At a glance
AvidXchange automates payables for middle-market companies and pays suppliers by ACH, cheque or virtual card across the AvidPay network it spent decades building. Its ERP coverage is unusually deep in real estate and construction: Yardi, MRI, Rent Manager and TimberScan. Privately held since October 2025 under TPG with a Corpay minority stake, it recently added an employee spend app.
Best for
Teams whose expensive problem is the receipt behind card spend rather than the supplier payment itself.
Where it's stronger
Best for
Companies on Yardi, MRI or Rent Manager whose suppliers are already enrolled on AvidPay.
Where it's stronger
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
These are structural differences, not plan checkboxes. Capabilities change, so check the vendor's own documentation before deciding on any single row.
Which document the product is built around
The reason these two tend to sit side by side.
Reach when you pay a supplier
Capturing an employee's receipt
Corporate cards
Accounting and industry systems it connects to
Itemized receipts issued by the merchant
Paying suppliers outside the United States
Using the same receipt on the customer side
None of this needs a big-bang cutover. Most teams run both tools for one cycle and compare capture rates before switching anyone off.
If your invoices settle to suppliers already enrolled on AvidPay, we're not the alternative.
Measure what arrives as an invoice and what arrives as a receipt before pricing anything.
Connect the ledger AvidXchange posts to and map categories and tax codes once.
Give one cycle to the card and receipt spending they've only recently started to cover.
FAQ
What people ask us before they sign up.
Keep comparing
The products people evaluate alongside AvidXchange.
Cards, expenses, payables, FX and fleet under one contract, compared with Smartbills on the one job both products share.
Read the comparisonWorth a look if your payables team loses more time finding and coding invoices than paying them, and card receipts sit in another tool.
Read the comparisonCovers card purchases and employee expenses (the spend Stampli was not built for) alongside supplier invoices.
Read the comparisonEach product works on its own, and when you run two, the same record carries from the receipt to the ledger entry.
Accounts payable automation that reads each supplier invoice, codes it and matches it to the purchase order before anyone is asked to approve payment.
Coming soon: release approved supplier payments in scheduled runs from Smartbills, with the person who approves a bill kept apart from the one who pays it.
Digital receipt software that turns every sale at your POS into an itemized electronic receipt, hosted online and delivered by app, SMS, email or API.
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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.
