Visa Spend Clarity offers a suite of end-to-end spend management solutions to empower businesses of all sizes and levels of complexity to control spend, maximize visibility, and optimize cashflow. it is designed so that with it, financial institutions can deliver payment and spend management technology to help to increase card spend, improve customer retention, and differentiate their service.
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Zip Intake-to-Procure
Score 7.9 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Zip provides a place for employees to initiate a purchase or vendor request. Each request is routed for approval across procurement, finance, IT, data security, legal, and other teams, and Zip integrates into ERP and P2P solutions to create a PR or draft PO. The vendor states Zip works with Canva, Checkr, Hopin, Zapier, CM Group, and other companies both public and private.
To find the expenses which need receipts linked, one has to unnecessarily navigate and use two-levels of drop-down menus to filter, when this should be the first thing a user sees when logging in. Logging in requires 2-step-authorization nearly every time. When going to link receipts and update GL codes, one has to click on three different links just to get to view a transaction and available receipts, then wade through receipts that any basic OCR program should have already recognized and linked automatically. For less-obvious PDF receipts there is no quick viewer, every pdf must be redownloaded to view. When a receipt is linked and a GL code is updated the UI doesn't accept it automatically and move on, no...you have to click another link to complete the transaction, though if you click the 'Complete' link and try to move on it gives you an error message and asks if you'd like to delete the transaction, instead you have to go back and hit 'Update' after you've already made the changes, then it allows you to go to the next expense in the list. Absolutely ridiculous and this doesn't even touch on how bad the mobile app is.
Zip is a newer product in the P2P space, and as such there are still some areas for improvement. They don't have all the "bells and whistles" products and configurations that some of the other players in this space have, but the products they do offer are best in class. Zip is an ideal tool for tactical procurement.
Focused on virtual visa limits, some locations may need real card connected.
Limit per card and period - once reached and notified would be great to have extra 10% from the funding account added. Cause there may be FX differences or the person is in travel in a different time zone for calling to manually add balance by admin.
Admin account must assign names of categories only (unified for all users).
Invoicing tool - if user spend not properly to send a payback request.
Loan request from a user to funding account: he may need to cover some uncovered by agreement costs - set request, set a return date.
Business reports at Admin or Funding account level to see helicopter picture as it is for a period even prior kept records to books or exported to CSV to process.
Missing the ability to proxy as another user. Currently, if one approver did not set up their delegation, an admin or the approver of that step must reassign each of the approvals to another person.
Bulk upload options for admins to update queues and subqueues.
Missing ability to schedule reports or the option to share a saved view with another user. It would be easier if certain filtered views can be shared with others to avoid each user having to create their own views.
It is mostly focused on virtual visa operations. In general, all cash flow controlling suits easily can start from Excel or Google Colab integrations and evolve even to Sungard or WSS. It depends. Visa Spend Clarity is about your flexibility "to have your own bank in a pocket" - open sub-accounts, set limits, and reconcile costs actually made by your contractors or employees. We should see it wider and include Uber, Booking, Airbnb, and Flow interactions to make it a really fast process for your contractor from your "Yes" to contractor "Done". The Visa Spend Clarity is not exactly about your money (costs). It is more about your ability to start acting faster even if all details of cooperation with a person are not agreed upon, but as soon as possible, discuss critical details or add maneuver to your decision-making while limiting financial risk with reasonable limits.
Truth be told, we haven’t seen any other similar products. The alternative was manually tracking in Google Sheets, ticketing systems, and in NetSuite. Coupa was probably the closest in terms of what we were looking for but they were not willing to fit it to our needs like Zip was able to.
Some possible positive impacts of Visa Spend Clarity include increased transparency of spending habits, more effective budgeting and money management, and improved overall financial health. Additionally, Visa Spend Clarity may also lead to more strategic and informed decision-making when it comes to using credit.
On the other hand, some possible negative impacts of Visa Spend Clarity include feelings of anxiety or guilt associated with credit card spending, as well as the potential for overspending if users are not careful.
Additionally, Visa Spend Clarity may also lead to financial arguments or conflict if users are not on the same page about their spending habits.
Zip Intake-to-Procure has helped clean up forecasting for us - we've improved accuracy by over 30% since now we're forcing folks to make sure spend is captured accurately and checking submitted PO amounts against the bottoms up forecast
We've also been able to leverage the SLA insights provided by Zip Intake-to-Procure to increase operational efficiencies. We're identified orgs that are slowing down the overall approval process and putting more pressure with shorter SLA times.
