitted
⏰ Late Submissions
Most companies require receipts to be submitted within a certain number of days. Here's what happens when you're late.
BlissNeat tracks submission deadlines automatically:
- Day 5 — you receive a friendly reminder email
- Day 7+ — the receipt is marked overdue, your manager is notified
- Ongoing — the receipt appears as a compliance issue on manager reports
✅ Approving Expenses
Managers can approve, reject, or flag receipts individually or in bulk from the Manager Dashboard.
From your Manager Dashboard:
- Go to the Approvals tab
- Click Approve ✓ or Reject ✗ on any pending receipt
- When rejecting, add a reason — the employee will see this in their notification email
- To bulk-approve, select multiple receipts and click Approve Selected
You can configure the AI Agent to auto-approve receipts that meet certain criteria:
- Amount under a threshold (e.g. auto-approve all receipts under $50)
- Known merchants (e.g. always approve Uber rides)
- Specific categories (e.g. auto-approve all coffee/meals under policy)
Go to Settings → AI Agent → Auto-approve rules to configure these.
📋 Setting Expense Policies
Policies define what expenses are allowed. BlissNeat automatically checks every receipt against your policies and flags violations.
Expense policies let you set rules that are automatically enforced:
- Amount limits — e.g. meals max $75, hotels max $200/night
- Category restrictions — block certain expense types entirely
- Receipt required above — require a receipt photo for expenses over a threshold
- Notes required — make business purpose mandatory
- Attendee required — require client/attendee names for meals
- Go to Manager Dashboard → Policies
- Click Create New Policy
- Set the policy name (e.g. "Standard Employee Policy")
- Configure limits for each expense category
- Toggle on Receipt Required and Notes Required as needed
- Click Save & Activate
🤖 AI Agent
The AI Agent analyzes your expense data and proactively suggests actions. It learns your preferences over time.
The AI Agent runs automatically when you open the Manager Dashboard. It:
- Analyzes all pending receipts against your policies
- Suggests which receipts to approve, reject, or flag
- Identifies employees with overdue submissions
- Spots unusual spending patterns
- Learns from your decisions — confidence scores improve over time
Manual mode (default) — the agent suggests actions, you click to execute. You stay in full control.
Auto mode — the agent executes actions automatically when confidence is above 85%. Every action has a 5-second undo window.
Switch between modes using the toggle in the AI Agent panel on your dashboard.
👥 Managing Your Team
Add employees, set up departments, and manage access levels.
- Go to Manager Dashboard → Employees
- Click Add Employee
- Enter their name, email, and department
- Click Send Invite
The employee will receive a welcome email with their login credentials and a temporary password. They'll be prompted to change it on first login.
- Go to Settings → Departments
- Click Add Department
- Enter department name and optional budget
- Assign employees to the department
Department budgets give you an at-a-glance view of spending by team in the Analytics tab.
🚀 Getting Started
New to BlissNeat? Here's how to get your team set up in 15 minutes.
- ✅ Complete the onboarding wizard (company name, currency, timezone)
- ✅ Create at least one expense policy
- ✅ Add your employees (or bulk import from CSV)
- ✅ Set up departments (optional but recommended)
- ✅ Connect your accounting software (optional)
- ✅ Configure AI Agent auto-approve rules (optional)
🔗 Integrations
Connect BlissNeat to your accounting software or HR system.
BlissNeat can export approved expenses as a CSV that you can import directly into QuickBooks or Xero:
- Go to Manager Dashboard → Exports
- Select the date range and filter by Approved
- Click Export CSV
- Import the CSV into QuickBooks or Xero using their standard import tool
💳 Billing & Plans
Questions about your subscription, upgrading, or cancelling.
See the full comparison on the Pricing page. In summary:
- Free Trial (30 days) — full access to all features
- Starter — up to 10 employees, basic AI, CSV export
- Pro — unlimited employees, full AI Agent, API access, priority support
Email us at support@blissneat.com and we'll get back to you within 1 business day.
For urgent issues, include your company name and a screenshot of any error messages.