Odoo 10 Implementation Cookbook

Record expenses by e-mail

When an employee is onsite, it can be too difficult for them to keep a copy of each invoice or bill. Sometimes, employees' lose a bill and are not able to apply for reimbursement as the company policy requires them to submit the bill.

Odoo has a built-in feature to create an expense along with a copy of bills from an incoming e-mail. An employee just has to click a photo of a bill and send an e-mail to the expense gateway to register the expense. If an employee forgets to preserve the copy of a bill, it will not be an issue as the bill is already submitted to the expense application by e-mail.

To enable the registration of an expense based on an e-mail, the first step to configure is the e-mail gateway available ...