# What's the best travel and expense software for automating receipt capture and reimbursements?

<p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">I've been going through <a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/categories/travel-expense">Travel &amp; Expense</a> software reviews for a roundup on expense automation, and one thing keeps standing out. Everyone talks about OCR and receipt scanning, but nobody agrees on which tool actually nails it without a bunch of manual cleanup afterward. Some reviewers rave about the scan-and-forget experience, others say the same feature glitches constantly on itemized or multi-currency receipts. Sorting signal from noise across hundreds of reviews has turned into a bit of a rabbit hole, so I wanted to ask people who actually use these tools day to day.</p><ul>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/expensify/reviews"><strong>Expensify</strong></a> (4.5 stars, 5,670 reviews) keeps coming up for how fast its AI receipt scanning fills in vendor, date, and amount without much correction needed. A lot of reviewers say it turned a dreaded monthly chore into something that takes seconds. A few recent reviews mention the AI assistant getting confusing after a redesign though, so is that still the case for anyone using it right now?</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/sap-concur/reviews"><strong>SAP Concur</strong></a> (4.0 stars, 7,184 reviews) gets credit for OCR that auto-populates expense lines and flags policy violations before submission, which finance teams seem to appreciate. The catch reviewers keep bringing up is a dated, click-heavy interface that makes the automation feel less smooth than it should.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/navan-formerly-tripactions/reviews"><strong>Navan</strong></a> (4.7 stars, 9,297 reviews) ties booking and expense together so reconciliation happens almost automatically once a trip is booked through the platform. Reviewers like having less manual matching between receipts and trips, though a few mention it takes real configuration work to cover every travel policy edge case.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/emburse-expense-professional-formerly-certify-expense/reviews"><strong>Emburse Expense Professional</strong></a> (4.5 stars, 2,463 reviews) shows up often for its auto receipt matching and text extraction on bills, including VAT line items. One recurring complaint is that transaction syncing lags, which can flag expenses as late even when they weren't.</li>
</ul><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">Has anyone actually compared receipt scanning accuracy across a couple of these head to head? And for anyone who switched away from one of these because the automation stopped working the way it used to, what pushed you to make the change?</p>

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&lt;p&gt;We never did a formal head to head, but the real test for us ended up being multi currency receipts specifically. That&#39;s where the difference between tools became obvious fast, and anything that handled itemized foreign currency cleanly earned a lot of trust after that.&lt;/p&gt;

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