Because claiming is a chore with no deadline. The receipt is in a coat pocket, the claim is filed at quarter end, and the month it belongs to has already been reported.
An expense claim is a set of receipted lines submitted by a person, routed to whoever owns the budget, and posted on approval.
A claim is raised from a receipt photo, coded to a category and a cost centre, and routed by the approval rule for that budget. Approval posts it; nobody re-enters it in the ledger.
A consultant's travel is billable. The claim is marked against the project, so it posts as cost and reaches the next client invoice as a billable line at the agreed markup.
It does not set policy. It enforces the limits you configure and flags what breaches them, but approving an over-limit claim is still somebody's decision.
Nest holds the person and their approver, Loop the project it is coded to. The posting reaches the general ledger, the cost centre and — where billable — the invoice.
Yes, or paid separately. Either way it posts once.
Converted at the date on the receipt, with both amounts kept on the line.
Above the threshold you set, yes. Below it you can allow a declaration instead.
Fourteen days, every module, no card. Or half an hour with someone who will run it on your own records and tell you where it does not help.