Summer Internship Project - PGFB1622
Summer Internship Project - PGFB1622
Summer Internship Project - PGFB1622
Submitted By
Kashish Varshney
PGFB1622
(2016-18)
Submitted To
Prof. Ajay Bansal
DECLARATION
I hereby declare that the project entitled Expense Management Automation and Integration (Happay
Card) submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of Summer Internship Program for the award
of degree of PGDM at Jaipuria Institute of Management, Noida is an authentic work and to the best of
my knowledge the project has not been submitted to any other University/Institute for any
Degree/Diploma
Kashish Varshney
PGFB1622
Date:
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Guidance, help and encouragement are the essential requirements for successful completion of
project.
I own my gratitude to all those who have helped me in the preparation of this project report.
I express my deepest gratitude any heartily respect to my Industry Mentor, Ms. Mukti Chaplot (CS,
India Shelter Finance Corporation Ltd.) and Mr. Rahul Gupta (CA, India Shelter Finance Corporation
Ltd.) for their valuable guidance, whole hearted cooperation and useful suggestions and help in
completion of this project.
I would like to extend my sincere thanks to my faculty mentor Prof. Ajay Bansal (Associate Professor,
Jaipuria, Noida) for giving me this opportunity and for his constant support throughout my summer
internship project.
I feel obliged to all the respondents, friends and other who have shared their valuable time and opinion,
for making significant contribution directly or indirectly in the project.
Kashish Varshney
(PGFB1622)
PGDM(G) 2016-18
Jaipuria Institute of Management, Noida
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Contents
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ............................................................................................................................... 5
CHAPTER 1: INDSUTRY AND COMPANY DESCRIPTION ................................................................... 7
1.1 OVERVIEW OF FINANCIAL SERVICE INDUSTRY: .................................................................. 7
1.1.1 HOUSING FINANCE SECTOR.................................................................................................................... 8
1.1.2 STRUCTURE OF HOUSING FINANCE:....................................................................................................... 9
1.1.3 CURRENT SCENARIO ............................................................................................................................. 10
1.2 INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................................................... 11
1.2.1 VISION................................................................................................................................................... 11
1.2.2 MISSION................................................................................................................................................ 11
1.2.3 KEY INFORRMATION ............................................................................................................................. 12
1.2.4 INTRODUCTION TO INDIA SHELTER FINANCE CORPORATION LIMITED ............................................... 13
1.2.5 ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE ................................................................................................................ 14
1.2.6 WHY INDIA SHELTER? ........................................................................................................................... 15
1.2.7 PRODUCTS ............................................................................................................................................ 15
1.2.7.1 HOME LOANS ............................................................................................................................ 16
1.2.7.2 LOAN AGAINST PROPERTY ................................................................................................. 19
1.2.8 SWOT ANALYSIS OF INDIA SHELTER FINANCE CORPORATION LIMITED .............................................. 21
CHAPTER 2: INTRODUCTION TO EXPENSE MANAGEMENT AND AUTOMATION THROUGH
HAPPAY .......................................................................................................................................................... 23
2.1 EXPENSE MANAGEMENT ................................................................................................................... 23
2.1.1 EXPENSE MANAGEMENT PROCESS ...................................................................................................... 23
2.1.2 TYPES OF EMPLOYEES EXPENSES.......................................................................................................... 24
2.1.3 REASONS WHY MANUAL EXPENSE MANAGEMENT IS CRUCIAL .......................................................... 25
2.1.4 REASONS WHY MANUAL EXPENSE MANAGEMENT SHOULD BE REPLACED WITH AUTOMAMTED
SYSTEM .......................................................................................................................................................... 26
2.2 EXPENSE MANAGEMENT AUTOMATION AND INTEGRATION (HAPPAY CARD) .............. 27
2.2.1 INTRODUCTION TO HAPPAY ................................................................................................................. 27
CHAPTER 3: JOB DESCRIPTION .............................................................................................................. 39
CHAPTER 4: ANALYSIS OF JOB DONE .................................................................................................. 43
CHAPTER 5: LEARNING OUTCOMES .................................................................................................... 54
CHAPTER 6: CONCLUSION AND RELEVANCE OF SUGGESTIONS ............................................... 57
6.1 CONCLUSION .......................................................................................................................................... 57
6.2 RELEVANCE OF SUGGESTIONS ........................................................................................................ 58
REFERENCES ................................................................................................................................................ 59
Expense Management Automation and Integration (Happay Card)
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TABLE OF FIGURES
Figure 1 Credit Growth at NBFC over the years ................................................................................... 8
Figure 2 Structure of Housing Finance .................................................................................................. 9
Figure 3 Organization Structure of India Shelter ................................................................................. 14
Figure 4: Products offered by India Shelter ......................................................................................... 15
Figure 5: SWOT Analysis of India Shelter .......................................................................................... 21
Figure 6: Process of Expense Management ......................................................................................... 23
Figure 7: Features of Happay ............................................................................................................... 31
Figure 8: Organization Structure crested by Happay ........................................................................... 34
Figure 9: Process of Automate Expense Management ........................................................................ 45
Figure 10: Registration of Managers ................................................................................................... 45
Figure 11: Registration of Employees Figure ...................................................................................... 46
Figure 12: Employees having Happay Card as per their Designation ................................................. 47
Figure 13: Graph showing increment of Happay users ....................................................................... 48
Figure 14: Loading Money into Happay Account ............................................................................... 50
Figure 15: Loading Money into Happay Account ............................................................................... 51
Figure 16: Setting of limit on Employees' Happay card ...................................................................... 52
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The topic of my project is Expense Management Automation and Integration (Happay Card)
The purpose of this project is to act as a tool to understand the working processes of the expense
management and understanding how various expenses and payments takes place through an automated
software. The aim of this project is to understand how an automated software has been integrated by
India Shelter Finance Corporation Limited to manage its employees expenses like admin expenses,
travelling expenses of loan officers and vendor payments. The automated software integrated by the
company is called Happay.
Happay is a simple and intuitive expense management solution empowers employees to spend and
report expenses digitally while helping company administrators manage all expenses online, this
means less paperwork, less wasted time and happier people. It helps in tracking all employee spending
in one place and sync data easily with companys accounting software, processing multiple vendor
payments at frequent intervals over a month and ensures 100% policy compliance.
The project consists of the various stages of the integration of Happay by India Shelter. Expense
Management is a complex process that, when manually managed, is fraught with extraordinary
compliance risk. For past many years, recording, managing and evaluating expenses were done
manually, with spreadsheets, paper receipts and printed expense reports, but now with the growing
scope of digitization, it has given rise to need of having an automated software to record, track, analyse
the expenses quickly and effortlessly. Automation is a flexible and cost-effective alternative to
traditional and manual expense reporting.
This project shows the scope of Happay in managing the expenses by the finance department of the
company and is regularly integrating this software in to their existing system like ERP (Enterprise
Resource Planning) and other accounting software.
Currently, it is in the introduction stage and the company is still working on this software to fully
automate its expense management by end of this year and is regularly increasing the Active Happay
Users, Vendors for the hassle free payments and keeping control on the spending limits of the
employees.
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Financial services provided by NBFC constitute a major proportion in this growth. Non-Banking
Financial Companies or NBFCs in India are registered companies conducting business activities
similar to regular banks. NBFC provide loans, purchase stocks and debentures, and offer leasing,
hire purchase, and insurance services. NBFCs cant accept demand deposits, issue cheques and
the deposits are not insured by DICGC (Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation).
NBFCs are regulated by either Reserve bank of India and Securities and Exchange Board of India
or both.
NBFCs are broadly classified into two categories based on whether they accept public deposits,
i.e. NBFC-Deposit taking (NBFC-D) and NBFCs-Non-Deposit taking (NBFC-ND). NBFCs
contribution to the economy has grown substantially from 8.4% in 2006 to more than 15.7% in
March 2017. In terms of financial assets, NBFCs have registered a strong growth, i.e. a compound
annual growth rate (CAGR) of 19% over the past few years, consisting of 13% of the total credit
and estimated to reach nearly 18% by 2018-19. NBFCs success can be clearly attributed to their
superior product lines, lower cost, broader and effective reach, risk management capabilities to
check and control bad debts, and proper preference of their customer segments. Not only they have
achieved success in the passenger and commercial vehicle finance but they have also managed to
strengthen assets under management (AUM) in the personal loan and housing finance sector.
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The credit appraisal systems of NBFC is reasonably well, that NBFCs has able to transfer the benefits
in meeting the non-corporate needs of the economy, including SMEs (Small and Medium Enterprises)
and retail customers. Other than the growth in SME financing, strong penetration for housing has
driven double-digit growth, Indias housing finance segment has continued to display huge potential
for growth, and HFCs (Housing Finance Companies) with 40 percent of the share are clearly leading
the way.
In last few years, the housing sector has emerged as one of the sectors attracting a large quantum of
finance. Development of housing in a country is a sign of economic welfare. The Home loan sector in
India is the pi-vital role player in the growth of the real estate scenario in India. In the current economy
of India, the real estate sector has the maximum capacity to generate income and demand for materials,
equipment and services. Home loans are made available by financial institutions to both Indian and
NRI customers at floating and fixed rate of interest and also at attractive EMI (Equated Monthly
Instalment) options.
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India Shelter Finance Corporation Limited is registered in the list of Housing Finance
Companies (Not valid for acceptance of public deposits) under section 29A of the National
Housing Bank Act, 1987.
Expense Management Automation and Integration (Happay Card)
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The announcement made by Government has given further momentum to the transformation of the
sector and is a great step to empower people to invest in their dream homes. Government has invested
in schemes like Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna (PMAY) of Rs. 23,000 Crore and the total allocation for
the infrastructure sector in the Budget stood at Rs 39,6135 crore in 2017-18 which would provide to
achieve Housing for all objective. This would enable small business owners and the middle class
salaried customer to make better progress in their business and take step towards moving in their own
house.
The RBIs decision to increase loan-to-value (LTV) ratio will also enable housing finance companies
to lend more to lower middle income customers.
Overall, the sector outlook remains positive, with several positive supply side initiatives underway
through Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojna, by building 22 crore houses for urban to enhance transparency
and boost confidence of buyers.
HDFC
Indiabulls
Sahara Housing
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1.2 INTRODUCTION
INDIA SHELTER FINANCE CORPORATION LIMITED
1.2.1 VISION
To build a profitable and socially useful business by fulfilling the housing credit needs of Low and
Middle Income families and to increase housing stock and improve health and education outcomes
for these families.
1.2.2 MISSION
To provide simple and fast Home loans to every Indian Low and middle income household for
acquiring new housing or to extend and improve their current housing by proactive door step
service.
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Other Details:
Industry Finance
Website www.indiashelter.in
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India Shelter Finance Corporation Limited (Formerly known as Satyaprakash Housing Finance India
Limited) is a public company founded in 2010, registered under National Housing Bank (NHB). The
company size is of 500-1000 employees. India Shelter is a Housing Finance Company, engaged in
providing home loans and Loans against property to low income borrowers for a period of up to 20
years.
India Shelter is operating in, 54 branches of 52 cities of 9 states and the head office is in Gurgaon. The
company has branches in areas of Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi,
Gujarat, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand etc.
India Shelter provide loans up to Rs. 20 lakhs to urban borrowers for up to 20 years and aspire to fulfil
the progressively increasing need of first generation urban families that need help in accessing housing
credit.
India Shelter Finance Corporation aims to empower middle-income households with credit to acquire
new homes or to extend and improve their current homes. So far, India Shelter have helped over 16000
families by disbursing over Rs. 600+ crores in loans!
These loans can be used by low income borrowers for home improvements, home extension and for
construction of dwelling units on plots owned by borrowers. The company had a loan portfolio of Rs.
451 crores as on June 30, 2016.
Sequoia Capital invested in the company to meet the requirements of its first phase of growth. Later
Sequoia Capital, Nexus Venture Partners and Westbridge infused more capital in the company to help
accelerate growth.
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Board of
Directors
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1.2.7 PRODUCTS
Home Loan
Loan New Home
Against
Purchase Property
Improvement and
Extension
Home Construction
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India Shelter Finance Corporation Home Loan Interest Rates as on 30th June
2017:
India Shelter aims to provide the best for its housing loan customers and the same goes for the rate of
interest offered on the housing loans. The bank offers both fixed and floating rates of interest on its
housing loan options. The current rate of interest proposed on the housing loan is 11.75% for both men
and women customers.
Loan Purpose
Purchase of property
Plot purchase
Self-construction
Adding additional rooms
Put up an additional floor to an existing home
Internal or external repairs to existing homes
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On the contrary, you can increase your eligibility for India Shelter Finance Home
Loan amount by these steps:
Make your spouse a co-applicant, and her income will be added to your eligibility
Apply for longer tenure loan i.e. from 5 year to 20 years
Alternatively add your parents
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Loan purpose:
Business
Personal
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Strength Weakness
Opportunity Threat
Untapped Rural
Market
Can provide e-loans Many players in the
market
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An expense management process helps companies to monitor what they are spending on employee
expenses. This process is used to create and understand records for expense claims, to make sure
that appropriate permission has been sought for all claims, and to make certain that all expense
payments are able to be audited. This process is initiated by accounting team for processing expenses
after receiving an expenses request.
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Travel: Sales people are the ones who travel the most owing to the nature of their work.
While some organizations have travel desks that books tickets for the employees, in most other
places, employees book their own tickets and get reimbursed later. Intra-city travel generates
bills for cabs and buses, which are usually reimbursed to the employee.
Food: Meals while out on the field are usually counted as business expenses and this include
meeting important clients over lunch or drinks.
Accommodation: Outstation travels require a safe, secure and reliable accommodation for
the employees. Most well established companies choose to host their employees in their local
guest houses at prominent cities, while most other opt for hotels within the company budgets.
The bookings can happen via the travel desks or from employees personal accounts.
Fuel: Marketing and sales teams have work to be done within their city itself. Company cabs
ferrying their employees is slowly gaining popularity, but majority of the organizations still
rely on employees personal vehicles. The money for the fuel used on these rides is usually
reimbursed at the end of every expense cycle.
AdHoc: Ad-hoc expenses can range anywhere from buying a water bottle on a field trip to
spending on a stack of paper for photocopies of documents. With appropriate bills in place,
employees will get reimbursed for the same at the end of the companys expense cycle.
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An automated system facilitates coding, approving, and reporting expenses much more
speedily and efficiently than the traditional method. Cost of processing expense reports reduces
by around 78 % per transaction through automation.
With automated processes, the expenses are easily integrated with other business processes like
accounting etc. in real time. This amalgamation leads to end-to-end visibility of business
processes thereby helping in managing budgets and controlling spending.
Automated expense management makes sure that fair and consistent rules are applied to all
departments and employees by refraining them from entering wrong data or out of policy
claims through customized or pre-populated fields. Thus, time is saved through automated
consistency checks and fair practices across expense management processes.
Automating the processes enables accuracy, easy auditing and quick changes to policies based
on legislative changes.
Automated expense reporting system enables lower processing costs, faster reimbursement
times, enhanced travel policy enforcement and increased visibility. Thus, automation is a
flexible, scalable, and cost-effective alternative to traditional and manual expense reporting.
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It was launched in India for the first time on September 21, 2016 by a Bangalore based start-up, Happay
The USP of Happay is being that it can be completely controlled using the web or mobile interface.
The main objective of using the Happay in the companys management system is to bring a change in
the way expenses were managed and controlled by the India Shelter Finance Corporation Ltd.
WHAT IS HAPPAY?
Happay is the quickest and easiest-to-use expense reporting tool there is.
We all know how frustrating it gets and how long process it is to create expense reports, be it
remembering to record all expenses of employees, attaching multiple paper receipts and bills, spending
long hours lling data in spreadsheets and nally, ling reports for approval.
Happay makes expense reporting eortless. All you have to do is spend on the happay card and we
take care of the rest.
Dont waste time ling expenses. Give more time to tasks that matter.
What do you get when your company signs you up for happay?
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4. HAPPAY CARD
Card is a Digital Business Expense Card, i.e. a prepaid card, designed to track, monitor and
control spends and conversions on daily, weekly and monthly basis. The new card is
exclusively designed to suit the monetary requirement of a marketing team and give them
detailed financial summary of expenses and track the transactions on real time basis. It is
basically used to monitor the marketing budget and expense on real-time basis.
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Benefits of Happay.
Its an intelligent and intuitive expense management solution consisting of Happay Prepaid
cards that can be managed and controlled via Happays web dashboard and mobile app.
Happay has reduced the reconciliation time by 90%.
It has helped companies save over 300 hours annually.
Employees dont need a new Bank account to access and use Happay Card.
Employees can control the card with an App in their phone and use it to load money, withdraw
money instantly, and can set spending limits. Employees spend using Happay Prepaid Expense
Cards and report expenses on their Happay mobile app.
Company Administrators fund cards, track expenses, set limits and manage employee spending
from Happay's admin dashboard, via web or mobile.
The Happay card allows to restrict the usage, increasing security benefits and can also block
the card if you dont need it anymore.
It streamlines organizations expense workflow from end-to-end i.e. expense reporting to
reconciliation.
It gives real time visibility and control over business spends.
7 times faster reimbursements and 96% less paperwork.
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1. Automates and streamlines your expense management workflow from expense filing to
accounting
2. Eliminates the whole hassle of maintaining receipts, remembering to record all expenses
and spending hours on creating expense reports.
3. Happays Travel Card is a new age corporate card built for international business travel,
acting as your cheques and forex cards.
4. Simplify petty cash management in your organization by replacing physical cash with
Happay cards that are linked to a software.
5. Happays Flexi benefits allow HR teams to manage all employee benefits from food
vouchers and medical to mobile and fuel benefits from one platform and with zero
paperwork.
6. Our innovative solution brings all employees and expenses on one platform giving you
centralized visibility and control over all employee-incurred business expenditure.
7. You can integrate Happay with the accounting software you already use and export data
directly to them, cutting down on the data entry.
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Admins
Managers
Finance
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- Employees
- Management
- Finance Teams
1. Features for Employees:
- TRAVEL REQUISITIONS Employees can get their travel itinerary pre-approved by
their manager details include travel date, purpose of travel and expected cost.
- PER DIEM EXPENSE Define per diem rates and allow employees to create and
submit Per Diem expenses/allowances.
- UPCOMING TRIP REMINDERS Happay syncs with Google Calendar and prompts
employees to record travel expenses based on meetings/events.
- OFFLINE EXPENSE CAPTURE Expenses captured offline auto-sync with the app
as soon as the phone connects to 3G or Wi-Fi.
- ONE-TAP MONEY REQUESTS Employees with Happay Cards can request funds
right from their app. If approved, funds are loaded on Happay Cards immediately.
- CARD SWITCH ON-SWITCH OFF Employees with Happay Visa or Master Cards
can easily deactivate lost cards right from the Happay app- with just a click of a button.
- AUTOMATIC GPS TRACKING (Best Voted Feature) Employees using personal
vehicle for business, enable them to easily track and record mileage via Happays App.
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WORKING CONDITIONS:
Working environment was friendly and staff was very supportive. Companys Happay Accounts ID
and password was given for the operating of the software. Learning of operating Happay and Excel
was also provided. Sharing of company information was strictly prohibited due to compliance issue.
WORKING HOURS AND REPORTING:
The reporting time was between 10:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. and departure time was between 6:00 p.m.
to 8:00 p.m. depending upon the work load. The reporting persons were Mr. Rahul Gupta (CA) and
Ms. Mukti Chaplot (CS)
JOB DESCRIPITION
Title of the job- Intern
Department- Finance Department
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WEEK 2
For Happay Card, I first maintained the record of all the employees and vendors of the India
Shelter, with their respective details. I updated and reconciled the Account no., from CTR file,
PAN card details, and Bank details in Vendor Master File.
After this, I reviewed the employees who holds Happay Card and maintained the list for those
employees who should be given Happay Card with the recommendations and remarks
according to their designation and their purpose of using the card.
WEEK 3
After some days, the records that I maintained about the vendors, I, then registered, updated
and entered their details on Happay Card dashboard online and have given remarks for any
changes and if any problem arises.
I set the payment frequency of vendors, like the payment should be made on everyday basis,
once in a month, once in a week or on a specified date of the month.
WEEK 4
I made the reconciliation of Happay users and Active Happay Cards of India Shelter washboard
file on weekly basis to keep the record of expenses, vendor payment, employee spending, and
the balance left in their card to upload the amount again on managers approval.
I helped in the accounts department in checking of the pending bills of the vendors like
technical, legal, rent and arranging, segregating them branch wise for easy recording and
tracking of expense each branch has done. I have reconciled the bills against the amount
claimed for checking any error of omission, commission, and fault transaction etc.
WEEK 5
After some days, when company was trying to settle the claims of the junior employees not
with the Axis Bank but through Happay Account only but on condition of not giving each
employee a new Happay Card (another facility provided by Happay, on approval of employees
reporting manager).
For this I have registered the employees first who holds the Happay Card, as a Manager again
on Happay, and I registered new employees under their reporting managers for claim of their
expenses on approval of their managers.
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WEEK 6 & 7
I learnt how the payment process take place in case of vendors and how finance manager after
analysing the report reimburse the expense of the employees.
On last days of my internship, I set the limit on each employees Happay Card and also set the
auto load limit in each employees Happay Card on the basis of each employees spending
nature in a month so that there is always a balance available in their account and if the spending
limit still more than the set limit they can further claim the amount by showing bills against the
same.
WEEK 8
I learnt from my mentor how she claims her own expense, to understand the entire process of
expense management from booking of a bill to, payment, reconciliation, analysis and to check
if there is any point of issue arises.
Apart from all this, I also read the financial statements of the company, its credit policy, have
done minutes of meetings and other secretarial work for purpose of book keeping.
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The managers of different branches across 9 states are registered in Happay to be an active user
and on the other head for the permission on approval of claim by the employees.
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In Happay there are two ways of log in: As a Admin/Manager/Finance to improve management
control and to process the claim, the other is: As an employee to claim the expenses using a
Mobile App which provides records of transaction on real time basis.
Registering new employees using Happay for easy payment and reporting experience to
employees. Employees spend using happay cards and report expenses on the happay mobile
app.
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India Shelter issues Happay Cards with their unique Happay ID and account to employees like
CEO, CFO, Department Heads, Managers etc. and posts like executives and associates to
reimburse their expenses. For this Happay charges Rs. 140 per month for the card issued to
India Shelter employees.
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Initially, there were 161 Happay cards issued to the employees, and 277 Happay users in total
which expanded to 242 Active Happay Cards and 373 Happay Users, till date and still in
counting.
350 319
294 301
300 277
No. of Happay Users
250 223
193
200 170
161
150
100
50
Date
Out of 600 vendors, initially we registered with 108 vendors in early May, 128 vendors by end
of May, 144 vendor in June and now we have 161 registered vendors in total and the target is
to register more than 400 vendors by the end of July, 2017.
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India Shelter started with reimbursing only employees expenses using Happay and were still
paying to its vendors through Axis Bank. Then, they tried registering with the rent vendors
initially and now the target is to pay all the vendors using Happay Account except technical
and legal vendors.
Loading of the money takes place on monthly basis and as required for the timely payment of
the expenses using NEFT.
But, they somehow faced problem in initiating the payment to the rent vendors, then
they increased their limit of loading the money from Rs. 2, 00,000 to approx. Rs. 10,
00,000 into the Happay Account for easy payment option and they are still working on
the issues or bugs arising in instant payment.
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Finance Department is currently working for an automatic refill loading of Rs. 2000 Balance
in Employees Happay Account, otherwise the current limit is Rs. 10,000 in case of KYC of the
employees is not there, and Rs. 50,000 in case KYC is there.
There is a customized software for use of both employees as well as admin access. Vendor and
Expense report are generated automatically from Happay dashboard which helps in
reconciliation and maintaining records hassle free.
India Shelter is actively using this software for managing the expenses and is going to use
Happay for paying to the vendors and employee reimbursement on a large scale and decreasing
access through banks. The target is to increase the no. of users in Happay.
Recently, India Shelter have set the limit on Happay Card per employee basis i.e. an employee
cant spend more than the limit set for them using the following method:
POS
ATM
ONLINE
o Like, POS No restrictions and limit set.
o ATM - Max of Rs. 5000 can be transacted through ATM in 3 transactions in a month.
o Online No limit and restrictions set.
o Total Max of Rs. 50000 can be transacted total in a month
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India Shelter has also updated the auto load limit on each employees Happay Card called the
threshold limit and upload amount.
Like,
Designation Threshold Upload
Limit Limit
Executives 5000 10000
Regional Business 10000 10000
Manager/Regional Business
Operation Manager
Associate/Assistant Manager 5000 5000
Branch Manager 5000 5000
Credit Manager 5000 5000
Head of HR/Head of IT/Director 15000 10000
Area Business Manager 5000 10000
CEO/CFO 25000 25000
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- HAPPAY MECHANISM
I have learnt about the mechanism of Happay that how it is the all-in-one platform for Business
Expense Management that provides real time expense reporting, one click reimbursements,
100% policy compliance, and automatic accounting sync.
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6.1 CONCLUSION
A successful and effective expense management is one which results from creating an inclusive
business process that generates maximum value for every rupee of employee-generated spending.
Expense management is an essential business process. 97% of the companies reported that they still
manage and evaluate expenses manually. The cost of processing expenses manually is 4x compared to
an automated system.
Now, we are equipped with modern and hi-tech automated expense management applications that can
provide complete control quickly and economically, it is mandatory for all organizations to integrate
an effective expense management program that help business firms to cut costs and reduce risk.
Happay is one such software that has been integrated by India Shelter Finance Corporation Limited
for managing its expenses through an automated software. Happay is an All-In-One Business
Expense Management Solution that bring all your business expenses on one platform.
Happay software lets India Shelter to customize the applications provided by the software
according to the necessity of the company to improve the expense management by integrating
this new automated software.
Now, most of the expenses are reimbursed or paid using Happay. The idea was to of course to
reduce the cost but was more focused on instant payment, to track and control the transaction,
to check frauds etc.
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India Shelter should plan to merge the tax plan in the Happay software, so that it can calculate
the payable amount automatically after TDS and GST.
India Shelter should try to migrate the software with the financial system so that the uploading
of the database of all the expenses could be automatic.
Currently, India Shelter uses Happay only for Expense Management like, vendor payment and
employee reimbursements. As company is growing and will be expanding in the coming years,
it can use digital marketing as a tool for promotions also, so Happay digital marketing cards
can be given to the marketing team for paid campaigns, tools and online purchases.
India Shelters HR/admin teams can also distribute employee benefits like food vouchers and
medical allowances on Happay cards and manage these benefits using the software.
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REFERENCES
http://www.happay.in/
http://www.indiashelter.in/
http://www.happay.in/blog/
https://www.ibef.org/industry/financial-services-india.aspx
Happay Admin Guides and Employee Guides
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