What’s New in Zoho Expense (April – July 2025)

What’s New in Zoho Expense (April – July 2025)

Hello users,

We're happy to bring you the latest updates and enhancements we've made to Zoho Expense over the past three months, which include introducing the Trip Expense Summary report in Analytics, extending Chatbot support to more editions, rolling out user budgets, introducing keyboard shortcuts, and much more. Let's take a look at the key updates released between April and July 2025.

New Trip Preference in Policy Settings

You can now enable the trip submission window for your employees and specify how many days before the travel date a trip must be submitted. Whenever employees submit after the specified deadline, they will receive a warning.

To enable this preference: Navigate to Admin View > Go to Settings > Select Policies under Users and Control > Under Policy Settings, enable Trip Submission Window and enter the number of days.



Manage Unreported Advances in Trip Cancellation

If there are any unreported advances associated with a trip during cancellation, you can now either mark all unreported advances as void instead of deleting them or choose to retain the advance amount for your employee's future trip. You can also void the unreported advances later from the advance details page. 

Note: This feature is available only to users for whom advance approval is enabled.

Import User Budgets

You can now create budgets for the employees in your organization by importing them into Zoho Expense. Create budgets in bulk by allocating fixed amounts for all categories or expense types or by allocating specific amounts for each category or expense type. You can download and view the sample sheets to create budgets of your own and import them. First, select the budget details, then select the file you want to import, and map the mandatory fields to import the user budgets.

Note: This feature is available in early access. Write to us at support@zohoexpense.com to enable this feature for your organization

To import user budgets: Navigate to Admin View > Budgets > Import User Budget.



Export Current View

You can now export the current view of your analytics reports in the Trips, Reports, and Advances modules. If you have filtered your data or rearranged the columns, then you can export that particular view of trips, reports, and advances using the Export Current View option.

To export the current view: Navigate to Admin View > Go to the module (Trips, Advances, Reports) for which you want to export data > Click the More icon > Select Export Current View > Click Export again.



Configure Notification Preferences for Workflow Rules

You can now set a threshold (percentage) for your workflow actions such as email alerts, webhooks, and custom functions, and receive email alerts when the specified threshold for each workflow action is crossed. You can also choose to receive notifications (hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly) when a workflow action fails so that you can take timely action by mentioning the day and time, and the email recipients.

To configure notification preferences for workflow rules: Navigate to Admin View > Settings > Workflow Rules under Automation > Gear icon in the top right corner > Configure Notification Preference.

Introducing Trip Expense Summary in Analytics

We've introduced a new analytics report called Trip Expense Summary. The report gives both admin and employees a comprehensive view of all the expenses, including personal expenses incurred by employees during their trips. The analytics report includes details such as trip number, name, booking expenses, per diem allowance, trip expenses, and the total expense amount. Additionally, you can group the trip data by status, policy, department, or the travel type.

To view the report:
1. Navigate to Admin View > Analytics > Trips > Trip Expense Summary
2. Navigate to My View > Analytics > Trips > Trip Expense Summary



Analytics Revamp

We've revamped the analytics module in both My View and Admin View, giving you better visibility into actions. We've made the following enhancements to the Analytics module:

1. Date customizations and criteria filters are now displayed on the report details page. You can click + More Filters to apply criteria and filter the report data.  
2. Group by and Column customizations have been moved above the table.
3. Search for other reports in your organization by clicking the Hamburger icon on the report details page.
4. The print option has now been moved inside the Export dropdown. 

Introducing Keyboard Shortcuts

We've introduced keyboard shortcuts to perform certain actions quickly and easily navigate within the application by pressing specific combination keys. You can press Shift + / to view the list of keyboard shortcuts available in Zoho Expense, or click the Profile icon and click View Keyboard Shortcuts to access them.

Additionally, you can edit shortcut keys by clicking the Edit icon next to the shortcut key you want to update. In case you've edited the shortcut keys and want to go back to using the default keys, you reset them.


Chatbot Now in More Editions

In addition to the Canada, Australia, and UAE editions, the AI chatbot that provides 24/7 assistance is now available in the Bahrain, Germany, Kenya, Mexico, Oman, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom, South Africa, and Global editions of Zoho Expense.

iOS and Android App Updates

1. In the iOS app, when a purchase request is ready to be processed, you can click the Undo On-Hold button to remove its On-Hold status and resume processing the purchase request.
2. We've enhanced the trip creation process for better usability. Your users can now create and save trips, then add itineraries later from the trip's detail or edit screens using iOS and Android apps.
3. We've now added new filters to view unsubmitted transactions and those pending approval in the card details page. Your employees can view the number of unmatched transactions below each card in the cards list page. The active cards will be displayed on top, while the inactive cards are grouped inside the Inactive Cards filter on the cards list page. Additionally, we've made some design improvements to improve usability and overall user experience for users using the Android and iOS apps.
4. We've moved all calls-to-action (CTAs) to the bottom of the page across the app for better visibility and a more enhanced user experience for users using the Zoho Expense iOS app.
5. For users using the iOS and Android apps, the customized themes created in your web application will now also be applied to your organization's mobile app automatically. 

That brings us to the end of the post. Try out all the new features and let us know what you think in the comments below.

If you have any inquiries or feature requests, please write to us at support@zohoexpense.com

Stay tuned for more updates!

Regards, 
Zoho Expense Team





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