Product · Expenses

We review and enrich your expense data.

Expense tools handle cards and payments, not complex bookings. Cortena reviews and enriches each item so it lands correctly coded in your ledger, no corrections left for finance.

Synced from your expense toolExpense report · March18 items · export-ready
Client dinner · BerlinA. Vogel · reimbursedIMG-4471.jpg6640KST 1200 · Sales84,50Settled
Figma seat · monthlyM. Roth · company cardfigma-inv.pdf6837KST 2200 · Product45,00Settled
Mileage · 128 kmL. Bakker · reimbursedno receipt6668KST 1200 · Sales38,40Skipped
Taxi · airport transferA. Vogel · paid by companyreceipt-90.pdf6673KST 1200 · Sales52,00Settled
Add to posting batch16 items booking-ready · 2 receipt-less types skipped
A settled expense report, receipt and allocation on each row, ready to join the DATEV posting batch.
The review and enrichment layer

The coding your expense tool cannot do.

Your expense tool is great at cards and payments. Cortena sits on top: it pulls export-ready expenses, enriches the coding, reviews what does not reconcile, and books it with your invoices.

Step 01 · Sync · Live

Export-ready expenses, pulled from your tool.

Connect your expense tool once. Cortena pulls the expenses your team already marked export-ready, on a schedule or whenever you trigger it by hand. Each item arrives with its receipt attached and its allocation fields intact, so nothing gets re-keyed.

  • Scheduled sync plus a manual run whenever you need it
  • Receipts and allocation fields carried over on every item
  • Only export-ready expenses are pulled, drafts stay in your tool
Scheduled · manual · export-ready only
Synced from your expense tool Connected
ScheduleDaily · 07:00 CET
Last runToday · 07:00
Pulled in16 export-ready
Skipped2 receipt-less
Run sync nowNext run · tomorrow 07:00
Scheduled at 07:00, or trigger a manual run. The last sync pulled 16 items and skipped 2.
Allocation merge · ruleEXP-2026-0312
GL account66406600Cortena
CreditorEmployee 1042Employee 1042Cortena
VAT keyBU 9 · 19%BU 9 · 19%Cortena
Cost centre1200 · Sales1250 · Field salesExpense tool
Cortena leads on coding, the tool keeps the cost centre the traveller picked.
Per-field precedence. Here Cortena codes the account and VAT, the tool keeps the cost centre.
Step 02 · Allocation merge

You choose who wins, field by field.

Your expense tool and Cortena both have an opinion on how to allocate an expense. Instead of picking one tool, you set the rule per field. Follow Cortena for the account and the VAT key, follow the tool for the cost centre, or the other way round. The merge is applied on every item.

  • Per-field precedence for account, creditor, VAT and cost centre
  • Set the rule once, applied on every synced expense
Account · creditor · VAT · cost centre
Step 03 · Status and review

Paid, reimbursed or company-paid, all read as settled.

Cortena mirrors what happened to the money. Paid, reimbursed and company-paid expenses all map to one settled state, so your books match reality. When an expense and its coding disagree, or an amount does not reconcile, the item is routed to Needs review instead of posting. Receipt-less types like mileage and per-diem allowances are skipped, they belong in payroll.

Settled · Needs review · skipped types
Paid · company card Settled
Reimbursed · employee Settled
Company-paid · direct Settled
Needs reviewEXP-2026-0341

Amount does not match the receipt total. Routed to review, not posted.

Three payment states map to settled. The one item that does not reconcile is held for review.
Coverage

Live today, and what is coming.

Rydoo and Spendesk are live. Pleo, Moss and Airwallex are on the roadmap and follow the same review and enrichment layer.

RydooScheduled and manual sync of export-ready expenses, receipts, allocation merge and mirrored payment status.Live
SpendeskExpense and card sync feeding the same review and posting flow as your payables.Live
PleoCard and expense sync with the same allocation merge and settled-status mapping.Soon
MossCard and expense sync with receipts and per-field allocation.Soon
AirwallexCard and expense sync feeding the same review and posting flow.Soon

Roadmap items are shown as our direction, not as shipped features. We add a provider once it runs the full sync, merge and status flow, not before.

Why it matters

Expenses, booked with the invoices.

Payables and expenses land in one posting batch, so month-end is a single run to your ledger instead of two.

Every settled expense carries its receipt into the booking, so the audit trail is complete without chasing paper.

Mismatches and receipt-less types are caught before posting, not found weeks later in a reconciliation.

Questions

Expense management integration, answered.

  1. Rydoo and Spendesk are live today. Cortena syncs export-ready expenses, enriches the coding your expense tool cannot, reviews mismatches, and books them with your supplier invoices. Pleo, Moss and Airwallex are on the roadmap.

  2. The sync runs on a schedule and can also be triggered manually at any time. It pulls only expenses that are marked export-ready in your tool, so drafts stay where they are. Each item arrives with its receipt attached and its allocation fields intact.

  3. You set the rule per field. For the account, creditor, VAT key and cost centre, you choose whether to follow Cortena or the expense tool. The merge is applied on every synced expense, so you get one consistent allocation without picking a single winner overall.

  4. Cortena mirrors the payment status from the expense tool. Paid, reimbursed and company-paid all map to a single settled state, so your books reflect what actually happened to the money.

  5. Receipt-less types such as mileage and per-diem allowances are skipped on purpose, because they usually belong in payroll rather than the ledger. Everything with a receipt flows through the normal sync and posting.

  6. When an expense and its coding disagree, or an amount does not match the receipt, the item is routed to Needs review instead of posting. Your team resolves it, and nothing reaches the ledger until it is clean.

  7. Still have a question?

Book expenses with your invoices.

See the sync run on your own expense reports. We connect the tool, merge the allocation to your rules, and add the settled items to a posting batch you could send to your ledger.

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