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Spendesk

Automate spend management with one platform for expenses, cards and invoices. Get complete control and visibility while empowering teams to spend effortlessly. Trusted by 5,000+ companies.

Spendesk is commercial procurement software made by Spendesk.

Made by
Spendesk
Source code
Closed

Website

Judgement

What it is
Complete system
What it does
Spend management for European companies with virtual and physical cards, expense claims, invoice payments and approval workflows.
Adopt it when
A European company of 50 to 1,000 staff wants to replace expense reports and shared cards with controlled employee spending.
Watch out
Its focus is Europe, and pricing is per platform tier rather than free.
Ready for
Production-ready
Runs as
Cloud service and mobile app
What the license allows
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.

Judged on 2026-11-03 from the maker's description and Wikipedia. The license and age lines are worked out directly.

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Under it

Every program, Spendesk included, runs on a microchip.

How compilers were built, back to punched paper tape

The description is the maker's own, quoted as written.