In your company, how long does it take to get travel reimbursed

**Cornholio** · 09-28-2006, 03:22 PM

If you have an expense account, well, congrats. For those of us who have to submit receipts, how long does it take from the time you hand 'em in until you get your check?

I'm just curious to see where my university stands.

**lemon boy** · 09-28-2006, 03:24 PM

2-4 weeks

**Boomer28** · 09-28-2006, 03:24 PM

my shop is small so it only takes a few days to a week. My dad is a professor and I know from his bitching that it takes his university weeks if not more to process his expenses.........

**Tyrone Shoelaces** · 09-28-2006, 03:25 PM

Originally Posted by Cornholio

If you have an expense account, well, congrats. For those of us who have to submit receipts, how long does it take from the time you hand 'em in until you get your check?

I'm just curious to see where my university stands.

Well, I have to send my receipts across country to get approved but even with that lag time, I guess a week so long as no one who has to sign off it is traveling or something.

In my last company, we did everything online, and I'd get a direct deposit in about 2 - 3 days. that ruled.

**DJSapp** · 09-28-2006, 03:27 PM

Company credit card beyotch.

Other expenses are usually refunded within 2 weeks.

**grrrr** · 09-28-2006, 03:33 PM

Credit card, otherwise I write myself a check on the spot...so, less than 10 minutes either way.

**Viva** · 09-28-2006, 03:38 PM

One to two weeks.

**Son1cdeth** · 09-28-2006, 03:39 PM

One week or so. Depends on how busy my Bosses Admin Asst. is.

**hutash** · 09-28-2006, 03:41 PM

I just tell my boss, "pay up asshole", and I do, beacuse I am the boss. (Although I still bitch about it)

**PlayHarder** · 09-28-2006, 03:46 PM

The beauty of working for a small company, I submit expenses one day and have a check back the next morning.

**road trip** · 09-28-2006, 03:49 PM

The beauty of working for a large company, I submit my expenses through "ez expense" on-line, and get direct-deposit or direct-pay to my AmEx the next day. Receipts to follow...

**Squirrel99** · 09-28-2006, 03:50 PM

our new system is pissing me off. it's taken more than two weeks to get the last trip reimbursed

used to take 1-2 weeks tops. My last one was approved 2 weeks ago, but the card still hasn't been paid. frustrating for sure.

**Yossarian** · 09-28-2006, 03:58 PM

4 weeks at times. I think I voted for 4-6 accidentally, but it's usually more like 3-4. But because I subcontract to other consulting entities who also are contracting with clients, it can be 5 weeks occasionally.

**Elkhound Odin** · 09-28-2006, 04:05 PM

expense report in by Tues, check on Friday

**Spark** · 09-28-2006, 07:03 PM

my company is great at reimbursing me...I just have to get my ass in gear and organize those receipts.

**jump** · 09-28-2006, 07:09 PM

Corporate credit card rules. However it takes them forever to pay it. So I often have to get my limit increased. Which isn't a bad thing, until allocation time comes around

**shmerham** · 09-28-2006, 07:27 PM

Huge company means Corporate Card, which means I don't have to pay much at all up front, but per diem gets paid on the backend of the trip which means about 3 or 4 weeks later (after my expense report goes through all the rounds).

**Tippster** · 09-28-2006, 07:30 PM

We have an Online XMS based system. You fill out the expense report electronically, it gets sent to your boss for approval, and then forwarded to accounting. In the meantime you inter-office mail the receipts to accounting (they're in St. Louis, I'm in DC, my boss in NYC.)

Unless my boss doesn't do his bit I invariably get the money direct deposited into my account within 72 hours, and I work in a company of ~10K people in the US & Canada.

We also have corporate AMEX, but it's in my name so I need to be reimbursed before the 8th of each month or I'm fucked. I do get to use the points as I want, however.

**vano** · 09-28-2006, 07:40 PM

I spent 5 years working for the mother of travel companies and that was sweet - all charge codes, billed directly to the company, never see a bill. Now I work for a company that takes a 4 months.

The worst part about working for a company where people rarely travel is not the delay in getting your expenses back - its traveling with people that rarely travel and when they do, they get super excited and start doing travel jong shit like getting their girlfriend a $40 "I love Detroit" sweat shirt in the airport.

**TBS** · 09-28-2006, 07:55 PM

We use same timing as Odin and same logic as Hutash

**bagtagley** · 09-28-2006, 08:21 PM

Originally Posted by Cornholio

I'm just curious to see where my university stands.

That's a different story. The money handlers hate pinching from grant or research money, so they try their damndest to get it from the funding agency as an added business expense, or they try to get it from the University. Meanwhile, your credit card is gaining interest.

I waited 2 months for reimbursement on a particular business trip when I was a GRA.