# October Early Access October brings proactive p-card insights, faster card issuing and receipt uploads, and new connectors for Brex workflows in your favorite AI tools. **URL Source:** https://www.brex.com/product-announcements/october-early-access --- **Date:** 2026-10-13 **Domains:** Expense management, Card, Accounting, Integrations & APIs, AI --- Welcome to October! This month brings you **11 new features and upgrades**, including proactive insights into your p-cards, faster ways to issue cards and upload receipts, and new connectors that bring Brex workflows into your favorite AI tools. To check your opt-in preferences, visit _[Settings > Early access](https://dashboard.brex.com/settings/early-access)._ **New features** Enhance your Brex workflows with individual opt-in toggles, found in [_Settings > Features in early access_](https://dashboard.brex.com/settings/early-access). - **19 new ways for you to use Brex inside Claude and ChatGPT:** With Brex’s MCP, now you can create, lock, cancel, and edit cards, and gain deeper visibility into limits, policies, and spend. Connect the Brex MCP to get started. [Learn more.](https://www.brex.com/support/using-brex-in-ai-apps) **Experience upgrades** Make life faster and easier across the platform, rolled up into a single toggle in [_Settings > Automatic experience updates_](https://dashboard.brex.com/settings/early-access) **Cards** - **[New] Proactive spend insights on every purchasing card:** See recent spend, top vendors, and monthly pacing. Plus a 6-month trend graph to view spikes, dips, and changes to easily monitor activity and track spend against expectations. [Learn more](https://www.brex.com/support/brex-card-overview#viewing-spend-insights-for-a-purchasing-card). - **[New] Notifications when a p-card nears its limit:** Alerts trigger when spend reaches a preset percentage of the card’s limit, a card is overspent, or its limit changes, so admins and cardholders can respond proactively, like raising the limit or requesting an increase. [Learn more](https://www.brex.com/support/brex-card-overview#set-up-limit-alerts-for-a-purchasing-cardhttps://www.brex.com/support/brex-card-overview#set-up-limit-alerts-for-a-purchasing-card). - **[New] View statement period activity on card statements:** Credit card statements have a new section,“This period’s activity”, so you can distinguish what rolled over from previous statements (e.g. 30-day grace period) vs. what was spent, refunded, and redeemed this month. [Learn more.](https://www.brex.com/support/brex-dashboard-accounting-page#accounting-journal) - **[Upgraded] Issue and manage cards through side panels**: Card and spend management features such as issue, lock, replace, request limit increase, and more, now open as side panels across the platform to take specific actions without leaving the page you’re on. [Learn more.](https://www.brex.com/support/manage-your-card) **Expenses** - **[New] Bulk upload receipts straight from your Photos app**: Upload multiple receipts in one go on the Brex mobile app, or send them straight from your Photos app ‘Share’ button, bringing expenses from ‘Missing’ to ‘Submitted’ in seconds. [Learn more](https://www.brex.com/support/receipts-for-expenses). - **[Upgraded] Track repayments in the expenses grid:** New saved view and dedicated columns for repayment details like failure reason, retry count, and last failure date, to help admins review progress, activity logs, and documentation with ease. [Learn more](https://www.brex.com/support/employee-repayments). **Accounting** - **[Upgraded] Download Accounting journal transactions with your formatting**: Set filters, columns in preferred order, and views, then download a CSV or XLSX with all relevant transactions in one file. [Learn more.](https://www.brex.com/support/brex-dashboard-accounting-page#accounting-journal) - **[Upgraded] Get GL account mapping suggestions during QuickBooks Online setup:** Chart-of-accounts and transaction data from your QuickBooks Online integration automatically suggest GL account mappings in Brex for fewer steps during setup. [Learn more.](https://www.brex.com/support/quickbooks-online-integration#setup-the-brex-integration-in-your-dashboard:~:text=on%20QuickBooks%20Online-,Setup%20the%20Brex%20integration%20in%20your%20dashboard,-Choosing%20between%20bank) - **[Upgraded] See flagged expenses earlier in Accounting journal**: Based on your feedback, accounting flags default to the left of the Accounting journal table so you can see what rows needs attention right away and hover for details. [Learn more.](https://www.brex.com/support/brex-dashboard-accounting-page#accounting-journal) - **[Upgraded] Entity settings organized by transaction and account type:** GL mappings are now sorted by transaction types and external vs. internal bank accounts are delineated to make settings easier and simpler to manage. [Learn more.](https://www.brex.com/support/brex-dashboard-accounting-page#accounting-journal) _Features and upgrades still in early access from previous months:_ - [Legal and preferred names for Brex users](https://www.brex.com/product-announcements/september-early-access) - [Refreshed Wallet and navigation in the Brex mobile app](https://www.brex.com/product-announcements/september-early-access) - [Send expenses to review and export faster](https://www.brex.com/product-announcements/september-early-access) - [Bulk amortization edits for NetSuite users](https://www.brex.com/product-announcements/september-early-access) - [Per-transaction caps for User Limits](https://www.brex.com/product-announcements/september-early-access) - [More ways to search and organize bills](https://www.brex.com/product-announcements/september-early-access) - [Support Hub in a cleaner panel](https://www.brex.com/product-announcements/september-early-access) - [Updated panel to archive and reopen spend limit groups](https://www.brex.com/product-announcements/september-early-access) - [Sync vendor data with QuickBooks Online](https://www.brex.com/product-announcements/sync-vendor-data-with-quick-books-online) - [Manage vendors in Brex in one unified panel](https://www.brex.com/product-announcements/manage-vendors-in-one-unified-panel) - [Manage legal entity and billing group details](https://www.brex.com/product-announcements/manage-legal-entity-and-billing-group-details) - [See Brex Assistant updates in main notifications](https://www.brex.com/product-announcements/see-brex-assistant-updates-in-your-main-notifications) - [Set MCC controls at the policy level](https://www.brex.com/product-announcements/set-mcc-controls-at-the-policy-level)