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Expense Management Industry Statistics

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Expense Management Industry Statistics
Samuel NorbergWritten by Samuel Norberg·Fact-checked by Maya Johansson
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01 Industry overview

The expense management industry at a glance

The global expense management software market was valued at $8.33 billion in 2025 and is shifting toward cloud, mobile, card-linked and AI-assisted spend controls.

$8.33B[24]
Global market size, 2025
8.30%[24]
Forecast CAGR, 2026–2034
46.9%[24]
North America share, 2025
49.6%[1]
SAP travel and expense share, 2023
Market size
The global expense management software market was valued at $8.33 billion in 2025 and is estimated at $9.09 billion in 2026. Alternative estimates place the 2025 market at $7.71 billion, reflecting differences in scope and methodology.[24][26]
Forecast & CAGR
Fortune Business Insights forecasts the market to reach $17.26 billion by 2034, implying an 8.30% CAGR from 2026 to 2034. Mordor Intelligence forecasts $13.82 billion by 2031 at a 10.26% CAGR for 2026–2031.[24][26]
Market share & regions
North America held 46.9% of the global market in 2025 in Fortune Business Insights’ estimate. Another 2025 estimate assigns 42.4% of global revenue to North America, including $3.51 billion, while Asia-Pacific generated $1.66 billion.[24][28]
Segmentation
Cloud platforms accounted for 74.18% of the market in 2025, while large enterprises represented 67.05% and travel and entertainment applications represented 42.35%. Mobile-first tools are forecast to grow at a 14.81% CAGR through 2031.[26]
Key players & concentration
The competitive field includes SAP Concur, Expensify, Ramp, Brex, Oracle, Workday, BILL and other specialized providers. SAP reported a 49.6% share of the 2023 travel and expense management software market, indicating substantial concentration in the enterprise segment.[1][26]
Pricing
Published pricing ranges from free entry tiers to paid per-member subscriptions: Expensify Collect costs $5 per member per month, while its Control plan is available from $9 per active member per month under stated conditions. Enterprise plans from major vendors are often quote-based.[54]
Trends, drivers & challenges
Growth is being driven by cloud migration, mandatory or expanding electronic-invoicing requirements, CFO demand for real-time spend visibility, corporate-card integration and AI-based receipt capture and audit automation. Key challenges include privacy, security, ERP integration, localization and compliance across tax and reimbursement regimes.[26][66]
Consumer behavior & competition
Expense platforms increasingly compete on embedded cards, mobile submission, automated receipt processing, policy enforcement and integrations rather than reporting alone. Expensify reported more than 1.8 billion expense transactions processed for customers as of December 31, 2025, illustrating the scale of recurring digital usage.[66][1]
M&A
In 2025, Perk, formerly TravelPerk, acquired spend-management provider Yokoy while raising $200 million. Perk said the transaction was intended to combine travel and expense capabilities and reported annualized booking volume above $2.5 billion and annualized revenue above $200 million.[77]
Regulation
In the United States, the IRS set the 2025 business standard mileage rate at $0.70 per mile, creating a recurring compliance input for mileage-reimbursement workflows. Expense platforms must also address data-security and privacy requirements; Expensify reports PCI-DSS Level 1, SOC 1 Type II and SOC 2 Type II compliance.[78][66]
Latest news
Recent industry activity has centered on platform consolidation and broader spend-management suites: Perk’s 2025 acquisition of Yokoy expanded its integrated travel-and-expense offering, while Expensify’s 2026 filing reported more than 1.8 billion cumulative processed expense transactions as of the end of 2025.[77][66]

02 Ranking

Top 10 Companies in the Expense Management Industry

The leading companies in the expense management industry, ranked on market impact, performance, momentum, innovation and brand popularity.

Updated November 11, 2026 · Next review December 11, 2026

Verdict

Oracle leads Gitnux's 2026 expense management ranking with an Overall score of 9.5, with enterprise expense reporting and spend controls via Fusion Cloud Expenses. SAP is the highest-ranked travel and expense platform provider at 9.4, driven by SAP Concur identified as the leading enterprise travel and expense platform.

Ranked by Overall score · How we score ↓

Editor's top 3 picks

Where to start, by need.

  1. #1 Overall · Leader in enterprise expense suites

    Oracle

    US

    Ranked #1 · 9.5 · Enterprise expense suites

    Why we picked it: Oracle anchors enterprise expense reporting and spend controls in Fusion Cloud Expenses for finance and controls.

    See in ranking ↓Visit oracle.com ↗

  2. Leader in integrated travel and expense

    SAP

    DE

    Ranked #2 · 9.4 · Integrated travel and expense

    Why we picked it: SAP Concur is positioned around enterprise travel and expense execution where compliance and policy controls matter.

    See in ranking ↓Visit sap.com ↗

  3. Leader in card-linked expense management

    Airwallex

    AU

    Ranked #3 · 9.3 · Card-linked expense management

    Why we picked it: Airwallex ties spend controls to corporate cards with approval and real-time visibility for expense workflows.

    See in ranking ↓Visit airwallex.com ↗

Pick 1 is the #1 company overall. Picks 2 and 3 are the highest-ranked companies in the top 5 that add a new segment.

Full ranking

Sort by
Top 10 companies in the expense management industry, 2026 – Gitnux ranking
#CompanyOverall ↓Company snapshot
1

Oracle

Enterprise expense suites · US

9.5
2

SAP

Integrated travel and expense · DE

9.4
3

Airwallex

Card-linked expense management · AU

9.3
4

Navan

Integrated travel and expense · US

9.1
5

Workday

Enterprise expense suites · US

9.0
6

Brex

Corporate cards, reimbursements and spend management · US

8.7
7

Rippling

Workforce-linked cards and expense management · US

8.7
8

Coupa

Enterprise business spend management · US

8.7
9

BILL

SMB spend, expense and accounts-payable automation · US

8.1
10

Expensify

Expense reporting, cards and reimbursement automation · US

7.7

How we score

  • Impact (30%): scale and weight in the market (revenue, market share, employees, market position).
  • Performance (20%): recent revenue growth and operating margin; an analyst assessment where a company does not publish them.
  • Momentum (20%): growth trajectory and future potential.
  • Innovation (15%): R&D intensity and how technologically advanced the company is.

Popularity (brand search demand, 15%) counts toward Overall but is not published as a column. Overall leaves out what is not known.

Scale Scores are shown on a 7–10 scale with one decimal; bars start at 7.0.

Cadence Recalculated when new figures are published; next review December 11, 2026.

Independence. Rankings are editorially independent. Scores, ranks, picks and the verdict follow the method above; no company can pay to change them.

Cite this ranking

APA

Samuel Norberg. (2026, November 11). Top 10 companies in the expense management industry. In Expense Management Industry Statistics. Gitnux. https://gitnux.org/expense-management-industry-statistics/#top-companies

report visual · Comparison

Worldwide travel and expense management software revenue share by region

Americas holds the largest share at 57.2%.

Americas57.2%
EMEA30.7%
APJ12.1%
source-verifiedconcur.com.sg

04 Statistics

Technology & Innovation

AI use in travel and expense keeps moving from capture toward review, with regulated-industry Concur survey results showing 26% evaluating AI use cases in September 2026.

AI in the expense management industry

  • More than one-third of commercial organizations in SAP Concur’s September 2026 survey were already using AI capabilities in travel and expense processes.[1]
  • 60.5% of AI token spending among businesses on Ramp went to Anthropic in the week ending October 23, 2026.[2]
  • $15.70 was the median monthly AI spend per employee among U.S. businesses on Ramp paying for AI in September 2026.[2]
  • 293% was the year-over-year increase in AI-related card transaction volume among Ramp customers in the 2024 analysis period.[2]
  • 35.5% of U.S. businesses using Ramp paid for AI tools in the first quarter of 2025.[2]
  • 82% of companies that spent on OpenAI through Ramp one year earlier were still spending with OpenAI in the 2024 analysis.[2]

Automation in the expense management industry

  • 39% of organizations reported somewhat automated travel and expense management in Ardent Partners’ 2024 ePayables study.[3]
  • 9% of regulated-industry SAP Concur survey respondents used automated audit solutions outside Concur in September 2026.[1]
  • 44% of UK small and medium-sized businesses reported mostly or fully automated expense processes in an OFX 2026 survey.[4]
  • 62% of finance organizations reported automated expense reimbursements in APQC’s 2024 finance-automation research.[5]
  • 26% of regulated-industry SAP Concur survey respondents were evaluating AI use cases for expense management in September 2026.[1]
  • 44% of organizations reported fully automated travel and expense management in Ardent Partners’ 2024 ePayables study.[3]

Digital Transformation in the financial services sector (sector benchmark)

  • 27% of financial services firms reported financial benefits from AI in 2026, up from 14% in 2025.[6]
  • 80% of financial services firms reported active AI use in 2026, up from 31% in 2025.[6]
  • 84% of financial services firms said integrating front-, middle- and back-office systems into one platform is important in 2026.[6]
  • 43% of financial services firms said they will need an entirely new technology stack to succeed in the age of AI.[6]
  • 26% of financial services firms reported using agentic AI in 2026, according to a global digital-transformation study.[6]

Technology Adoption in the financial services sector (sector benchmark)

  • 35% of financial institutions adopted or improved generative-AI capabilities during the 12 months covered by the 2024 survey.[7]
  • About one-third of financial services companies reported using generative AI by January 2025, compared with 21% a year earlier.[8]
  • 59% of finance leaders reported using AI in their finance function in 2025, according to Gartner’s survey of 183 senior finance leaders.[9]
  • 54% of surveyed financial services companies had deployed AI initiatives by January 2025, up from 40% one year earlier.[8]
  • 61% of financial institutions recently adopted AI or improved their AI capabilities, based on a 2024 survey across 11 markets.[7]

Cloud Computing in the financial services sector (sector benchmark)

  • 33% of financial services firms were highly satisfied with cloud-related reductions in operational costs in Capgemini’s 2024 survey.[10]
  • 43% of banking and financial services organizations were moving toward a cloud-first analytics approach in the WNS-Forrester survey.[11]
  • 87% of financial services firms increased cloud investment during the two years preceding LSEG’s 2025 global survey.[12]
  • 91% of financial organizations had at least one cloud platform in 2023, up from 37% in 2020.[10]
  • 82% of financial services firms used a hybrid- or multi-cloud strategy in LSEG’s 2025 global survey.[12]

Big Data in the financial services sector (sector benchmark)

  • 11% of surveyed bank marketers were very confident in the accuracy of the data they regularly used in 2024.[13]
  • 37% of surveyed bank marketers said their bank was on the way to using data and analytics to support strategic goals in 2024.[13]
  • 41% of surveyed bank marketers said their bank was already using data analytics to make decisions and achieve goals in 2024.[13]

05 Statistics

Data & Analytics

Analytics adoption links to cost control and compliance reporting, including 81% of U.S. business leaders saying they frequently use analytics to optimize travel and expense costs in 2025.

Business intelligence in the expense management industry

  • 81% of U.S. business leaders surveyed in 2025 said they frequently used analytics to optimize travel and expense costs.[14]
  • 79% of organizations in EMEA reported using EPM software in 2025, compared with 72% in Asia-Pacific and 69% in North America.[15]
  • 53% of EPM respondents identified building a cross-functional team as a barrier to success in 2025.[15]
  • 79% of respondents in the 2025 EPM study rated financial reporting as important, very important or critical.[15]
  • 77% of U.S. business leaders surveyed in 2025 said they used data to track travel and expense policy compliance.[14]
  • 48% of EPM respondents identified insufficient senior-management engagement as a barrier to success in 2025.[15]

Data analytics in the expense management industry

  • 5% of expenses in Rydoo’s Smart Audit analysis were classified as intentional non-compliance.[16]
  • 62% of organizations had implemented at least some automation for expense reimbursements in APQC’s 2025 research.[5]
  • 37% of surveyed organizations used automated expense management when employees booked business travel in 2025.[14]
  • 81% of surveyed U.S. executives frequently used analytics to optimize travel and expense costs in 2025.[14]
  • 36% of surveyed organizations used automation to upload receipts and conduct travel-and-expense compliance checks in 2025.[14]
  • 10 million+ expenses from 2024–2025 were included in Rydoo’s Smart Audit dataset for expense-compliance analysis.[16]

Data Quality in the financial services sector (sector benchmark)

  • Across global financial services, 34% of organizations rated their data excellent for accuracy and integrity in 2024.[17]
  • Across global financial services, 36% of organizations rated their data excellent for quantity and completeness in 2024.[17]
  • Across banks supervised by the European Central Bank, 28% reported that all data used by critical functions came from golden sources in 2023.[18]
  • Across significant European banking institutions, 32% did not apply data-quality-management principles to end-user computing in 2023.[18]
  • Across U.S. banking and capital markets, 94% of respondents named data accuracy and reliability as a priority in 2024.[19]
  • Across U.S. banking and capital markets, 86% of respondents named data access and usability as a top concern in 2024.[19]

Data Governance in the financial services sector (sector benchmark)

  • Across global financial services, 54% of companies rated data governance at one of the two highest maturity levels in 2024.[20]
  • Across financial-services organizations surveyed globally, 43.7% lacked a standardized certification process for analytics content in 2025.[21]
  • Across financial-services organizations surveyed globally, 82.9% had implemented governance policies specifically applying to business intelligence and analytics in 2025.[21]
  • Across 35 surveyed banks, insurers, and financial-services firms in 38 countries, 54% had adopted a semantic layer for organization-wide data governance in 2025.[22]
  • Across financial-services organizations surveyed globally, 57.1% identified BI-content testing as the top future investment in analytics governance in 2025.[21]

KPIs in the expense management industry

  • 86 expense reports per month was the reported processing volume per FTE for organizations with 50–99 employees in 2023.[23]
  • 26% of SMBs reported approving and reimbursing expense reports within 1–3 days in 2023.[23]
  • 127 expense reports per month was the reported processing volume per FTE for organizations with 250–500 employees in 2023.[23]
  • 44% of SMBs reported taking 4–7 days to approve and reimburse expense reports in 2023.[23]
  • 17% of SMBs reported taking 8–14 days to approve and reimburse expense reports in 2023.[23]
  • 89 expense reports per month was the reported processing volume per FTE for organizations with 100–249 employees in 2023.[23]

06 Statistics

Strategy & Growth

Market growth remains double-digit through long forecasts, with the global market estimated at $9.1 billion in 2026 and forecast to reach $21.4 billion by 2035.

Growth in the expense management industry

  • The global expense management software market was valued at $8.33 billion in 2025 and forecast to reach $17.26 billion by 2034.[24]
  • The global expense management software market was forecast to grow from $3.7 billion in 2021 to $9.9 billion in 2029, a 13.4% CAGR.[25]
  • The expense management software market was projected to grow from $7.71 billion in 2025 to $13.82 billion in 2031.[26]
  • Navan estimated the global expense-management revenue opportunity at approximately $39 billion in 2025.[27]
  • The global expense management market was valued at $9.1 billion in 2026 and forecast to reach $21.4 billion by 2035.[28]

Differentiation in the expense management industry

  • Public-cloud services accounted for 88.9% of expense-management software deployment in 2024.[25]
  • Zuora reduced hotel costs by 31% after implementing Navan’s AI-powered travel-and-expense platform.[29]
  • Fever-Tree saved 22% on hotels after adopting Navan’s integrated travel-and-expense platform.[29]
  • Navan achieved a 99 out of 100 satisfaction score in G2’s 2025 expense-management software category.[29]
  • SAP Concur held 49.6% of worldwide travel-and-expense management software revenue in 2024, according to IDC data.[26]

Mergers and acquisitions in the expense management industry

  • TravelPerk acquired Swiss expense-software company Yokoy in 2025, combining corporate travel and expense-management capabilities.[30]
  • Paylocity agreed to acquire Airbase in September 2024, adding bill pay, accounts-payable automation, expense management, corporate cards and procurement capabilities.[31]
  • Paylocity expected Airbase to contribute approximately 1% of fiscal-2025 revenue after the acquisition agreement.[31]

Strategic partnerships in the expense management industry

  • Duolingo added Navan Expense in 2023 after first implementing Navan Travel in 2019.[27]
  • Expensya’s partner program offered integrations and resale opportunities for software providers, financial institutions, travel companies and accounting professionals in 2026.[32]
  • Navan’s European enterprise customer wins cited alongside Unilever included Heineken, SumUp, Nilfisk and Primark in 2022.[27]
  • Unilever selected Navan in 2022 to modernize its global travel program across a workforce of 148,000 employees in 77 countries.[27]
  • Zuora launched Navan’s consolidated travel-and-expense platform across 17 countries.[29]

07 Statistics

People & Workforce

Work-location flexibility stays material to finance operations, with 52.5% of workers in U.S. financial activities teleworking in June 2026.

Remote Work in the financial services sector (sector benchmark)

  • 68% of U.S. financial services workers said they would consider seeking new employment if remote and hybrid flexibility were reduced in 2023.[33]
  • Across U.S. financial services, 82% of companies offered some form of work-location flexibility in 2025.[34]
  • 52.5% of workers in U.S. financial activities teleworked in June 2026, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.[35]
  • 87% of U.S. financial services employees said remote work helped them balance home and work responsibilities in 2025.[20]

Hybrid Work in the financial services sector (sector benchmark)

  • 54% of U.S. employees with remote-capable jobs worked in a hybrid arrangement in 2025.[36]
  • 42.2% of remotely workable finance and insurance jobs were hybrid in July 2025 in the United States.[34]
  • 2.58 days was the average weekly in-office requirement among financial services companies using structured hybrid work in 2024.[37]
  • 82% of U.S. financial services firms offered some form of work-location flexibility in July 2025.[34]
  • 39% of financial services companies offered corporate employees full flexibility over work location in 2024.[37]

Employee Engagement in the financial services sector (sector benchmark)

  • 20% of employees worldwide were engaged at work in 2025, according to Gallup’s World Poll.[36]
  • 16% of employees worldwide were actively disengaged at work in 2025.[36]
  • 31% of employees in the United States and Canada were engaged at work in 2025.[36]
  • 12% of employees in Europe were engaged at work in 2025.[36]

Change Management in the financial services sector (sector benchmark)

  • 49% of financial institutions cited continuous learning and development as a way to prepare for technological change in 2024.[7]
  • 53% of banks identified a significant change portfolio requiring prioritization and coordination over the next two years in 2025.[38]
  • 64% of financial services leaders acknowledged the need for complete organizational transformation in 2024.[39]
  • 43% of banks reported that senior leaders lacked a clear understanding of transformation in 2025.[38]
  • 45% of banks reported issues resourcing change agents and stream leads for transformation workstreams in 2025.[38]

08 Statistics

Customer & Sales

Integration gaps persist in expense stacks, with 50% of surveyed businesses saying their expense-management tools were not connected in 2026 in the United States.

Customer experience in the expense management industry

  • 50% of surveyed businesses said their expense-management tools were not connected in 2026, United States.[40]
  • 69% of SAP Concur customer organizations reported using or evaluating artificial-intelligence use cases for expense management in September 2026, across public and private sectors.[1]
  • 92% of SAP Concur customer organizations said their expense-compliance programs had room for improvement in September 2026, across public and private sectors.[1]
  • 69% of surveyed businesses said expense reconciliation was their team’s biggest time drain in 2026, United States.[40]
  • 36% of managers surveyed rated their travel-and-expense provider’s speed and helpfulness as excellent in 2025, globally.[41]

Customer retention in the expense management industry

  • 46% of SMBs outsourcing expense management and using traditional expense-management software actively referred their accounting firms to other companies or colleagues in 2023, United States.[42]
  • 81% was Expensify’s annual gross-logo retention rate in 2024, measured among companies with at least five paid members one year earlier, globally.[43]
  • 74% of accounting firms whose expense-management services generated revenue said those services helped attract and retain clients in 2023, United States.[42]
  • 71% of SMBs outsourcing expense management and using spend-management software actively referred their accounting firms to other companies or colleagues in 2023, United States.[42]
  • 92% was the reported retention rate of one accounting firm using a subscription-based spend-management model in 2023, United States.[42]

Customer acquisition in the expense management industry

  • 72% of SMBs surveyed sought a proactive approach to expense management in 2023, United States.[42]
  • 15 million members had joined Expensify’s community by December 31, 2025, globally.[44]
  • 74% of accounting firms said providing expense-management services opened a new revenue stream in 2023, United States.[45]
  • 69% of SMBs surveyed sought new options to control costs in the 2023 CPA.com spend-management survey, United States.[45]
  • 650,000 paid members used Expensify on average during 2025, across an average of 39,700 companies in more than 200 countries and territories.[44]

Customer loyalty in the expense management industry

  • 79% of respondents recommended their expense-reimbursement software in the Airbase finance-professional survey, United States.[46]
  • 71% of respondents recommended their enterprise-resource-planning or accounting software in the Airbase finance-professional survey, United States.[46]
  • 74% of respondents recommended their spend-management software in the Airbase finance-professional survey, United States.[46]

Lead generation in the expense management industry

  • More than 15 million members had been added to Expensify through its viral, employee-led and word-of-mouth model by December 31, 2025, globally.[44]
  • Expensify stated that potential customers are generally introduced through employee expense-report submissions, personal networks, accountants or accounting platforms in 2025, globally.[44]

09 Statistics

Marketing & Brand

Community and content scale show up in reported usage, with Expensify processing over 1.8 billion expense transactions by December 31, 2025.

Marketing in the expense management industry

  • $12.797 million was Expensify’s sales-and-marketing expense in 2024, globally.[44]
  • $142.101 million was Expensify’s revenue in 2025, against $26.742 million in sales-and-marketing expense, globally.[44]
  • $139.236 million was Expensify’s revenue in 2024, against $12.797 million in sales-and-marketing expense, globally.[44]
  • $26.742 million was Expensify’s sales-and-marketing expense in 2025, up from $12.797 million in 2024, globally.[44]

Branding in the expense management industry

  • Over 1.8 billion expense transactions had been processed and automated on Expensify’s platform by December 31, 2025, supporting its global brand positioning in expense management.[44]
  • Expensify was heavily featured in Apple’s F1 film released June 27, 2025, as part of the company’s brand-promotion investment in 2024 and 2025, globally.[44]

Influencer Marketing in the financial services sector (sector benchmark)

  • 7% of financial-services marketers reported folding creator or influencer marketing into other channels rather than maintaining a dedicated budget in 2026.[47]
  • 23% of financial-services marketers reported dedicated but flat budgets for creator or influencer marketing in 2026.[47]
  • 60% of financial-services marketers reported dedicated and growing budgets for creator or influencer marketing in 2026.[47]
  • 37% of banking executives in a survey of 102 finance respondents recognized influencer marketing as a potent tool for authentic consumer connections in 2023.[48]
  • 5% of financial-services marketers reported dedicated but shrinking budgets for creator or influencer marketing in 2026.[47]

10 Statistics

Operations & Execution

Execution metrics emphasize cycle time and manual effort, including a 7.6 business-hour benchmark for Coupa’s expense-report approval cycle time.

Process optimization in the expense management industry

  • 40% of AP professionals identified damage to vendor relationships as a major process challenge in 2024, globally.[49]
  • 86 expense reports per month were processed per FTE by SMBs with 50 to 99 employees in 2023, according to a U.S. finance automation survey.[23]
  • 44% of SMBs took four to seven days to approve and reimburse expense reports in 2023, according to a U.S. SMB finance survey.[23]
  • 52% of AP professionals spent more than 10 hours a week processing invoices in 2024, down from 62% in 2023, in a global finance and AP survey.[49]
  • 64% of AP professionals identified stress caused by poor processes as their biggest challenge in 2024, globally.[49]

Operational efficiency in the expense management industry

  • 30.4% of surveyed organizations had a dedicated expense-management solution in place in a 2023 spend-management transformation study.[50]
  • 127 expense reports per month were processed per FTE by SMBs with 250 to 500 employees in 2023, according to a U.S. finance automation survey.[23]
  • 7.6 business hours was the 2024 benchmark for expense-report approval cycle time in Coupa’s spend-management benchmark.[51]
  • 17.4% of surveyed organizations used invoice-processing software in a 2023 spend-management transformation study.[50]
  • 89 expense reports per month were processed per FTE by SMBs with 100 to 249 employees in 2023, according to a U.S. finance automation survey.[23]

Quality management in the expense management industry

  • 60% of PEX customers reported saving money through custom spend rules in a 2023 customer survey.[52]
  • 4% of SMBs took more than one month to approve and reimburse expense reports in 2023, according to a U.S. SMB finance survey.[23]
  • 60% of AP professionals manually keyed invoices into ERP or accounting software in 2024, an indicator of continuing data-quality exposure in expense and invoice workflows.[49]
  • 2% of SMBs reported that employees exclusively used company credit cards instead of submitting expense reports in 2023.[23]
  • 1,000+ PEX customers participated in a September 2024 poll about automated expense management and reporting processes.[52]

Supply chain in the expense management industry

  • 13% was Navan’s increase in payment volume for the year ended January 31, 2026, as its customer base and platform engagement expanded.[44]
  • 40% of AP professionals identified vendor-relationship damage as a major challenge in 2024, highlighting supplier-management friction in finance workflows.[49]
  • 38% was Navan’s increase in gross business volume for the year ended January 31, 2026, supporting higher transaction volume across its travel-and-expense payments network.[44]
  • 33% was Navan’s subscription-revenue growth for the year ended January 31, 2026, reaching $61.9 million as expense-management adoption increased.[44]
  • 2% of BILL’s consolidated revenue came from customers outside the United States in each of fiscal years 2024, 2025 and 2026.[44]

Outsourcing / Offshoring in the financial services sector (sector benchmark)

  • Across surveyed finance organizations, 17% were evaluating nearshore locations for future operations in 2026, compared with 13% evaluating offshore locations.[53]
  • Among significant European banks, 27% of critical ICT contracts were outsourced to external providers located outside the European Union in the 2024 analysis.[18]
  • Among significant European banks, 67% of outsourcing contracts were sub-outsourced to external service providers in the 2024 analysis.[18]
  • Among significant European banks, outsourcing services accounted for 7.2% of administrative expenses at year-end 2023, up from 6.8%.[18]
  • Across surveyed finance organizations, 64% were implementing or evaluating offshoring or nearshoring for finance operations in 2026, while 36% planned to remain fully U.S.-based.[53]

11 Statistics

Finance & Pricing

Pricing structures stay subscription and per-member in published tiers, with Expensify Collect at $5 per member per month.

Pricing strategy in the expense management industry

  • 1% cash back is offered on U.S. Expensify Card purchases, with no minimum monthly spend requirement.[54]
  • $5 per member per month is Expensify’s Collect-plan price for businesses, including core expense, travel and chat features.[54]
  • $11.99 per user per month was reported as Fyle’s Growth-plan price in a 2026 software comparison.[55]
  • $18 per active user per month was the listed Expensify Control price without the Expensify Card in the company’s published pricing documentation.[56]
  • $9 per active member per month is Expensify’s advertised starting price for its Control plan with the Expensify Card.[54]

Cost reduction in the expense management industry

  • 70% lower manual workload is the maximum reduction attributed to AI-enabled processing by IOFM benchmarks cited in a 2026 expense-management market analysis.[28]
  • 4,800 sheets of paper were saved annually by Pharmacists Mutual after implementing automated travel-and-expense management.[57]
  • $1,944 in annual postage costs was saved by Pharmacists Mutual after automating travel-and-expense processes, according to an Emburse case study.[57]
  • $36.98 was the average cost for manually processing one expense report in a 2020 SAP Concur comparison.[58]
  • $25.27 was the average cost for best-in-class companies to process one expense report in a 2020 SAP Concur comparison.[58]

Profitability in the expense management industry

  • $139.236 million was Expensify’s revenue in 2024, down from $150.687 million in 2023.[44]
  • 31% was Navan’s total-revenue growth for the year ended January 31, 2026.[44]
  • $820,000 was Expensify’s operating loss in 2024, compared with a $33.149 million operating loss in 2023.[44]
  • $74.997 million was Expensify’s gross margin in 2024, compared with $83.799 million in 2023.[44]
  • $1.463 billion was BILL Holdings’ total revenue in fiscal 2025.[44]

Financial planning in the expense management industry

  • $640.396 million was Navan’s usage-based revenue for the year ended January 31, 2026.[44]
  • $702.265 million was Navan’s total revenue for the year ended January 31, 2026, providing the latest reported top-line base for planning.[44]
  • 13% was Navan’s payment-volume growth for the year ended January 31, 2026.[44]
  • $161.766 million was BILL Holdings’ interest revenue on funds held for customers in fiscal 2025.[44]
  • $1.301 billion was BILL Holdings’ subscription and transaction-fee revenue in fiscal 2025.[44]

12 Statistics

Product & Service

Product differentiation increasingly appears as quantified error and receipt-loss reductions, including 72% fewer lost receipts for SAP Concur customers using ExpenseIt.

Product development in the expense management industry

  • 10,000+ active customers used Navan as of January 31, 2025, indicating the scale of its integrated travel and expense product platform.[59]
  • 53% fewer expense-reporting errors were reported for SAP Concur customers using the documented ExpenseIt use case.[60]
  • 72% fewer lost receipts were reported for SAP Concur customers using the documented ExpenseIt use case.[60]
  • 9% was Expensify’s share of named expense-management solutions in the 2025 Finance and Operations SaaS Tech Stack survey.[61]
  • 91 expense-management solutions were named in the 2025 Finance and Operations SaaS Tech Stack survey, 13 more than in the prior year.[61]

Product lifecycle in the expense management industry

  • 200+ preformatted reports were available in SAP Concur Intelligence for expense, invoice and travel analysis.[62]
  • 11.1% of expense-management software deployments were on-premises or other deployment types in Houlihan Lokey’s 2024 market analysis.[25]
  • 32% of organizations in a 2023 expense-management survey still used some combination of spreadsheets, paper and manual processes.[63]
  • 150 countries were covered by SAP Concur’s global travel and expense solution.[62]
  • 99% of SAP Concur customers were retained globally according to SAP’s customer-success materials.[62]

After-sales in the expense management industry

  • 48% greater user efficiency was reported in SAP Concur’s customer business-value analysis.[62]
  • 36% more efficient expense-report handling was reported in SAP Concur’s customer business-value analysis.[62]
  • 43% less time to fill out expense reports was reported in SAP Concur’s customer business-value analysis.[62]
  • 628% was the reported three-year return on investment for SAP Concur in the cited customer business-value analysis.[62]
  • 32% more employees followed expense policies after implementing the SAP Concur solution in the cited customer analysis.[62]

Value proposition in the expense management industry

  • 54% less time to book trips was reported in SAP Concur’s customer business-value analysis.[62]
  • 71% of midsize organizations reported using EPM software in 2025, up from 61% in 2024.[15]
  • 66% of surveyed EPM buyers expressed a strong preference for specialist vendors that work with any ERP or finance system.[15]
  • 50% of EPM respondents rated financial budgeting and planning as critically important in 2025.[15]
  • $777,000 in annual savings was reported in SAP Concur’s customer business-value analysis.[62]

13 Statistics

Sustainability & Ethics

Travel and expense programs connect to sustainability reporting, with 71% of surveyed organizations using software to develop annual sustainability reports in 2024.

Sustainability in the expense management industry

  • 71% of surveyed organizations currently used software to develop annual sustainability reports in the 2024 ROI of ESG and Sustainability Software study.[64]
  • 60% of decision-makers identified sustainability as a critical or high priority in a 2022 SAP Concur-commissioned survey covering travel and expense management.[1]
  • 37% of global business travelers expressed interest in sustainable travel options in 2024, alongside interest in automated expense capture and reporting.[65]
  • 60% of surveyed organizations currently used software to interpret and respond to sustainability frameworks such as CSRD or GRI in 2024.[64]
  • 57% of surveyed organizations currently used software to collect, manage and report emissions data, including carbon accounting, in 2024.[64]

ESG in the expense management industry

  • 23% of surveyed organizations identified integrated ESG and finance reporting tools as their ESG data-management system in 2023.[20]
  • 37% of surveyed organizations used specialized ESG software solutions to manage ESG data in 2023.[20]
  • As of September 2021, Expensify said it had offset its projected annual carbon footprint and become carbon neutral.[66]
  • 60% of surveyed organizations currently used software to respond to ESG and sustainability reporting frameworks such as CSRD or GRI in 2024.[64]
  • 72% of surveyed organizations used or planned to use ESG software for California climate-accountability reporting in the Nasdaq 2024 study.[64]

Ethics in the expense management industry

  • 19% of employees were reported as fully compliant with travel policies in 2022, compared with 16% in 2023.[67]
  • 16% of employees were reported as fully compliant with corporate travel policies in 2023, according to a Skift and Navan survey of travel and finance managers.[67]
  • 41% of travel and finance managers reported less than 75% employee compliance with travel policies in 2023.[67]
  • 43% of employees were reported as complying with travel policies at rates between 75% and 99% in 2023.[67]
  • Nearly half of business travelers said they bend or break travel or expense policy in the 2026 SAP Concur Global Business Travel Survey.[1]

Carbon footprint in the expense management industry

  • Expensify reported becoming carbon neutral in September 2021 by offsetting its projected annual carbon footprint.[66]
  • 39% of surveyed organizations used commercial software for carbon-disclosure management and reporting in 2024.[68]
  • 33% of surveyed firms ranked integration with supply-chain and procurement platforms as a high-priority carbon-management capability for 2025 and 2026.[68]
  • 56% of surveyed firms ranked net-zero target setting, pathways and forecasting as a high-priority carbon-management capability for 2025 and 2026.[68]
  • 45% of surveyed organizations used commercial software for carbon-data collection and management in 2024.[68]

15 Statistics

Globalization & Expansion

International coverage remains a planning constraint, with SAP Concur serving 46,000+ customers and 92 million end users worldwide in 2025.

Globalization in the expense management industry

  • The expense management software market was projected to reach $8.7 billion globally in 2028, up from $3.7 billion in 2021.[25]
  • Emburse served more than 14,000 organizations across 120 countries through four product lines in 2025.[29]
  • Rydoo had customers in more than 130 countries worldwide as of 2024.[74]
  • SAP Concur served more than 46,000 customers and 92 million end users worldwide in 2025.[29]
  • Asia-Pacific represented 12.4% of the global expense management software market in 2024.[25]

Cultural adaptation in the expense management industry

  • OSCE Parliamentary Assembly operates across 57 countries and selected Pleo to modernize international expense management in 2025.[75]
  • Zuora’s Navan rollout supported expense and travel policies across 17 countries in 2026.[29]
  • Emburse Captio automatically adapted expense processes to country-specific legislation in 35 countries in 2025.[29]
  • Snap’s Navan expense deployment supported employees in 27 countries as reported in 2026.[29]
  • Commify used Navan across nine countries and achieved a customer-satisfaction score of 4.5 out of 5.[29]

Supplier management in the expense management industry

  • Expensya offered accounting, ERP, HR and payroll integrations through pre-packaged partner connections in 2026.[32]
  • Expensya’s expert-partner portal enabled accountants to outsource clients’ expense-management processes in 2026.[32]
  • Expensya’s partner ecosystem included SaaS providers, cloud integrators, distributors, banks, payment-card issuers, business-travel providers and accountants in 2026.[32]
  • Navan integrated travel, expense, payments and corporate-card capabilities in its platform used by Fever-Tree in 2026.[29]

Stakeholder management in the expense management industry

  • Navan reduced expense-submission time by 80% for the composite organization analyzed in 2026.[29]
  • Zuora reduced expense-approval time by 60% after adopting Navan across 17 countries.[29]
  • Navan returned 40% more time to finance and accounting teams in the composite organization analyzed in 2026.[29]
  • Fever-Tree achieved 92% mobile-app adoption after implementing Navan for travel and expense management.[29]
  • Navan’s composite enterprise customer saved 4,300 hours annually on travel and expense management in a 2026 Forrester analysis.[29]

Distribution channels in the expense management industry

  • Navan ranked first in expense-management software across the Americas, EMEA and APAC in G2’s Winter 2025 rankings.[29]
  • Expensya marketed through accounting firms, cloud integrators, distributors, banks, payment-card issuers and business-travel providers in 2026.[32]
  • Expensya’s partner program allowed partners to market the product directly to their customer communities as a new revenue channel in 2026.[32]
  • Expensify reported an average of 47,600 customer companies using its cloud platform in 2024.[76]

Key questions about the expense management industry

How big is the global expense management software market in 2025 and 2026?
The market was valued at $8.33 billion in 2025 and is estimated at $9.09 billion in 2026.
What growth rate should analysts expect from 2026 onward?
Fortune Business Insights forecasts an 8.30% CAGR from 2026 to 2034, reaching $17.26 billion by 2034.
Which companies lead the expense management industry?
Oracle leads Gitnux's 2026 expense management ranking with an Overall score of 9.5, with enterprise expense reporting and spend controls via Fusion Cloud Expenses. SAP is the highest-ranked travel and expense platform provider at 9.4, driven by SAP Concur identified as the leading enterprise travel and expense platform.
What technology shifts are shaping expense management in 2026?
Expense software is shifting toward cloud, mobile, card-linked and AI-assisted spend controls, with CFO demand for real-time spend visibility and AI-based receipt capture and audit automation.
How is the market structured between cloud deployment and travel-expense scope?
Cloud platforms accounted for 74.18% of the market in 2025, while travel and entertainment applications represented 42.35%.
What operational bottleneck shows up most often in expense workflows?
Expense reconciliation was identified as the team’s biggest time drain in 2026, cited by 69% of surveyed businesses in the United States.
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