Travel Expense Registration
Feature Detail
Description
Enables peer mentors and coordinators to register travel expenses and reimbursement claims directly from the mobile app. The form captures kilometre allowances, toll fees, parking, and public transport costs through structured fixed-choice fields that prevent invalid combinations. Expenses are linked to specific activities and submitted for approval based on configurable thresholds — claims under defined limits are auto-approved, while larger claims route to coordinator review. The system supports integration with external accounting platforms such as Xledger and Microsoft Dynamics.
User Flow
Analysis
Reimbursement friction is a leading cause of peer mentor dropout and under-reporting. By digitising the expense workflow directly in the app, organisations eliminate the manual Excel and paper-based processes that currently delay payments by weeks. Auto-approval rules for low-value claims reduce coordinator workload significantly, while mandatory fixed-choice fields prevent the common error of combining mutually exclusive expense types (e.g. kilometre allowance and bus ticket for the same trip). For HLF and Blindeforbundet, API integration with their respective accounting systems removes a full manual reconciliation step, saving administrative hours per reporting cycle and improving data accuracy for audit purposes.
Implement expense forms using Flutter form widgets with strict field-level validation enforced client-side, mirroring server-side rules to prevent invalid combinations before submission. Expense types and their mutual-exclusivity rules should be fetched from the API at app start and cached locally for offline scenarios. Threshold-based auto-approval logic lives in the backend REST API to ensure consistency across mobile and admin portal. The approval state machine (submitted → auto-approved / pending-review → approved / rejected) should be modelled explicitly in the database. For accounting integrations, implement an adapter interface per provider (Xledger, Dynamics) behind a shared `AccountingApiClient` service to isolate vendor-specific logic.
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