Steward reads every receipt, matches it to the charge, and codes it to the right department, cost center, and project — with its reasoning in plain English. Your team snaps a photo. Finance reviews the exceptions. The month closes itself.
The end-of-month ritual: chase receipts, itemize a report, wait for three approvals, argue with a category dropdown from 2009. Here's what changes.
Employees snap in the app. Contractors and guests use a link — no account, no download, no license. Steward reads the receipt, matches it to the card charge, and codes it with a plain-language reason. The spender confirms one thing and gets back to work.
Confident, clean transactions flow straight through to your books. Only genuine exceptions surface — a policy question, a missing receipt, an over-budget department — each explained in plain words with a one-click fix.
At month end, Steward walks a short checklist, then posts a balanced double-entry journal — coded by department, cost center, and project — to QuickBooks, Xero, or NetSuite. Or produces the exact CSV your system expects.
A fair question. Here's how Steward stacks up against the three ways companies handle expenses today.
| Capability | Steward | Corporate T&E suites | Card-first fintechs | Spreadsheets + accounting |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI does the expense report | ~ | |||
| Exception-first review — clean items never need you | ~ | |||
| Keep your existing cards & banks | ||||
| Guests & contractors submit without accounts or licenses | ~ | |||
| Department, cost-center & project coding built in | ~ | ~ | ~ | |
| Transparent per-company pricing — no per-report fees | ~ | |||
| Balanced journal sync to your accounting system | ~ | ~ |
Steward touches the most sensitive data a company has. It's built accordingly — policy-aware, fully audited, and private by default. Even our own staff can't quietly look at your books.
Read our security overview →No per-report fees, no per-module surprises, no charging you to see your own data. Guest submitters are always free and unlimited, on every plan.