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Circula Overview

What is Circula?

Circula is an expense platform for any payments done by employees: travel expenses, credit cards and employee benefits. Our mission is to simplify finance and payroll administration, while ensuring compliance through smart automations – so employees can do their best job. With Circula, you ✔️ Save up to 80% time in accounting & become a productive business partner within your organization ✔️ Reduce compliance risks & ensure secure and audit-proof processes.

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Product Description

Circula is an expense platform for any payments done by employees: travel expenses, credit cards and employee benefits. The company’s mission is to simplify finance and payroll administration, while ensuring compliance through smart automations – so employees can do their best job. This way, Circula is creating the path for an employee-centric future around everyday business processes. This mantra has earned the company industry leader recognition from review platforms G2 and Capterra. Headquartered in Berlin, Germany, Circula is a leading expense management solution for small and medium-sized European businesses such as About You, DATEV, Deutsche Fußball Liga, Noerr, McMakler, and Securitas. Today, more than 150,000 employees use Circula. The company was founded in 2017 and has raised over USD 25 million in venture capital to date.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Circula’s mobile-first UX is designed for business travelers and mid-market companies, simplifying expense management and integrating seamlessly into daily workflows. With over 30 plug-and-play integrations to finance, payroll, travel, and HR systems, we ensure secure, efficient collaboration across departments, increasing productivity by 80%.

Our VISA credit cards for business travel offer more flexibility and security than debit cards. Certified GoBD compliant since 2018, Circula meets the highest accounting standards. As a DATEV Premium Partner, we ensure smooth integration and efficient data flow. Flexible billing allows for custom approval workflows and payment options, supported by 24/7 customer service.

Circula integrates spend management and employee benefits into a single app, streamlining all employee expenses in one place.


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Year Founded
2017
HQ Location
Berlin
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154 employees on LinkedIn®
Description

Circula is an expense platform for any payments done by employees: travel expenses, credit cards and employee benefits. The company’s mission is to simplify finance and payroll administration, while ensuring compliance through smart automations – so employees can do their best job.


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Recent Circula Reviews

Paul H.
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Paul H.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Great and fast tool to administrate my travel expenses"
Very quick and striaghtforward interface
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Verified UserMid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Primer viaje de trabajo en Circula"
La facilidad de subir un pdf y que el software rellene la información necesaria. También que tiene los paises y valores de viáticos actualizados.
MR
Michael R.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Overall it’s a very simple and self explaining app"
The simpel and easy usage. By just going trough the process.
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Circula Demo - All expenses in one platform
Credit cards, expense management AND employee benefits on a modular platform - exactly basedon on your requirements.
Circula Demo - Optimised payroll costs
With Circula, you can automatically offer employee benefits in a tax-compliant manner with just a few clicks and systematically utilise tax benefits that save you up to €3,500 per employee per year.
Circula Demo - End-to-end automation
We have automated the entire workflow - from scanning the receipt to automated data transfer to the ERP, accounting or HR software. This allows us to reduce manual administrative work by 80 %.

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Circula Pros and Cons

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NC
Incident Manager
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Circula?

The process is too easy to simply upload your bills with all details. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Circula?

None as such, i like the overall feel and user experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Circula solving and how is that benefiting you?

It simply accepts my meal bills and get approved by my employer which is making it a great deal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
UF
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Circula?

Using the Circula app to register my costs has been a game-changer compared to my previous experiences in both a small company and a government organization. Previously, getting trip costs approved and refunded was a cumbersome process, requiring extensive communication with accounting and navigating through a lot of red tape. Additionally, I had to deal with a lot of paperwork, which was time-consuming and inefficient. With Circula, the process is completely digital, saving a significant amount of time for both the company and me personally. The streamlined and efficient nature of Circula makes expense management much simpler and less stressful. Overall, I love the fully digital process and how it has greatly improved the way I handle expense reporting.

Upsides of Circula for me:

- Completely digital process

- Streamlined approval and refund process

- Reduced communication with accounting

- Elimination of extensive paperwork

- Time-saving for both the company and employees

- Simplified and less stressful expense management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Circula?

While my experience with the Circula app has been largely positive, there are a few downsides I've encountered:

Downsides of Circula for me:

- Sometimes the automatic recognition is not perfect

- The interface can be unintuitive at times

- Sending JPG files via email sometimes raises errors

Despite these minor issues, Circula still offers significant improvements over traditional expense reporting methods. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Circula solving and how is that benefiting you?

The Circula app has significantly streamlined my expense reporting process by eliminating the need for extensive paperwork and reducing the amount of communication required with accounting. This digital solution has made managing trip costs much more efficient and hassle-free. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tabea K.
TK
SDR
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Circula?

it's super logical and not that complex which makes it easy to quickly request any costs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Circula?

maybe some more detail information about what to type into the fields would be good Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Circula solving and how is that benefiting you?

it helps to request any expenses by the employee themself which is time saving and faster with direct information coming from the employee who took the costs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SK
service professional
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Circula?

easy acessable via pc ans mobile app, very easy to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Circula?

There is no Input field for such as a Project Number. it would be great to bind the invoice with a specific project Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Circula solving and how is that benefiting you?

in the past it was ward to follow up the actual status of my expenses, now i have full overview Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

KK
Manager Online Communications
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Circula?

It is very easy to use. Most of it is really self explanatory. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Circula?

At first I did not understand how to combine two (or more) uploaded PDFs into one cost item. Furhermore, there are no free text boxes in which I can explain about a receipt. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Circula solving and how is that benefiting you?

Before, we had to fill out an Excel sheet for our travel expense accounting. Now, with Circula, it is much easier - and we can avoid sending receipts via traditional (offline) mail. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Michael B.
MB
Industrial Designer
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Circula?

For me the best thing is just to drag and drop all invoices in, and that's nearby everything you have to do. I remember systems where i have to put all informations like Tax, Vat seperately in and sometimes you have to calculate by your own. That was taking so much time, that i can save now with Circular. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Circula?

Some fields you have to fulfill don't show the needed option that you might need to use. Some options like Cost Centre seem to have a wrong name (comparing number with naming). That's confusing a lot, specially in the beginning. Maybe it's internal and no System Problem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Circula solving and how is that benefiting you?

saving time for submitting invoices Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Christian L.
CL
vEFK
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Circula?

Die Handhabung ist zum Glück sehr einfach gehalten Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Circula?

Bisher ist mir nichts aufgefallen was mich stören würde Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Circula solving and how is that benefiting you?

Einfache Kostenabrechnung ohne Zettel Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MT
Head of Production
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Circula?

It´s easy to use and very intuitive. Makes it a lot easier to be up-to-date with your expenses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Circula?

I haven´t found anything i dislike so far. It´s been smooth sailing and i will definitely be using it again! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Circula solving and how is that benefiting you?

It makes submitting expenses and bills much more easy and saves a lot of time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Christian S.
CS
Director Project Development
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Circula?

The program is very user-friendly and intuitive. You can quickly find your way around and easily achieve the desired result. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Circula?

There is nothing to dislike as Circula gets you to your desired results very easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Circula solving and how is that benefiting you?

Circula helps me to manage my travel expenses and refunds very easily. Because it is linked to third-party apps, I don't have to do any unnecessary duplication of work and I can keep a complete overview of everything Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Oil & Energy
UO
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Circula?

Its super simple and quick to use. Not like the conventional SAP where one has to deal with lots of complications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Circula?

It was a bit confusing between expense reporting and uploading the receipts as a pdf and not knowing what to do with those. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Circula solving and how is that benefiting you?

Quickly report the expenses and get them approved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.