G2

Sidharth A.

Product Manager

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/28/2026

"Enrichment layer we didn't have to build ourselves"

5/5

What do you like best about Spade?

Spade's transaction enrichment coverage is genuinely impressive. A 100% fill on merchant names and categories out of the box, with match rates consistently hitting the top end of their benchmarks.

What stood out most for us was how well it handles the messier parts of a modern transaction mix: correctly identifying delivery service layering (DoorDash, Uber Eats, etc. sitting in front of the actual merchant), payment processor intermediaries, and BNPL, which is exactly where raw transaction data tends to break down.

The team is also very responsive and collaborative to work with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Spade?

The pricing model is a bit rigid for early-stage integrations where you're still validating fit internally across finance, product, and engineering stakeholders.

On the technical side, some of the required fields for enrichment have formatting that differs across processors, which adds some friction on the integration side that ideally Spade would abstract away. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Spade solving and how is that benefiting you?

Raw transaction data from card processors is pretty noisy, merchant names come through garbled, MCCs are too broad, and you have no visibility into what's actually sitting behind a payment processor or delivery app.

For a fintech that needs clean data flowing into the customer app, rewards engine, fraud monitoring, and analytics all at once, that's a real problem.

Spade solves the heavy lifting of that, clean merchant names and logos ready for the app, accurate category mapping for rewards, and crucially, the ability to see through intermediary layers like DoorDash or Square to the actual underlying merchant.

Getting 96%+ merchant match and 100% category fill out of the box meant we didn't have to build or maintain any of that enrichment logic ourselves. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.