BILL Spend & Expense vs. Plaid

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
BILL Spend & Expense
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
BILL Spend and Expense (formerly Divvy) is an all-in-one expense management solution that combines free software with corporate cards to provide you with real-time visibility and customizable control over your business finances.
$0
Plaid
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Plaid in San Francisco offers a suite of applications supporting banks with risk management and customer account management features. Plaid is used by digital financial apps and services like Betterment, Expensify, Microsoft and Venmo, and by banks to make it easier for consumers to connect their financial accounts with the apps and services they want to use. Plaid connects with over 11,000 financial institutions across the U.S, Canada and Europe.
$500
per month
Pricing
BILL Spend & ExpensePlaid
Editions & Modules
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Scale
500+
per month
Test
Free
Launch
Pay as you go
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BILL Spend & ExpensePlaid
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsBILL Spend & Expense is free for all usersContact sales team for additional pricing. There may be one-time fees, subscription fees, per-request flat fees, or payment initiation fees depending on your needs.
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Features
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Expense Management
Comparison of Expense Management features of Product A and Product B
BILL Spend & Expense
9.2
8 Ratings
11% above category average
Plaid
-
Ratings
Employee Expense Reporting8.86 Ratings00 Ratings
Corporate Card Reconciliation9.67 Ratings00 Ratings
Payment Management
Comparison of Payment Management features of Product A and Product B
BILL Spend & Expense
8.8
7 Ratings
10% above category average
Plaid
-
Ratings
Customizable Approval Policies9.27 Ratings00 Ratings
Financial Document Management9.07 Ratings00 Ratings
Payment Status Tracking9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Payment Audit Trail9.65 Ratings00 Ratings
Duplicate Bill Detection7.43 Ratings00 Ratings
Advanced OCR8.73 Ratings00 Ratings
Electronic Funds Transfer9.15 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
BILL Spend & ExpensePlaid
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
(18 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
9.4
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.6
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
BILL Spend & ExpensePlaid
Likelihood to Recommend
BILL
There is a lot of functionality available for any company, and when you combine it with their A/P processing software, I'm sure the value of the software only increases. If you don't look back through your credit card receipts often, or don't have a lot of volume, the receipts not uploading into the accounting software isn't as much of an issue. For us, with roughly $200k of credit card spending each month, it became an issue. The rewards program was hard for us to take advantage of also, mostly because of our spending being spread across multiple companies. Even though we had everything set up together as one business, they still recognized each one as it's own, with it's own rewards requirements. I wouldn't deter anyone from going with Bill Spend & Expense, it's a solid program with a lot of capability, there are just a few small items that mattered to us more than the capabilities we take advantage of.
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Plaid
Plaid is extremely well suited to be your payment API if you're a start-up looking to scale your banking connections fast and securely. Their API is fully functional upon integration. Most end-users have encountered Plaid before so it's a trusted platform for many consumers so even if you're a new app, users feel comfortable connecting their bank through Plaid.
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Pros
BILL
  • Divvy does purchases very well. Getting money into the hands of those who need it, when they need it.
  • Budgeting is a breeze because card holders can only spend what is in their specific budget or on their card.
  • Customer support is usually pretty quick to respond
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Plaid
  • Plaid connects with 100s of US consumer banks.
  • Plaid continuously updates its software to meet the requirements of individual banks.
  • Plaid can get your company's payment processing up and running faster than traditional methods.
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Cons
BILL
  • I wish there were more options in the BILL reimbursement platform - for example, the ability to do a report instead of submit a single expense.
  • We would love for reimbursements to feed into QuickBooks differently, but we understand that this is an early feature and hope it is further developed in the future.
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Plaid
  • Consumer feedback or troubleshooting typically comes back to us because Plaid doesn't have an easy way of re-routing support once a user encounters a problem.
  • Update timelines could be clearer when they are working on updating a connection with a certain bank.
  • The search functionality for the user to find their bank could be a little more robust.
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Usability
BILL
The Divvy card provides convenience and flexibility for Finance to manage and monitor each user's transactions at any time. User can issue many virtual cards for different purposes. Transactions can be easily approved. Since we can monitor transaction closely, fraud can be prevented effectively. Mobile app is user friendly and safe.
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Plaid
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
BILL
We have enjoyed using Divvy and its functions. The Divvy team has been great, and their support team is outstanding. They have a chatbox on the platform, and they only seem to be someone on call. I have found its benefits to be outstanding, that I recommend it to my clients. I also feel that Divvy rolling out new features only makes it more compelling to stay on as a user.
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Plaid
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
BILL
Nothing out there compares to the agility and ease of use of Divvy. Adoption by those most resistant to any expense reporting tool has always been the #1 painpoint to all other such software. Divvy takes the pain away even for creatives and salespeople!
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Plaid
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
BILL
  • Divvy is free, so it was tough for us to turn down. We decided to withhold our larger transactions from Divvy to receive those rewards directly.
  • Divvy has saved our Finance/Accounting team tons of time digging through expenses, reimbursements, invoices, etc.
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Plaid
  • Plaid got us up and running with most US-based and even some international banks with minimal engineering effort.
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ScreenShots

BILL Spend & Expense Screenshots

Screenshot of Company Dashboard - High level overview of a business's available credit and current spending.Screenshot of Mobile Wallet - Spend Smarter™ - To manage budgets and expenses on the goScreenshot of Budget Detail - For monitoring business budgetsScreenshot of Insights - Real-time visibilityScreenshot of Transactions - Displays a complete list of all transactions and their current status on a business's physical and virtual cards.