About
Approvals should not start with “which charge is this?”
Corporate cards moved faster than finance tooling. Charges post in real time while receipts still arrive by email, photo, or Slack. Controllers became archivists instead of reviewers.
Merrow keeps the charge and the receipt on the same row. Policy checks run before someone approves, so month-end is about closing, not chasing.
How the product should behave
Show both sides
Amount, merchant, receipt, and memo appear together. If something is missing, the item stays out of the approved pile.
Make policy visible
Caps and categories are plain text on the row, not buried in a PDF deck from last year.
Respect the approver's time
Desktop for deep review, mobile for a quick yes when someone is traveling. Same record either way.