At a glance
Float is a Toronto company offering Canadian businesses corporate cards in CAD and USD, business accounts, bill pay, reimbursements and spend management, with receipt capture and transaction coding built around the card.
Best for
Companies that need the purchase document itself, line by line with Canadian sales tax, whatever card or account paid.
Where it's stronger
Best for
Canadian companies that want a corporate card program, business accounts and bill pay from one Canadian provider.
Where it's stronger
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
These are structural differences, not plan checkboxes. Capabilities change, so check the vendor's own documentation before deciding on any single row.
Corporate cards in CAD and USD
Business accounts and bill pay
Itemized receipts sent by the merchant
Receipts pulled from the mailbox
GST, HST and QST per receipt line
Spend on cards from any issuer
Sync with QuickBooks, Xero and NetSuite
None of this needs a big-bang cutover. Most teams run both tools for one cycle and compare capture rates before switching anyone off.
Smartbills reads card and bank feeds. A Float program can stay exactly as it is.
Emailed receipts come in on their own, and coded entries post to QuickBooks, Xero or NetSuite.
After a month, compare how many charges have an itemized receipt with the tax split out.
Where the card comes from and where the receipt comes from are separate decisions. Plenty of teams never change the first.
FAQ
What people ask us before they sign up.
Keep comparing
The products people evaluate alongside Float.
For Canadian businesses weighing Venn's accounts and cards, especially in Quebec, where Venn says it isn't available.
Read the comparisonFor Canadian businesses that sell across borders with Loop and still need each receipt coded with its Canadian sales tax.
Read the comparisonA corporate card program with spend management built around it. The comparison turns on what a card feed can and can't tell you.
Read the comparisonEach product works on its own, and when you run two, the same record carries from the receipt to the ledger entry.
Capture receipts, categorize expenses and check policy compliance as expenses are submitted.
Digital receipt software that turns every sale at your POS into an itemized electronic receipt, hosted online and delivered by app, SMS, email or API.
Connect Gmail, Outlook, Zoho Mail or IMAP. Automatically collect receipts and invoices from the folders you choose, including Archive and Spam.
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Bring one month of your own receipts and card transactions, and we'll show you the capture rate on both sides instead of a slide deck.
