Imagine the typical scene on one of your business trips. You work as a sales person, you've been to visit a series of new accounts you want to consolidate. This trip is turning out to be a bit longer than usual. You've been away for a week and you still have a couple of days to go.
Lately, the people in administration have got a bit fussy about controlling expenses. As you know, things aren't booming and they've established a new policy whereby they won't accept any expense without the original receipt. Of course, you're keeping all of them but, after seven days, your briefcase looks like a paper sandwich. What's more, the oldest receipts are already creased and some have been erased because it rained yesterday and they got a bit wet.
Luckily, you get back the day after tomorrow but the worst still awaits you - producing your expense claim. You reckon you'll easily waste a whole afternoon of work transcribing receipt by receipt onto a spreadsheet. Then you'll get an envelope, put in all the original receipts and take it personally to the administration department.
Sound familiar? If you work for a firm as a sales person, as head of sales or even in the administration or finance department, it must surely ring a bell. If that's the case, then you know how tiresome the whole process is for those involved, for the team members generating receipts but also for those who have to check them.
It would've all been much easier with Captio. Instead of accumulating receipts, you would've photographed them and not bothered keeping the paper original. You wouldn't have had to carry around a load of paper in your briefcase and it wouldn't have got stained, creased or erased. And, best of all, it wouldn't have been necessary to waste a whole Friday afternoon producing your expense claim, as you could have generated it automatically at the push of a button. There are more interesting things to do, don't you think? The person in charge would have received it via email and, that's that! Neither of you would have even needed to have been in the office. The data for each receipt would have arrived in a single file, organised on a spreadsheet with photographs of the originals. Fewer headaches for everyone and fewer hours wasted on paperwork!
