# VATIT

[VATIT](https://vatit.com/) is a leading tax firm in South Africa specializing in Corporate Income Tax, VAT, and other tax types.

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### The Problem: Manually managing and tracking employee purchases

The finance team would go through a monthly cycle to get all of the receipts from employees submitted - which would take almost 20 work days to complete. Both the bookkeepers and employees were spending a lot of time ensuring their accounting records were accurate.

### The Solution: Immediate expense claims and categorisation

VATIT implemented a SlackBot, based on the [OfferZen team spend project](https://investec.gitbook.io/programmable-banking-community-wiki/get-building/use-cases/offerzen), which helps their employees claim and categorise their spends.

* Every time an employee spends money on their card, the transaction is posted to the appropriate team Slack channel.
* The employee to which the transaction belongs claims the purchase and categorises it.

### Winning with Programmable Banking

* The SlackBot has removed the need for the finance team to try to figure out who the spend belongs to.
* Employees can categorise their own transactions immediately in the Slack channel.
* The solution has reduced the workload overall and VATIT has significantly reduced their 20 work day recon process.