View and Edit Pending Corporate Card Transactions

View and Edit Pending Corporate Card Transactions

Transactions with a Pending status are recent corporate card transactions or holds that have not yet been fully processed by the merchant or submitted. For complete details on transaction statuses, see Understanding Transaction Types in Emburse Spend.

To view pending transactions, click the Personal tab in the upper left corner, then click Transactions. By default, the screen will open with transactions filtered by Pending Submission status.

Pending transactions cannot be submitted for approval until the merchant processes the transaction. These will have a Queue button in the Action column instead of a Submit button.

Transactions page with Pending Submission tab selected and Queue buttons in the Action column

If a merchant does not end up charging you, they will release the transaction and it will be eliminated from your account.

If there is a pending transaction on your card that needs to be released, the best practice is to ask the merchant to release the pending transaction—your bank cannot release pending transactions.

Some merchants can take 3-5 business days to release transactions. If the merchant doesn't release the transaction, the pending transaction will be released automatically after 30 days.

Edit Pending Transactions

You may edit the details of a pending transaction and then queue it so that the expense will be submitted automatically once the charges are posted. You may also edit the transaction while it is queued.

  1. Click on the transaction you wish to edit.

    Pending Submission transaction list with a transaction row selected

  2. On the Edit Expense Details screen, make the desired changes and then click Queue.

    Edit Expense Details screen with Queue button for a pending transaction

Save Pending Transactions As Drafts

If you are not ready to submit a pending transaction to be queued, you may choose to edit and save it as a draft to submit later. This allows you to add such information as a note or a business purpose without having to submit the transaction immediately.

The Save Draft option will not appear for Queued expenses; however, you may edit and save changes for Queued expenses.

  1. Click on the transaction you wish to edit.
  2. On the Edit Expense Details screen, make the desired changes, and then click Save Draft or, if the transaction is ready, Submit.

Splitting is not supported for draft transactions. Once a transaction is split, it will need to be submitted.

Edit Expense Details screen with Submit and Save Draft buttons highlighted

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