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Submission and approval notifications
Submission and approval notifications

How can I be notified about submitted requests? Will I be notified if I need to approve approval requests?

Updated over 4 months ago

On specific occasions, Payhawk sends out notifications over email and mobile, thus enabling you to stay on track with your corporate expenses and approval requests.

For example, Payhawk notifies employees when they have to submit an expense or managers need to be aware of their pending requests.

The following table summarises the notification types and their details.

About

Purpose

Occurrence

Medium

Receivers

Returned expenses

To notify an employee that their expense was returned to them for additional input.

Upon the return of the expense

Mobile and email

Everyone

Rejected expenses

To notify employees that their expense was rejected.

Upon the rejection of the expense

Email

Everyone

New fund requests for approval

To remind that a pending fund request if still unapproved.

Only if no action is taken for 30 minutes after the fund request is sent.

Email

Approvers

(based on the defined approval workflows)

Fund requests for approval

To notify for a submitted fund request.

Real time

Mobile

Approvers

(based on the defined approval workflows)

Expense requests for approval

To remind approvers for all expense requests they need to approve.

Daily at 9AM GMT

Email

Approvers

(based on the defined approval workflows)

Expenses with pending document submission

To notify employees about a successful card transaction and remind them to submit a receipt.

Real time

Mobile

Everyone

Expenses with pending input

To remind employees for all their expenses which have not been submitted

Each Monday at 7AM GMT

Email

Everyone

Employees having expenses with pending input

To provide a summary of how many expenses are not submitted, and by which employees.

Each Monday at 4PM GMT

Email

Admins and accountants

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