Mobile expense report system
View Patent ↗A hand held computer based device includes expense transaction software equipped with an electronic (near field) communication device to receive an electronic signal and wherein the expense transaction software obtains transaction information data in the electronic signal for either storing locally on the hand held computer based device or transmitting the transaction information data to a remotely located processor.
1. A system for processing a transaction by a user at a transaction point, the system comprising:
a processor disposed at the transaction point, the processor being configured to detect an initiation of the transaction by the user and generate transaction information data corresponding to the transaction;
a communication device associated with the processor, the communication device configured to transmit the transaction information data;
a remote processor configured to receive the transaction information data and store the transaction information data in a database; and
a hand held device disposed in communication with the communication device, the hand held device configured to:
store transaction authority data;
receive the transaction information data from the communication device;
enable the transaction at the transaction point based on the transaction information data and the transaction authority data;
automatically displaying and prompting a user on said hand held device at said transaction point for tagging said transaction data at said transaction point as one of personal or business with tagging to a particular client, creating tagged transaction information data,
receive a user input indicative of the transaction being one of a personal transaction or a business transaction with tagging to a particular client; and
transmit the user input to the remote processor,
wherein the remote processor is further configured to tag the stored transaction information data in the database based on the user input as one of a personal transaction or a business transaction thereby transforming transaction information data on said remote database through electronic communication therebetween.
2. The system for completing a transaction and tagging and tracking expenses by a user at a transaction point of claim 1 , wherein said hand held computer based device is a smart phone.
3. The system for completing a transaction and tagging and tracking expenses by a user at a transaction point of claim 2 , wherein said first processor and said hand held computer based device include near field communication devices for transmitting and receiving transaction authority data which is transmitted between said near field communication device for purpose of enabling said purchase transaction.
4. The system for completing a transaction and tagging and tracking expenses by a user at a transaction point of claim 1 , wherein said transaction information data includes at least amount data of said transaction, date data, merchant data, good and/or service data.
5. The system for completing a transaction and tagging and tracking expenses by a user at a transaction point of claim 4 , wherein said hand held computer based device receives said transaction information data from one of said first processor at said transaction point and said credit card company process.