Does Striven have built-in expense management?

Key takeaways

• Yes: Striven's Employee Expenses covers submission, manager approval and reimbursement checks.
• Expense Types carry the expense account, billable default, markup and manager notification.
• Company card charges arrive through Online Banking and are recorded as Credit Card Charges.
• In Vergo, card spend is coded by inference and posted as journal entries through Striven's API.

Where should you go next?

• Vergo's Striven integration
• What expense management software integrates with Striven?
• Get started with Vergo

What does Striven include for expenses?

• Employee Expenses: My Expenses, Add and Add Multiple, with attachments.
• Expense Types: expense account, billable default, markup and Notify Manager.
• Expenses Queue: manager approval.
• Create Checks: reimbursement, or payroll file mapping for ADP, Paychex and others.
• Generate Invoices: bill approved expenses to clients.

How do company card charges get into Striven?

Through Online Banking, which pulls bank and credit card transactions via Yodlee for someone to review and post, or as Credit Card Charges entered directly. Receipts for those charges are a separate hunt, because Employee Expenses is built around the person who paid, not the card.

Where does that leave work for finance?

• Feed review line by line in Online Banking.
• Receipt chasing for card charges.
• Class and billable decisions on shared vendors.
• No receipt reading: Striven attaches scanned receipts rather than reading them.

When is a separate tool worth it?

When company cards carry more spend than employee claims. Vergo proposes the coding by inference from your own accounting structure and history — no rule library to build, no keyword lists to maintain, and new vendors are coded on first sight. Your Striven admin enables API access once; Vergo then posts coded card spend as journal entries and reimbursements as employee-as-vendor bills.

How Vergo works alongside Striven

Striven stays your system for projects, CRM and accounting. Employees handle everything by text message — no app to download, no portal login — and Vergo chases missing receipts itself instead of waiting for a report. Card spend, employee reimbursements and AP invoices run through one coding model — same coding, same review, one reconciliation — and payment stays on the rails you already use.