Chrome River White Papers

Guide to Creating an Expense Management Software RFP

Guide to Creating an Expense Management Software RFP

Whether you’re researching expense automation for the first time, or considering a switch from your current solution, an RFP is an important step in evaluating the best fit. Use this step-by-step guide to ask all the right questions and narrow down your shortlist.

Chrome River vs. Concur: Capterra Expense Report Software Comparison

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Chrome River vs. Concur: Capterra Expense Report Software Comparison

More democratic than a Gartner Magic Quadrant, this compilation of Capterra peer reviews for expense report software rates Chrome River higher than our competition across every category. See why users prefer us to Concur, Rydoo and Coupa.

Preparing for the Next Generation of Business Travel

Preparing for the Next Generation of Business Travel

For organizations to thrive and succeed in a rapidly-changing business environment, they must ensure that their internal processes and systems are future-proofed. Read this white paper to learn how to ensure you are future-ready for the next generation of business travel.

12 Expense Management Best Practices in Higher Education

12 Expense Management Best Practices in Higher Education

Higher education institutions often have highly complex processes for managing travel bookings and expense management. This guide outlines 12 of the most critical areas that travel departments should consider when developing their next policy.

Agility in Expense Management: How to Future-Proof Your Technology Investment

Agility in Expense Management: How to Future-Proof Your Technology Investment

How can you ensure you won't outgrow your expense management solution? Our guide outlines the eight key topics that every organization should consider to determine which vendor and solution will meet their specific current and future needs.

2019 Corporate Expense Fraud Survey

2019 Corporate Expense Fraud Survey

In a recent survey, we found some revealing trends among frequent expense submitters that could fundamentally impact how you approach compliance and fraud prevention. Which employees cheat on expenses? Discover how, why, and how often they do it.

Insight, not Intuition: Expense and Invoice Management Drives Smarter Business Decisions

Insight, not Intuition: Expense and Invoice Management Drives Smarter Business Decisions

Are you still making crucial business decisions based on gut feelings rather than data? This guide provides an overview of some of the key benefits that organizations can experience with a holistic view and effective analysis of their expense and invoice spend data.

Improve Traveler and Finance Efficiency with Automation

Improve Traveler and Finance Efficiency with Automation

Are you still using expense reports that involve manual and paper-based processes? If you think you're saving money, think again. Free, labor-intensive spreadsheets and paper receipts rob time from your employees, and cost 75% more to process than expense reports using a modern, automated solution.

What CFOs Need to Know About Expense Management

What CFOs Need to Know About Expense Management

Learn how forward-thinking CFOs leverage expense management software to control costs, minimize risk of non-compliance and fraud, and make informed decisions with complete, up-to-date spending data.

13 Expense Management Best Practices for Non-Profits

13 Expense Management Best Practices for Non-Profits

Non-profit organizations have very specific requirements for expense management, to ensure that they serve the needs of all stakeholders. Learn about the techniques and tools that your organization can use to create a best-in-class expense process.

12 Best Practices in Modern Expense Reporting

12 Best Practices in Modern Expense Reporting

Canadian organizations have a myriad of complex regulations and policies that make something as simple as an expense report very convoluted. This whitepaper examines 12 best practices to modernize your expense reporting, update your travel and expense policy, and ensure expense data privacy.

Balancing Expense Policy Compliance and Business Traveler Contentment

Balancing Expense Policy Compliance and Business Traveler Contentment

There is a constant balancing act between the finance team, travel managers, and business travelers: control costs while keeping productivity and morale high. A thoughtful travel and expense policy enforced by a modern, flexible solution helps organizations achieve both goals.

How I Did It

How I Did It

Customers love Chrome River solutions for expense and invoice management because they are so easy to use - even across global organizations. Hear from eight different customers how they implemented Chrome River to let business flow in their companies, schools, and institutions. The results are amazing.

Travel Expense Management in the Manufacturing Industry: 11 Best Practice Approaches

Travel Expense Management in the Manufacturing Industry: 11 Best Practice Approaches

Travel and entertainment expenses can represent up to 10% of manufacturing company revenues. In a world with global supply chains and tariff uncertainties, containing these costs through expense management best practices just makes good business sense.

Successfully Making the Move to Chrome River

Successfully Making the Move to Chrome River

Learn how Chrome River collaborates with our customers so they can leverage our solutions with as little friction as possible. Using our best-in-class implementation methodology, change management tools and ongoing support we effectively enable customers to transition to Chrome River offerings.

The Importance of Business Rules for Expense Management

The Importance of Business Rules for Expense Management

Business rules are a critical component of an expense automation solution, allowing more effective policy compliance and faster approvals and reimbursements.

Expense Management Best Practices for Professional Services Firms

Expense Management Best Practices for Professional Services Firms

The expense management best practices outlined in this whitepaper enforce corporate and client policies, increase travel satisfaction, and drive down expense processing costs.

Unique Expense Management Needs of Global Organizations

Unique Expense Management Needs of Global Organizations

Global organizations have distinct requirements for their expense management solution. Ease-of-use and mobile functionality top the list, but so do language support, currencies, tax compliance, and integrations; not to mention white glove customer support.

2017 Global Benchmark Survey: Business Travel Satisfaction

2017 Global Benchmark Survey: Business Travel Satisfaction

How happy are business travelers? Download the report of this international survey on traveler satisfaction to learn what people like most and least about travel, along with common factors that join the most and least satisfied travelers.

Expense Management as a Catalyst to Drive Revenue

Expense Management as a Catalyst to Drive Revenue

How can companies better ensure that T&E spend has a direct impact on new revenues? Download this white paper to understand how sales and finance leaders can more effectively correlate spend with sales, and how to get the most of their T&E budget investment.

The Late, Great Corporate Card - eBook

The Late, Great Corporate Card - eBook

Virtual wallets and mobile expense management technology are changing the way business travelers book and pay for trips. U.S. Bank and Chrome River discuss the integration of corporate cards and expense reports. Can you imagine an expense report that writes itself? Even better, can you imagine your wallet not stuffed with crumpled receipts?

Streamlining the AP Process with Automated Invoice Management Software

Streamlining the AP Process with Automated Invoice Management Software

Automating your AP processes saves time and money, while providing visibility to your cash flow. Invoice management software streamlines the handling, processing, and approval workflows so your team can concentrate on value-added projects.

Selecting an Expense Management App - a Guide to Mobility Features

Selecting an Expense Management App - a Guide to Mobility Features

Having an expense report app is commonplace amongst today's expense management solutions. But the type of app makes a huge difference in terms of functionality and accessibility. A web app means the same user interface and functionality on every device. A native app means constant user updates and limited functionality.

Selecting an Expense Management Vendor - Best of Breed or One Stop Shop

Selecting an Expense Management Vendor - Best of Breed or One Stop Shop

All of your employees will use your expense report software - so it's important that you select the vendor carefully. Finance, Travel, IT, and Business Travelers all need specific features and you need a partner you can trust.

Pitfalls of Manual Expense Reporting

Pitfalls of Manual Expense Reporting

Manual expense reporting might seem the easiest solution for your company. After all, everyone can fill out a spreadsheet and photocopy receipts. But did you know that manual expense reports cost an average of $26, while an automated expense report costs only $7.

10 Questions for Your Global Expense Management Solution

10 Questions for Your Global Expense Management Solution

What are the key questions you need to ask when evaluating expense providers? Download this guide to learn about some of the most critical factors that any organization should consider when rolling out a global expense management solution.

Expense Policy Template

Expense Policy Template

Use this Expense Policy Template to fine tune your unique rules around purchases and expenses. Tight, well-written policies remove ambiguity and help employees become stewards of the company checkbook.

10 Ways to Prevent Business Expense Fraud

10 Ways to Prevent Business Expense Fraud

Read about some of the most common and most egregious ways that employees falsely claim corporate expenses for reimbursement. This white paper highlights 10 practical steps that organizations can take to reduce their liability to expense fraud and abuse.

Responsive Web Design for the Mobile Workforce

Responsive Web Design for the Mobile Workforce

The flexible nature of Responsive Web Design brings a high degree of speed and mobility sought by many competitive organizations. Some business processes—expense reporting in particular—are especially well-suited by responsive design solutions.

Travel and Expense Technology for the Advertising Industry

Travel and Expense Technology for the Advertising Industry

Business success is highly dependent on cutting costs, and controlling spend becomes a strategic goal for many advertising companies. One of the largest areas of costs, travel & expense, can be controlled with TEM solutions.

10 Essential Expense Management Best Practices

10 Essential Expense Management Best Practices

The author of this paper has worked with hundreds of companies of varying sizes, across numerous industries, all around the world. From her experience, the author captured a list of “Top 10 Expense Reporting Best Practices” that are simple but effective.

The Benefits of Single Platform Process Automation

The Benefits of Single Platform Process Automation

Rarely do companies do a 'big bang' approach and implement multiple systems at once. But this approach works beautifully with a single platform solution, which offers a greater chance of success with less stress.

Unique Travel and Expense Needs in Higher Education

Unique Travel and Expense Needs in Higher Education

Many people and groups in an institution incur business expenses. Keeping up with policies, spending limits and allocations can be overwhelming. Many expenses are funded through grants, which must be allocated and meticulously tracked. Chrome River simplifies this.

Benefits of Rules Based Expense Reporting

Benefits of Rules Based Expense Reporting

Employee reimbursable expenses now include such costs as court fees, membership payments, home office and mobile payments. For many organizations, the T&E category is second only to compensation as a controllable cost. Rules-based expense reporting helps control these costs.

Unique Travel and Expense Needs for Consulting Firms

Unique Travel and Expense Needs for Consulting Firms

Consultants must accurately allocate and meticulously track expenses for each client. They must also be able to bill these expenses in a timely manner so that they can be collected with minimal write-offs. We're experts at this.

Unique Travel and Expense Needs for Engineering Firms

Unique Travel and Expense Needs for Engineering Firms

Engineering firms must accurately allocate and meticulously track expenses for each client. They must then be able to bill these expenses in a timely manner so that they can be collected with minimal write-offs. We’re experts at this.

Expense Control Risk for Law Firms

Expense Control Risk for Law Firms

Organizations are looking to eliminate costs, reduce business exposure risk and improve operational efficiencies. The expense reporting and reimbursement process plays a significant role in these efforts and automation leads to provable savings due to the reduction of fraud.

Expense Management Operational Impact

Expense Management Operational Impact

Organizations using Chrome River report significant ROI from implementing an automated expense reporting and reimbursement system. Savings come from efficiency gains, increased compliance with firm and client expense policies, and cost avoidance from a preapproval process.

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