Send Email to Employee When Expense Report is Approved by the Expense Approver/Supervisor/ Accounting

Scenario

To send an e-mail to an employee once the expense report filed has been approved by supervisor/expense approver/accounting.

Solution

Perform the following steps:

1. Navigate to Setup > Company > General Preferences

2. Put a check on the box on the EMAIL EMPLOYEE ON APPROVALS field

3. Click Save

Note: 

For an email alert to fire once accounting approves Expense Reports, the Approve button should be used instead of the Accounting Approval check box.

Please refer to Answer ID: 8516 Giving Accounting Approval for Expense Report, for the steps on how accounting should approve Expense Reports.