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Validating Expense and Absence Requests in the Admin Space
Validating Expense and Absence Requests in the Admin Space
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Written by Rebecca Russell
Updated over a week ago


PayFit administrators can validate any employees' absence requests and expense requests.

Admins can also set up for managers to do these validations on their behalf. For information on how to set up managers to validate expenses, please visit this article.

Absence Requests

How to Approve or Reject Absence Requests

Go to Validations > Leaves. Here, you can see pending leave requests - as well as all approved, rejected & cancelled leaves, which can be viewed by clicking into the different tabs.

Click into the pending request and you'll be able to see details of the leave request.

In this screen, you can check:

  • Absence type

  • Requested dates for absence

  • Absence duration

  • Overview of employee's leave balance (by clicking 'see total')

  • Absence justification if necessary

  • The team calendar to check the teams' other leave and absences within this period

  • Any additional comments by the employee

  • The date the leave request was submitted (by clicking on the small question mark next to 'Do you want to validate the leave request?')

Reviewing Absence Validations

Go to Validations > Leaves > click on the Approved Leaves section.

To easily review requests, they are grouped by validation status. You'll be able to see:

  • Name of the requesting employee

  • The type of absence

  • The requested period of absence

  • The duration of absence

If you click into the Approved Leave, you can also see information such as:

  • Employees remaining leave

  • Who approved the leave (by clicking on the small question mark next to 'My Validations')

Expense requests

How to Approve or Reject Expense Requests

Go to Validations > Expenses. Here, you can see pending expense requests - as well as all approved, rejected & cancelled expenses, which can be viewed by clicking into the different tabs.

Click into the pending request and you'll be able to see details of the expense request.

In this screen, you can check:

  • Name of expense

  • The type of expense

  • Date of expense

  • Amount of expense

  • Image of Receipt

  • Comment (if any)

  • When the employee submitted the expense claim (by clicking on the small question mark next to 'Do you want to validate the expense?')

Reviewing Expense Validations

Go to Validations > Expenses > click on the Approved Expenses section.

To easily review requests, they are grouped by validation status. You'll be able to see:

  • Name of the requesting employee

  • The type of expense

  • Name of expense

  • Date of submission of the expense

  • Amount of the expense

If you click into the Approved Expense, you can also see information such as:

  • Who approved the leave (by clicking on the small question mark next to 'My Validations')

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