The receipt reads itself.

Your crew snaps a photo, AI pulls the vendor, date, and total, and it's on its way to approval, before the receipt fades in a truck cup holder.

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What it does

From receipt to reimbursed.

Capture, categorize, approve, and reimburse, without the shoebox or the month-end spreadsheet.

  • Snap or upload a receipt from anywhere
  • AI reads vendor, date, total, tax, and category
  • Assign to a job, office, or category
  • Roll into report runs and submit
  • Route up a real approval hierarchy
  • Track reimbursement from submitted to paid
  • Approved expenses post to QuickBooks
Capabilities

Inside the expenses module.

The things that turn a shoebox into a same-day approval, and what they connect to.

Capture

The receipt reads itself.

Point the camera at a receipt and Relay's AI extracts the vendor, date, total, tax, and category as editable suggestions. Confirm, assign it to a job or office, and it flows into a report run, before the receipt fades in a truck cup holder.

  • AI extraction fills in the details
  • Editable suggestions: you stay in control
  • Assigned to a job or office at capture
Approve & reimburse

Approvals that match your org.

Expenses roll into report runs, get submitted, and route up a configurable approval hierarchy with email and push to approvers. From submitted to approved to reimbursed. Tracked, not chased.

  • Configurable approval hierarchy
  • Email and push notifications to approvers
  • Reimbursement tracked to paid
Built for restoration

Restoration expenses aren't a monthly spreadsheet.

The things that make Relay's expenses module fit how restoration crews actually spend.

  • The shoebox is a month-end tax

    Fuel, materials, hotels on a storm deploy: people front cash all month, then reconstruct it from curling receipts. Relay captures it the moment it happens.

  • Deploy costs, visible sooner

    Assign expenses to a job or office at capture, so what a deploy actually cost isn't a mystery until long after.

  • Approvals that reflect your hierarchy

    A real approval chain (not a spreadsheet forwarded around) with notifications so nothing sits.

  • AI does the typing, you keep control

    Extraction fills the fields; every value is an editable suggestion you confirm. Fast, not blind.

Works with

Connected to jobs and CRM.

Expenses land on the job or office they belong to, alongside the rest of the work.

Expenses FAQ

Questions about the expenses module.

More on the FAQ page.

Does it read receipts automatically?

Yes. AI extracts the vendor, date, total, tax, and category as editable suggestions you confirm. (Receipt reading is available where the AI extraction service is enabled.)

Does this replace Expensify (and tools like it)?

Yes, and it is faster and cheaper. Relay captures receipts with AI, categorizes them, routes approvals up your real hierarchy, and tracks reimbursement to paid, right inside the platform your jobs already live in. No separate expense app to buy, log into, or reconcile.

Can we route approvals?

Yes. A configurable approval hierarchy, with email and push notifications to approvers.

Does it post expenses to QuickBooks?

Yes. Approved expenses post to QuickBooks, so what your crews spend lands in the books without re-entry.

Can expenses be tied to a job?

Yes. Assign each expense to a job or office at capture, so costs land where the work is.

See it run

Kill the receipt shoebox.

About an hour with a restoration specialist. We'll walk capture, approval, and reimbursement against the way your crews spend today.

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