Compliance

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When Your Expense Process Stops Scaling, Everything Else Slows Down 

Most business owners don’t wake up one day and realise their expense process is broken. It happens gradually. A few late submissions. An approval that sits in someone’s inbox over a long weekend. A reconciliation that should take a day and takes weeks.  By the time it’s a real problem, it’s actually been a problem for a while. Slowly, slowly, then all […]

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AI Expense Fraud Is a Real Problem. Here’s How to Get Ahead of It. 

For most people, AI image generation is still a bit of a novelty – something you use to turn a photo of yourself into a Studio Ghibli character, or age your face by 40 years for a laugh. But the same technology that puts your boss in a Pixar film can produce a convincing restaurant […]

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G2 Spring 2026: Webexpenses Named a Regional Leader – Again 

The G2 Spring 2026 results are in, and we’ve picked up another strong haul of new badges, including Regional Leader for the UK, Leader for Mid-Market, and High Performer for both Enterprise and Small Business.  ‘Big deal, you won some prizes’. Yes, yes – I’ll acknowledge an element of self-satisfaction here. But these G2 awards do matter. And if you’re considering us […]

An AP person frustrated at his expenses process, rubs his eyes.

Shadow Spend and Non-PO Invoices: How AP Automation Software Fixes the Problem Nobody Talks About 

An invoice lands in your queue: no PO, no budget code, no prior approval. Someone, somewhere in the company, seemingly, made a handshake deal. The supplier delivered. And now it’s your problem. That’s shadow spend in AP. And unlike the version that shows up in expense claims, this one arrives already spent, already owed – and already awkward.  It’s not a small or occasional […]

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Cashback on Corporate Cards: Why Unlimited Returns Aren’t Too Good to Be True 

Big news: we’re introducing cashback on our Corporate Cards. And we’re doing it differently from everyone else in the UK market. While most providers cap your earnings or attach qualifying conditions, we’re launching up to 0.75% (depending on your pricing tier) unlimited cashback on every transaction made with your Webexpenses Card.  No thresholds, no category restrictions, no caps tied to your subscription tier.  Now, if you’re an accountant or finance professional, your immediate reaction is probably healthy scepticism. […]

Frustrated CFO thinking about solutions to shadow spend

Shadow Spending: The CFO’s Guide to Protecting Financial Credibility

Picture the scene: A finance function that runs cleanly, month on month. The close lands on time. The forecasts resemble what eventually unfurls in reality. The board pack is on point. For most CFOs, that version exists mostly in theory.  What gets in the way is rarely one big thing. It’s the slow accumulation of small ones – ‘a thousand cuts,’ as the cliché […]

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Shadow Spending: The Unseen Enemy to Your Finance Close

Finance close is meant to be a smooth, predictable process. ‘Meant to be’. But the gap between ‘meant’ and ‘is’ is often a yawning chasm. Every month, you steel yourself. This time we’re going to nail it – and then, the usual happens: unexpected transactions crop up, departments overspend their budgets, and you’re left scrambling to reconcile everything before the deadline.  This is […]

6 Expense Management Risks

Six Expense Management Risks That Explode Between 50-250 Employees

Once you cross 50 employees, your expense process (which worked fine with 20 people) will inevitably begin to creak. Submissions pile up, approvals get delayed, and you’re starting to suspect not every receipt is legitimate.   Between 50 and 250 headcount, you hit a dangerous inflection point. You’re too big to manually check everything, too small to have dedicated fraud resources or a full compliance […]