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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    BILL Spend & Expense

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/ABILL 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.

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    QuickBooks Online Advanced

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/AQuickBooks Online Advanced is a SaaS-based accounting software designed to scale with growing businesses. It includes the functionalities of QuickBooks Online, as well as more robust business analytics, customization, and resource management.N/A
    Pricing
    BILL Spend & ExpenseQuickBooks Online Advanced
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    BILL Spend & ExpenseQuickBooks Online Advanced
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsBILL Spend & Expense is free for all users—
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    Community Pulse
    BILL Spend & ExpenseQuickBooks Online Advanced
    Considered Both Products
    BILL
    No answer on this topic
    Intuit
    Chose QuickBooks Online Advanced
    None
    Incentivized
    Chose QuickBooks Online Advanced
    We have not used any other products outside of QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise and QuickBooks Online Advanced.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    11 Answers
    92%
    Would buy again
    154 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    11 Answers
    89%
    Delivers good value for the price
    138 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    11 Answers
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    157 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    89%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    8 Answers
    91%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    127 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    9 Answers
    88%
    Implementation went as expected
    135 Answers
    Features
    BILL Spend & ExpenseQuickBooks Online Advanced
    Expense Management
    Comparison of Expense Management features of BILL Spend & Expense and QuickBooks Online Advanced
    Feature
    BILL Spend & Expense
    9.2
    8 Ratings
    10% above category average
    QuickBooks Online Advanced
    -
    Ratings
    Employee Expense Reporting8.86 Ratings00 Ratings
    Corporate Card Reconciliation9.67 Ratings00 Ratings
    Payment Management
    Comparison of Payment Management features of BILL Spend & Expense and QuickBooks Online Advanced
    Feature
    BILL Spend & Expense
    8.9
    7 Ratings
    11% above category average
    QuickBooks Online Advanced
    -
    Ratings
    Customizable Approval Policies9.37 Ratings00 Ratings
    Financial Document Management9.27 Ratings00 Ratings
    Payment Status Tracking8.94 Ratings00 Ratings
    Payment Audit Trail9.75 Ratings00 Ratings
    Duplicate Bill Detection7.43 Ratings00 Ratings
    Advanced OCR8.73 Ratings00 Ratings
    Electronic Funds Transfer9.25 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customization
    Comparison of Customization features of BILL Spend & Expense and QuickBooks Online Advanced
    Feature
    BILL Spend & Expense
    -
    Ratings
    QuickBooks Online Advanced
    7.9
    118 Ratings
    4% above category average
    API for custom integration00 Ratings7.797 Ratings
    Plug-ins00 Ratings8.0103 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of BILL Spend & Expense and QuickBooks Online Advanced
    Feature
    BILL Spend & Expense
    -
    Ratings
    QuickBooks Online Advanced
    8.4
    212 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Single sign-on capability00 Ratings8.4186 Ratings
    Role-based user permissions00 Ratings8.3208 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of BILL Spend & Expense and QuickBooks Online Advanced
    Feature
    BILL Spend & Expense
    -
    Ratings
    QuickBooks Online Advanced
    8.2
    227 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings8.3214 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings8.5227 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings7.7218 Ratings
    General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
    Comparison of General Ledger and Configurable Accounting features of BILL Spend & Expense and QuickBooks Online Advanced
    Feature
    BILL Spend & Expense
    -
    Ratings
    QuickBooks Online Advanced
    8.2
    235 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Accounts payable00 Ratings8.4221 Ratings
    Accounts receivable00 Ratings8.5221 Ratings
    Cash management00 Ratings8.5195 Ratings
    Bank reconciliation00 Ratings9.1225 Ratings
    Expense management00 Ratings8.5207 Ratings
    Time tracking00 Ratings7.7111 Ratings
    Multi-currency support00 Ratings6.557 Ratings
    Multi-division support00 Ratings7.297 Ratings
    Regulations compliance00 Ratings8.3104 Ratings
    Electronic tax filing00 Ratings8.8127 Ratings
    Self-service portal00 Ratings7.9122 Ratings
    Primary and Secondary Ledgers00 Ratings8.298 Ratings
    Intercompany Accounting00 Ratings8.0100 Ratings
    Journals and Reconciliations00 Ratings8.4201 Ratings
    Enterprise Accounting00 Ratings7.989 Ratings
    Configurable Accounting00 Ratings8.4112 Ratings
    Centralized Rules Framework00 Ratings8.887 Ratings
    Standardized Processes00 Ratings8.4153 Ratings
    Inventory Management
    Comparison of Inventory Management features of BILL Spend & Expense and QuickBooks Online Advanced
    Feature
    BILL Spend & Expense
    -
    Ratings
    QuickBooks Online Advanced
    6.2
    91 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Inventory tracking00 Ratings6.291 Ratings
    Order Management
    Comparison of Order Management features of BILL Spend & Expense and QuickBooks Online Advanced
    Feature
    BILL Spend & Expense
    -
    Ratings
    QuickBooks Online Advanced
    6.8
    152 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Pricing00 Ratings6.8111 Ratings
    Order entry00 Ratings6.5100 Ratings
    Credit card processing00 Ratings7.2131 Ratings
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    Brex
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Expensify
    Score9 out of 10
    MYOB
    Score8.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Emburse Expense Enterprise (formerly Chrome River)
    Score8.3 out of 10
    Microsoft Dynamics GP
    Score5.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    BILL Spend & ExpenseQuickBooks Online Advanced
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.8
    (18 ratings)
    7.9
    (237 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.7
    (21 ratings)
    Usability
    9.5
    (7 ratings)
    8.4
    (16 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.1
    (4 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.4
    (10 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.2
    (4 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.7
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.2
    (4 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    BILL Spend & ExpenseQuickBooks Online Advanced
    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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    Intuit
    Well suited for a larger company with many classes that need to be differentiated. It is relatively intuitive to use, whether you have used other versions of QuickBooks, or any other accounting software. Easy to dig into your accounts from wither the Balance Sheet or the Profit and Loss when trying to analyze performance.
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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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    Intuit
    • Budgeting is easy to input. Our entities have multiple departments, so using classes to separate and report the results of each department is important.
    • Reports are easy to customize to provide meaningful data to the board and department managers.
    • QuickBooks Online Advanced has a large market share of accounting software in use, so it is relatively easy to find new employees with prior experience with QuickBooks Online Advanced.
    • Able to open both entities at the same time, which is helpful due to the number of transactions between the two entities.
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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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    Intuit
    • Continued growth around AI usage and tool.
    • There are still some reporting gaps that make setting up custom reports not absolutely top-tier.
    • There can be a lot of UI clutter as different features keep getting turned on. Can become harder to navigate.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    BILL
    No answers on this topic
    Intuit
    It has become second nature to use Quick Books at the company. If you need a report you log in and pull the report. It helps expedite reconciliation of bank accounts, the automation of most tasks make it easy to get mundane tasks completed quickly.
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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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    Intuit
    QuickBooks Online Advanced is highly usable and intuitive for most day-to-day financial tasks. Its interface is clear, and core functions such as invoicing, reconciliation, and reporting are easy to perform. While some advanced features like report customization or integrations can be less straightforward, overall the platform offers a smooth and efficient user experience.
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    Reliability and Availability
    BILL
    No answers on this topic
    Intuit
    In the 5 years I have been using it, I cannot recall there ever having been an outage or not being able to access the system. Sure, there are issues with internet speeds sometimes that are unrelated to Intuit but it is a very reliable system.
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    Performance
    BILL
    No answers on this topic
    Intuit
    Since we do not integrate the software with other systems, I do not have any issues with speed related to that. Pages tend to load pretty quickly, but there are times when reports or other pages take a little longer to load than usual. It is not an overly frustrating amount of time, though, and it happens infrequently.
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    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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    Intuit
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    BILL
    No answers on this topic
    Intuit
    The online training is good enough.
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    Implementation Rating
    BILL
    No answers on this topic
    Intuit
    I did not participate in this part particularly much. The implementation was simple and easy to perform. There were not any major issues that arose during the process. QuickBooks has made the processes pretty streamless and I believe they had anticipated many difficulties ahead of time. This was easy enough
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    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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    Intuit
    QBO is great because it does accounting very well, and it can integrate well with everything. I appreciate that it has third-party integrations with many other software companies, so we can focus on doing our accounting through QuickBooks while adding other software as needed through those integrations.
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    Scalability
    BILL
    No answers on this topic
    Intuit
    Software is very flexible
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    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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    Intuit
    • Spreadsheet sync reduces manual data entry significantly. Exporting data into my customized Excel workbook that has complex formulas and macros for automating makes uploading changes and reconfiguring easy and convenient, saving a lot of time.
    • Automating AP approval has reduced lost paper copies, improved internal controls, and reduced audit findings.
    • Having banking connections has improved cash flow management, streamlined credit card expenses and reconciliation. I have found that utilizing it for my primary operating account actually makes things more difficult and can easily double-post payments, so I avoid using it on the checking account. It has been well for the credit card account, though.
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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 Smarterâ„¢ - 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.