Alternatives
Hurdlr alternatives
Hurdlr is an expense, mileage and income tracker for freelancers and small business owners. It tracks trips automatically, captures expenses and receipts, shows live tax estimates with due dates, and on its Pro plan adds invoicing, card payments and reports like a profit and loss statement and balance sheet.
Why people look
Why teams look for a Hurdlr alternative
The reasons that come up in evaluations. Whether they apply to you depends mostly on where your receipts come from.
My accountant uses QuickBooks, and I keep a second set of numbers in another app.
Smartbills syncs expenses to QuickBooks Online, Xero, Sage Intacct, FreshBooks or NetSuite instead of keeping its own ledger.
Receipts in my email never make it into the app.
Email receipt capture reads the mailbox you connect and pulls out every receipt.
A bank charge is not proof of what I bought.
The receipt is matched to the charge, with each item and tax read and the image kept.
The shortlist
6 alternatives to Hurdlr
The products teams shortlist against Hurdlr, each with what it's for. The order isn't a ranking, and the criteria are explained below.
- 01
Everlance
Everlance logs drives automatically and finds deductions in your bank feed. Smartbills starts from the receipt, reads every item and tax, and syncs to your books.
Best forDrivers, gig workers and field teams whose biggest deduction or reimbursement is mileage.
Compare it with Smartbills - 02
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 - 03
Wave
For businesses that have outgrown Wave's free tools, usually once staff spend on cards and missing receipts start costing money.
Best forVery small businesses that need a competent ledger and client invoicing at no cost at all.
Compare it with Smartbills - 04
FreshBooks
Covers the spending side (itemized receipts, card control and coding) while FreshBooks keeps invoicing your clients.
Best forFreelancers and small agencies whose financial job is invoicing clients and tracking billable time.
Compare it with Smartbills - 05
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 - 06
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.
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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: Small businesses that keep QuickBooks, Xero or another ledger and want receipts read and synced into it.
Smartbills vs HurdlrHow this list was put together
These are the products that come up in the same evaluations as Hurdlr, 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 Hurdlr 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.