February 22, 2024 Release Notes: Expense Approval Shortcuts

We have introduced new expense approval shortcuts that allow a Managers and Admins to review and act on expenses sent for their approval with ease on both the Transactions and Reimbursable Expenses pages.

When you click on an expense from the list on your Transactions or Reimbursable Expenses screen, you will now have the following navigation options:

• Back and Next Buttons: You can click these buttons to easily move through the list of expenses awaiting your approval.
• Keyboard Shortcuts: We also brought back something that was on Abacus' previous UI before, which are the keyboard shortcuts that also allow admins to approve or deny an expense by just using the key A or D, reassign using R, or move back or next using < and >
  • A: Approve the expense.
  • D: Deny the expense. For corporate card transactions, the expense will be returned to the submitter for them to edit and resubmit it. For reimbursable expenses, you will have the option to return the expense to the submitter for them to edit and resubmit it or to deny the expense entirely, which will not allow the user to resubmit it.
  • R: Reassign the expense to another approver.
  • right arrow: Move to the next expense in your list.
  • left arrow: Move to the previous expense in your list.

To learn how to approve expenses in Emburse Spend, see Approve or Deny Reimbursable Expenses or Approve Corporate Card Expenses.