taxi

Over the past few years, I’ve been to plenty of sales events and trade shows.  Meetings with vendors and reps.  Dinners with co-workers and clients.    I’ve learned to organize my receipts on the flight home and image them using my handy iPhone app.  This makes it easy to upload them once my WIFI reconnects and then they are populated in my queue for building my dreaded expense report.

Then it happens.  I have a gap in my travels not documented by these scraps of carbon-copied, BPA-filled paper.  Humm.  I made it to the restaurant in a taxi.  But how did I make it back to the hotel?  I check my credit card statement and find the charge.  $34.00 to “TAXI World” that somehow I do not have a receipt for.  Unfortunately, my expense report cannot be submitted without a receipt.  I call our accounting department and they are no help.  Sorry – you’ll need to contact the taxi company and get a replacement receipt.  Well that is impossible!  The credit card charge doesn’t list a contact number and how am I ever going to call “Big Al” – the baritone beast that provided me a lift back to my hotel that night?  He is a thousand miles away and lord knows he isn’t going to answer his flip-phone and FAX me a copy of my receipt during his downtime.  No way.

For this purpose – you need to create a replacement taxi receipt.  Report submitted. Report approved.  Cash in my account.  Credit card bill happily paid.  Everyone is happy.