Ramp Rewind: Smarter spend controls and payment automation, plus our Android debut

Editor’s note: We publish quarterly Ramp Rewind posts to get you up to speed on the latest product features and updates.

We’ve been hard at work developing and launching new capabilities designed to save your organization time and money.

From new receipt integrations to more granular spend controls, we’re constantly iterating on how we can further improve the finance experience for everyone, from heads of finance to your accounting team and employees. Check out the latest roundup of Ramp innovations, including improved approval workflows, reimbursement enhancements, dark mode, and more.

New bank referral program to help you diversify your funds

We’re expanding our solutions to give Ramp customers more control over their finances. Our new bank referral program allows you to find trusted banking partners with our priority referral program, safely diversify your funds, and manage your cash flow in real time.

Saving hours of low-value work for your employees

Best-in-class mobile apps for team members on the go

Our Android app is now live! With the app, you can pay for expenses using your mobile wallet and link your physical card to any virtual limit. Our integrations with Lyft, Gmail, and others will auto-match your receipts to make expense reporting easy, or you can submit expenses by simply taking a picture of a receipt.

"Ramp is easy to use and very intuitive. The integration with our Gmail makes a huge difference because it automatically matches receipts to credit card charges which saves a lot of manual work." - Lisa Baker, Finance Accounting Specialist, Fleetwatcher

The app also provides visibility on expense policies, all transactions, and spend grouped by card limit. Download the app later this month in the Google Play store.

iOS users, your Ramp app got a few new updates also. You can now easily switch between business accounts and use the app to flag transactions, request policy exceptions, add attendees to meals, and more.

Time-saving receipt automation with Microsoft Outlook

Our new integration with Microsoft Outlook will help your team save countless hours with automatic receipt collection and matching.

Just like our other receipt integrations (Gmail, Amazon Business, Lyft, and more), the Microsoft Outlook integration enables automatic receipt capture for any receipt sent directly to your inbox. Ramp instantly scans the receipt and matches it to the corresponding transaction via cutting-edge image recognition software. Additionally, it only accesses essential data and deletes it once it’s no longer needed.

Enabling smarter spend management with funds

We launched funds, which allows you to spend from a specific budget and reimburse against it, providing you with total control over employee spend and flexibility.

With funds, users can:

• Spend from any fund with your physical card. Controls created for the fund are automatically applied to the physical card.
• Request a reimbursement from a fund
• Ma​​nage spend programs at scale while automatically classifying transactions.
• Transact on the go and switch funds for transactions made on your physical card.

"Managing corporate credit cards and spend through a traditional bank is laborious and tedious work. Ramp makes it easy to issue new physical and virtual cards and categorize spend. I can create rules to streamline our process by restricting cards by amount or category. I can rest easier knowing Ramp is enforcing spend policies for me." - Ryan Casupanan, Head of IT, Cadence

Helping your finance team streamline payments

Seamlessly match purchase orders on Ramp

Automatically 2-way match purchase orders created in NetSuite to bills in Ramp for a fast and seamless PO-to-Bill workflow. If a match isn’t automatically found, Ramp will list possible matches to help you quickly find the right PO. PO import and match will also be available for QuickBooks and Xero soon.

More updates behind the scenes

Our team has been hard at work to make admin controls, reimbursements, and workflows even more powerful. Here are a few other updates you might have noticed over the last few months.

• More sophisticated and flexible admin permissions. Owners can now control whether admins can self-issue and self-approve transactions (the default is ‘on’). This ensures that there is no unauthorized spending and that all transactions are accounted for.
• Increased control over approval workflows. Admins can create two new approval workflows: custom approval groups and approval owners for different departments and office locations. This allows you to assign groups and owners to approval policies to ensure coverage if an approver is out of office.
• Streamlined reimbursements. You can now split transactions on Ramp into multiple line items to properly allocate amounts to different accounts. Additionally, employees in France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Spain, and Canada now have the ability to submit mileage reimbursement requests.
• Expanded availability of Ramp Flex. Ramp customers in California, Vermont, and Hawaii are now able to extend their invoice payment terms with one click using Flex.
• Dark mode makes its debut on Ramp. Avoid eye strain and cut glare with the flip of a switch!

"My personal favorite part of Ramp is that it has dark mode built-in. [It] makes the UI look very sleek." - Iesha Topaz, Sr. Product Designer, Healthie