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Configuring the Mailbox

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The Mailbox works on a group level and provides one unique centralized email address for receiving forwarded invoices.

Benefits

  • Save time and effort by fast-forwarding the process for expense approval over a couple of clicks.

  • Avoid the weary and burdensome manual download of payment documents and their upload to your personal Payhawk account, attaching them to the expense that's been made.

Configuring the Mailbox for the group

To configure the Mailbox:

  1. In the Payhawk Web Portal, on the Group dashboard, go to Settings > Mailbox.

  2. Click on + Add an email address and enter the email address from which you’ll forward documents, for example, invoices@yourcompany.com.

  3. Payhawk has automatically generated a unique email address for your company to which documents will be forwarded to.

    Payhawk mailbox settings for sending and processing supplier invoices via email.

To set up automatic forwarding, follow the instructions described in forwarding invoices from Gmail and forwarding invoices from Outlook. Other configurations aren’t recommended and can cause unexpected issues.

Mailbox notifications

For every email address you add to the Mailbox, you also select who handles the invoices sent to it. You can select individual users, a role, or a combination of both.

If you select a role, every user with that role is notified about every invoice that arrives at that address, not only the invoices they forwarded themselves. For example, if you select Employee, all employees in the group receive a notification for each invoice sent to the address. During configuration, Payhawk will show a warning and ask you to confirm before saving.

Confirmation message warning that everyone with the selected role will be notified for every invoice sent to the Mailbox address.

To keep the volume of notifications down, select only the users who need to handle these invoices, or select a role with few members.

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