OFX Features
Expense Reports (6)
Ease of Creating Expense Reports
Creation of expense reports takes little time and is intuitive for new users
Bank / Credit Card Integration
Can easily pull in receipts from all credit card statements
Smart Categorization
Automatically assigns categories/accounts based on past entries and credit card statements
Digital Receipt Management
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.
Currency Conversions
Enables easy entry of expenses in other currencies and converts to expense report currency
Credit Card Integration
Integrates with corporate or personal credit cards (import or bi-directional)
Travel Management (1)
Advanced Integrations
Allows advanced integrations to travel systems like Uber, airline ticketing systems, hotels, etc.
Client Invoicing (2)
Electronic Payments
Accepts electronic payments from clients
Project Accounting / Revenue Recognition
Provides adequate reporting and/or can integrate to AP systems to recognize revenue appropriately
Mobile (1)
Receipt Capture
Can easily capture receipts, parse receipts and convert/assign them to a report from mobile device
Administration (5)
Business Tool Integration
Provides standard connectors for popular Finance, Payroll, HRMS and CRM systems
Automated Reminders
Sends automatic reminders to employees that have not completed expenses reports and/or timesheets
Policy Compliance Management
Enables administrators to create rules that enforce compliances of corporate time and expense policies
User, Role, and Access Management
Grant access to select data, features, objects, etc. based on the users, user role, groups, etc.
PCI Regulation Compliant
Complies with PCI security standards
Platform (6)
Reporting
Access pre-built and custom reports and dashboards.
APIs / Integration
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.
Performance and Reliability
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
Allows software to be easily used on multiple mobile devices include phone and tablet devices.
Embedded AI / Machine Learning
Offers embedded AI/machine learning
Complex Approval Workflow
Provides workflow for complex approval structures
Currencies (3)
Portfolio - Foreign Exchange
Allows users to choose which foreign currencies to manage
Exchange Rate - Foreign Exchange
Updates exchange rates for currencies (ideally in real time)
Win/Loss - Foreign Exchange
Tracks exchange rate fluctuations and their impact on transactions
Transactions (6)
Confirmation - Foreign Exchange
Manage payment confirmations and link them to corresponding transactions
Compliance - Foreign Exchange
Ensure that transactions are compliant with financial laws and regulations
Types
Manage various transaction types such as cash collection or prepaid cards.
Global
Support multiple currencies, multiple countries, and multiple languages.
Channels
Provide features for money transfer online and on mobile devices.
Fees
Track and manage fees for different types of transactions.
Setup (3)
Data
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.
Alignment
Align spending across various departments such as procurement and accounting.
Performance (4)
KPIs
Provide standard spend KPIs that can be customized by users.
Benchmarks
Use historical spend data to create benchmarks per company or department.
Forecasting
Provide forecasts on future trends that may impact spending performance.
Savings
Identify savings opportunities per activity, department, or at the company level.
Data Management (5)
Consolidation
Consolidate information from multiple sources or multiple entities
Classification
Classify information by category, supplier, or supplier
External Sources
Integrate with external sources for market intelligence
Integration
Integrates with ERP systems general ledgers for transfering of AP transaction data
Cleaning
Ability to cleanse and consolidate AP data
Analytics (7)
Benchmarking
Provide benchmarking options for comparison with peers
KPIs
Include standard spending KPIs that can be customized
Compliance
Deliver reports for compliance purposes
Errors
Analysis that identifies errors in AP processes such as duplicate payments, anomalies, and fraud
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
Compliance (3)
Security
Comply with security and privacy standards and regulations.
Fraud Protection
Include fraud protection features for all types of transactions.
ID Verification
Checks remitters' ID and information such as address at registration.
Integration (6)
Accounting
Provide integration with accounting systems or deliver APIs for integration.
Foreign Exchange
Integrate with foreign exchange software for international transactions.
AML & KYC
Deliver features or accreditation or Anti-money laundering and Know your customer.
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
Invoice Management (2)
Capture
Provide features to capture invoices such as import or scanning
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
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 (4)
Recoup
Identifies and recoups funds and prevents errors from happening again
Reporting
Offers reporting to aid in minimizing future lost profits and process breakdown
Historical payments
Approve, reject, or query historical payment transactions to identify anomalies
Overpayments
Recover overpayments, duplicate payments, or unused credits from suppliers
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
AP Data Processing (3)
Workflows
Constantly evaluate AP transactions to optimize workflows
Transparency
Improves management oversight by reconciling external data against internal transaction data
Controls
Strengthens process controls by using analysis to proactively reduce errors before they happen and detect fraud risk
Card Management (5)
Card Types
Manage multiple types of cards such as physical and virtual, debit and credit, or prepaid.
Card Controls
Allow users to activate cards, define spend limits, or change PIN codes.
Configuration
Define how cards can be used: single use, multi use, online, POS
Fulfillment
Track card fulfillment information such as orders, inventory, and shipping
Replacement
Manage replacements of stolen ,damaged, and lost cards.
Controls (5)
Tokenization
Protect card data using algorithmically generated numbers (also known as tokens).
Security
Comply with Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
Card Networks
Provide integration with card networks such as Visa and Mastercard
Integration
Integrate with software such as accounting, expense management, or banking.
APIs
Deliver APIs for custom integrations and to exchange financial data with other applications.
Payment Cards (3)
One-time Virtual
Online credit card number that can be instantly sent to employees and used for secure, one-time purchases
Recurring Virtual
Online credit card number that can be instantly sent to employees and used for secure, recurring payments, such as subscriptions or services
Physical
Physical credit cards used by employees for various expenses that allow management to monitor spending and budgets
Reporting (4)
Real time
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.
Export
The ability to export reports in various formats, such as excel, CSV, and Google Sheets
Budgets
Report on and track spending against budgets
Payments (4)
Vendor
Pay vendors through a dashboard or portal and maintain vendor payment information
Recurring
Manage and execute recurring payments, such as subscriptions, services, utilities, etc.
Employee Reimbursements
Reimburse an employee for all necessary expenditures or losses incurred by the employee within the employee's scope of employment
ACH
Allows for the electronic transfer of funds between banks
Fraud & Risk Management (3)
Notifications
Real-time notifications for fraudulant and/or duplicate spending
Unique Cards
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
Agentic AI - Spend Management (1)
Proactive Assistance
Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting
Agentic AI - Accounts Payable (AP) and Spend Analysis (1)
Decision Making
Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives
Agentic AI - Remittance & Money Transfer (1)
Cross-system Integration
Works across multiple software systems or databases
Agentic AI - Expense Management (2)
Autonomous Task Execution
Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input
Cross-system Integration
Works across multiple software systems or databases
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
Generative AI - Expense Management (3)
Image-to-Text
Converts images into a textual description, identifying key elements.
Text Generation
Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.
Text Summarization
Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.
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