Alternatives
Corpay alternatives
Corpay is a publicly traded corporate payments company, known as FLEETCOR until it renamed in March 2024. It sells commercial cards, expense management, AP automation, cross-border payments and FX, fleet and fuel cards, and workforce lodging. Corpay Complete, launched in January 2024, brings cards, expenses, payables and supplier payments together in the United States and Canada.
Why people look
Why teams look for a Corpay alternative
The reasons that come up in evaluations. Whether they apply to you depends mostly on where your receipts come from.
Matching a receipt to a card transaction means reading a photograph and hoping it is legible.
A store that uses Smartbills issues the receipt as data at payment, and it matches the transaction as soon as it arrives, with nothing to read.
Extraction gets the date and the total right and loses most of the lines underneath.
A merchant-issued receipt carries every line as the POS recorded it. Coding and tax treatment start from the full detail.
The thermal slips in our files are unreadable long before the retention period ends.
Since it arrives as data, the receipt stays readable and searchable for as long as you're required to keep it.
The shortlist
6 alternatives to Corpay
The products teams shortlist against Corpay, each with what it's for. The order isn't a ranking, and the criteria are explained below.
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Ramp
A corporate card program with spend management built around it. The comparison turns on what a card feed can and can't tell you.
Best forChoose Ramp if you're consolidating US card spend onto one program and the rebate, the controls and the card itself are where you see the value.
Compare it with Smartbills - 02
Brex
Cards and business banking for US companies. This comparison is about the purchase document behind each card charge.
Best forChoose Brex if you're a venture-backed or enterprise US company that wants cards, banking, treasury and spend controls from one vendor.
Compare it with Smartbills - 03
AvidXchange
An AvidXchange alternative for card and receipt spend, while AvidPay keeps paying the suppliers already enrolled on it.
Best forCompanies on Yardi, MRI or Rent Manager whose suppliers are already enrolled on AvidPay.
Compare it with Smartbills - 04
Expensify
The expense report app most finance teams already know, set against Smartbills on where each receipt comes from before anyone files it.
Best forChoose Expensify if your team already runs on its expense reports and wants a familiar, well-supported report-and-approve workflow it won't have to relearn.
Compare it with Smartbills - 05
SAP Concur
The long-time enterprise T&E standard, set against Smartbills on setup time and on where the receipt comes from.
Best forChoose SAP Concur if you run managed travel, have complex global policy across many entities, and have the internal resources to configure and maintain it.
Compare it with Smartbills - 06
Navan
Travel booking first, expenses second. This comparison is about the everyday spend that isn't a trip.
Best forChoose Navan if your people travel constantly and you want booking, travel policy and expenses in a single flow for the traveller.
Compare it with Smartbills
Disclosure
And Smartbills, which is ours
Slipping our own product into a roundup without saying so is exactly what makes these pages worthless, so to be clear, this one is ours.
Smartbills
Best for: Teams that want the receipt to arrive as itemized data from the merchant, instead of being photographed and then read by software.
Smartbills vs CorpayHow this list was put together
These are the products that come up in the same evaluations as Corpay, drawn from what prospects actually shortlist against it and from the rest of its category. The order is editorial rather than a ranking, because we don't run benchmarks on products we don't operate, and a scored table written by a vendor about its competitors isn't evidence. Each entry links to a full comparison with claims specific enough to check.
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Comparing Corpay with something else?
Bring one month of your own receipts and card transactions. The number that settles it is the share of transactions that ended up with an itemized document attached, and you can measure that in one cycle.