Why people look
Why teams look for a Klippa alternative
The reasons that come up in evaluations. Whether they apply to you depends mostly on where your receipts come from.
However good the extraction is, it can only be as good as the image we give it.
Stores that use Smartbills issue the digital receipt directly. No image is read and there is nothing to correct afterwards.
We pay for fraud checks because the receipts staff submit could have been edited.
A merchant-issued receipt never passes through the employee's hands. It cannot be altered on the way in.
The expense app and the extraction engine are two purchases, and connecting them is our problem.
Smartbills runs from capture to the accounting entry as a single product, with no integration work in the middle.
The shortlist
6 alternatives to Klippa
The products teams shortlist against Klippa, each with what it's for. The order isn't a ranking, and the criteria are explained below.
- 01
Veryfi
Veryfi sells an extraction API to build a receipt workflow on. Smartbills is that workflow, already built.
Best forEngineering teams building their own expense feature who need extraction delivered as a service.
Compare it with Smartbills - 02
Dext
Dext collects the receipts and invoices your accounting practice is sent. Smartbills gets the receipt from the merchant at the moment you pay.
Best forAccounting practices collecting documents from many clients at once, who need client reminders and publishing built in.
Compare it with Smartbills - 03
WellyBox
WellyBox finds receipts in your email. Smartbills does that too, and also captures receipts for purchases you pay for by card in person.
Best forSole proprietors who buy almost everything online and want years of email history pulled in at once.
Compare it with Smartbills - 04
Hubdoc
Hubdoc moves documents into Xero and stops there. Smartbills adds digital receipts, expense policy, cards and payables around those documents.
Best forXero users whose only need is getting bills and receipts into Xero at no extra cost.
Compare it with Smartbills - 05
Shoeboxed
Shoeboxed digitizes the paper you've already collected. Smartbills gets receipts from the stores that send them. Less paper is printed.
Best forBusinesses sitting on a physical archive, or whose purchases still come with paper receipts.
Compare it with Smartbills - 06
Neat
Neat gives a small business a tidy scanned archive. With Smartbills, most receipts arrive on their own from email and merchants.
Best forOwner-run businesses that want a tidy document archive and simple bookkeeping at a low price.
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: Teams that would like fewer documents arriving to be processed in the first place.
Smartbills vs KlippaHow this list was put together
These are the products that come up in the same evaluations as Klippa, 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.
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What people ask us before they sign up.
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Comparing Klippa 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.