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An admin’s guide to Expense Management

Details on the settings and pages available to admins

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What is an admin?

Admins have the highest level of control over the Expense Management account. As an admin, you can complete tasks like:

  • Editing all settings

  • Viewing and editing expenses and expense reports for all employees

  • Approving expense reports for all employees

  • Adding expense details for your own expenses

  • Submitting your own expense reports

An Expense Management account can have multiple admins.

Admin dashboard

Admins have access to all pages in the tool. All pages are accessible from the left side panel.

  • Tasks: From the Tasks page, you can complete your tasks and send email reminders to your employees to complete their tasks. You can also see the status of your own and your employee’s expenses and reports. This gives you a complete picture of your Expense Management account.

  • Spend insights: This page shows you charts and graphs displaying spending patterns across your business. You can apply filters to see spending by month, merchant, card and more. .

  • Expenses

    • All business expenses: All your employees’ expenses are listed on this page. You can view and edit your employee’s expenses.

    • Your team’s expenses: If you’re assigned as an approver to employees or for a specific project, those expenses will be listed on this page.

    • Your expenses: Expenses you’ve made are listed on this page. You can add expense details, like category and purpose.

  • Expense reports

    • All business reports: All your employee’s expense reports are listed on this page. You can approve reports.

    • Your team’s reports: If you’re assigned as an approver to employees or for a specific project, expense reports containing those expenses will be listed on this page. You can approve reports.

    • Your reports: Expense reports you’ve made are listed on this page.

Admin settings

Within the settings, admins can control how the business’s Expense Management account is set up.

To access the settings, select the Settings tab within the left side panel.

You can find all the settings at the top of the page.

  • Employees

    • View employees: View the employees with access to Expense Management and add employee details, like title or location. View the Add employee details help article to learn more.

    • Set employee approvals: Set up the approval process for all employees on the Expense Management account. View the Set up employee-based approvals help article for instructions.

    • Manage employee fields: Decide which employee fields—like location or date of joining—you’d like to capture and create custom employee fields. View the Manage employee fields help article for instructions.

    • Assign default administrator: A default administrator completes and submits expenses for employees who don’t have Expense Management access, ensuring that their expenses are properly reconciled. For more information, view the Assign a default administrator for expenses help article.

    • Add job levels: You can assign job levels to your employees in Expense Management. Learn more about how to add job levels in the Add job levels help article.

  • Notifications & reminders: Manage business-wide notifications, set your notifications and set up automatic reminders.

If you need further assistance, contact our support team at support@capitalone-fylehq.com.

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