Alternatives
Volopay alternatives
Volopay is a spend management platform with prepaid Visa corporate cards, unlimited virtual cards, multi-currency wallets, employee reimbursements, bill pay with multi-level approvals and transfers to more than 130 countries. It has a page for Canadian businesses, syncs with NetSuite, Xero, QuickBooks, Tally, MYOB and Deskera, and lets employees scan and upload receipts in its mobile app. Pricing is quoted by sales.
Why people look
Why teams look for a Volopay alternative
The reasons that come up in evaluations. Whether they apply to you depends mostly on where your receipts come from.
We don't want to move our spending onto a new prepaid card just to get expense management.
Smartbills reads the card and bank feeds you already have and matches each charge to its receipt.
Employees still have to scan every receipt in an app.
Stores that use Smartbills send the itemized receipt with the transaction, and receipts sent by email are read from connected mailboxes. The app covers what's left.
GST, HST and QST have to be split out by hand at claim time.
Smartbills breaks out each tax line on every receipt, ready for input tax credits.
The shortlist
6 alternatives to Volopay
The products teams shortlist against Volopay, each with what it's for. The order isn't a ranking, and the criteria are explained below.
- 01
Ramp
A corporate card program with spend management built around it. The comparison turns on what a card feed can and can't tell you.
Best forChoose Ramp if you're consolidating US card spend onto one program and the rebate, the controls and the card itself are where you see the value.
Compare it with Smartbills - 02
Payhawk
Multi-entity spend management for international groups, measured against Smartbills on the documents underneath the consolidated report.
Best forChoose Payhawk if your defining constraint is consolidating spend across many legal entities and currencies, where its reporting is well ahead of ours.
Compare it with Smartbills - 03
Soldo
Prepaid company cards with rules set in advance. This comparison looks at what the purchase evidence behind them actually shows.
Best forChoose Soldo if the point is getting money safely to many people or sites. Prepaid control is its whole product, and it does that better than we do.
Compare it with Smartbills - 04
Expensify
The expense report app most finance teams already know, set against Smartbills on where each receipt comes from before anyone files it.
Best forChoose Expensify if your team already runs on its expense reports and wants a familiar, well-supported report-and-approve workflow it won't have to relearn.
Compare it with Smartbills - 05
Brex
Cards and business banking for US companies. This comparison is about the purchase document behind each card charge.
Best forChoose Brex if you're a venture-backed or enterprise US company that wants cards, banking, treasury and spend controls from one vendor.
Compare it with Smartbills - 06
SAP Concur
The long-time enterprise T&E standard, set against Smartbills on setup time and on where the receipt comes from.
Best forChoose SAP Concur if you run managed travel, have complex global policy across many entities, and have the internal resources to configure and maintain it.
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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: Canadian and US companies that want receipts from merchants and mailboxes, with sales tax per line, on top of the cards and bank accounts they already use.
Smartbills vs VolopayHow this list was put together
These are the products that come up in the same evaluations as Volopay, 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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Comparing Volopay 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.