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The Chrome River Autobot completely removes theses tasks by automatically routing, approving, returning, or assigning expense claims once submitted by an expense owner.  With an intuitive implementation, you can easily enhance these processes and begin increasing your team’s efficiency and reducing costs immediately.</h6> <h2>Welcome to The River.</h2> </div></div> <div class="wysiwyg"><div class="wrapper"> <div class="columns pad-top-3"> <div class="col-main"> <p>Chrome River now offers innovative technology within the Chrome River EXPENSE routing function: the Chrome River Autobot. We recognized an opportunity to utilise technology to <a href="https://www.chromeriver.com/uk/blog/intelligent-automation-with-chrome-river-autobot">automate manual verification and approval steps</a>. Leveraging our robust <a href="https://www.chromeriver.com/uk/innovations/business-rules">business rules engine</a>, the Chrome River Autobot completely streamlines your expense claim process by empowering your AP Team to focus on more strategic initiatives instead of manual and repetitive tasks.</p> <p>The Chrome River Autobot is completely configurable. Whether you need to verify or encumber budget, verify billable hours, or approve expense reports, the Chrome River Autobot can do it all automatically.  By querying systems outside of Chrome River in real-time utilising secure web services, the Autobot can quickly approve or return an expense claim based on whether or not required criteria, such as billing hours to a client, have been met.</p> <h3>Cut Costs</h3> <p>Eliminate the need for a your administrator to manually review expense claim compliance with time entry policies.</p> <h3>Improve Financial Data Accuracy</h3> <p>As an automated solution, the Chrome River Autobot ensures data accuracy between and within expense and finance systems.</p> <h3>Increase AP Efficiency</h3> <p>Improve your expense management cycle times by reducing the time for expense claims to be approved.</p> <h3>Improve Expense Legitimacy</h3> <p>With the Chrome River Autobot, you can ensure that only legitimate and verified expenses are submitted.</p> <h3>Enhance Your Policies</h3> <p>Easily implement, adjust, and enhance policy rules based on third-party data without impacting Chrome River EXPENSE.</p> </div> <div class="col-side"> <div class="fakebox testimonial"> <blockquote>Chrome River is making my life easier...it's making ALL of the employees' lives easier. <span class="author"><strong>Financial Information Systems Manager</strong> 5000 Employees</span></blockquote> </div> <div class="promo aqua"><a href="https://emburse.chromeriver.com/website-request-a-demo"> <img src="https://chromeriver.imgix.net/2014/assets/promos/promo-demo.png?mtime=1409060772" alt="Free Demo - Receive a live demo of our software. 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