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Expense management for startups

Set spending rules, approvals and clean books from your first hire in an afternoon, so there's nothing to rebuild when your first audit or diligence request lands.

A small team working together on the office floor

Smartbills takes an afternoon to set up, runs without a controller and keeps the records a Series B diligence team will ask for.

Up and running in an afternoon

Connect a card, set a couple of limits and invite the team by email. There's no implementation project and no consultant to book.

  • No implementation project
  • Sensible defaults you can change later
  • Invite the team by email

Controls that keep up as you hire

The rules that work for five people still work for fifty, and nothing has to be rebuilt the day you finally hire a controller.

  • Policy by category, amount and team
  • Approval tiers added without a migration
  • Audit trail from the first expense

Why teams switch

No controller yet means no spending controls yet.

We don't have a controller yet, which in practice means we don't have spending controls either.

You set the rules once and they're applied when someone submits or spends. Nobody has to find time to check everything afterwards.

The expenses spreadsheet works fine until the tenth hire, and then it stops working overnight.

The setup that works for one person works for fifty, and you add approval steps as you need them instead of facing a migration project mid-growth.

An investor asked how we control spending, and the spreadsheet had never kept the records.

Every expense keeps its receipt, the policy check it passed and who approved it. A diligence question takes a search to answer.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

What people ask us before they sign up.

About an afternoon: connect a card, set your spending limits and invite the team. Skipping the implementation project is the main reason early teams choose this over a full finance suite.

No. Rules are applied when someone submits an expense instead of being reviewed afterwards, and that after-the-fact review is the job that usually needs a dedicated person. When you do hire a controller, they inherit a clean history.

The same setup handles more people, more approval steps and more entities. We built it that way on purpose, because in a finance stack the costly moment is replacing a tool, not buying one.

Yes, because the records exist from the very first expense. Each one keeps its receipt, its policy check and its approver. Questions about spending controls are answered with a search instead of a rebuilt year of history.

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Set up spending controls before you need them

Set it up this afternoon, and your next hire joins a system that already works.