# Intelligent Spend Management Software Pricing, Alternatives & More 2026 | Capterra

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 Intelligent Spend Management Software Review 2026: Features, Integrations, Pros & Cons

Last updated on March 13, 2026

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Intelligent Spend Management

## What is Intelligent Spend Management?

Spend management tool which ensures effective management of the full spend lifecycle through analysis, sourcing, and procurement.

## What is Intelligent Spend Management used for?

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3.7 (18)

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Ease Of Use

3.3 (18)

Ease Of Use

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Value For Money

2.8 (9)

Value For Money

3.8 (1,537)

Customer Service

3.2 (11)

Customer Service

3.8 (1,642)

## Intelligent Spend Management alternatives

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User Rating

93%

of reviewers

rated it above 4 stars

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Starting price

$425.00

Per User, Per Month

Pricing Options

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User Rating

94%

of reviewers

rated it above 4 stars

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$415.00

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User Rating

98%

of reviewers

rated it above 4 stars

Highest Rated

[4.9 (70)](https://www.capterra.com/p/30088/eBuyerAssist/reviews/)

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$39.00

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100%

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## Features

Features with the highest number of reviews are displayed first. Those that have no reviews appear next, sorted alphabetically.

Purchase Order Management

5.0 (1)

100.00% of 1 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

Create, send, and track purchase orders and their statuses

Requisition Management

5.0 (1)

100.00% of 1 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

Review, approve and cancel requests for goods/services to be purchased

Spend Management

4.0 (1)

100.00% of 1 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

Track the amount of money spent on a certain product or with a certain supplier

API

Application programming interface that allows for integration with other systems/databases

Catalog Management

Create and manage digital catalog of products/services with their details, specifications, and price

Compliance Management

Track and manage adherence to policies for any service, product, process, or supplier

Intelligent Spend Management 13 features

Application programming interface that allows for integration with other systems/databases

Create and manage digital catalog of products/services with their details, specifications, and price

Track and manage adherence to policies for any service, product, process, or supplier

Track, store, and access client contracts or licenses

Captures invoice data and maintains comprehensive records for auditing and reporting purposes

Creation, processing, verification, and execution of invoices till the payment is made

Create, send, and track purchase orders and their statuses

Review, approve and cancel requests for goods/services to be purchased

Initiate collection and analysis of known risks

Negotiate best prices and choose the right vendor for various purchases

Track the amount of money spent on a certain product or with a certain supplier

Manage all supplier data and operations

Create and maintain quality vendor data through data validation, maintenance, and audit trails to ensure proper compliance and sourcing

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Features

3.2 (17)

3.2

Based on 17 reviews

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Value for money

2.8 (9)

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2.8

Based on 9 reviews

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## Support, customer service and training options

Customer Service

3.2 (11)

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-   Knowledge Base
-   Phone Support
-   24/7 (Live rep)
-   Chat

Training

-   In Person
-   Live Online
-   Webinars
-   Documentation
-   Videos

Deployment

-   Web
-   Android
-   iPhone/iPad

Typical users

-   Freelancers
-   Small businesses
-   Mid size businesses
-   Enterprises

Customer Service

3.2 (11)

3.2

Based on 11 reviews

## User reviews

Overall rating

3.7

Based on 18 reviews

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LV

Laura V.

SAP discipline leader

Entertainment

### "Ariba Procurement tool"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

3.0

3.0

Customer Service

2.0

2.0

Likelihood to Recommend

8/10

September 5, 2022

As a consultant I implemented and SAP MM integration with Ariba as tool for requisition, purchase order and good receipt tool

Pros

It's very easy to use and integrate with SAP MM

Cons

Customization is a little bit hard to perform

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AU

Anonymous User

Brand Activation Specialist

Food & Beverages

### "Have yet to meet or speak to anyone that recommends it"

1.0

Overall Rating

1.0

1.0

Ease of Use

1.0

1.0

Features

1.0

1.0

Customer Service

1.0

1.0

Likelihood to Recommend

0/10

August 13, 2020

Overall, it's been an unpleasant one and I honestly dread having to use it. Me as well as several colleagues actually, try to avoid using it so much, that we tend to be under budget.

Pros

Absolutely none. I've only been using the software for a little over a year and every single time I have to access it and use it, I dread it. And when I ask anyone else that is forced to use it, I receive eye rolls and "ughs". I have literally never met anyone that recommends it, let alone can list the pros. The one "pro" is that our team tends to be under budget because we'd prefer to not spend money so that we can avoid dealing with Ariba.

Cons

How much time do you have? Because I can find several flaws with the software from the landing page to the punch outs to the customer service to the tedious amount of drop-downs and the incessant amount of detail you have to provide. You're basically having to write the code for the program yourself. I seriously feel like one of their software engineers every time I have to access Ariba.

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JS

Jenny S.

Administrative Assistant

Retail

### "Ariba "

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

4.0

Ease of Use

3.0

3.0

Features

3.0

3.0

Customer Service

0.0

0.0

Likelihood to Recommend

5/10

January 14, 2020

I have been using this software with invoices to create Purchase Orders. It’s very easy to keep track of all of the invoices and their statuses. Depending on your company’s finance team, it takes a while for your pending invoices to be approved but are able to see who you need approval from to be able to follow up.

Pros

Submitting an invoice is fairly easy to learn and quite repetitive so a lot of copy and paste. You are able to keep track of everything

Cons

Learning curve from different softwares. You have to learn the language of the system compared of others that are easier to understand but easy to use once you learn

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

AU

Anonymous User

Business Analyst

Mental Health Care

### "Interesting Product"

3.0

Overall Rating

3.0

3.0

Ease of Use

4.0

4.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

3.0

3.0

Likelihood to Recommend

6/10

November 21, 2019

Pros

I like the ease of use amongst modules. The Ariba Spend Management Suite makes the managing of spend easy and allows you to have a robust procurement offering for your organization if configured properly. It can be a pretty awesome application when everything is in sync.

Cons

The customer support and sometimes the way that modules had to be configured didn't make sense. If you were an organization that wanted to use a particular feature sometimes you had to buy modules like P2P and Contract Management together to use feature even though you needed nothing else in the contract management module. The customer support was laughable when issues arise and talking with the front end support is usually futile. I'm also not a fan of their release procedures.

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

AU

Anonymous User

Data Analyst

Information Technology and Services

### "Ariba Spend Management Review"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

4.0

4.0

Features

4.0

4.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

9/10

November 4, 2019

Overall my experience using Ariba has been positive and I enjoy using it. It is only the transaction search option that needs to be improved

Pros

Ariba is very easy to use for managing and approving transactions. The software is somehow integrated with our financial institution making easy to track company expenses.

Cons

The system is not "search friendly" and I find it hard to find certain credit card purchases. This is especially hard when the transaction is already approved or expired.

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CC

Carol C.

Process Safety Specialist

Chemicals

### "Ariba"

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

4.0

Ease of Use

4.0

4.0

Features

4.0

4.0

Customer Service

0.0

0.0

Likelihood to Recommend

3/10

September 13, 2019

Pros

The ease of use and the app is what I like most about it

Cons

It was somewhat confusing because of saving/sending

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

Francesco P.

Business Developer LATAM

Oil & Energy

### "Useful but not so clear"

3.0

Overall Rating

3.0

3.0

Ease of Use

4.0

4.0

Features

3.0

3.0

Customer Service

0.0

0.0

Likelihood to Recommend

6/10

September 5, 2019

Ariba Spend Management Suite is in general a good software. That's very useful to avoid any lack of information between the owner of the project and users and that's a good instrument to record all the messages exchanged between the parties. Let's say it can be used to do things in a right and fair way.

Pros

Ariba Spend Management Suite is a software that could be very useful to manage, for example, a tender. You can have there the whole information of the project divided by sections and the possibility to download contents or upload attachments. That's a good option to be always in touch with all the participants of the tender (as organizator) or to receive live updates for any change the tender could have.

Cons

What it is not properly comfortable of this software is that, when the owner of the project modify something in Ariba Spend Management Suite (add some attachment, etc.), the user gets an email that simply say that "something as changed" but without no details regarding what exactly changed. This is quite unconfrotable because then the user needs to check the whole content of the project and compare it with what downloaded previously, in order to understand what changed. This is a huge waste of time IMO.

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

AU

Anonymous User

Sales Sup. & Business Analyst

Consumer Goods

### "Easy way to follow business spends "

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

4.0

Ease of Use

4.0

4.0

Features

3.0

3.0

Customer Service

0.0

0.0

Likelihood to Recommend

8/10

June 7, 2019

Pros

Best reporting and following programme for supply issues.

Cons

Sometimes, Hard to find correct account line in programme. It can be automatized

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

AU

Anonymous User

Service Desk Engineer

Consumer Goods

### "Easy to intergrate and use"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

8/10

June 5, 2019

Great tool that I would highly recommend for expense and request tracking

Pros

Easily collate software and business expense requests in an accessible location

Cons

not much, some features can be tucked away in sub menus

Review source

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AU

Anonymous User

Client Operations Head

Information Technology and Services

### "Ariba Spend Management Suite"

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

4.0

Ease of Use

4.0

4.0

Features

4.0

4.0

Customer Service

0.0

0.0

Likelihood to Recommend

8/10

March 18, 2019

Pros

The most user friendly spend management tool present in the market

Cons

Costlier compared to other players in the market

Review source

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