[Contractors] Add an expense

As a contractor, you can easily create expenses in Remote and add them to your invoices for reimbursement. In this article, we cover the following: 

• Creating expenses and adding them to invoices
• Editing and deleting contractors' expenses

Creating expenses and adding them to invoices

1. Contractors can create expenses by going to:
   • Expenses tab.
   • Invoices tab → Create Invoice → Expenses section of the invoice.
2. An expense can be created by uploading the expense receipt (all the expense details will get pre-populated automatically) and making updates to the expense data, if necessary:
   
   
3. Once created, expenses can be added to your next invoice for reimbursement. If you wish to get your expense reimbursed with a different invoice, you can always unlink the expense by clicking Remove
   
   
   
   
   • Note that only expenses that match the invoice currency can be added for reimbursement for now. If you incur an expense in a currency you don’t normally use for invoicing, we recommend converting the expense to match your usual invoice currency before submission.
4. After your invoice with expense(s) in it is submitted, you can follow the status of the approval and payment under the Invoices tab.
5. Additionally, you will always be able to see the invoice associated with your expense under Expenses → View Invoice:

Editing and deleting contractor expenses

You can edit or delete an expense as long as it has not been added to an invoice by going to the Expenses tab, finding your expense and clicking on the three-dot menu:

For expenses that have already been invoiced, editing or deleting is not possible but you can delete the associated invoice if it has not been approved yet.

See also: How do I review contractor expenses?