Brex Features
Expense Reports (7)
Ease of Creating Expense Reports
Creation of expense reports takes little time and is intuitive for new users 614 reviewers of Brex have provided feedback on this feature.
Bank / Credit Card Integration
Based on 687 Brex reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Can easily pull in receipts from all credit card statements
Smart Categorization
Based on 645 Brex reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Automatically assigns categories/accounts based on past entries and credit card statements
Digital Receipt Management
Based on 727 Brex reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Provides various methods to easily capture receipts digitally and can automatically parse receipts to create expenses report entries. Methods may include mobile photos, desktop drag and drop, etc.
Employee Reimbursement
Functionality to reimburse employees directly to their bank account or can easily integrate with payroll system This feature was mentioned in 514 Brex reviews.
Currency Conversions
Enables easy entry of expenses in other currencies and converts to expense report currency This feature was mentioned in 327 Brex reviews.
Credit Card Integration
Based on 606 Brex reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Integrates with corporate or personal credit cards (import or bi-directional)
Travel Management (4)
Ease of Booking
Can book Flights, Hotels, and Rental cars directly from software. This feature was mentioned in 364 Brex reviews.
Itinerary Management
Creates travel itineraries based on booking 333 reviewers of Brex have provided feedback on this feature.
Trip Notifications
Based on 323 Brex reviews. Integrates to calendaring systems and/or provides notifications of upcoming flights, hotels, rental cars, etc.
Advanced Integrations
Based on 430 Brex reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Allows advanced integrations to travel systems like Uber, airline ticketing systems, hotels, etc.
Client Invoicing (2)
Electronic Payments
Accepts electronic payments from clients 536 reviewers of Brex have provided feedback on this feature.
Project Accounting / Revenue Recognition
As reported in 387 Brex reviews. Provides adequate reporting and/or can integrate to AP systems to recognize revenue appropriately
Mobile (3)
Receipt Capture
Based on 681 Brex reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Can easily capture receipts, parse receipts and convert/assign them to a report from mobile device
Mileage Tracking
Based on 362 Brex reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Allows users to track mileage from mobile device using maps or GPS.
Travel Itinerary and Flight Status Updates
As reported in 295 Brex reviews. Mobile application can store travel itineraries, electronic documents, and updates user of travel delays/changes
Administration (6)
Business Tool Integration
Provides standard connectors for popular Finance, Payroll, HRMS and CRM systems 474 reviewers of Brex have provided feedback on this feature.
Workflow
Routes Timesheets, Invoices, Expense reports through approval process. Easy to maintain and administer This feature was mentioned in 490 Brex reviews.
Automated Reminders
Based on 562 Brex reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Sends automatic reminders to employees that have not completed expenses reports and/or timesheets
Policy Compliance Management
Based on 448 Brex reviews. Enables administrators to create rules that enforce compliances of corporate time and expense policies
User, Role, and Access Management
Based on 577 Brex reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Grant access to select data, features, objects, etc. based on the users, user role, groups, etc.
PCI Regulation Compliant
Based on 374 Brex reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Complies with PCI security standards
Platform (7)
Reporting
Based on 533 Brex reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Access pre-built and custom reports and dashboards.
APIs / Integration
Based on 417 Brex reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Application Programming Interface - Specification for how the application communicates with other software. API's typically enable integration of data, logic, objects, etc. with other software applications.
Internationalization
As reported in 382 Brex reviews. Enables users to view and transact business with the same content in multiple languages and currencies.
Performance and Reliability
Based on 643 Brex reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Software is consistently available (uptime) and allows users to complete tasks quickly because they are not waiting for the software to respond to an action they took.
Mobile User Support
Based on 586 Brex reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Allows software to be easily used on multiple mobile devices include phone and tablet devices.
Embedded AI / Machine Learning
Based on 380 Brex reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Offers embedded AI/machine learning
Complex Approval Workflow
Based on 357 Brex reviews. Provides workflow for complex approval structures
Setup (3)
Data
As reported in 262 Brex reviews. Consolidates procurement data from multiple systems such as ERP systems and supply chain suites.
Approvals
Define rules and workflows that managers can use to approve different kinds of spending. This feature was mentioned in 299 Brex reviews.
Alignment
Align spending across various departments such as procurement and accounting. This feature was mentioned in 244 Brex reviews.
Performance (4)
KPIs
Based on 210 Brex reviews. Provide standard spend KPIs that can be customized by users.
Benchmarks
Based on 206 Brex reviews. Use historical spend data to create benchmarks per company or department.
Forecasting
Provide forecasts on future trends that may impact spending performance. 211 reviewers of Brex have provided feedback on this feature.
Savings
Identify savings opportunities per activity, department, or at the company level. 220 reviewers of Brex have provided feedback on this feature.
Invoice Management (3)
Capture
Provide features to capture invoices such as import or scanning
Supplier Portal
Allow suppliers to submit invoices using an online portal
Repository
Deliver a central repository of AP documents, such as POs and invoices
Invoice Processing (4)
Matching
Ability to match AP invoices to POs, contracts, or payments
Payments
Identify incomplete or late supplier payments
Workflows
Include workflows for approvals and invoice processing
Tax Compliance
Comply with local and global tax regulations for collections
Analytics (3)
Due Dates
Track invoices based on due dates to identify overdue payments
Benchmarking
Ability to compare AP automation metrics with other companies
KPIs
Monitor KPIs such as time to process an invoice or erroneous payments
Integration (3)
Accounting
Provide integration with accounting and financial management software
Payment Integration
Integrate with payment gateways and enterprise payments software
ERP
Deliver integrations with accounting modules of ERP systems
Expense Reporting (4)
Expense Automation
Captures data using scanned receipts and electronic invoices and automatically aligns invoices and expenses 28 reviewers of Brex have provided feedback on this feature.
Integration
Integrates seamlessly and securely into IT ecosystems 25 reviewers of Brex have provided feedback on this feature.
Compliance
Based on 26 Brex reviews. Set regulations set forth by each company and keeps travel and reimbursement policies in compliance
Mobile Functionality
As reported in 26 Brex reviews. Snaps receipts, capture and approve expense on the move, and track travel through GPS
Approval (3)
Rules
Based on 27 Brex reviews. Incoporates company travel restrictions and guidelines to help stay in compliance and on budget
Workflows
Based on 26 Brex reviews. Creates a path of tasks that need to be completed and assigns approval tasks to individuals
Submit
As reported in 27 Brex reviews. Allows users to submit travel requests and expense reports directly to the correct approvers
Risk (3)
Analysis
Reduces future risks through root cause analysis and process improvement
Identification
Reduces frequency of errors, identifies risk and improves efficiency
Scoring
Scores suppliers and employees based on risk factors
Recovery (2)
Recoup
Identifies and recoups funds and prevents errors from happening again
Reporting
Offers reporting to aid in minimizing future lost profits and process breakdown
Audit (4)
Filters
Includes a library of audit-tested filters to identify AP outliers that are outside company policy
Post Audits
Conducts a post-audit analysis of large volumes of data to identify historical payment errors and automatically generate claims
Overpayments
Detects and prevents a wide range of overpayment errors
Duplicates
Detects and prevents a wide range of duplicate payments
Fraud (3)
Vendor Checks
Enables automatic checks of new vendors being set up in the system to combat potential billing schemes
Data Generation
Generates comprehensive data needed to conduct a thorough investigation
Monitoring
Provides continuous, proactive fraud monitoring across multiple systems and data formats
Payment Cards (3)
One-time Virtual
Online credit card number that can be instantly sent to employees and used for secure, one-time purchases This feature was mentioned in 255 Brex reviews.
Recurring Virtual
Online credit card number that can be instantly sent to employees and used for secure, recurring payments, such as subscriptions or services This feature was mentioned in 264 Brex reviews.
Physical
Based on 291 Brex reviews. Physical credit cards used by employees for various expenses that allow management to monitor spending and budgets
Reporting (4)
Real time
As reported in 278 Brex reviews. Report on spend transactions as they happen in real time
Multiple Views
Reports that allow the user to sort and filter by vendor, team, GL, department, etc. 241 reviewers of Brex have provided feedback on this feature.
Export
The ability to export reports in various formats, such as excel, CSV, and Google Sheets This feature was mentioned in 241 Brex reviews.
Budgets
Based on 239 Brex reviews. Report on and track spending against budgets
Payments (4)
Vendor
As reported in 257 Brex reviews. Pay vendors through a dashboard or portal and maintain vendor payment information
Recurring
As reported in 247 Brex reviews. Manage and execute recurring payments, such as subscriptions, services, utilities, etc.
Employee Reimbursements
Based on 262 Brex reviews. Reimburse an employee for all necessary expenditures or losses incurred by the employee within the employee's scope of employment
ACH
As reported in 249 Brex reviews. Allows for the electronic transfer of funds between banks
Fraud & Risk Management (3)
Notifications
Based on 302 Brex reviews. Real-time notifications for fraudulant and/or duplicate spending
Unique Cards
Based on 282 Brex reviews. Individual, unique cards for each vendor to help manage duplicate and overpayments
Controls
Control spend limits, expiration dates, and lock and unlock stolen or lost cards This feature was mentioned in 272 Brex reviews.
Dashboard (3)
Payouts
Displays total payout and/or remaining capital for a specified timeframe This feature was mentioned in 42 Brex reviews.
Fees
As reported in 44 Brex reviews. Outlines any applicable fees or interest rates charged
Payment Schedule
Maps out any future payments 43 reviewers of Brex have provided feedback on this feature.
Integrations (3)
Subscription Management
Integrates with customers subscription management software to sync recurring billing, subscription management and revenue analytics This feature was mentioned in 42 Brex reviews.
Banking
Based on 46 Brex reviews. Integrates with customers banking services to connect data
Accounting
As reported in 42 Brex reviews. Integrates with customers accounting platform to sync data such as payroll, invoicing, billing and expense management
Analytics/Reporting (5)
Cash Balance
Tracks how much cash a company has on hand to help analyze a company's cash runway This feature was mentioned in 45 Brex reviews.
ARR
Based on 34 Brex reviews. Tracks annual recurring revenue
Valuation
Tracks a companies valuation based on the sale or funding of similiar start-ups 36 reviewers of Brex have provided feedback on this feature.
Customer Metrics
Tracks customers metrics such as ACV, churn, growth, and retention This feature was mentioned in 36 Brex reviews.
Expenses
Tracks expenses, such as advertising, marketing, R&D, etc This feature was mentioned in 43 Brex reviews.
AI - Travel Management (5)
Personalization
Uses AI to offer highly personalized experiences by analyzing data from previous travel patterns, preferences, and behaviors 22 reviewers of Brex have provided feedback on this feature.
Predictive Analytics
Based on 22 Brex reviews. Uses ML and AI to analyze historical data to identify trends and make predictions for travel costs, peak travel times, weather conditions, or flight cancellations
Cost Savings
Based on 22 Brex reviews. Uses AI and ML to automate tasks such as booking, expense reporting, and itinerary management, to reduce admin costs
Efficiency
Uses AI and ML to analyze spending patterns to identify cost-saving opportunities, such as recommending alternative travel options of similar quality at lower prices This feature was mentioned in 22 Brex reviews.
Real-Time Assistance
Based on 22 Brex reviews. Provides AI guided chatbots to provide real-time assistance to travelers, answering questions, providing updates, and offering support 24/7
Agentic AI - Spend Management (1)
Proactive Assistance
As reported in 15 Brex reviews. Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting
Agentic AI - Recurring Revenue Finance (1)
Multi-step Planning
Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes
Agentic AI - Expense Management (2)
Autonomous Task Execution
Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input This feature was mentioned in 24 Brex reviews.
Cross-system Integration
Works across multiple software systems or databases 24 reviewers of Brex have provided feedback on this feature.
Agentic AI - Travel Management (2)
Autonomous Task Execution
Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input
Proactive Assistance
Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting
Agentic AI - AP Automation (3)
Autonomous Task Execution
Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input
Proactive Assistance
Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting
Decision Making
Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives
Technology Glossary Features
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Mileage tracking is the process of maintaining a mileage log for reimbursement or tax deduction. See why accurate mileage tracking is crucial for individuals and companies alike.
Policy and compliance management is a process to centrally manage standards, policies, and internal control processes cross-mapped to external regulatory standards. Learn more about policy and compliance management best practices and the associated benefits.





