Light vs Soldo

Soldo is spend management built on prepaid company cards: wallets funded by department, physical and virtual Mastercards with limits and ring-fenced budgets, receipt capture, request and approval workflows, and transactions synced into the accounting system you keep. Light is the agentic ERP that is the ledger, with corporate cards, expenses, AP, AR, procurement and multi-entity consolidation in one system.

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Light and Soldo, compared

FeatureLightSoldo
General ledger and accounting system of record
Corporate and virtual cards
Expense capture and approval workflows
Budgets and spend controls per team or card
Customer invoicing and accounts receivable
Group consolidation across entities
One system for both spend and the ledger

Go beyond the spend tool

Soldo manages prepaid cards and expenses, then syncs to your accounting system. Light includes the ledger alongside spend and payments.

Keep each receipt with its entry

Capture receipts in Slack, Teams or email. Light keeps card transactions, coding and postings together for your team to review.

See the consolidated group

Soldo aligns spend with your team hierarchy. Light also consolidates every entity's accounts, including currency translation and intercompany eliminations.

When to choose Light

The ledger is included

Light is the system of record: spend, AP, AR and the general ledger in one platform, with no ERP decision left open.

The close happens in one place

The card transaction, the receipt and the ledger entry are one record, so there is nothing to match across systems.

Group accounts, not a dashboard

Consolidated financial statements come from the ledger itself, across every entity and currency.

“We evaluated several vendors. Light won because it covers our full finance stack, revenue, AR, AP, expenses, and consolidation, without stitching together a patchwork of point solutions.”
TanjaDirector of Finance, Omnea

Built for the daily work

Bills through to payment

Capture invoices, route approvals and pay vendors from the same system.

Uploading a bill to Light for AI extraction

Room to grow

One ledger built to handle billions of transactions across your business.

The Light ledger with live transactions

Trace every number

Open a report and drill straight into the transactions behind it.

Real-time reporting in Light with drill-down

Spending, under control

Expenses, vendors and cards connected to your ledger.

Expenses

Collect receipts, approve expenses and track spend as it happens.

Managing expenses on the Light mobile app

Vendors

Keep supplier details, bills and approvals together. Apply your purchasing rules as work moves through.

Vendor and bill management in Light

Cards

Issue cards for employees and vendors. Pay with Apple Pay or Google Pay. Send receipts through Slack, Teams or email.

A Light payment card

Frequently asked questions

Can Light replace Soldo and our accounting system?

Light replaces the accounting system and covers cards, expenses, AP, AR and reporting. Compare fuel cards and multi-currency wallets separately.

Does Light support virtual cards?

Yes, alongside corporate cards with Apple Pay and Google Pay.

When does Soldo still fit?

When you want prepaid cards and budgets for teams and plan to keep your existing accounting system.

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