Frequently Asked Questions
Explore DATABASICS expense reporting, time tracking, and more. Have questions? Get in touch.
Updated October 2026
01 About DATABASICS
Finance, operations, payroll, and accounting teams can use DATABASICS to collect time and expense data, apply configured policies and approvals, manage supported card feeds, and send approved data to connected ERP and payroll systems.
Employees capture receipts or record time, managers review submissions through configured workflows, and finance prepares approved data for accounting or payroll. Leave management, reporting, reconciliation, and AI-assisted review are available based on the products and configuration selected.
DATABASICS is purpose-built for organizations that require strong compliance and control, including government contractors (DCAA), nonprofits with grant restrictions, project-based firms, and healthcare organizations navigating regulatory requirements.
The platform is used by finance and operations leaders, payroll and accounting teams, IT administrators, and the employees submitting expenses or logging time. Each of those groups gets a different interface and permission level, but they all work within one connected system.
DATABASICS is a strong fit when one or more of these requirements materially affect the buying decision:
- Time and Expense must be DCAA or HIPAA compliant
- Expense Report with PCI DSS Level1 Compliant
- Configurable Policies and Workflow
- Time and Expense is tracked against multiple projects, activities, or cost centers
- Multiple credit card types or card programs need to be managed in one place
- The organization operates across multiple states or countries
- Time and Expense data must flow into a specific ERP or payroll system
DATABASICS serves nonprofits and NGOs, government contractors, healthcare and life sciences organizations, construction and engineering firms, and professional services firms. It may not be the best fit for freelancers, very small teams with simple reimbursement needs, or buyers who want a basic card-only product without configurable time, expense, compliance, or integration workflows.
DATABASICS offers a full suite of solutions including expense reporting, time tracking, leave management, P-Card, vendor payments, and Visa® card programs, all integrated with leading ERP and payroll systems.
DATABASICS offers the following products:
- Time Tracking
- Time Attendance with Meal and Rest Tracking
- Expense Reporting
- PTO and Leave Management
- Invoice Workflow
- P-Card Management
- Vendor Payments
- Hybrid & Remote Work Schedule Management
DATABASICS can connect time, expense, allocation, cards, invoices, approvals, and downstream accounting or payroll workflows in one configured system.
All expenses, any credit card, total freedom: DATABASICS works with your existing Visa, Mastercard, or Amex program. You are not required to switch cards to use the platform. The DATABASICS Visa® Cards are available as an option for organizations that want implement spend control.
- Compliance depth: DATABASICS supports DCAA & HIPAA compliance for government contractors, grant-specific expense rules for nonprofits, and state-level labor law compliance for time tracking, configurations that most horizontal tools do not support out of the box.
- Unified time + expense: Time tracking, timesheet approvals, and expense reporting are in one system. Organizations do not have to buy, integrate, and maintain separate products.
- Direct implementation and support: DATABASICS works with customers on requirements, configuration, training, launch, and ongoing support.
02 Expense Reporting
The DATABASICS expense cycle is designed to require as little manual work as possible, for employees, managers, and finance alike.
- Capture: Employees photograph receipts in the DATABASICS mobile app ("snap and send"). OCR extracts merchant name, date, amount, and currency automatically.
- Match: Receipts are matched to corporate card transactions automatically. Employees review and submit; they don't retype data.
- Enforce: Policy rules run at submission, flagging out-of-policy spend, missing receipts, or duplicate claims before the report reaches a manager.
- Approve: Managers receive approval tasks via email or the platform. Multi-level approval chains, project-based routing, and delegation are all configurable.
- Export: Approved expense data flows directly to your ERP or accounting system. No spreadsheet handoffs.
In some configurations, particularly for corporate card programs, expense reports can be generated with zero employee input, then simply reviewed and approved.
Card flexibility is one of DATABASICS's core differentiators. Many competing platforms push or require their own card program. DATABASICS integrates with major card networks so you can keep your existing banking relationships and card programs intact.
For organizations that want a fully integrated card solution with deeper spend controls, the DATABASICS Visa® Commercial Card is available. It is built for organizations that want real-time transaction visibility, automated reconciliation, and card-level controls managed entirely within the DATABASICS platform, with no need to manage a separate card portal.
Whether you use your existing cards, the DATABASICS Visa® Commercial Card, or a mix of both, all transactions are managed in one system.
© 2026 DATABASICS, Inc., all rights reserved. The DATABASICS Visa® Prepaid Card, DATABASICS Disburse Visa® Prepaid Card, and DATABASICS Visa® Commercial Card are hosted by PEX, Prepaid Expense Solutions and issued by The Bancorp Bank, N.A., Members FDIC, pursuant to a license from Visa U.S.A. Inc. and may be used everywhere Visa business prepaid and Visa commercial cards are accepted.
DATABASICS provides a suite of Visa® Card products designed to give organizations flexible spend control without requiring a separate card management portal. The card lineup includes a charge card for standard corporate spending and two pre-funded card options for organizations that need tighter control over how funds are allocated before spending occurs.
For a full breakdown of available card types and their features, visit the DATABASICS Visa® Card page.
© 2026 DATABASICS, Inc., all rights reserved. The DATABASICS Visa® Prepaid Card, DATABASICS Disburse Visa® Prepaid Card, and DATABASICS Visa® Commercial Card are hosted by PEX, Prepaid Expense Solutions and issued by The Bancorp Bank, N.A., Members FDIC, pursuant to a license from Visa U.S.A. Inc. and may be used everywhere Visa business prepaid and Visa commercial cards are accepted.
These are related but distinct functions that many organizations manage separately, though they shouldn't have to.
Expense reports capture all employee spending regardless of how it was paid: corporate card, personal card, cash, or check. They include receipts, project or cost-center allocations, approval routing, and policy checks. They are the source of truth for reimbursement and accounting.
Corporate card management is about the card program itself: pulling transaction feeds from the card issuer, matching transactions to receipts or expense reports, managing card limits, and reconciling statements at month-end.
When these two functions live in separate systems, reconciliation is manual and error-prone. DATABASICS unifies them: card transactions automatically appear in the expense workflow, employees match receipts to transactions from the mobile app, and everything posts to the ERP in one step.
Employees can log mileage directly within the expense report workflow. The system calculates reimbursement based on your organization's configured rate, including IRS standard mileage rates for U.S.-based organizations. Mileage entries go through the same policy enforcement and approval workflow as other expenses.
For organizations where vehicle use is a significant expense category, including field services, construction, and nonprofit program delivery, mileage tracking within the same system as other expense categories simplifies reporting and reduces the chance of entries being missed or submitted outside the normal cycle.
Per diem management in DATABASICS allows finance teams to define allowance rates and rules once, then have the system apply them automatically to qualifying travel expenses. Employees see their applicable per diem when submitting, which reduces disputes and exceptions.
The system supports both allowance-based per diem (a fixed daily amount employees receive) and deduction-based per diem (actual expenses submitted against a per diem ceiling). Partial-day rules, first-and-last-day adjustments, and location-based rate tables can all be configured.
For government contractors, per diem rules may need to align with current GSA rates and the organization's travel policy. Rate-table loading, updates, effective dates, and customer responsibilities depend on the proposed configuration.
The receipt capture workflow is designed to minimize the steps between "I have this receipt" and "this is in the system." Employees open the mobile app, photograph the receipt, and the OCR engine handles extraction. The result is a pre-populated expense entry that the employee reviews rather than types.
Extracted fields include merchant name, transaction date, amount, currency, and expense category where legible. The system then attempts to match the receipt to a corresponding card transaction. When a match is found, the two are linked automatically. Unmatched receipts and unmatched transactions are flagged for employee or admin attention.
This reduces manual data entry errors, speeds up the approval cycle, and ensures that receipt documentation is attached at the transaction level, which matters significantly for audits.
Policy enforcement happens in two places: at the point of submission and during the approval workflow. When an employee submits an expense report, the system checks it against your configured rules: spend limits by category, required receipt thresholds, per diem ceilings, or project-specific restrictions. Out-of-policy items are flagged immediately, before any manager sees the report.
Approval routing is fully configurable: you can set single-level or multi-level approval chains, route by department, project, cost center, or spend amount, and allow approvers to delegate when they are out of office. Approvers receive notifications via email and can approve directly from the notification without logging into the platform.
Finance has real-time visibility into the full pipeline: submitted, in-review, approved, and rejected. Nothing moves to the ERP until it has cleared the full approval chain.
Expense fraud and unintentional policy violations are caught at multiple layers in DATABASICS:
- Duplicate detection: The system flags submissions that match a previously approved expense by amount, merchant, and date, catching both accidental duplicates and intentional double-billing.
- Receipt validation: AI cross-references receipt image data against claimed amounts and merchant details. Mismatches trigger a review flag.
- Policy rules: Spend limits, category restrictions, and required documentation rules are enforced automatically. No manager has to remember the policy.
- Audit trail: Every expense entry, edit, approval, and rejection is logged with user, timestamp, and action. This trail is immutable and available for review at any time.
For government contractors and grant-funded organizations, this layer of automated control is not optional. It is a compliance requirement. DATABASICS makes it systematic rather than relying on individual reviewer attention.
03 Human Oversight in AI-Powered Expense Approval
DATABASICS uses AI-assisted review and configured automation to surface flags, route submissions, and highlight exceptions. These tools help your team manage volume, but your designated approvers make the final decision.
DATABASICS can check submissions against configured policy rules, flag out-of-policy amounts or missing receipts, route reports to the correct approver based on factors such as cost center or project, and identify possible duplicates before they reach finance. Some of these controls are rules-based automation rather than AI.
An over-limit submission, unusual expense category, missing receipt, disputed charge, or other configured exception can be sent to a human approver with the available submission details. AI does not auto-approve exceptions.
Your team defines the thresholds and exception types that trigger human review. Those rules can be updated as your policy changes.
Overrides are recorded in the audit trail with the timestamp and approver identity, giving finance a record for close and audit review.
DATABASICS maintains an auditable approval record for each submission. Compliance depends on your requirements and configuration, so discuss specific DCAA or grant requirements with your implementation team.
The audit trail records the submission, flags, routing activity, approval actions, and overrides with timestamps and user identities.
04 Time Tracking & Timesheets
These terms are often used interchangeably but refer to different parts of the same process:
Time tracking is the act of recording when work happens, either in real time via clock in/out or retrospectively by entering start and end times. It produces the raw time data.
Timesheets are the structured, periodic summary of that data, organized by day, project, activity, or cost code, that employees submit and managers approve. Timesheets are what flow into payroll and, for project-based organizations, into their project accounting system.
DATABASICS supports both. Employees can clock in and out in real time, enter time manually, or use a combination. The system collects that data into timesheets that follow your organization's approval workflow before posting to payroll.
For DCAA compliance, the distinction is important: timesheets must reflect actual time worked on specific contracts, be approved by a supervisor, and carry an immutable audit trail. DATABASICS enforces all of this.
Different workforces have different time entry needs, and DATABASICS is built to accommodate that without requiring every employee to use the same method:
• Standard hours entry: Employees enter total hours worked per day or per project. Suitable for salaried or professional services environments.
• Clock in/out: Employees punch in and out in real time via mobile, web, or a physical time clock device. The system calculates hours from timestamps. Suitable for hourly, shift-based, or field workforces.
• Time in/time out: Employees enter start and end times for each work period without a live clock, a practical middle ground for remote or hybrid teams.
• Time + attendance: Combines time entry with attendance tracking, break logging, and absence management for full workforce visibility.
DATABASICS also supports the Shared Time Clock for industrial, construction, and field environments where personal devices may be impractical.
DATABASICS Time gives organizations multiple ways to collect time, including physical time clocks, mobile devices with GPS geo-fencing, and traditional web-based timesheets. Across these methods, employees can track projects and activities for job costing, project billing, and payroll allocation, while organizations maintain the controls, audit trails, and compliance support their workflows require. DATABASICS also supports employee leave and PTO tracking within the broader time management process.
For workforces where employees do not have reliable access to a personal mobile device or desktop, including construction sites, manufacturing floors, and field service locations, DATABASICS offers the Shared Time Clock. It is a rugged tablet-based kiosk that allows multiple employees to clock in and out from a single shared device at a job site or facility entrance.
The Shared Time Clock integrates fully with the DATABASICS time tracking system. Hours captured on the device flow into the same timesheet and approval workflow as hours entered via mobile or web, no separate data import required. It supports facial confirmation for employee verification at clock in/out.
For organizations that need a mix of clock methods across different employee groups, some using mobile, others using a shared device, DATABASICS supports both within the same system and the same approval workflow.
Beginning January 1, 2027, Mexico’s maximum ordinary workweek is scheduled to drop from 48 hours to 46 hours as part of a phased reduction toward 40 hours by 2030. Employers will also need to maintain electronic workday records that can be made available to labor authorities.
For companies with employees or operations in Mexico, DATABASICS Time can help capture exact clock-in, clock-out, meal-start, meal-end, and break timestamps. It can also support effective-dated policy rules, configurable overtime tiers, paid and unpaid break distinctions, alerts for daily and weekly limits, correction audit trails, approval history, employee-level reports, and exports to payroll, ERP, or other downstream systems.
Companies using NetSuite, Sage Intacct, Microsoft Dynamics, SAP, Oracle, or another ERP should review how timekeeping data moves into payroll, finance, project accounting, and reporting workflows.
Final compliance depends on each employer’s configuration, workforce policies, legal interpretation, payroll setup, integrations, and any final technical specifications issued by Mexico’s Secretariat of Labor and Social Welfare.
Labor law compliance is particularly complex for organizations operating across multiple states or for those managing hourly workforces in regulated industries. DATABASICS handles this at the system level rather than relying on managers to remember state-specific rules:
- Overtime: Configurable daily and weekly overtime thresholds by state or employee class
- Meal and rest breaks: Break requirements enforced and tracked automatically for relevant workforces
- State-specific rules: California and other states with non-standard labor requirements can be configured separately from the default rule set
- Leave management: PTO, sick leave, FMLA, and other leave types tracked within the same timesheet system
- Audit trails: All time entries, edits, and approvals are logged with user and timestamp, as required for wage and hour dispute resolution
Leave management in DATABASICS is built into the time tracking module, not bolted on separately. Employees request leave through the same interface they use to submit timesheets. Managers approve or deny requests through the same workflow. And leave balances are tracked and updated automatically as requests are approved.
Key features include:
- Multiple leave types: PTO, sick leave, FMLA, bereavement, jury duty, and custom leave categories defined by your organization
- Accrual tracking: Leave balances accrue based on your configured rules and update in real time as leave is used
- Employee self-service: Employees can view their available balances and submit requests without contacting HR
- Manager approval workflow: Leave requests route through the same configurable approval chain as timesheets
- Payroll integration: Approved leave posts to payroll automatically alongside regular hours, no manual handoff
- Audit trail: Every request, approval, and balance adjustment is logged for compliance and dispute resolution
Because leave and time tracking live in the same system, managers have full visibility into team availability alongside project hours, without toggling between tools.
For organizations that track costs by project, including government contractors, nonprofits, construction firms, and professional services, time and expense data are two halves of the same question: what did this project actually cost?
When those systems are separate, finance has to reconcile them manually at reporting time. Employees have to remember two submission processes, two approval workflows, and two systems. Integration between the two tools is often brittle and requires ongoing maintenance.
In DATABASICS, both time and expense are captured, approved, and posted to the ERP together. Project codes, cost centers, and allocation rules are shared between modules, so a project manager sees the full cost picture (labor + expenses) without pulling data from multiple places. For DCAA compliance, this is especially important: the standard requires that both time and expense records are traceable to specific contracts and are consistently managed.
This matters because time and expense data often feed the same business questions: what did the work cost, who approved it, which project or cost center should it hit, and what needs to move to payroll, billing, accounting, or reimbursement.
When time tracking and expense reporting are handled in separate systems, finance teams often have to reconcile labor costs, expenses, project codes, approvals, and exports manually. DATABASICS helps keep those workflows connected from submission through approval and posting.
05 Integrations
DATABASICS is designed to fit into your existing technology stack rather than replace it. Confirmed integrations include:
- Sage Intacct: bi-directional integration for expense, time, and project data
- Oracle NetSuite: expense and time data sync to NetSuite general ledger and project modules
- Microsoft Dynamics: integration with Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations for specific Dynamics versions supported
- ADP: payroll data sync for time and attendance
For organizations running ERPs not listed here, ask about integration options via API or file-based exchange. DATABASICS has a history of building integrations to customer-specific systems where the organization has real volume and complexity.
The goal is that approved time and expense data moves to your system of record automatically, with no spreadsheet exports and no manual re-entry.
With DATABASICS, employees submit time and expenses once, managers approve them, and the approved data can flow into the systems finance, payroll, accounting, HR, and operations teams already use. This helps reduce duplicate entry, spreadsheet cleanup, disconnected approvals, and manual data transfers between departments.
For example, approved time data can support payroll, billing, labor costing, project accounting, and compliance. Approved expense data can support reimbursement, card reconciliation, general ledger posting, project costing, and financial reporting.
DATABASICS is a strong fit for organizations that need time tracking and expense reporting to work together with ERP, payroll, accounting, HR, project, card, and reporting systems instead of managing those workflows in separate tools.
Common integration flows include approved hours moving to payroll, approved expenses moving to an ERP or accounting system, project and cost allocation data syncing for reporting, and corporate card transactions feeding into the expense reporting process.
Exact data flows depend on your ERP, payroll, accounting, HR, card, and reporting systems. During implementation, DATABASICS works with your team to confirm which systems need to exchange data, which fields need to be mapped, and which approval steps must happen before data is sent.
Most ERPs, including Sage Intacct and NetSuite, include basic expense entry functionality. For simple organizations with low expense volume and minimal compliance requirements, those modules may be sufficient.
DATABASICS is typically chosen when the ERP module falls short in one or more areas:
- Mobile experience: ERP mobile apps are rarely optimized for field-based expense capture. DATABASICS is.
- Compliance rigor: DCAA, grant-specific, or labor law rules require enforcement logic that ERP expense modules do not have built in.
- Card management: ERPs are not designed to manage transaction feeds from multiple card programs in one place.
- Approval configurability: Complex multi-level, project-based, or amount-triggered approval chains typically exceed what ERP expense modules support.
- Time + expense together: Very few ERPs offer a timesheet module that matches the depth of a purpose-built time tracking product.
The DATABASICS model: handle the complexity in DATABASICS, post clean data to the ERP. Finance works in the ERP. Employees and managers work in DATABASICS.
Some organizations need more than a standard connector. DATABASICS can work with customers to support custom integration workflows, including data exchange with systems that are not part of the standard integration directory.
During evaluation, confirm which systems need to connect, what data needs to move, how often data should sync, whether approvals must happen before export, and who will maintain the integration after launch.
06 Compliance & Security
DCAA (Defense Contract Audit Agency) compliance requires that government contractors track time by contract and project daily, that employees certify their own timesheets, that supervisors approve them, and that the records are immutable, meaning no one can alter a submitted timesheet without the change being logged.
DATABASICS enforces all of these requirements at the system level:
- Employees allocate hours to specific contracts or projects each day
- Electronic employee certification on timesheet submission
- Supervisor approval with timestamp logging
- Full revision history: every edit is recorded, not overwritten
- Expense records tied to the same contract and project structure
DATABASICS is used by government contractors across defense, professional services, and scientific research. If DCAA compliance is a core requirement, request a demo specifically focused on the compliance workflow to verify the configuration matches your audit environment.
The audit trail is not a report you run. It is built into every record in the system. For each expense or time entry, the audit log captures:
- Original submission: employee, timestamp, amounts, allocations
- Every edit: what changed, who changed it, when
- Approval actions: each approver, decision, timestamp, and any comments
- Rejections and resubmissions: full chain of custody
- Receipt documentation: linked at the transaction level
This trail cannot be deleted or altered by end users or administrators. When an internal, external, or government DCAA auditor needs to review a transaction, every piece of documentation is in one place and accessible in seconds. Finance teams consistently cite this as one of the features that makes year-end and audit periods significantly less painful.
User permissions in DATABASICS are role-based: employees see only their own expenses and time. Managers see their direct reports. Finance administrators have system-wide visibility. IT administrators control system configuration. Each role is configurable. You are not locked into preset permission levels.
Data security specifics to verify with the DATABASICS team before contract:
- Encryption standards for data at rest and in transit
- SOC 2 certification status and report availability
- Data residency and hosting environment
- Single sign-on (SSO) and multi-factor authentication support
- Data retention and deletion policies
For organizations with specific security requirements, including government contractors, healthcare organizations, and those subject to data localization laws, we recommend a dedicated security review conversation with the DATABASICS team before signing.
These two functions work together but solve different problems:
Policy enforcement is what the system does without human involvement: checking that a submitted expense doesn't exceed the hotel rate cap, that receipts are attached above the required threshold, that the expense category is valid for the project, and that no duplicate exists. Policy enforcement catches the clear violations automatically, reducing the burden on approvers and ensuring that organizational rules are applied consistently regardless of who the approver is that day.
Expense approval is the human step: a manager or finance administrator reviews the expense, considers context the system cannot evaluate ("this client dinner was over the limit but was authorized by the VP"), and approves or rejects with comments. DATABASICS routes approved expenses to the next level if required and holds rejected expenses for employee correction.
Together, these two functions mean that approvers spend time on judgment calls rather than catching data entry errors or policy violations the system already found.
07 Implementation & Support
There is no single answer to implementation timelines because the variables that affect them are significant: how many modules you are implementing, which ERP you are integrating with, how complex your approval workflows are, how many employee groups have different configurations, and whether you are migrating historical data.
What DATABASICS does provide:
- A dedicated implementation project manager
- Structured onboarding with defined phases and milestones
- Configuration support: DATABASICS does not hand you documentation and leave you to self-configure
- Training for administrators, managers, and end users
- Go-live support with a defined hypercare period
When evaluating, ask for current customer references with a similar industry, integration, and organization size.
When you implement DATABASICS, you work with DATABASICS people throughout the entire process, from initial configuration through go-live and beyond. There is no handoff to a consulting firm, a regional partner, or an offshore implementation team.
This matters for a few practical reasons:
- Continuity: The team that configures your system knows your setup when you call with a question six months later
- Accountability: There is one relationship and one point of contact, not a triangle between you, a vendor, and an integrator
- Configuration depth: DATABASICS team members know the product in detail and can configure complex workflows, compliance rules, and ERP integrations without relying on documentation hand-offs
- Training quality: Administrator and end-user training is delivered by people who built and configured your specific instance, not a generalist trainer working from a slide deck
Responsive, in-house support is one of the most consistent themes in DATABASICS customer feedback. If implementation quality and post-go-live support are important evaluation criteria for your organization, and they should be, ask DATABASICS for references from customers in your industry.
Support is a consistent differentiator in customer feedback about DATABASICS. The model is direct access to people who know the product and know your configuration, not a tiered offshore support system where you start with a generic agent and escalate endlessly.
During evaluation, confirm the specifics of your support tier, including:
- Support hours and coverage (business hours vs. extended)
- Dedicated account manager or customer success contact availability
- SLA response times by issue priority
- Training resources for new employees or configuration changes
- User community or knowledge base access
For organizations making their first move from spreadsheet-based processes to a purpose-built platform, the quality of post-go-live support has a large impact on adoption. Ask about this explicitly during your evaluation.
Training is built into the implementation process rather than being an afterthought. There are typically two distinct audiences with different training needs:
Administrators and finance teams need to understand system configuration, approval workflow management, reporting, and how to troubleshoot common issues. This training is more in-depth and usually delivered in sessions with the implementation team.
End users, meaning employees submitting expenses or time, need a simple, practical walkthrough of the mobile app and submission process. The goal is that an employee can submit their first expense report without calling IT.
For organizations with high employee turnover or frequent onboarding, ask specifically about self-paced or on-demand training resources that do not require scheduling a training session every time a new employee joins.
DBee is the AI layer built into the DATABASICS platform. Instead of navigating report menus and filter configurations, users ask DBee questions in plain English: "Show me all expenses over $500 submitted this month," "Which projects are over budget on travel?" or "What is our average reimbursement cycle time this quarter?"
DBee can surface anomalies, identify trends, and answer questions that would otherwise require a finance analyst to build a custom report. For CFOs and controllers who want visibility without building dashboards, DBee functions as an always-available analyst.
DBee also supports the fraud detection and policy compliance layer by identifying patterns in expense data that human reviewers are unlikely to catch at scale.
08 Pricing
Pricing varies by product, plan, user count, configuration, integrations, services, and contract terms. The pricing page is the source of truth for current plan details.
When Time Tracking and Expense Reporting are purchased together, the current pricing page advertises a 20 percent discount on the monthly subscription.
Review the published plans first, then request a configured quote for the required modules, integrations, services, and user counts.
When evaluating expense management software, the license fee is only one part of the cost picture. A complete assessment should include:
- Implementation costs: Professional services, IT time, data migration
- Training costs: Admin training, end-user training, ongoing onboarding for new hires
- Integration maintenance: Who maintains the ERP connection when the ERP is updated?
- Support costs: Included or billed separately?
Potential savings may include less manual reconciliation, fewer duplicate reimbursements, and less audit preparation time.
Spreadsheets work until they don't. The breaking points are predictable: the organization grows past the point where a finance person can review every submission manually; a compliance audit reveals that the documentation trail is incomplete; an employee leaves and takes the spreadsheet template with them; or a duplicate reimbursement slips through because there is no automated detection.
The concrete costs of spreadsheet-based expense management that are easy to undercount:
- Finance team hours spent chasing receipts, correcting errors, and reconciling card statements
- Reimbursement delays that create friction with employees
- Audit risk from incomplete or inconsistent documentation
- Zero visibility into spend until reports are submitted, sometimes weeks after the expense occurred
DATABASICS is not the right answer for every organization. But for the organizations it is built for, those that are compliance-driven, project-based, and multi-system, the question is not whether to use software. It is which software to use.
Talk to a DATABASICS expert.
Our team can answer questions specific to your industry, your ERP, your compliance requirements, and your timeline, with no sales script and no pressure.
Subscribe to Our Blog
Subscribe to our blog and get the latest in time tracking and expense reporting news and updates.