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    Bento for Business

    Score10 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    Bento for Business provides employee expense cards with spend controls that allow business owners to control where, when and how much employees can spend. This solution includes a dashboard that pivots data by employee, card, category, date and tag.

    $0

    2 People or Cards (1 must be business owner)

    Ramp

    Score9.3 out of 10
    N/ARamp is a corporate card and spend management solution that helps companies of all sizes to accelerate growth without compromising on their finances. With a direct integration with the user's accounting solutions, Ramp helps finance teams save time tracking expenses, following up with employees, and closing their books. Ramp offers companies real time visibility into spending, automated expense reporting, and advanced insights into ways to cut spend.

    $0

    Pricing
    Bento for BusinessRamp
    Editions & Modules
    Free
    $0
    2 People or Cards (1 must be business owner)
    Team
    $29/month
    Up to 10 People or Cards
    Professional
    $69/month
    Up to 20 People or Cards
    Enterprise
    $149/month
    More than 20 People or Cards
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Bento for BusinessRamp
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Ramp provides a free tier for smaller teams who want to simplify finances. A step-up to our free tier is Ramp Plus, starting at $15/month/user along with platform fees based on team size. Then, for large businesses, the Enterprise plan requires a custom quote.
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    User Ratings
    Bento for BusinessRamp
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    9.2
    (25 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Bento for BusinessRamp
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Bento for Business
    Our organization runs a lot of short-term or one-off programs where the program staff need to buy supplies -- Bento is perfect for these scenarios. The staff who make the purchases are not staff who would typically have a company card, so we wanted a solution other than giving them a credit card. Bento was perfect because it makes the purchasing & bookkeeping processes for these programs easy and efficient for both the staff and the finance team
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    Ramp Business Corporation
    Ramp is well suited for managing everyday spending. We have been able to set standard permissions across the board for our team, monitor spending easily, and adjust "allowances" accordingly and quickly. The instant funding once a request is approved makes it so much faster to make a purchase, if outside of the set parameters. Ramp travel offerings are sometimes unattractive, and we have found many flights, hotels, and car rentals by going to other platforms or the suppliers directly. Pricing is comparable, but many times it is cheaper to book outside of Ramp.
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    Pros
    Bento for Business
    • Track expenses by employee
    • Restrict purchases based on amount and category
    • Import transactions directly into QuickBooks
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    Ramp Business Corporation
    • You can forward your receipts to receipts@ramp.com and it will auto-approve.
    • You can easily reverse charges if an employee accidentally places a charge on their work card.
    • You can send employees physical Ramp cards.
    • You can create as many virtual cards as needed.
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    Cons
    Bento for Business
    • easier way for employees to access their statements without setting them up as admins
    • monthly statements generated by card
    • monthly fee needs to be added to one of the card statements
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    Ramp Business Corporation
    • Even more integration to have us spend less time on reporting expenses for grant reports
    • This does not happen often, but if you make a purchase and then cancel it with the vendor, for some reason, Ramp does not immediately recognize that purchase cancellation and will continue to remind you to submit a receipt or tag it as an accidental charge, but there is no option to tag it as a canceled purchase.
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    Usability
    Bento for Business
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    Ramp Business Corporation
    Ramp offers an exceptionally intuitive user interface with a clean, well-organized design. The platform demonstrates continuous improvement through regular feature enhancements and updates. New employee onboarding requires minimal training due to the platform's logical section-based layout and user-centric design, which facilitates rapid adoption and efficient navigation. Overall Ramp's interface and UI is very user friendly.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Bento for Business
    If you are looking for prepaid business care or a business expense card, I highly do not recommend using Bento for Business. Do yourself and your business a favor and use a more customer service orientated services such as Pex, Wex, or Expensify. Bento for Business is bad business. Just don't do it.
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    Ramp Business Corporation
    We moved to Ramp from Expensify at our accountant's advice. We went with her advice due to ease of use, ease of Quickbooks sync, ability to send reminders with one click, and more. We are very happy with the decision to switch to Ramp.
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    Return on Investment
    Bento for Business
    • Saving time by eliminating reimbursements
    • Allowing many staff to have a card to make purchases without worrying about financial control/risk of too many people having a company card
    • Efficiently synchs with Quickbooks
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    Ramp Business Corporation
    • The actual dollar savings is difficult to determine at this point. We'll have a better idea the ROI at the end of the year. Previously, we received 1% back on all purchases with our corporate card. We receive 1.5% with Ramp, pay per number of cards annually (for Ramp Plus) to auto-lock cards and for additional features.
    • Time savings for admin and employees has been significant due to ease of use.
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    ScreenShots

    Bento for Business Screenshots

    Screenshot of Create Employee cards or Utility cards with spend limits (e.g. $500/month)Screenshot of Dashboard provides a snapshot of spending activity across all cards.Screenshot of See transactions in real-time.  Add tags, notes and upload receipts.

    Ramp Screenshots

    Product screenshotProduct screenshotScreenshot of Slack integrationScreenshot of Vendor ManagementScreenshot of Automated savings insights