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Expense and user settings

Two of the smaller sections under Modules, both lists.

The Expense Category list with Food among its entries

Settings → Modules → Expenses → Category

What a claim was spent on — Food, Fuel, Parking, Materials, Accommodation. Category is the field that makes an expense reportable: without it every claim is just an amount.

Add Expense Category, type the name, Save.

The Expense Group list, empty, with an Add Expense Group button

Settings → Modules → Expenses → Group

A layer above category, for rolling several categories into one heading — Travel covering fuel, parking and tolls; Subsistence covering food and accommodation.

Ships empty, and plenty of businesses never need it. Add groups when your category list has grown long enough that a report on it is hard to read.

There is more on both, and on how they are used when a claim is made, in expense categories and groups.

The Leave Type list, empty, with an Add Leave Type button

Settings → Modules → User → Leave Type

The kinds of leave your staff can book — Annual leave, Sick, Unpaid, Compassionate, Training. Add Leave Type, type the name, Save.

Ships empty, which means leave cannot be categorised until you fill it in. It is worth doing before your first leave request rather than after, because the type is what separates absence you pay for from absence you do not.

Leave is booked and approved on the person’s own record — see user expenses and leave, and expenses and leave in the app for the engineer’s end of it.

The equipment lists — category, group, condition, brand and status — sit under Settings → Modules → Equipment and are documented in equipment settings.