Patent ID: 8571953

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, by a computer based system for processing reimbursement requests, a reimbursement request, wherein the reimbursement is based on a transaction account based reimbursement request transaction expense; receiving, by the computer based system, indicia that a late fee has been assessed to the transaction account based on an unpaid reimbursement request transaction expense; automatically performing, by the computer based system, an audit of the reimbursement request in response to receiving the indicia that the late fee has been assessed to the transaction account based on the unpaid reimbursement request transaction expense; verifying, by the computer based system, that the reimbursement request conforms to a preset condition, wherein the preset condition comprises an amount of the transaction account based reimbursement request transaction expense exceeding a threshold; and authorizing, by the computer based system, a reimbursement of the late fee in response to the audit finding that the reimbursement request conforms to the preset condition.