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Smartbills vs Agendrix

Agendrix pays employee expenses back through payroll, next to their hours. Smartbills records the receipt in your books, with the GST and QST split out, however it was paid.

At a glance

Smartbills vs Agendrix, in one screen

Agendrix is a Quebec workforce management platform for shift-based businesses such as restaurants, retail stores and care homes: scheduling, time clock, HR records and team messaging. Its expense module is an add-on where employees photograph receipts, managers approve them, and approved amounts go out with the payroll export.

Smartbills

Best for

Businesses that need every receipt recorded in the ledger with its sales tax split out, whether an employee or the company paid.

Where it's stronger

  • Receipts arrive from the merchant or the mailbox. Fewer have to be photographed at all.
  • GST and QST kept per line, which is what an ITC or ITR claim rests on.
  • Expenses land in the ledger as coded entries rather than as a payroll amount.
  • Company card spend and employee expenses end up in the same books.

Agendrix

Best for

Shift-based teams already on Agendrix whose expenses are mostly small employee reimbursements paid through payroll.

Where it's stronger

  • Scheduling, time clock and HR in one product, which Smartbills doesn't do at all.
  • Expenses reimbursed in the same payroll run as hours, with exports to Nethris, Employeur D, Powerpay and others.
  • Built around shift-based teams in restaurants, retail and care, and priced for them.
  • If your expenses are a few small reimbursements a month, the add-on may be all you need.

Every comparison on this site names what the other product does better. If we couldn't think of anything, we didn't publish the page.

Side by side

Smartbills and Agendrix, feature by feature

These are structural differences, not plan checkboxes. Capabilities change, so check the vendor's own documentation before deciding on any single row.

Scheduling, time clock and HR records

Smartbills—
AgendrixTheir core product

How receipts come in

SmartbillsFrom the merchant, the mailbox or a photo
AgendrixPhoto with automatic reading

Mileage expenses

Smartbills
Agendrix

Where approved expenses go

SmartbillsPosted to QuickBooks, Xero, Sage or NetSuite
AgendrixAdded to the payroll export

GST and QST on separate lines

Smartbills
AgendrixNot advertised

Company card spend matched to receipts

Smartbills
AgendrixBuilt for reimbursements

English and French

Smartbills
Agendrix

Moving from Agendrix

None of this needs a big-bang cutover. Most teams run both tools for one cycle and compare capture rates before switching anyone off.

  1. Keep Agendrix for scheduling

    Scheduling and the time clock don't overlap with Smartbills at all. How your team clocks in doesn't change.

  2. Connect your ledger

    Link QuickBooks Online, Xero or Sage so expenses post as entries with receipts, not as one payroll line.

  3. Turn on receipt sources

    Connect a mailbox and the company card, and let receipts from network merchants arrive on their own.

  4. Choose how to reimburse

    Pay employees back your usual way, payroll included, and mark reports reimbursed in Smartbills.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

What people ask us before they sign up.

Yes. Agendrix handles scheduling and time, and Smartbills handles receipts and their accounting. Reimbursements can still be paid through payroll.

No. If you need a schedule and a punch clock, that's Agendrix's job, and it does it well.

Smartbills keeps the GST and the QST as separate amounts on each receipt line, with the supplier's numbers when the receipt shows them. That's the detail an ITC or ITR claim needs.

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