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Spend ManagementWhat is business spend management?Business spend management is the practice of controlling every shilling leaving a business, from the moment someone requests it to the moment it is reconciled in the books. It covers spend policies, approval limits, budgets, supplier payments, employee spending and reporting. Unlike expense management, which mostly processes claims after money is spent, spend management aims to prevent unwanted spending before it happens.Read answer
Spend ManagementWhat is expense management software?Expense management software is a tool that records company spending, applies the business rules that govern it, and reconciles each transaction against the accounts. In practice it handles four jobs: requesting and approving spend, paying it, capturing the receipt and coding the transaction, and reporting the result against a budget.Read answer
Spend ManagementWhat is employee expense management?Employee expense management is how a business handles money its staff spend on its behalf: travel, fuel, airtime, client meetings, site materials and other day-to-day costs. It covers the request, the approval, the payment or reimbursement, the receipt, and the record that ends up in the accounts.Read answer
Spend ManagementWhat is transaction capture in expense management?Transaction capture is the step where a payment is recorded along with everything needed to explain it: amount, merchant or supplier, date, receipt, and the category, project or cost centre it belongs to. Captured at the moment of spend, it takes seconds. Reconstructed later from a bank or mobile money statement, it takes finance days and some details are never recovered.Read answer
Collections & PayoutsWhat is bulk disbursement?Bulk disbursement is sending many payments at once in a single approved batch, instead of paying each recipient individually. Businesses use it for salaries, supplier payments, agent and rider commissions, loan disbursements, dividends and refunds, typically by uploading a file or calling an API, with each payment tracked separately.Read answer
HospitalityMerchant services for hotels and restaurants in KenyaHospitality businesses in Kenya need to accept M-Pesa, cards and cash at the front desk and in every outlet, keep selling when connectivity drops, and have those payments reconcile against the property system without manual matching. A hospitality payment setup therefore has three parts: acceptance, a point of sale that works offline, and reconciliation back into the books.Read answer

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