I would look into packages expense reporting systems. It's an area that has
a large number of applications already built.
Especially if you want anything tricky like built-in American express
integration, imaging of receipts etc....

If the sales guys are on the road a lot, Access is not always the best fit.
Assuming they would want to run the system
locally on their own pc you then need to sync things back together at the
main office if you want to analyze the numbers.
It's all do able but I would suggest ruling out packaged software first.

I'm an Access consultant as well so it pains me not to just say yes use
Access and start from scratch and build your system.

Perhaps a place to start:
http://www.capterra.com/expense-report-software

If your budget is really low and you only want something a little better
than a good excel spreadsheet, Access might be the ticket.

I thought sales guys loved Excel? Just not returning all their receipts.

My two cents,
Mark Andrews
RPT Software
http://www.rptsoftware.com
http://www.donationmanagementsoftware.com

"Lorraine" wrote in message
...
I want some feed back as far Expense reporting goes. I have about 50
outside
sales guys and all of them hate using Excel and have suggested Access or
the
purchasing of online expense reporting software. Any opinions or
suggestions
will be greatly appreciated!!

Thanks!