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Administrator Guide
Last Updated: 2026-06-26
Configure Expense & Adjustment Settings

Configure Expense & Adjustment Settings

  • You must have the expenses.read or expenses.owned.read permission. For vendor and contractor roles, they should have the expenses.read permission.
  • To configure expense reports, you must have the expenses.settings.create, expenses.settings.delete, expenses.settings.read, and expenses.settings.update permission.
  1. From the header, select
    More
    Company Settings
    .
  2. Under
    Accounting
    , select
    Expenses & Adjustments
    .
  3. Select the
    Configuration
    tab.
  4. Under the
    Expense Form
    heading, complete the fields.
    Field
    Description
    Charge Codes Splitting
    Select to enable users to split an expense across multiple charge codes, applying a percentage to each.
    Restricted Charge Codes
    Select to restrict charge codes to those on the work order.
    Time Limit (in days)
    The number of days that users can submit expenses within. Entering 0 indicates there is no limit.
    Vendor Late Submission
    Select whether or not you want to allow, deny, or warn a vendor when they submit an expense outside of the time limit.
    Alert on Duplicate Entries
    Select to display an alert when a duplicate expense entry by date and type is entered.
    Edit Report Project
    Select to enable expense projects to be modified.
    Hide Receipt Override
    Select to hide the
    Receipt Unavailable
    checkbox on expense entries.
    Expense Item Approvals
    Select to enable approvers to approve or reject expense items individually on the report. Rejected items do not invoice.
    Allow Bulk Uploads
    Select to enable privileged users to bulk upload expenses in a submitted status. Example: You want to load historical expenses.
    Vendor Bulk Uploads
    Select to enable vendors to bulk upload expenses in a submitted status.
    Approver Cannot Modify Summary
    Select to limit what expense approvers can modify. When selected, expense approvers can only modify cost allocation codes, custom fields, comments, and attachments.
    Program Team Adjustment Tolerance in Days
    Specify the number of days the program team can modify expenses and adjustments. If there’s no limit, leave the field blank.
    Contractor Adjustment Tolerance in Days
    Specify the number of days contractors can modify expenses and adjustments. If there’s no limit, leave the field blank.
    Vendor Adjustment Tolerance in Days
    Specify the number of days vendors can modify expenses and adjustments. If there’s no limit, leave the field blank.
    Global Lock Date
    Enter the furthest back date which users can select when adding an expense or miscellaneous adjustment. If there’s no limit, leave the field blank.
  5. Under the
    Access and Approval
    heading, complete the fields.
    Field
    Description
    Approver Strategy
    Specify whether approvers on work sites are included in the list of expense approvers.
    Defaults to
    Work Order
    , which means that VNDLY adds Expense Approvers into the approval chain based on the Work Order.
    If you select
    Work Site
    , VNDLY adds Expense Approvers into the approval chan based on the Location associated with the expense report.
    Site Override Notification
    Displays when you select
    Work Site
    in the approver strategy.
    Enter the email address to notify when the selected expense Work Site doesn’t match the Work Order Work Site.
    Expense Report Visibility
    Specify whether users with expense viewer permission are able to view all expense reports or if they can only expenses they’re approvers on.
    Allow Bulk Approvals
    When enabled, approvals can be done en masse.
    Rate Assignment Overrides
    Displays when you select
    Work Site
    in the approver strategy.
    Assign fixed rates for Work Site.
    Set rates for selected Expense Types by Rate Assignment type in the
    Rate Assignments
    tab.
  6. Click
    Save
    .