Mooncard

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A mobile app photographs the receipt at payment and 'Smart OCR and ultra-fast receipt entry' fills the expense report for one-tap approval, receipts land in an electronically signed digital safe, and the vendor claims 97% of receipts collected within 24 hours. What the text recognition actually reads is never spelled out, and we found no public information on email capture, out-of-pocket claims in foreign currencies, duplicate checks or a substitute receipt for lost originals. 1 5 8 12 15

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Physical Visa Corporate cards plus single-use and recurring virtual cards, with more than 60 authorization parameters activated online in real time, limits by amount, merchant category, hours and days, automatic blocking on theft, loss or over-limit, and per-employee periodic limits. The issuing institution is fully named — Paynovate SA, a Belgian e-money institution under Visa licence — which is more than most card programmes publish. We found no public information on budgets per team or project that cards draw from, or on feeds from a company's existing bank cards. 4 5 10 12 14

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Up to three validation levels — employee verification, manager review, accountant approval — sit beside a customized approval process and merchant-category limits enforced at the card itself. Routing by amount, team or cost centre, deputies and escalation, an audit trail of who approved what, and trip pre-approval are not described; the only pre-approval hint is an amount-and-deadline rule for exceptional expenses. We found no public information on granular roles or several legal entities, beyond a 5-seats-per-entity line on the top plan. 2 3 5 10 11

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The one concrete product claim is VAT recovery in a click, with every expense 'calculated, justified, and ready to be exported for your declaration'. The per-diem and UK scale-rate pages read as definitional guidance — they state HMRC rules and £5/£10/£25 meal rates rather than showing the product computing statutory allowances — and we found no public information on reimbursement by transfer or SEPA file, mileage at statutory rates, or foreign VAT reclaim with a named partner. 12 14 15

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Named connectors are plentiful — Sage, SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, CEGID, EBP, Quadratus, Exact Online, Chorus Pro — feeding data 'in accordance with your chart of accounts', with a public API, custom integrations, and a searchable digital archive said to let you discard supporting documents. We found no public information on a DATEV interface, tax keys per booking, receipts travelling with the booking, card statement reconciliation, webhooks, or any certified archive procedure. 1 2 12 16 17

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The contracting entity is Moongroup SAS in Paris and the card chain is European and named to the regulator: Paynovate SA in Belgium for issuance and Treezor in Paris as the other principal, both e-money institutions with registration numbers published. But the only hoster named anywhere is HubSpot in Cambridge, Massachusetts — for the website — while we found no public information on where receipt and employee data are hosted, on a subprocessor list beyond the issuers, on a data processing agreement, or on certifications; the captured legal pages also give different statements on the CNIL declaration and more than one registered address. 3 6 7 14 16

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Three packages are published with seats and inclusions — Start with 3 seats and no cards, Original with 5 seats and one physical and/or virtual card per user, Hub adding 5 seats per entity — yet no price figure is published: the pricing page's call to action is 'Request a demo' and the team exists to 'provide you with a customized quote'. A buyer cannot compute a single euro of annual cost from these pages; card fees, currency fees, term and setup are all unpriced. 5 12 15

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