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Smartbills vs Klippa

Klippa reads documents very well. Smartbills tries to make the reading unnecessary, by having stores that use Smartbills send the receipt as data at the point of sale.

At a glance

Smartbills vs Klippa, in one screen

Klippa sells document intelligence in two forms: an extraction and verification platform for developers, and a spend management application built on top of it. Identity document reading and fraud checks come from the same product family.

Smartbills

Best for

Teams that would like fewer documents arriving to be processed in the first place.

Where it's stronger

  • The receipt comes from the merchant, never from the person who spent the money.
  • Cards, policy, payables and receivables are tied to the same record as the receipt.
  • Line-level tax detail comes from the POS instead of a confidence score.
  • One product covers what would otherwise take an extraction engine and an app on top.

Klippa

Best for

European organizations that want one supplier for extraction, document verification and expenses.

Where it's stronger

  • Extraction and verification accuracy on arbitrary documents, including identity documents Smartbills does not handle.
  • Fraud detection on submitted documents is real, and some sectors require it.
  • A strong presence in the Benelux and wider Europe, with familiarity with local compliance.
  • If your job is processing documents your organization did not issue, Klippa is designed for exactly that.

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 Klippa, 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.

Document extraction and verification as an API

SmartbillsAvailable, not the product
KlippaA core product

Spotting altered or fraudulent documents

SmartbillsLess relevant: receipts are issued, not submitted
Klippa

Expense claims and invoice processing

Smartbills
Klippa

Digital receipts issued by the merchant

Smartbills
Klippa—

Corporate cards

Smartbills
Klippa—

Applying customer payments to invoices

Smartbills
Klippa—

Reading identity documents

Smartbills—
Klippa

Moving from Klippa

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. Split the document types

    Receipts and supplier invoices can move. Identity documents stay where they are.

  2. Measure receipts sent as data

    The case for Smartbills grows with the share of your spending at stores that send receipts through Smartbills.

  3. Run capture in parallel

    Same month, same spending. Compare accuracy line by line, since headline totals hide the differences.

  4. Move the expense workflow last

    Keep extraction running until digital receipt capture has proven itself.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

What people ask us before they sign up.

For merchant-issued receipts, fraud checks are largely unnecessary because a receipt matched to its card transaction cannot be fabricated. Documents that are still submitted by hand are checked.

Yes. Many teams move card spend and receipts to Smartbills first and leave invoice extraction where it is.

Klippa, on an arbitrary image. That matters less when the receipt arrives as structured data and no OCR runs at all.

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Each product works on its own, and when you run two, the same record carries from the receipt to the ledger entry.

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