BILL Spend & Expense vs Rippling

I'm sure you've heard of a business credit card? BILL Spend & Expense is a replacement for your typical corporate card. It's totally free to use (no annual fee), you get rewards and it has a much more comprehensive feature set, giving you the ability to create virtual credit cards for each vendor with spending limits. Further, BILL Spend & Expense is an expense management solution. Bought a new marketing software? Categorize it and when integrated with Quickbooks Online, it will automatically reconcile your books for you.

Simply put, if you are a business owner living in the United States, you are missing out if you're not using an expense management solution + a BILL Spend & Expense business credit card. There are other players in the market, and we've used all of the core competitors (Ramp, Brex, Expensify, and Airbase), and we're here to tell you to look no further than BILL Spend & Expense if you're a small business (Did we mention it's totally free? 👀)

BILL Spend & Expense gives us so much control when it comes to our spending. We can easily create a virtual credit card, set a budget and Quickbooks category within seconds for each different vendor. We simply set a budget for each credit card for the exact amount that we know will be charged. If a subscription service decides to increase their pricing and charge our card, it will decline. And we like that, because we want to be the one deciding if someone should charge us more or not. 💪

Because we're able to put virtual cards down with each vendor, BILL Spend & Expense allowed us (and our vendor) to actually catch a person that committed fraud by stealing and using our credit card 🤯 Of course, the employee of our vendor was fired. Catching them would have been impossible to pin down if we had a generic credit card on file.

Have multiple employees that need their own corporate card? Create a card for them and set a spending limit, that's all you need to do. You can change the spending limit for each employee, make it $50 or $500, BILL Spend & Expensecards allow you to be flexible. If they leave the company, simply freeze the card (you have total control—just think of what the process is like with a typically corporate card. Issuing a new card for an employee is an annoying process, as is cancelling it). Not to mention the positive affect it has on your employees, as they get to feel empowered and like a trusted part of the team.

The rewards are pretty standard with others in the business credit card space, getting somewhere around 1–1.5% on all categories, with a bit more in certain categories (higher % when making payments weekly—less if made bi-weekly or monthly).

One customer that we recommended BILL Spend & Expenseto started using it and quickly saw his reward balance grow. He decided to use the reward funds as Christmas bonuses for his employees. He said, "it's money that's just sitting there, and if I can give them a little extra to take home at the end of the year, it's something cool I get to do."

Travel rewards are also a perk with BILL Spend & Expense as they are partnered with TravelPerk. While we haven't cashed in our travel rewards yet, it's a great option for our next company retreat!

The BILL Spend & Expense eligibility requirements are way more accessible than that of Ramp and Brex (who both make their account criteria unnecessarily high). BILL Spend & Expense is great for startups and teams of all sizes, even if you're just getting your business started.

BILL Spend & Expense is the best tool in the spend management, business credit cards, budgeting, and basic accounting automation suite for most businesses of all sizes.

Rippling is an all-in-one platform that combines HR, payroll, IT, and finance tools into a single system. While that sounds appealing, really it ends up feeling like overkill for most small and mid-sized businesses. Rippling is built more like an enterprise operations system than a lightweight expense management tool.