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Alternatives

Stampli alternatives

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.

Why people look

Why teams look for a Stampli alternative

The reasons that come up in evaluations. Whether they apply to you depends mostly on where your receipts come from.

Invoice automation stops at the edge of the card program, and a lot of spend lives there.

Cards, expense claims and supplier bills post to one ledger. Card spend stops being its own month-end job.

A purchase made on a card produces nothing to route, discuss or approve.

Merchant-issued receipts give in-person spend a real document that can be coded and reviewed like an invoice.

Money coming in lives in another system. Collections and payables never share a view.

Collections and cash application run in the same product, and both sides of the ledger reconcile together.

The shortlist

6 alternatives to Stampli

The products teams shortlist against Stampli, each with what it's for. The order isn't a ranking, and the criteria are explained below.

  1. BILL

    Worth a look if your payables team loses more time finding and coding invoices than paying them, and card receipts sit in another tool.

    Best forBusinesses paying supplier invoices at high volume, especially when most of their suppliers are already enrolled on the BILL network.

    Compare it with Smartbills

  2. Tipalti

    For payables teams stuck on capturing and coding invoices, which is a different job from the cross-border payouts Tipalti is known for.

    Best forCompanies paying thousands of suppliers internationally, with tax and compliance obligations attached.

    Compare it with Smartbills

  3. Melio

    Melio pays suppliers cheaply. Smartbills covers the invoice work that comes first: capture, matching, coding and multi-step approvals.

    Best forSmall businesses whose one real need is paying a handful of suppliers as cheaply as possible.

    Compare it with Smartbills

  4. QuickBooks

    Keeps QuickBooks as your ledger and replaces only its receipt capture, sending in itemized, policy-checked entries.

    Best forBusinesses whose receipt volume is small enough that the capture already included with QuickBooks still copes.

    Compare it with Smartbills

  5. Xero

    Leaves Xero as your ledger and takes over expense claims and receipts, which reach Xero itemized and already coded.

    Best forBusinesses whose claim volume is small enough that the bundled expenses module still copes.

    Compare it with Smartbills

  6. Sage

    An alternative to Sage Expense Management (formerly Fyle) that delivers receipts as data, while your Sage ledger stays put.

    Best forOrganizations on Sage that place real value on buying the ledger and the expense product from one vendor.

    Compare it with Smartbills

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

Smartbills vs Stampli

How this list was put together

These are the products that come up in the same evaluations as Stampli, 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.

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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Comparing Stampli 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.

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