Melio vs. Stampli

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Melio
Score 8.5 out of 10
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Melio is a small business-oriented Accounts Payable tool, presented as a service that helps small businesses keep up with business. A B2B payments experience and payment workflow designed to be simple, and to enable businesses to pay domestic and international vendors, expedite payments, or pay by card.N/A
Stampli
Score 8.4 out of 10
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Stampli offers software to run any procure-to-pay (P2P) process — and Billy, an AI employee, to operate it. The platform unifies Procurement, Invoice Management, and Payments in one system that automates AP while keeping teams in control.N/A
Pricing
MelioStampli
Editions & Modules
Card processing fee
2.9%
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
Melio
Chose Melio
1. One thing I like about Melio is the free version for small businesses or individuals or soleprenuels .
2. Melio offers free bank to bank payments on all plans, even the free version unlike other competitors.
3. You can pay vendors with credit cards even if they don't accept …
Chose Melio
I have used Bill, Mercury and Novo. They all meet my requirements' for my business and do similar services. However, I have been sticking with Melio over the other products as it meets all the needs for my business. Melio is a turn key solution for me. Melio is all I am using …
Chose Melio
Melio has much better customer service and lower fees than the competitors I've tried!
Chose Melio
Melio stacked up well against other solutions. The workflow and reporting were simple and the payment options were less expensive, without a monthly subscription. The ability to pay multiple invoicing in a few short clicks was appealing. The updated payment workflow was …
Chose Melio
I love Melio compared to bill.com, which seems to be full of fees and annoying ads that Melio does not have.
Chose Melio
Melio is 100% free if you just use ACH, and that by itself would be reason enough for me to stick with the platform, it boats a ton of other useful features that add to the experience.
Chose Melio
Melio tested to be much easier to use than BILL.
Additionally, Melio is free for bill payment; others charge quite a bit. Being able to recommend a free app to our clients makes standardizing on a single solution very easy for us.
Chose Melio
Less features than Ramp, but a solid option for free use for ACH. If you need International wires, fees may be higher than other options. However, you can issue paper checks, ACH, wires or use a linked credit card to pay bills.
Chose Melio
I prefer Melio due to its simplistic interface.
Chose Melio
I prefer Melio over Bill.com. I prefer Melio because it is easier to cancel or correct a payment on the platform. I like the way that Melio lets you track vendor requests for payment information. I like that it is easy to follow the payment all the way through the process to …
Chose Melio
It is pretty good, but clients call frustrated with it when they have to fix things. I cannot offer it to advanced clients, since the system is too simple.
Chose Melio
Bill.com is more expensive and more difficult to use than Melio. While it has a greater range of functionality and apparently has better integration into QuickBooks, we didn't need the greater functionality and I had just as much trouble integrating into Bill.com as I have with …
Stampli
Chose Stampli
We really liked Bill.com because of the ease but Stampli is more advanced and able to integrate better with NetSuite.
Chose Stampli
Continia did not do well at learning like Stampli does. It also does not have global lookup function without further development.
Chose Stampli
Stampli better suited our needs with the infrastructure we have in place, met our international and workflow requirements, required minimal integration set-up time without involving a 3rd party vendor, provided a
Chose Stampli
Stampli is an AP automation software first, whereas the other options we reviewed were a payment processing service that included AP automation.

The Stampli user interface is modern and easy for everyone in the organization to use.
Chose Stampli
Tipalti was not system friendly to what we needed (syncing with NetSuite) and the implementation process was frustrating. We experienced delays and no responses from their team.

Stampli has been the complete opposite! It's user friendly, from approvers to coders, reasonably …
Chose Stampli
I think its easier to use Stampli or to be able to edit something if you make an error in Sage Intacct sometimes you cannot correct them and on the books everything looks messy, that's why I love Stampli because you can double-check everything before to be authorized.
Chose Stampli
We selected Stampli due to the OCR and AI technologies that captures invoice data in real time plus the easy user interface. In comparing the two systems Stampli just appeared to outperform Bill.com.
Chose Stampli
All [of] the features are very easy to use and self-explanatory. Most of the time it remembers all your previous invoices how you coded and do itself. You just need to double-check. Definitely improved the AP process. You won't forget to pay the invoices. It will solve your …
Chose Stampli
Stampli's ease of use far exceeds that of Bill.com or Divvy. Almost every click is recorded in the audit trail and navigating within the portal is intuitive. Each tab is set up in order to follow the process flow, making even the newest of users comfortable.
Features
MelioStampli
Payment Management
Comparison of Payment Management features of Product A and Product B
Melio
9.4
Ratings
22% above category average
Stampli
8.8
Ratings
15% above category average
Customizable Approval Policies8.00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Financial Document Management9.70 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Payment Status Tracking9.90 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Payment Audit Trail9.90 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Duplicate Bill Detection9.80 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Advanced OCR9.80 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Electronic Funds Transfer8.90 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Accounts Payable
Comparison of Accounts Payable features of Product A and Product B
Melio
9.3
Ratings
27% above category average
Stampli
9.0
Ratings
24% above category average
Automated Accounts Payable Processes8.90 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Vendor Management9.40 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Tax Form Preparation9.70 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
MelioStampli
Likelihood to Recommend
8.9
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9.0
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Likelihood to Renew
9.6
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8.9
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Usability
8.3
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8.8
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Availability
9.0
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9.1
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Performance
7.0
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9.1
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Support Rating
8.0
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9.1
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In-Person Training
9.0
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Online Training
8.0
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Implementation Rating
9.0
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8.8
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Configurability
9.0
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9.1
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Ease of integration
10.0
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9.1
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Product Scalability
8.0
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9.1
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Vendor post-sale
9.0
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9.1
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Vendor pre-sale
9.0
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9.1
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User Testimonials
MelioStampli
Likelihood to Recommend
Melio is particularly well suited for small businesses above $100K in revenue whose owners want to save time and simplify bill payments. It is helpful to bookkeepers so that they don't have to ask the owners, over and over again, "what was that check for?" and "can you send me the bill?"
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Stampli is best for a compony that has a large amount of payables. It stores everything in one place and reduces the need to keep paper copies of everything. It is less appropriate in a situation where payment is due at the time of services since it is sent via USPS mail and you have to take into account the mail processing times.
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Pros
  • The simplicity it adds to business payments is a great deal. One feature we really value it the ability to pay vendors by check. Melio prints and mails checks for us which saves time and hassle.
  • Payment scheduling tool is another thing we enjoy. This tool lets us plan ahead and manage cash flow more effectively by setting payment dates in advance.
  • Another thing Melio does well is the tracking of payment.
  • There was a time a vendor claimed that they hadn't been paid, but with just a few clicks we could see the check has already been delivered.
  • This kind of transparency gives us confident and keep things professional.
  • The integration with other platform or accounts like QuickBooks is an experience I did love to keep.
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  • Learning - Billy the bot learns much quicker than our previous OCR.
  • Global lookup - we have multiple entities which creates a challenge for finding invoices entered in the wrong place. Stampli has removed this issue.
  • Maximizing manpower - reduces the need for more personnel.
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Cons
  • There should be an automatic link between vendors added with their Melio link and the same vendors that already exist in QuickBooks. As it is now, a new vendor is created when you do that and is not linked with the one that already is in QuickBooks.
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  • It would be awesome if I was able to search for a vendor and check number for proof of payment
  • When asking questions regarding invoices it is a little confusing on how to make the requested changes.
  • Webinar on use of Stampli would be appreciated.
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Likelihood to Renew
It has solved almost all the business needs I have and has contributed greatly to my business growth.
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I cannot imagine going back to pre-Stampli processes. Our jobs in the Accounting department (not just AP) have all become more engaging because we've cut out so much mindless, non-value added work: data entry, signing checks, stuffing envelopes, stamping envelopes, etc.
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Usability
Melio has been a very important tool in the advancement of our business. With great features, it has made payments to vendors seamless and hassle free. In terms of vendor management, account/data tracking, and scheduling of payments in advance. This has formed the base that we are still with Melio till today.
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A lot of checks and balances in the system that are an accountant's dream - just takes some time to understand the new process to get up to speed.
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Reliability and Availability
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Never an issue with downtime
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Performance
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Very fast and no issues with the Sage Intacct integration
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Support Rating
They have great customer support system
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We have a dedicated rep (who was also our implementation rep--they stay with you after implementation) who we can email whenever needed and meet with every quarter. There is a chat option within the software that gets responded to by a real person within minutes.
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In-Person Training
Very educative. It was well detailed, organized and knowledgeable.
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Online Training
Very helpful and we learnt a handful
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Excellent documentation, step-by-step instructions
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Implementation Rating
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We lost an AP employee right as we were deciding to implement, so we had to speed up our timeline. We went from signing the contract to fully functional system within 4 weeks. We did not dedicate any more than 4 hours per week during the implementation.
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Alternatives Considered
Melio is 100% free if you just use ACH, and that by itself would be reason enough for me to stick with the platform, it boats a ton of other useful features that add to the experience.
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Stampli better suited our needs with the
infrastructure we have in place, met our international and workflow requirements, required minimal integration
set-up time without involving a 3rd party vendor, provided a
tailored implementation process, and offered an all-inclusive month-to-month
pricing structure.
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Scalability
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Ease of deployment both domestic and international
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Return on Investment
  • I have been able to save hours every week now that I am only using Melio as my payment processor
  • I can easily add invoice details which I use to create in another platform and upload to Melio, this saves me time with projects I want to be quicker with
  • The ease of use for my clients is fantastic, and makes for a seamless workflow
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  • decreases manual process - balances out the benefit to cost ratio in automation vs employee time
  • ACH payments allow for elimination of lost checks research and reprocessing
  • Vendor portal connection putt he tools in their hands to research any status they may need instead of internal employee time to research and provide
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ScreenShots

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