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Travel Reimbursement

One report for the whole trip.

Every business trip in one place — the miles you drive, the nights you stay, and the meal per diem that comes with them. Log it from your phone, submit a single report, and each part routes to the right approver automatically. No spreadsheets, no chasing IRS rates, no email threads.

Works fully on mobile
Mileage, lodging & meal per diem
IRS rate auto-applied
Routed to the right approver

How it works

Three steps from the parking lot to your paycheck.

01

Log the whole trip

Open the tool on your phone. Log mileage address-to-address — the IRS rate and the daily mileage reduction are applied for you — then add any overnight stay with its receipt and turn on the meal per diem. It all lives on one report.

Save your regular drives as routes so logging mileage becomes a single tap.

02

Submit once — it routes itself

Submit the report and the tool sends each part to the right person: mileage to your manager, lodging and meal per diem to your business unit head. Each section is reviewed on its own.

A section sent back comes with a specific reason — fix just that part and resubmit, no starting over.

03

You're reimbursed

Once every section is approved, the report feeds the accounting export and is paid through payroll based on the pay period it cleared. You're notified the moment an approver acts.

Pending reports surface in your daily digest email and the notification bell so nothing stalls.

See it in action

What you’ll see inside the tool.

Logging mileage

Pick a saved route or enter addresses — the reimbursement calculates automatically.

rwtoolbox.app/tools/travel-reimbursement/reports/new

June 2026 Report

Mileage · Lodging · Meals

Add a trip

DATE

June 9, 2026

SAVED ROUTE

Office → Maple Court Apartments✓ saved

START

1200 Commerce Dr, Suite 300

END

4400 Maple Court Blvd
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14.2 miles

IRS rate · auto-applied

$9.51

Trips this report · 2 added

Office → Pine Ridge Apts

Jun 6 · 11.8 mi

$7.91

Office → City Hall (permits)

Jun 7 · 3.4 mi

$2.28

Saved routes

Frequent legs become one-click adds. Build your library once, use it every week.

My Saved Routes

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Office → Maple Court Apartments

14.2 mi · Used 12×

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Office → Pine Ridge Apts

11.8 mi · Used 8×

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Maple Court → Home Depot (Broad St)

4.1 mi · Used 5×

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Office → City Hall

3.4 mi · Used 4×

Lodging & meal per diem

Record an overnight stay, attach the folio, and add the meal per diem — no meal receipts needed.

Add lodging

PROVIDER

Courtyard by Marriott — Dublin, OH

CHECK-IN

Jun 9, 2026

CHECK-OUT

Jun 11, 2026
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marriott-folio.pdf

✓ attached
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Also request meal per diem

2 approved nights added

Approved section by section

Mileage goes to your manager; lodging and meal per diem to your business unit head. Each clears on its own.

June 2026

Report EXP-2026-06-0007

Mileage ✓Lodging •Meals •

Mileage

6 trips · 88.2 mi

$59.09

Approved · manager

Lodging

1 stay · Marriott

$258.00

In review · BU head

Meal per diem

2 approved nights

In review · BU head

Mileage is cleared while lodging & meals finish review

Why you’ll use it

Travel reimbursement shouldn’t be work.

The old way meant a mileage spreadsheet, a lodging receipt buried in email, and a separate note about meals — then a reminder three weeks later when nothing got processed. Travel Reimbursement folds it into one report that routes itself.

One report for the whole trip

Mileage, lodging, and meal per diem all live on a single monthly report instead of three separate processes.

Log it from the parking lot

The whole thing takes under a minute on your phone. No waiting until you're back at a desk.

The IRS rate is never stale

The current rate is applied automatically, and the daily mileage reduction is handled for you. You never under-claim because a formula was out of date.

Routed to the right approver

Mileage goes to your manager; lodging and meal per diem to your business unit head — automatically, and approved section by section.

Frequent routes: one click

Save the routes you drive every week. Adding a trip to your report becomes a tap, not a form.

Nothing falls through the cracks

Pending reports surface in your daily digest email and the notification bell. If something needs attention, you'll know.

Who uses it

Built for the field and for the people who approve it.

Employees

Anyone who travels for work — property managers, maintenance, leasing agents, and staff making site visits or overnight trips. Log mileage, add lodging and the meal per diem, and submit one report for approval.

  • Log trips from your phone in seconds
  • Save your most-driven routes for one-click logging
  • Add overnight lodging and the meal per diem
  • Track each section's status in real time
  • Get notified the moment a section is approved or returned

Managers

Managers approve the mileage on their team’s reports — and see only their own people, no noise from the rest of the org. Approve in a click, or send it back with a note explaining exactly what to fix.

  • Review only the reports assigned to you
  • Trip-by-trip detail before you approve
  • Approve mileage or send back with a reason
  • Returned reports come back automatically when corrected
  • Notification bell and daily digest surface what's pending

Business unit heads

Business unit heads preapprove overnight travel and approve the lodging and meal per diem sections. The itemized folio and the per-diem night count are right there, with a duplicate-stay flag to catch double-billing.

  • Approve lodging and meal per diem sections
  • Open the itemized folio inline to verify charges
  • See the approved-overnight count behind the per diem
  • Duplicate-stay warnings flag repeat provider + dates
  • Send a section back for a missing receipt or personal charge

Designed for the field, not the office.

The whole workflow — logging a trip, adding a hotel and the meal per diem, building a report, checking approval status — works on any phone browser. No app to download. Open the toolbox on your phone and it adapts. Log the trip before you leave the parking lot.

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