Capture and Upload Receipts

Once you have logged in to Emburse Enterprise Mobile, you can easily capture a receipt, add a note, and upload it to your Receipt Gallery in Emburse Enterprise with just a few taps.

Capture a Receipt

On the Home Screen, tap the blue camera button in the lower right corner.

  • The first time you access the camera in Emburse Enterprise Mobile, you will need to grant access to your device's camera. On the pop-up screen, tap Allow.

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Auto Border Detection On

The camera will open with automatic border detection turned on by default.

Simply hold your device over the receipt until the borders are detected, as indicated by the blue box that appears over the receipt. The ring around the capture button will revolve until the receipt is in focus and then automatically capture the image.

The saved image will have the border cropped out.

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Auto Border Detection Off

If you have turned off automatic border detection, no blue box will appear over the receipt and you will need to tap the Capture button at the bottom middle of the screen to take the photo. 

The saved image will show the full receipt and its background.

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Camera Functions

Tap the other buttons on the screen to...

CU_-_Flash.png Turn the camera's flash on or off. Automatic flash detects low light and uses flash if needed.
Border Detect Icon.png Turn border detection off.
CU_-_Close.png Close the camera and return to the Home Screen.
CU_-_Gallery.png Access previously-photographed receipts in your device's photo gallery.
CU_-_Wallet.png Access your Wallet. A red dot indicates new items.

Capture Options

Once the image has been captured, you have several options.

  1. Tap Border Detection to revert to the full image with its original background.
  2. Tap Crop to manually adjust the auto-detected image borders. See Manual Border Cropping, below, for more details.
  3. Tap the X in the upper right corner to return to the camera without saving the photo.
  4. Tap Add Note to enter information that will populate the expense's Description field.
  5. Tap Upload to send the receipt to your Wallet in the app and to your Receipt Gallery in Emburse Enterprise online.
  6. Tap Attach Additional Receipt to capture more images to create a multi-page PDF. See Create Multi-Page Receipt PDFs for complete details.

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It is not possible to edit the receipt amount in Emburse Enterprise Mobile. Once the receipt has been added to an expense report, you may change the amount on the report.

If you choose to add a note, begin typing to replace the "What is the purpose of this expense?" text, then tap Done. This information will populate the expense's Description field.

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You will be returned to the camera screen. The "Receipt is saved" message indicates the capture is beginning to upload, not that it has completed uploading.

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You may continue capturing receipts or tap the X in the upper right corner to return to the Home Screen.

An "Uploading" indicator will appear on any receipt that is still being processed.

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Manual Border Cropping

Tapping the CU - Crop Button.png Crop button in a receipt's Upload Preview allows you to manually adjust how the image is cropped by dragging any of the four corners visible around the receipt.

Click the Checkmark in the upper right corner when done.

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