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Budget

Live Budget Tracking: No more blind spots

Spendesk connects your budgets directly to your spend, with real-time budget tracking that updates moment by moment. Finance always knows what's been committed, what's been spent, and what's still available.

Built with insights from 12,000+ finance leaders in the CFO Connect community

How Live Budget tracking works

Bespoke budget set up

Create company-wide or project-specific budgets that run alongside each other, and track them in the way that makes most sense for your business.

Your budget, your way

Organise by fields that match how your business actually runs. Already have a budget in a spreadsheet? Upload it and AI fills in the structure for you in seconds.

Complete spend oversight

Every card payment, expense claim, and invoice hits the right budget the moment it's created. So you can see the bigger picture instantly, with no end-of-month surprises.

See the full picture, in real time

One dashboard shows the health of every active budget at a glance. Drill into any budget to see what's already been spent and what's been approved but not yet paid, so you always know exactly where you stand.

Approvers make better decisions, faster

When a request comes in, approvers see the real-time budget impact before they approve or decline. No more guessing whether there's room in the budget.

One source of truth for every budget

Let automation handle the routine

AI that earns its place in your finance team

  • Upload your existing budgets in seconds

    Cut out the manual work. Upload your existing Excel budgets and AI structures them automatically — no rebuilding from scratch.

  • Spend reflected in real-time

    Every approval updates in your budget automatically. Every spend request routes to the right approver — no manual redirecting, no chasing necessary.

  • Budget reporting without the wait

  • The bigger picture in real-time

    One dashboard shows the health of every active budget at a glance. Drill into any budget to see what's been spent, what's committed, and what's still available — all updated in real time, so there's nothing to chase and no waiting for month-end reports

  • Every budget, visible to the right people

    The right people see the right budgets and finance gets full visibility across it all. Budget owners see what they're responsible for, without needing to ask for a report or wait for month-end.

  • Your budgets, built around your business

    Full visibility across all your spend

    Give finance teams and budget owners complete visibility on spend the moment it happens. Every card payment, expense claim, and invoice is tracked automatically against the right budget, so there are no surprises at month-end.

    Empower your budget owners

    Budget owners get a live view of their own budgets without needing to chase finance. When a request comes in, the budgetary impact is visible — so they can approve or decline knowing exactly how much they have to play with.

    Structure budgets the way your business actually works

    Build budgets bespoke to your needs. Add sub-budgets for more granular control, and automatically capture spend from new teams or categories as your organisation grows.

    Track spend in advance

    Real-time budget tracking showing committed and available spend for marketing and HR teams before invoices arrive

    Spread invoices across the months they belong to

    Stop annual subscriptions distorting a single month's figures. Split invoices evenly across any period or budget, so your reporting always reflects real monthly costs.

    Trusted by finance teams who move fast and don’t break things

    100% adoption, in under 30 days

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    "I can’t imagine how our business would operate without Spendesk. We couldn’t ask for a better spend management system."

    Julie Rodrigues

    Finance director

    12x transaction volume

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    “ Spendesk gives us the agility we need to manage spend and accounting at scale. Today I couldn't imagine working without it.”

    Isabelle Decomble

    Finance manager

    Seamless integrations

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    “ The friction-free NetSuite integration was one of the deciding factors for us.”

    Nicoletta Hinrichs

    Senior Finance Manager

    +3 days per month gained

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    “ How Evaneos gains 3 days per month with automated reconciliation.”

    Guillaume Lalau

    Responsable Comptable & Financier

    What you can do with Spendesk in 90 days

    Real-time control on spend, secure payment methods, clever automations, and more — making accounting a breeze.

    Onboarding complete. AI begins reading documents and building your secure transaction history. Set up budgets and integrations at this stage

    Bookkeeping suggestions begin appearing as confidence builds. Approval workflows configured and live.

    Duplicate detection and anomaly flagging fully active. Team in review mode, not data-entry mode.

    Month-end close faster than before. Data exported, books closed. Your team has time back.

    What you can do with Spendesk in 90 days

    Real-time control on spend, secure payment methods, clever automations, and more — making accounting a breeze.

    Onboarding complete. AI begins reading documents and building your secure transaction history. Set up budgets and integrations at this stage

    Bookkeeping suggestions begin appearing as confidence builds. Approval workflows configured and live.

    Duplicate detection and anomaly flagging fully active. Team in review mode, not data-entry mode.

    Month-end close faster than before. Data exported, books closed. Your team has time back.