Finance
Odoo Expenses
Employee expense claims from receipt capture through approval to reimbursement and the resulting journal entry.
What it handles
- Expense capture, including from email and mobile
- Manager approval routing
- Reimbursement through payroll or a direct payment
- Re-invoicing expenses to a customer or project
Odoo documentation 19.4content/applications/finance/expenses
Worth knowing before you commit
Reimbursing an expense through a payslip requires the Payroll app, and only expenses already Approved and Posted can be reimbursed that way.
Posting an expense to an accounting journal needs both Accounting (Accountant or Adviser) and Expenses (Manager) rights on the same user, which is more access than most approvers should hold.
In Canada
Expenses for a Canadian business
Because Odoo has no Canadian payroll localization, the payslip reimbursement route is closed here. Canadian companies reimburse expenses as a direct payment from Accounting instead, which works but means expense reimbursement and payroll stay in separate systems.
The official documentation
Odoo documentation 19.4content/applications/finance/expenses (corpus 19.4)