Newbie here!
I'm trying to figure out how to handle reimbursement of employee expenses, some of which should be charged to customers.
I've followed How to reimburse an employee (with some help!) to create a journal entry and the report shows what is outstanding to the employee. But:
1) the report shows what is due but how do I turn that into a payment to the employee?
2) how do I see what is related to customers, and optionally add that to an invoice?
I've also followed How to track mileage to create a mileage account and created a bill. The 'Pay bill' screen shows what is unpaid but:
1) how do I see what is related to customers and turn that into an invoice?
Ideally when I create an invoice for a customer the system would prompt me with something like: 'There are these uninvoiced expenses relating to this customer - do you want to include them?' Is that possible?
The mileage approach has the extra feature of calculating costs based on the miles but it seems this approach with bills achieves the same basic aim as the journal approach. They are both about expenses incurred by employees that the business will reimburse and charge (some of) to customers. The journal approach seems more 'low-level' and less intuitive than bills - but is the recommended approach. I don't understand the ramifications of each so am looking for some guidance please! What are the advantages/disadvantages of these two approaches?
