# Budget management software for startups and enterprises

Live Budgets™ make budget management incredibly easy. Plan and provision every type of spend in one place — and get real-time tracking of actuals vs budgets. 

**URL Source:** https://www.brex.com/platform/budgets

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Plan and track budgets in real time.

Live Budgets™ make it incredibly easy to plan and provision spend — with at-a-glance tracking for unparalleled visibility and control.

[Get started](https://www.brex.com/signup)

Gain total visibility and control of spend.

Plan, provision, and track your spending in one place — so every dollar goes where you want it to.

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Plan and budget.

Set top-level budgets across departments to plan for spending — like $500K per quarter for the Marketing department. You can even create sub-budgets for more granular planning.

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Pre-approve spending.

Create [spend limits](https://www.brex.com/platform/spend-limits) within budgets for things like stipends, travel, and procurement. Then assign those limits to individuals or teams and empower spending via card, payments, or reimbursement.

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Track usage in real time.

Get at-a-glance views of how spend is tracking against overall budgets and provisioned limits. And easily identify budgets that need rebalancing or are being underutilized — with up-to-date accuracy.

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Manage company spend in one place.

Edit, add, or move budgets and spend limits anytime to remain flexible and ensure that money is allocated where it will have the greatest impact to your business.

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“The ah-ha moment for me as a finance leader was — I can put everything in Brex. Everything can be controlled by a budget.”

— Andrew Maher, Head of Finance, Superhuman

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Keep every type of spend on budget.

Assign budgets to department heads and empower them to issue spend limits with embedded policies for any use case — and enable smarter spending.

[Explore spend limits](https://www.brex.com/platform/spend-limits)

### Vendor payments

Vendor payments

Issue spend limits for recurring vendor payments and SaaS subscriptions.

### Stipends and perks

Stipends and perks

Create spend limits for WFH stipends, L&D, wellness, and other benefits.

### Group events

Group events

Create a shared spend limit for group events like offsites or conferences.

### Individual travel

Business travel

Pre-approve spend with embedded policies for flights, hotels, and meals.

Brex does it better.

Our spend controls make life easier for employees, managers, and controllers.

### Time saved

Time saved

4,000 hrs.

Average time managers and employees saved per year on compliance.

### Money saved

Money saved

$250,000

Average salary dollars saved per year in compliance effort reductions.

### Compliance

Superior policy compliance

99%

Average rate of employee compliance with Brex.

These metrics are from enterprise customers in July 2023 and for illustrative purposes only. The 99% compliance rate takes into account a cohort of top customers that follow our best-in-practice guidelines and recommendations. Past performance does not guarantee future results, which may vary.

## FAQ

### Is Brex the best business budgeting software?

We think so. Brex gives you the ability to plan budgets across your organization, and then build in spend limits to track actual spending against. Which means you can control spend before it happens, from the top down.

With Brex, you can:

- Set budgets across departments, and create sub-budgets for more granular planning and tracking.
- Customize spend limits with embedded expense policies for things like business travel, stipends and perks, and vendor payments.
- Enable employees to use one card for everything, since multiple spend limits and policies are applied to one card.
- Track spending actuals against your budgets in real time, with multi-currency visibility, and talk to budgets owners about tradeoffs if spending needs readjustment.
- Automate compliance by enabling employee spending using pre-approved limits and built-in policies.

### What makes budget management on Brex different?

With traditional approaches to business spend, every level of the company is making an educated guess — and then reconciling at month-end, with no ability to make live adjustments based on live data.

Brex gives you the ability to control business spend before it happens, and track it in real time. Employees can spend from any spend limits assigned to them. And finance teams can see every transaction instantly and take action if money is being misused or would drive higher impact elsewhere.

### What types of controls are available with spend limits?

Spend limits can be provisioned as individual limits (e.g. $5,000 per employee) or a shared limit (e.g. $5,000 shared among employees), you can set them up to issue once or recur on an ongoing basis, and can even set limits on approved vendors. So when employees go to spend against them, you’ll have confidence knowing it will be in-policy and on budget.

### Can I block spending from specific merchants?

Yes. For example, if you want to create a WFH stipend for employees, you could create an embedded policy of $100 per employee per month, on an approved list of vendors. This gives you more control over how employees spend their money, so you can be sure it’s being spent as intended.