January 18, 2005
Cameraphones used for expense reporting
This sounds fabulous and is another example of how business is using picture phones.
A company called epc has developed an app that uses the camera in a cameraphone to take photos of expenses for expense reporting.
How it Works:
Whenever you incur and expense, be it business or personal, you simply:
- Use the camera in your Smartphone to photograph your receipt. You will be amazed at the quality.
- Record a voice tag to summarise the details of the expenditure.
- Select from drop down lists for category, method of payment and other information.
- Export the information to the EPCeipt Excel Application.
Later At Your PC With the EPCeipt Excel Application:
- You can view your receipts, listen to your voice tags, and edit your expenses before submitting them.
- All your scanned receipts are embedded in the spreadsheet so you can submit your expenses by emailing just one file.
And In The Finance Department:
- Paper is eliminated. Click on a button in Excel to bring up the scanned receipt image.
- Print an expense invoice, and copies of the receipts directly from Excel.
Benefits:
- Your expenses are done in real time as you travel. Get back that day a month that you spend on paperwork.
- Eliminate the costs of handling paper invoices.
- Get up to date real time financial information.
- Improve productivity and job satisfaction.
- Retain scanned images of receipts for warranty purposes.
Further details and download a trial version can be found at here.
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