Within FocalPoint, you will have a single approval process for Expenses and Credit Card Expenses.
If transactions need to be routed differently depending on whether they are a Credit Card or general Expense, then this can be controlled by pre and post stage rules which determine the expense type and then route them accordingly.
You can check your approval routes in FocalPoint Administrator using the following process:
Go to System Options > Expense Management > Expense Posting.
Select the Approval tab.
This will then display the stages your expense entries will follow.
To view a particular stage, highlight the stage, followed by Edit.
On this screen there are four tabs:
Approval Stage - The core approval. This decides who approves the transaction, what happens when it is approved, and what happens if it it rejected. this tab also contains additional options depending on the approval type you have set.
Alerts - This contains any alerts that will be sent out during the approval process. Alerts are emails that will be sent by FocalPoint during the approval process (for example an alert may be sent to the approver to advise that they have something to approve.
Pre-Stage Rules - These are rules that are designed to check something specific within the transaction and then act on that information. For example, a rule could be configured to check a specific field for certain information and then re-route the transactions base don whether that information is true of false. For a pre-stage rule this check happens before the approver actually sees the transaction.
Post-Stage Rules - These work the same way as pre-stage rules, however, for post stage rules, the rule is checked after the approver has approved.
This information can then be used to establish how FocalPoint is routing your Expense entries for approval. This process can then be discussed with your accounting team and FocalPoint administrator should any changes be needed.