Real-Time Expense Reporting
Find the expenses that need attention with Live Reports
Live Reports give you flexible, sortable views of every expense, so you can surface exceptions, compare related spending, and keep approvals moving throughout the month.
Organize expense review around the questions finance needs to answer
Live Reports let you sort expenses by any field you choose, surfacing exceptions quickly and powering more efficient, contextual approval.
Why finance teams need Live Reports
Expense reports trap your data
Traditional expense reports bundle expenses into static employee reports, making it harder for approvers to compare spending across categories, teams, or time periods.
Live Reports make expense patterns easier to see
Live Reports lets approvers sort and filter expense data from different angles, shifting the review from “is this expense OK?” to “how does this expense compare across categories, teams, or time periods?”
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What changes with real-time expense reporting
Complete documentation
Employees capture a receipt and add the required details when they spend. AI matches the receipt to the transaction, so there’s no expense report to build later.
Instant control
Automated rules check each expense as it is submitted, flagging or blocking out-of-policy spending without delaying unrelated expenses.
Focused approvals
Each expense goes directly to the right approver, so reviewers see only the items that require their attention.
Better spend context
Capture the project, client, cost center, or other details your business needs with every expense, making spend easier to track and compare.
Faster reimbursements
Approved out-of-pocket expenses can move to reimbursement right away, without waiting for other expenses to be reviewed or approved.
Continuous reconciliation
Reduce the month-end bottleneck by reviewing and reconciling expenses throughout the accounting period instead of waiting until close.
Faster, more strategic approvals: Now for small businesses.
Live Reports are included with Emburse Spend, the real-time expense solution built for small businesses. Get clearer visibility into spending, focus review on what matters, and get up and running in as little as a week.
Frequently asked questions
Live Reports are flexible expense review views in Emburse Spend. They let finance teams filter, sort, and review individual expenses by employee, category, department, project, policy flag, approval status, date range, or custom field.
Traditional expense reports group expenses into static employee reports. Live Reports treat each expense as its own data point, so finance can review spend by the context that matters most.
Yes. Finance teams can filter for missing receipts, missing coding, policy warnings, high spend, or expenses waiting on approval, so they can focus on the items that need attention first.
Yes. Live Reports let you customize the fields shown during review, including receipt status, vendor, employee, category, department, project, policy status, approval status, and accounting details.
Live Reports help finance review, correct, approve, and sync expenses throughout the month instead of waiting for a backlog of reports at close. That means cleaner expense data and less last-minute cleanup.