Business Expense Management Solutions
Solutions for expense management can optimize business efficiency, by streamlining payment processes and maximizing control over expenditures.
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What is expense management?
Expense management is a practice used to simplify processes, such as expense reporting, payment, and reimbursement, allowing businesses to keep track of employee expenses. There are a variety of expenditures that companies can manage through an expense management system, including employee travel, entertainment, and work-related costs. With expense management, companies can define spending policies and procedures, and trace employee costs.
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Why is expense management important for businesses?
Companies use expense management to monitor costs and control business spending. It is a practice that allows a business to regularly manage compensation for all the costs it incurs. Expense management may make it easier to regulate your team’s purchasing, reporting, and reconciliation processes for better cost management, which can help save you time.
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Critical challenges businesses face while managing expenses:
There are challenges companies face when managing expenses manually, such as keeping track of spend data across different programs and losing hard-copy expense reports. These problems can be eliminated with customizable expense management solutions designed to meet individual company needs and requirements.
Payment Solutions to Simplify your Expenses
To address different expense management problems, companies or businesses look for solutions that can simplify their expense reporting & reconciliation processes and thereby drive savings. Having access to the right solutions may eliminate the hassle of manual data entry, maximize visibility of employee spending, and prevent fraudulent claims.
American Express® offers payment solutions that help with expense management. These payment solutions can be leveraged to increase efficiency and optimize accuracy in managing and reporting expenses. With these solutions, your business can streamline purchasing and leverage expense data to create best practices for company spending and forecast future financial needs.
Corporate Purchasing Card
Provide your employees purchasing flexibility while maintaining control over expenditures
American Express Corporate Purchasing Card can help you improve your company’s cash flow management and working capital, with benefits that can include reduced purchasing costs and simplified data management processes.
Ideal for: Businesses seeking to maximize cost savings
vPayment™
Streamline your payment and reconciliation process
American Express vPaymentTM helps simplify supplier payments, allowing you to set a specific payment amount, date range, and other transaction details to make your payment processing and reconciliation more efficient.
Ideal For: Businesses aiming to maximize visibility and control of supplier expenses
Buyer Initiated Payments (BIP)
Improve your working capital and pay your suppliers on time
Buyer Initiated Payments (BIP) is a digital platform that allows for management of payment processes, added security from traditional payment methods with your suppliers, optimized working capital by extending Days Payable Outstanding (DPO)1, and more useful features.
Ideal For: Businesses looking to optimize payment processes and maintain secure transactions with suppliers
Corporate Meeting Card
Increase visibility and control over business meeting expenses
Corporate Meeting Cards can help improve expense management for your meetings by increasing spend visibility, enhancing supplier negotiations as you can leverage consolidated spend data, improving policy compliance, and reducing costs. Gain access to tools that will allow you to monitor meeting budgets and create expense reports.
Ideal for: Businesses that host or attend a high volume of events
Corporate Cards
Earn rewards and simplify expense management for your company
American Express Corporate Cards offer expense management solutions to help monitor employee spending, featuring a rewards program as well as premium support and service for your team. Easily track expenses and manage your entire card program with our easy-to-use online tools and enjoy flexible redemption options through Membership Rewards®2.
Ideal For: Mid-to large-sized companies with revenue over $10 million
Business Cards
Credit Cards and Charge Cards designed to support your business
With American Express Business Cards, you can optimize cash flow management3, gain purchasing power4, and earn rewards from company spending. Whether you have a small company or a mid-sized, established business, you can find the Card that best suits your business’ spending habits, needs, and goals.
Ideal For: Startups, entrepreneurs, and small- to mid-sized companies
Solutions for Expense Management to Support Your Company's Efficiency
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Frequently Asked Questions
What are some ways that American Express Solutions can help with expense management for my company?
American Express’ Solutions provide you with the tools your business needs to streamline processes and maximize control over expenses. Here are some key benefits our solutions offer:
- Simplify processes for work expenses: Your purchasing, reporting, and reconciliation processes will be streamlined, in less time and at a lesser cost for you and your business than manually managing your expenses
- Optimize management: Maximize control over company spending, corporate travel costs, expenses for meetings and events, and other costs
- Improve working capital: Increased efficiency with payments so you can build reliable relationships with your suppliers
Does American Express provide solutions for travel expenses?
Yes, American Express provides solutions and added convenience for your company’s travel expenses. If your team is distributed or includes a sales team, American Express’ Solutions offer travel expense support for business trips, letting your company control costs while streamlining expense reporting. See our travel expense management solution.
How can small businesses benefit from expense management solutions?
Expense management is an essential system to keep track of an organization’s cost and spending. Using expense management solutions can help your small business streamline the process of tracking employee spending and reimbursements. Managing expenses manually can prove very difficult, as it is easy for errors to occur. By using automated expense management, small companies can simplify their payment and reconciliation processes, significantly lower the amount of errors, and save money.
- DPO Extension: 30+ days of float extension depends on billing cycle, date of purchase, and date of payment.
- Membership Rewards: Earn one point for virtually every dollar charged on eligible, enrolled American Express® Corporate Cards. In the case of a Corporate Card, participation in the Membership Rewards program is subject to the approval of the Company or other entity in whose name the Corporate Card account is opened. In order to participate and before any points can be earned, the Cardmember must first enrol in the program (except for the American Express Corporate Platinum Card which, if Company approval is given, is automatically enrolled in the Program). The Company or other entity may also cancel participation in the Program at any time. Rewards are subject to availability and restrictions may apply as to when the reward can be redeemed. Amex Bank of Canada reserves the right to terminate the program with three (3) months prior notice. Interest charges, annual fees, other fees, and cash equivalent transactions are not purchases and do not qualify for Membership Rewards points. Redeemed rewards are not refundable, exchangeable, replaceable, or transferable for cash or credit. Amex Bank of Canada reserves the right to change the Program Terms and Conditions, including without limitation assignment and reassignment of tiers and associated rights, at any time without notice. To cancel enrolment in the Membership Rewards program at any time, please call 1-800-716-6661. Please visit www.membershiprewards.ca or call 1-800-716-6661 for more information, for current annual fees, or for full Membership Rewards Terms and Conditions.
- This charge card has both Due in Full and Flexible Payment Option balances. All Due in Full balances must be paid each month. Interest rate of 30% applies to each delinquent Due in Full charge. This rate is effective from the day account is opened. Interest rate of 19.99% applies to your Flexible Payment Option balance for accounts opened prior to March 23, 2023. The Preferred rate of 20.99% applies to your Flexible Payment Option balance. If you have 2 separate Missed Payments in a 12 month period, the Flexible Payment Option rate for your account will be 25.99%. If you have 3 or more separate Missed Payments in a 12 month period, the Flexible Payment Option rate will be 28.99%. This rate is These rates are effective from the day the Flexible Payment Option is first available on your account. The interest free grace period is 28, 29, 30 or 31 days from the closing date of the current statement to the closing date of the next statement depending on the number of days in the calendar month in which the closing date occurs. The number of interest free days varies based on a variety of factors, including when charges are posted to your account, whether your account is in good standing, and the closing date of your statement.Interest will not be charged on transactions and you will have an interest grace period of up to 31 days from the closing date on your statement if every month we receive payment in FULL by the next statement date after the transaction first appeared on your billing statement. Payment in FULL means payment of the total new balance shown on your statement which is made up of all charges to your account (including purchases, funds advances, fees and other charges) up to the closing date.
- No Pre-Set Spending Limit on purchases does not mean unlimited spending. Your purchases are approved based on a variety of factors, including your credit history, account history, and personal resources. Proof of resources and security may be required.