Employee Self-Service

Log mileage trips and track reimbursement

For employees: record business trips by distance, odometer or addresses, see what you’ll be reimbursed, and follow your claim to payment.

  • Employee
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On this page (4 sections)
  1. Before you log a trip
  2. Log a trip
  3. Track your trips
  4. If you can’t log a trip

Before you log a trip

Go to
  1. My Workspace
  2. Mileage
  • The Mileage Rate card shows your company’s rate per km or mile, set by your finance team.
  • You need to have punched in on the day of the trip.

Log a trip

  1. Click + Log Trip.

  2. Choose the Trip Date.

  3. Choose how the distance is measured:

    • Enter the distance — type the one-way distance.
    • Odometer readings — enter the opening and closing readings.
    • Calculate from addresses — enter From and To. Click Preview distance to check it.
  4. Tick Return journey — bill both legs if you came back the same way.

  5. Enter the Purpose, such as a client visit, and any Notes for your approver.

  6. Check the amount preview and click Submit Trip.

Amount = distance (doubled for a return journey) × the rate.

Track your trips

ColumnShows
StatusPending, Approved, Rejected (with the reason) or Cancelled.
PayoutWhere your reimbursement is: Sending, With Finance, then Paid — with the finance reference number.

Approved trips are paid as an expense reimbursement by your finance team, not through your payslip.

If you can’t log a trip

MessageWhat to do
“Punch in before logging a trip for this date.”Choose a day you punched in.
“No mileage rate is configured…”Ask your finance team to set the mileage rate.
“Could not calculate the distance automatically…”Switch to Enter the distance.
“The closing odometer reading must be higher than the opening one.”Check your readings.
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