Home for employees
Overview
The Tipalti Hub is your main, central workspace for managing approvals assigned to you, submitting your expenses, and tracking your requests.
When you log in as an employee or approver, you land directly on Home, where everything that needs your attention is ready and waiting.
- Looking for the Home for finance experience? See Home for finance team
- If you have the Tipalti Expenses app, you can also view and manage your expenses and approvals on the go. Learn about the Tipalti mobile app.
Your expenses and requests
The Home screen shows a ready-made to-do list of items needing your approval or waiting for you to submit.
- To do — items that require your action
- All my items — includes your past expenses or requests
If your organization has Expenses enabled, you'll be able to submit new expenses and manage any of your expenses that were already created. From Home, you can add receipts to expenses, add attendees, and other details. For more info, go to Create and submit expenses.
If your organization has Procurement enabled, you'll be able to create new purchase requests and manage any of your requests that were already created. For more info, go to Create and track purchase requests.
You can filter by Due date, Amount, or Vendor name to find specific vendors or higher-value items quickly. Use the search bar to find a purchase request by name or PO number — partial PO number matches are supported.
To approve multiple items at once, select them and click Approve selected.
Your approvals
From Home, you can review and manage any approvals assigned to you quickly and orderly from an easy-to-use list. Your approval queue lives directly on Home — with everything you need upfront: vendor name, amount, % change from the last bill, and approval progress, all visible at a glance.
Three tabs keep your queue organised:
- Pending your approval — items waiting for your action
- High priority — items that are overdue, pending for over a week, or due soon
- Approved by you — a record of completed approvals
Items are sorted by due date by default, and every column is sortable.
From the table, you can add filters, search for a specific item, customise your columns, and export to CSV — without leaving Home.
You can search by invoice ID or PO number, and more filters. In addition, you can group by vendor to view all bills from the same vendor together, allowing you to compare amounts, identify exceptions, and approve with more confidence.
Your approvals is being gradually rolled out to Accounts Payable customers. If you don't see it yet, you'll continue to see the standard to-do list above.
From Home, you can
- Approve bills
- Create and submit expenses
- Manage and approve expenses
- Create and submit a purchase request
- Approve a purchase request
- Vendor registration
Common questions
What is a Bill approver, and why do I have limited access to the Tipalti Hub?
Bill approvers are users whose sole purpose in Tipalti is to review and approve the bills they're assigned to. Because of this, they have limited access to the Tipalti Hub — they can't view payments, payee data, or any other areas outside of their assigned bills. This role is commonly used for internal or external approvers who only need to sign off on specific bills, without exposure to sensitive financial data.
For a full breakdown of what Bill approvers can do, see User roles.
What's the difference between Home for employees and Finance Home?
Tipalti has two distinct Home experiences depending on your role. Finance Home is designed for finance professionals — AP processors, Finance managers, and Finance approvers — and provides a full view of financial operations: pending bills, payment batches, funding status, sync errors, and more.
Home for employees is for users whose primary tasks are approving bills, submitting expenses, and creating purchase requests. It's a focused, personal queue — not a financial operations dashboard. For more information, see Manage finances from Home.
Why don't I see the new Your approvals section?
The redesigned approvals experience is being gradually rolled out to customers using Accounts Payable. Expenses and Procurement will follow in later phases. If you don't see it yet, you'll continue to use the standard to-do list on Home. No action is needed — the new experience will appear automatically when it's available for your account.
Can I manage my approvals on mobile?
Yes — if your account is activated for the Tipalti Expenses mobile app, you can log in and view your expenses and approvals on the go. Download the app from the Apple App Store or Google Play. For more information, see Create and submit expenses.