Card Audit
Audit cards
at the speed
of spend
Supercharge your corporate card expense program. Gain visibility and improve compliance with AI that audits 100% of card activity as purchases are posted.
Maximize card adoption with confidence
Audit 100% of card transactions with AI via seamless connections to all bank and card networks, rather than waiting for T&E management systems to process purchases and collect receipts. Investigate every dollar spent on your existing corporate cards – no need for new card programs.
Gain visibility for corporate card expense management
Get a clear view that combines Level 2 and 3 card data, social and web resources, and learning from card transaction audits. Our AI proactively learns the spend context, recognizes typical spending patterns, and validates compliance using billions of audits and enriched card data.
Track spending and investigate potential issues faster
AI automatically flags policy violations, repeat violators, and potentially fraudulent card purchases. Identify spending that needs a deeper compliance review based on behaviors detected by AI across card transactions, expense reports, and invoices.
Tell your data’s story with AI Analytics
Get clear insights on card spending patterns, anomalies, and policy violations at a glance, to help you make data-driven decisions. Drill into transaction details with interactive visualizations and Level 3 data for corporate, purchasing, and ghost cards. Automate custom reports that deliver business insights and value for your organization.
AI Agents resolve flags
Our AI Agents route approvals to managers, request missing receipts of cardholders, and confirm attendees or business purpose documentation. Auditors only need to be involved when human judgement is needed.
Turn SOPs into working AI Agents in minutes
Each Agent enforces your standard operating procedures exactly as you wrote them. Tune every rule in a version-controlled, AI-assisted editor.
Customer stories
Other Card Audit capabilities
Pair with Expense Audit
View expense reports and transactions in one place, to simplify policy adjustments.
Trace every decision
Audit logs on every decision show who acted, what changed, and why. A full record is in the workbench.
Every transaction receives a decision
AI Agents determine the outcome of a flagged transaction, whether auto-approval, an information request, manager approval, or auditor review.
Onboard by entity and issuing bank
Onboard card programs the way your organization operates, with feeds connected via SFTP or file upload.
FAQs
01 What is corporate card expense management?
Corporate card expense management covers the processes and systems used to monitor and control spending on company-issued cards. It confirms that business purchases, such as travel and client entertainment, are documented and aligned with company policy.
02 What does Card Audit do?
AppZen Card Audit audits every corporate card transaction as it posts, then works each flagged charge to a close. Our AI Agents check the charge against your spend policy, then take the actions you have defined for it, requesting what's missing from the cardholder or routing the approval to their manager. Your auditor gets involved only when human input is required. Card Audit covers corporate credit cards, purchasing cards, and ghost cards.
03 How does Card Audit handle corporate credit card receipts?
You define when a charge needs documentation. Our AI Agents request receipts from cardholders, then read the itemized details on every one. When a receipt is not available, the Agents work from Level 2 and Level 3 card data to evaluate the charge. Itemized detail is how our Agents catch a restricted item inside an otherwise compliant total.
04 Can AppZen Card Audit work with our existing corporate card expense management program and bank relationships?
Yes. Card Audit connects to your existing card feeds through SFTP or file upload from supported banks, including Bank of America, Citibank, JPMorgan Chase, PNC, and US Bank. You keep your current card programs and banking relationships, so you’re onboarding programs by entity and issuing bank, the way your organization normally operates.
05 What types of fraud and policy violations does Card Audit find?
Card Audit finds duplicate charges, unauthorized merchants, restricted items, out-of-policy amounts, and missing documentation. Our AI Agents also evaluate a cardholder's prior activity, so a pattern of small violations surfaces, even when no single charge crosses a threshold.
06 What happens after a transaction is flagged?
Our AI Agents move the flagged charge through a full resolution loop, the same way you would define when a charge needs documentation. They evaluate the Level 2 and Level 3 line-item detail, and the cardholder's prior activity. You define when and how our AI Agents can request a receipt from a cardholder, ask for a list of attendees, request a business purpose from a cardholder, or route an approval to a manager. Any charges an Agent cannot settle are handed off to an auditor, with the full context attached.
07 Will AppZen Card Audit decline or block a purchase?
No. Card Audit performs audits after the transaction has occurred, so a purchase is never declined or blocked at the point of sale. Uncertain decisions defer to an auditor.
08 How do our spend policies get into Card Audit?
Select from our pre-built AI Agent standard operating procedures (SOPs) and customize them based on your written policies. Tune any policies the Agents apply using the versioned editor. Edits take effect only when you deploy them.
09 Can we see card spend and expense report spend in one place?
Yes. Depending on your configuration, pairing Card Audit with AppZen Expense Audit links card charges and reimbursed expenses into a single view, for auditing.
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