A Receipt In, A Coded Draft Out
Capture a receipt and AI extracts the merchant, date, amount, category, and tax, then suggests the GL account from your coding history - so employees get a prefilled draft, not a blank form.
What receipt scanning in Fintra does
The receipt is the friction point of expenses. Fintra removes it: a receipt - uploaded text, an email body, or a structured payload - is extracted via the AI gateway, validated deterministically, and turned into a prefilled expense draft with suggested GL coding. The employee confirms instead of typing.
- Extracts merchant, date, amount, category, and tax
- Suggests the GL account and category from coding history
- Validates and coerces the extraction deterministically
- Fails soft - low confidence produces a hand-fillable draft, never a block
How capture works
From receipt to draft
- 1
Capture
Provide the receipt as text, an email body, or a structured payload.
- 2
Extract
The AI gateway pulls merchant, date, amount, category, and tax.
- 3
Validate
Fintra validates and coerces the fields deterministically.
- 4
Code
It suggests the GL account and category from coding history.
- 5
Confirm
The employee reviews the prefilled draft and submits.
Reliable even when AI is not
Feeds policy and the ledger
- The coded draft flows into the expense policy engine
- Receipt presence satisfies receipt-required policy thresholds
- Approved expenses journal to the ledger
- The gateway call is metered and isolated behind a single seam
Frequently asked questions
What does Fintra extract from a receipt?
The merchant, date, amount, category, and tax. It then suggests the GL account and category from your and the company’s coding history, turning the receipt into a prefilled expense draft the employee confirms rather than fills in by hand.
What if the AI misreads a receipt?
Extraction is validated and coerced deterministically, and the process fails soft: if the AI gateway is unreachable or returns a low-confidence result, the fallback is a hand-fillable draft. Capture never blocks the employee, and the employee always confirms before submitting.
Can I submit receipts by email?
Yes. Receipt capture accepts uploaded text, an email body, or a structured payload. A structured payload is trusted as-is; free text is extracted by the AI gateway and then validated, so multiple capture paths land in the same coded draft.
Does a scanned receipt satisfy expense policy?
Yes. The coded draft flows into the expense policy engine, and having a receipt on file satisfies receipt-required thresholds - so an expense that would otherwise be flagged for a missing receipt clears policy automatically.
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