Fintra Feature
A receipt in, a coded draft out
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
Capture
Provide the receipt as text, an email body, or a structured payload.
Extract
The AI gateway pulls merchant, date, amount, category, and tax.
Validate
Fintra validates and coerces the fields deterministically.
Code
It suggests the GL account and category from coding history.
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
Questions people ask
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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