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Smartbills vs Stampli

Stampli fixes the argument that happens on an invoice. Smartbills also covers the spend that never produced an invoice to argue about.

At a glance

Smartbills vs Stampli, in one screen

Stampli centres accounts payable on collaboration: every question and approval lives on the invoice itself rather than in email, with an assistant that learns coding and routing. It integrates with many ERPs without changing them.

Smartbills

Best for

Finance teams whose spend runs through cards and employee purchases as well as supplier invoices.

Where it's stronger

  • Covers the spend that never generates a supplier invoice at all.
  • Cards, expenses, payables and receivables all post to one ledger.
  • Merchant-issued line items rather than extraction from a PDF.
  • Tax categories taken from the document rather than assigned during review.

Stampli

Best for

Accounts payable teams whose real bottleneck is chasing approvals and questions across email.

Where it's stronger

  • Invoice-centred collaboration answers approval chasing better than we do.
  • ERP integration breadth, including systems Smartbills does not reach.
  • A mature, well-liked product with a strong mid-market track record.
  • When invoices stuck in approval are the only problem, Stampli is the sharper answer.

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 Stampli, 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.

Questions and approvals on the invoice itself

SmartbillsApprovals, less conversational
StampliTheir defining feature

Reading, coding and matching an invoice

Smartbills
Stampli

How many ERPs it connects to

SmartbillsNarrower
StampliVery broad

Corporate cards and employee expenses

Smartbills
StampliCards, without the expense depth

Itemized receipts issued by the merchant

Smartbills
Stampli—

Customer payments and cash application

Smartbills
Stampli—

Going live without changing the ERP

Smartbills
Stampli

Moving from Stampli

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. Check where the spend is

    If nearly all of it is supplier invoices, Stampli is the better fit and there's little reason to switch.

  2. Start with card and employee spend

    Move the half invoice automation can't see, and leave invoices alone at first.

  3. Compare invoices side by side

    Push the same invoices through both for a cycle and compare cycle time honestly.

  4. Consolidate once

    Running two payables systems is a transition, not a destination.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

What people ask us before they sign up.

Payables are part of it: capture, coding, matching and approval all work. Unlike Stampli, payables are not the whole product, and that cuts both ways.

Stampli, for conversations on an invoice. Smartbills applies policy earlier, at the moment of purchase, which is a different kind of control.

Ask us, and ask them. Stampli's integration list is longer, and for some ERPs that alone will decide it.

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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.