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Everlance alternatives

Everlance is a US mileage and expense tracker for the self-employed and for companies that reimburse drivers. It detects drives with your phone's GPS, links bank and card accounts to log expenses, lets you attach receipt photos and produces IRS-compliant mileage logs. Companies can run FAVR, cents-per-mile and accountable plan programs through it.

Why people look

Why teams look for a Everlance alternative

The reasons that come up in evaluations. Whether they apply to you depends mostly on where your receipts come from.

The bank feed shows a charge, but not what I actually bought.

Smartbills matches the charge to its receipt and reads each item and tax, so the deduction has its proof.

Receipts for online purchases never get attached to anything.

Email receipt capture reads your mailbox and attaches the receipt to the matching expense.

Our bookkeeper re-enters the expense report into QuickBooks.

Approved expenses and mileage sync to QuickBooks Online, Xero, Sage Intacct, FreshBooks or NetSuite.

The shortlist

6 alternatives to Everlance

The products teams shortlist against Everlance, each with what it's for. The order isn't a ranking, and the criteria are explained below.

  1. MileIQ

    MileIQ tracks drives and nothing else. Smartbills covers the rest of the claim: receipts read item by item, mileage from your trips, approvals and sync.

    Best forDrivers who only need a hands-off mileage log for taxes or reimbursement.

    Compare it with Smartbills

  2. Hurdlr

    Hurdlr tracks a freelancer's mileage, income and tax estimates. Smartbills reads every receipt line by line and syncs expenses to the books your accountant uses.

    Best forUS freelancers who want mileage, income and a running tax estimate in one app.

    Compare it with Smartbills

  3. 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

  4. SimplyWise

    SimplyWise scans and stores receipts for tax season. Smartbills reads each item and tax, routes approvals and syncs expenses to your accounting software.

    Best forContractors and individuals who want receipts stored safely and a categorized spreadsheet at tax time.

    Compare it with Smartbills

  5. Dext

    Dext collects the receipts and invoices your accounting practice is sent. Smartbills gets the receipt from the merchant at the moment you pay.

    Best forAccounting practices collecting documents from many clients at once, who need client reminders and publishing built in.

    Compare it with Smartbills

  6. Hubdoc

    Hubdoc moves documents into Xero and stops there. Smartbills adds digital receipts, expense policy, cards and payables around those documents.

    Best forXero users whose only need is getting bills and receipts into Xero at no extra cost.

    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: Businesses whose expenses are mostly purchases with receipts, and who need them approved and booked.

Smartbills vs Everlance

How this list was put together

These are the products that come up in the same evaluations as Everlance, 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.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

What people ask us before they sign up.

No. You enter the trip and the vehicle, and Smartbills calculates the distance from the route and the amount at your rate. Everlance detects drives on its own.

Yes. It reads taxes on receipts from many countries and includes Canadian mileage rates, such as the CRA's tiered rate.

Automatic mileage, company driver reimbursement programs and, on its top self-employed plan, tax filing.

Get started

Comparing Everlance 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.

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