How do we set up subsistence allowance?
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This applies to the following countries
- All countries
This article is for you as a administrator, that want to set up subsistence allowance on your organizations settings. In this example the organization use an integration to both salary and accounting.
Add the category Subsistence allowance
Start by click on the tab Settings - Expense management - Expense categories - Add category.

Choose to Add the type Subsistence allowance.
Click on the tab Create new category to set upp the settings for allowance.

This setting may look different depending on your organizations setting.
In this example we use both salary and accounting integrations and because of this, there are two lines for both accounts and salary types. If you only use for example accounting, there will only be one line to update with accounting.
The box for Meal benefits only appear if you have a salary integration.
This example is for Domestic Allowance. Press Save when you are done.
If you want to add allowance for International allowance, press Create new category and update the settings. Press Save when you are done.

The settings will now be available for the users to add on their accounts.
Organizations with multiple integrations
If you have multiple integrations, mark the box under the tab Integrations where you want to include subsistence allowance in the files.

Advanced settings
If you want to add Advanced settings on subsistence allowance, please read more in this articles:
How do I add one-day assignments for subsistence allowance?
Custom hours and amounts for Enable one-day assignments
Can I add a taxable part per day (in addition to non-taxable part) for subsistence allowance?