Expense Types

This topic lists the expense types managed in Pleo:

Grouping	Terms	Definitions	Enums as used in Pleo APIs	Example
Card Expenses	Card Purchase	Employees use their Pleo cards for payment of business expenses.	card_purchase	Example 1:Sales employees of your company have Pleo cards. They travel to a customer from Amsterdam to Rotterdam by train and pay for the train ride with their Pleo cards.Example 2:Your company often uses Google Ads and pays for them via a Pleo card.
Card Expenses	Fee	Fee incurred for Pleo subscription and service charges or fee incurred for any relevant credit offering.	fee
Invoices	Invoice	Refers to a financial document issued by a vendor or service provider to a company, detailing the products or services provided and the amount owed. Invoices serve as official requests for payment and contain specific information such as the due date, itemised list of services/products, and total amount payable. Invoice expense type appears in the Pleo Export page, only after it gets paid.	invoice	Your company has received an invoice from its IT service provider for €1,500. Your accountant uploads this invoice to Pleo to make payment at a later date.
Invoices	Invoice Payment	Refers to the actual transaction where the company settles the amount owed to the vendor/service provider as per the invoice.	invoice	Your company has paid €1,500 to the IT service provider.
Invoices	Card Invoice	These are documents that include both the invoice and the invoice payment made with the Pleo card. This is especially relevant in Spain.	card_invoice
Returns	Refund	Transactions where the company has received money back from a vendor/service provider after returning goods or services.	refund	You paid for a hotel booking with your Pleo card. Your plans have changed and you have cancelled the booking. You have received a refund from the hotel.
Returns	Chargeback	Transactions where the company disputes a charge and the card issuer returns the funds to the company’s account.	chargeback	Your company is billed twice by a conference organiser for a single event, with two charges of €300 each appearing in your Pleo account. The Pleo Admin disputes the second charge through the card issuer’s chargeback process. Following a review, it is confirmed that a billing error has occurred and the €300 is reimbursed to your company’s Pleo account.
Pocket Expenses	Out of Pocket Expenses	Employees of a company or an organisation have incurred work related expenses using their personal funds. This is a liability of the employer to the employees. These expenses typically cover various small office supplies, client dinners, or urgent costs not covered by company cards.	out_of_pocket	An employee of your company buys office supplies, such as pens and notebooks worth €30, during a business trip at a local store where they do not accept any company card. The employee then submits this pocket expense claim with a receipt through Pleo for reimbursement.
Pocket Expenses	Mileage	Mileage tracking is for employees who use their personal vehicles for business-related travel. Instead of reimbursing fuel costs directly, companies often reimburse a standard rate per kilometre or mile driven for work purposes.	mileage	Your employee drives 100 kilometres to attend a business conference. Using Pleo’s mileage tracking feature, they record the trip to later get reimbursed at the company’s rate of €0.40 per kilometre, totalling €40.
Pocket Expenses	Per Diem	Per Diem refers to a daily allowance provided to employees to cover daily expenses such as meals and incidental costs while travelling for business. This is usually a fixed amount set by the company.	per_diem	Your employee is sent on a three-day business trip. Your company provides a per diem of €50 per day to cover all meal and incidental expenses. Over three days, they receive a total of €150.
Reimbursements	Direct Reimbursements	Reimbursement made directly to the employees’ bank accounts/cards for business expenses incurred with personal funds. The reimbursements are paid from the company/organisation’s Pleo wallet, impacting the Pleo wallet balance and the out-of-pocket balance.	direct_reimbursements	An employee paid for a client’s dinner from her own pocket and now gets this money back to her personal bank card. The money was taken from Pleo Wallet.
Reimbursement	External Reimbursement	Reimbursement made to employees with their salary or in cash, impacting only the out-of-pocket balance. This is managed outside Pleo and does not impact the company/organisation’s Pleo wallet balance.	external_reimbusement	Your employees have paid for client’s dinners from their own pocket and now gets this money back to their personal bank cards. The money was taken from Pleo Wallet.
Wallet Transfers	Wallet Topup	Transfer of funds to the Pleo wallet of a company/organisation from its bank account or other financial sources.	wallet_topup
Wallet Transfers	Wallet Unload	Wallet Unload involves transferring excess funds from the Pleo wallet back to the company’s main bank account or another financial repository.	wallet_unload
Other	ATM Withdrawal	Employees withdrawing cash at Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) using their Pleo cards. Since Pleo cannot control how an employee uses the withdrawn money, we consider ATM_withdrawals as an employee taking this company money for personal use. This has an implication on how we typically book ATM withdrawals.	atm_withdrawal	An employee of your company is on a business trip to a region where card usage is limited and cash payments are more common. They use their Pleo card to withdraw €200 from an ATM to cover meals and local transportation expenses during the trip. The withdrawal is logged as an ATM withdrawal expense in Pleo.
Other	Personal Spend	Employees of a company/organisation have accidentally used their Pleo card for personal expenses, mistakenly or on purpose.	personal_spend	Employees of your company use their Pleo cards to pay for personal grocery bills amounting to €50. They mark the transaction as personal spend in the Pleo app. However, since the employees have previously paid for business expenses from their pocket, this expense would not be deducted from their salaries.
Other	Cashback	Pleo offers rewards to companies/organisations for using Pleo as their spend management platform. This reward is a small % of the amount spent which Pleo customers get back into their Pleo Wallet. This is similar to regular banks who sometimes offer cashback for using their credit card. However, there are specific eligibility criteria for being companies/organisations to be eligible for cashback.	cashback