Coupa Features

Creation of expense reports takes little time and is intuitive for new users

Can easily pull in receipts from all credit card statements

Automatically assigns categories/accounts based on past entries and credit card statements

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.

Functionality to reimburse employees directly to their bank account or can easily integrate with payroll system

Enables easy entry of expenses in other currencies and converts to expense report currency

Integrates with corporate or personal credit cards (import or bi-directional)

Can book Flights, Hotels, and Rental cars directly from software.

Creates travel itineraries based on booking

Integrates to calendaring systems and/or provides notifications of upcoming flights, hotels, rental cars, etc.

Allows advanced integrations to travel systems like Uber, airline ticketing systems, hotels, etc.

Ability to create and send printable or electronic invoices. Includes standard invoice style library that can be customized/branded.

Accepts electronic payments from clients

Provides adequate reporting and/or can integrate to AP systems to recognize revenue appropriately

Can easily capture receipts, parse receipts and convert/assign them to a report from mobile device

Allows users to track mileage from mobile device using maps or GPS.

Mobile application can store travel itineraries, electronic documents, and updates user of travel delays/changes

Provides standard connectors for popular Finance, Payroll, HRMS and CRM systems

Routes Timesheets, Invoices, Expense reports through approval process. Easy to maintain and administer

Sends automatic reminders to employees that have not completed expenses reports and/or timesheets

Enables administrators to create rules that enforce compliances of corporate time and expense policies

Grant access to select data, features, objects, etc. based on the users, user role, groups, etc.

Complies with PCI security standards

The ability to access important or pertinent data in a single, customizable place.

The ability to organize and manage a large amount of data so that data is easily searchable and accessible.

Access pre-built and custom reports and dashboards.

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.

Enables users to view and transact business with the same content in multiple languages and currencies.

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.

Allows software to be easily used on multiple mobile devices include phone and tablet devices.

Provides users ability to create and access expense reports/timesheets while not connected to internet.

Offers embedded AI/machine learning

Provides workflow for complex approval structures

Users can create new contracts within the platform using built-in document creation features.

Create and access templates with to streamline contract creation, taking advantage of pre-written contract clauses and fields.

Relevant contract stakeholders can edit, compare, and revise multiple versions of contracts.

Additional information, such as images, memos, and invoices, can be attached to contracts as supplemental resources.

Internal and external users are able to collaborate on contracts through a shared web portal with messaging features.

Contract approvals processes can be streamlined, so that departmental workflows are integrated logically into the system.

Receive notifications and schedule reminders with alerts according to contract milestones.

Contracts can be stored in a central online repository with built in search capabilities.

The contract management platform can integrate with CRM software to associate contracts with customer records, and with CPQ software to feed calculated quote details into the contract.

Enable standard and ad hoc reports of contract statuses and timelines, and access live overviews of contract activities.

Automated Clearing House (ACH) is an electronic network that processes large volumes of financial transactions, including B2B payments.

Corporate debit and credit cards used specifically for B2B payments

Electronic fund transfers between entities

Payments can be processed by batch without manual intervention

Ability to schedule payments at predefined dates and times

Workflows to manage every stage of the payment process

Self-service portals and mobile apps to submit invoices for processing

Match invoices, payments, and bank statement information

Clearing of electronic payments to transfer funds from customers to suppliers

Track each stage of the payment process and manage payments history

Comply with information security standards for credit card processing

Point-to-point encryption to convert sensitive financial information into indecipherable code

Features to protect companies from attempts to steal sensitive information like credit card details

Secure Sockets Layer is the standard security protocol for encryption of electronic data

Comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) to protect companies and the public from accounting erros and fraud

Ensure compliance with Association of International Certified Professional Accountants standards for cloud vendors SOC1 and SOC 2

The software can be integrated with any other products

Reports are generated using financial data from multiple sources

The vendor provides pugins and APIs that customers can use to create custom integrations

Integrate with ERP and accounting products

Integrate with Business Intelligence and Corporate Performance Management solutions

Pull data from foreign exchange and commodities trading platforms

Consolidate data from multiple sources such as spreadsheets, databases, banking systems, and software

Provide integration with accounting and financial management software

Integrate with payment gateways and enterprise payments software

Deliver integrations with accounting modules of ERP systems

Provide integration with accounting and financial management software

Integrate with payment gateways and enterprise payments software

Deliver integrations with accounting modules of ERP systems

Sync with company accounts to transfer payments for approved invoices

Provide integration with accounting and financial management software

Integrate with payment gateways and enterprise payments software

Deliver integrations with accounting modules of ERP systems

Allow integration with procurement software, such as Procure To Pay, RFP and Spend Management

Matches customer requests with routes and driver or vehicle availability.

Define default routes per customer, geography, type of vehicle or type of cargo.

Routes can be assigned to drivers individually or by batch base on criteria such as qualifications or experience.

Defines schedules for a geographical area, customer group, or type of delivery.

Define and implement constraints such as maximum distance or number of required stops.

Administrators can override schedules when unexpected changes occur.

Estimated time of arrival can be shared with customers and adjusted when needed.

Allows users to establish and change priorities for routing activities.

Routes can be automatically adjusted in real time based on predefined rules.

Adjust routes based on company constraints and customer requirements.

Analyse the performance of different routes or schedules.

Track time (for travel, load/unload, etc.) and the associated costs.

Monitor driver productivity based on KPIs such as time to destination.

Tools to analyze large amounts of data in order to gain usable insights.

Tools specifically to analyze the costs of various aspects of a supply chain.

Analyzes aggregated supply chain and shipping data to gain predictive insight

Monitors and tracks the physical status of goods and materials

Aggregates and centralizes data regarding product movement, materials management, and financial information

Generates reports that identify KPIs and other relevant metrics

Calculate cash balances by geography or business entity

Create scenarios to estimate the impact of possible changes in cash positions

Determine how they may impact the liquidity of the company

Analysis of products and services directly incorporated into finished products

Improve visibility into procurement activities across the company.

Monitor the performance of procurement operations.

Analyze procurement spending and identify future trends.

Provide benchmarking options for comparison with peers

Include standard spending KPIs that can be customized

Deliver reports for compliance purposes

Analysis that identifies errors in AP processes such as duplicate payments, anomalies, and fraud

Track invoices based on due dates to identify overdue payments

Ability to compare AP automation metrics with other companies

Monitor KPIs such as time to process an invoice or erroneous payments

Track invoices based on due dates to identify overdue payments

Analyze variations between incoming and outgoing cash

Monitor KPIs such as time to process an invoice or erroneous payments

Track different types of payment such as deposits or partial payments

Provides users with automated reports and dashboards on all demand plans, and forecast KPIs

Allows users to perform ABC and XYZ analyses and assess forecastability with rules adjustable by business users.

Allows users to forecast the demand impact of events such as new product launches product up-gradation, pricing, rebates, marketing activities, product discontinuation

Allows users to create simulation scenarios with factors such as changed pricing

Allows users to pull historical data in order to more accurately predict future demand

Improve visibility into procurement activities across the company.

Monitor the performance of procurement operations

Analyze procurement spending and identify future trends.

Track invoices based on due dates to identify overdue payments

Monitor KPIs such as time to process an invoice or erroneous payments

Provides comprehensive visibility and oversight into supply chain operations

Provides inventory scheduling and inventory management functionalities

Provides employee scheduling and employee management functionalities

Automates the tracking and recording of activities within the entire supply chain lifecycle

Ability to track cash positions across all accounts, banks, business units, and countries

Manage the investments of the company and its debts such as loans, lines of credit, or credit cards

Consolidate the balances of multiple bank accounts and manage them as a single account

Such as deposits, Money Market deals, loans, Forex, facilities, and trade finance

Schedules automate internal and external movements of funds

Define workflows to automate cash management operations

Such as fluctuations in currency and interest rates, or natural hazards

Ensure compliance with local and global financial standards and legislation

Manage the risks to each party involved in a contract

Hedging against investment risks to reduce potential loss

Support multiple banking and financial messaging protocols such as SWIFT

Manage multiple accounts from different banks

Management of loans between business entities

Operations for banking data gathering and consolidation

Consolidates procurement data from multiple systems such as ERP systems and supply chain suites.

Define rules and workflows that managers can use to approve different kinds of spending.

Align spending across various departments such as procurement and accounting.

Provide standard spend KPIs that can be customized by users.

Use historical spend data to create benchmarks per company or department.

Provide forecasts on future trends that may impact spending performance.

Identify savings opportunities per activity, department, or at the company level.

Allows users to evaluate supplier performance using standard and custom KPIs.

Provide features to compare suppliers and choose the best option for various activities.

Identify potential issues and how they may impact relationships with suppliers.

Use criteria to add or remove suppliers to/from approved lists.

Manage communications with suppliers on multiple channels such as phone or email.

Capture and maintain documents related to suppliers and their products or services.

Use criteria to add or remove suppliers to/from approved lists.

Manage communications with suppliers on multiple channels such as phone or email.

Capture and maintain documents related to suppliers and their products or services.

Compare goods received with purchase orders and document variations

Create and manage supplier profiles that include contact and pricing information.

Identify the services and products provided by suppliers, as well as certifications.

Track history of all interactions and business transactions with suppliers.

Create and manage supplier profiles that include contact and pricing information.

Identify the services and products provided by suppliers, as well as certifications.

Track history of all interactions and business transactions with suppliers.

Manage workflows and business processes for procurement.

Provide standard procurement contracts that can be customized.

Maintain a repository of content such as catalogs and other documents.

Define requisition rules for various types of procurement.

Provides users with a planning dahsboard for real-time data

Allows users to ensure production capacity meets demand

Allows users to conduct demand planning for seasonal and intermittent demand

Allows users to tailor demand planning by business function including sales and marketing

Allows users to customize demand planning that take all data on particular goals into consideration.

The system automatically accounts for data related to consumer demand and any planned network changes.

Allows users to automate routine steps for demand planning or data preparation

Manage workflows and business processes for procurement.

Provide standard procurement contracts that can be customized.

Maintain a repository of content such as catalogs and other documents.

Define requisition rules for various types of procurement

Identify and assess suppliers for different products and services.

Create and manage purchase orders for products and services.

Include features for procurement invoicing and e-invoicing.

Identify and assess suppliers for different products and services.

Electronically create and manage purchase orders for products and services.

Include features for procurement invoicing and e-invoicing.

Consolidate information from multiple sources or multiple entities

Classify information by category, supplier, or supplier

Integrate with external sources for market intelligence

Integrates with ERP systems general ledgers for transfering of AP transaction data

Ability to cleanse and consolidate AP data

Provide features to capture invoices such as import or scanning

Allow suppliers to submit invoices using an online portal

Deliver a central repository of AP documents, such as POs and invoices

Provide features to capture and record invoices, such as import or scanning

Allow suppliers to submit invoices using an online portal

Deliver a central repository of AP documents, such as POs and invoices

Ability to match AP invoices to POs, contracts, or payments

Identify incomplete or late supplier payments

Include workflows for approvals and invoice processing

Comply with local and global tax regulations for collections

Include workflows for approvals of invoices or payments

Process multiple invoices without human intervention

Allow users to consolidate multiple invoices into one

Match invoices with purchases and sales orders, as well as with payments

Ability to match AP invoices to POs, contracts, or payments

Identify incomplete or late supplier payments

Include workflows for approvals and invoice processing

Comply with local and global tax regulations for collections

Electronically submit invoices to buyers

Provide standard invoice templates that can be customized by users

Ability to convert invoices to digital formats such as PDF

Automatically generates invoices at pre-defined time intervals

Allows users to integrate their demand planning software with ERP and SCM software

Allows multiple users to simultaneously input thier data online, offline or remotely

Allows multiple stakeholders into planning data for increased visibility

Allows users to have multi-tier visibility into current stock and purchase orders

Allows users to evaluate supplier performance using standard and custom KPIs.

Provide features to compare suppliers and choose the best option for various activities.

Identify potential issues and how they may impact relationships with suppliers.

Schedules the exchange of information between internal and external systems

Automatically extracts data required for dashboards and reports on cash positions and liquidity

Restricts access to certain users within an organization, or provides access for third parties

Integrates with other financial software, such as Accounting, ERP, and Corporate Performance Management software

Manages large volumes of invoices and financial transactions between a company and its suppliers

Facilitates the acceptance of electronic payment for online transactions

Features a common interface for in-store, online, and on-the-go set across all acceptance points

Reduces future risks through root cause analysis and process improvement

Reduces frequency of errors, identifies risk and improves efficiency

Scores suppliers and employees based on risk factors

Identifies and recoups funds and prevents errors from happening again

Offers reporting to aid in minimizing future lost profits and process breakdown

Approve, reject, or query historical payment transactions to identify anomalies

Recover overpayments, duplicate payments, or unused credits from suppliers

Includes a library of audit-tested filters to identify AP outliers that are outside company policy

Conducts a post-audit analysis of large volumes of data to identify historical payment errors and automatically generate claims

Detects and prevents a wide range of overpayment errors

Detects and prevents a wide range of duplicate payments

Enables automatic checks of new vendors being set up in the system to combat potential billing schemes

Generates comprehensive data needed to conduct a thorough investigation

Provides continuous, proactive fraud monitoring across multiple systems and data formats

Constantly evaluate AP transactions to optimize workflows

Improves management oversight by reconciling external data against internal transaction data

Strengthens process controls by using analysis to proactively reduce errors before they happen and detect fraud risk

Online credit card number that can be instantly sent to employees and used for secure, one-time purchases

Online credit card number that can be instantly sent to employees and used for secure, recurring payments, such as subscriptions or services

Physical credit cards used by employees for various expenses that allow management to monitor spending and budgets

Report on spend transactions as they happen in real time

Reports that allow the user to sort and filter by vendor, team, GL, department, etc.

The ability to export reports in various formats, such as excel, CSV, and Google Sheets

Report on and track spending against budgets

Pay vendors through a dashboard or portal and maintain vendor payment information

Manage and execute recurring payments, such as subscriptions, services, utilities, etc.

Reimburse an employee for all necessary expenditures or losses incurred by the employee within the employee's scope of employment

Allows for the electronic transfer of funds between banks

Real-time notifications for fraudulant and/or duplicate spending

Individual, unique cards for each vendor to help manage duplicate and overpayments

Control spend limits, expiration dates, and lock and unlock stolen or lost cards

Provides a centralized library containing product data.

Enables users to assign custom categories to products.

Creates and manages product catalogs.

Assists with maintaining compliance with controlled processes, automated tracking, and audit trails.

Identifies revenue opportunities by providing better visibility into spend data, improving supplier relationships, streamlining procurement processes, and identifying cost savings opportunities

Provides organizations with the tools and data they need to negotiate contracts more effectively, such as data analysis, collaboration, and contract management.

Increases spend visibility into pricing and unintended or excessive use of discounts or promotions by customers.

Identifies noncompliant spending, fraud, and other activity outside of company policy.

Analyzes spending patterns and identifies areas to reduce costs.

Provides a dashboard for searching and reporting on contracts and projects.

Manages contracts in a single, online central repository.

Manages the entire contract lifecycle process by providing visibility into projects and allocating resources across sourcing initiatives.

Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.

Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.

Streamlines the process of onboarding new suppliers to a network

Provides visibility into the movement of goods/products

Enables users to acquire and evaluate quotes for services

Provides an overview of supplier performance and actions to take to mitigate risks

Displays profit opportunities by comparing revenue and cost-to-serve data

Provides in-depth analysis of product impact on supply chain network

Provides visibility into the supply chain costs of product

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Improves performance based on feedback and experience

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Improves performance based on feedback and experience

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives

Improves performance based on feedback and experience

Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives

Monitors both incoming and outgoing payments to detect fraud, such as fake payees, bank accounts, or unathorized users.

Reviews every transaction in real‑time using rules, pre-defined criteria or a combination of signals to block, flag, or allow transactions.

Allows configuring custom rules/thresholds and adjusting sensitivity for different types of transactions.

Uses documents, biometrics, or device fingerprinting to verify that a user is who they claim to be.

Detects unusual login or credential usage and requires additional authentication when a risk is present.

Builds behavioral baselines to detect deviations in transactions and device usage.

Monitors and blocks automated fraud bots, such as creating fake accounts.

Tracks actions of users, rule changes, and other system events in secure logs

Generates customlizable reports for regulatory requirements and ongoing compliance.

Converts images into a textual description, identifying key elements.

Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.

Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.

Recommends optimal suppliers using AI models based on historical sourcing outcomes and performance.

Executes sourcing decisions and actions autonomously based on goals, constraints, and learned policies.

Improves sourcing recommendations over time using feedback loops and historical event data.

Automatically invites qualified suppliers to sourcing events based on matching criteria.

Enhances supplier profiles with third-party or internal data such as risk, diversity, and financial metrics.

Identifies and recommends relevant suppliers based on category, geography, risk, and past performance data.

Optimizes sourcing outcomes across multiple competing objectives using AI-driven models.

Simulates alternative sourcing outcomes to compare trade-offs across different award strategies.

Provides transparent reasoning and justification behind AI-generated sourcing decisions or recommendations.

Evaluates supplier bids and generates optimized award scenarios based on cost and constraints.

Identifies sourcing opportunities using spend analysis and pattern recognition.

Forecasts sourcing outcomes and risks using predictive analytics models.

Automatically generates RFx events based on intake data, historical events, or predefined rules.

Captures sourcing requests through guided workflows that structure demand and trigger sourcing processes.

Generates RFx documents, line items, and requirements using generative AI based on category and historical data.

Interprets unstructured user requests and converts them into structured sourcing events using NLP.

Automates sourcing event steps including approvals, supplier invitations, and timeline management.