Spreadsheets alternative

Ensurva vs Spreadsheets

A spreadsheet is familiar, flexible, and a perfectly reasonable starting point for tracking vendors. It becomes a liability the moment it stops being updated, usually when the vendor list grows past what one person can reliably maintain. Ensurva gives you a complete, continuously updated vendor picture, pulled automatically from your accounting data.

Head to head

The best alternative to Spreadsheets

Ensurva

Starting price

A$99/month or A$999/year

Typical company size

20 to 200 employees

Typical vendor count

30+ vendors (software, services, suppliers)

Typical user
  • Founder
  • Operations manager
  • Finance manager
Choose Ensurva

Choose Ensurva if your vendor list has grown past what one person can reliably maintain by hand, you've missed a renewal, had a surprise charge, or you want to automatically update your spend, vendors, contracts and renewals.

Spreadsheets

Starting price

Free

Typical company size

Up to 20 employees

Typical vendor count

Under 30 vendors (software, services, suppliers)

Typical user
  • Founder
  • Owner
  • Finance lead
Stay with Spreadsheets

Stay with a spreadsheet if you have fewer than 30 vendors, one person has a clear ownership of the list, and you have no problem renewing contracts. A spreadsheet isn't the wrong answer at that scale.

Feature comparison

Comparing Ensurva and Spreadsheets features for small and growing businesses

Ensurva

Spreadsheets

Coverage and scope

All vendor types covered

Yes.

Software, service providers, and suppliers together

Partly.

Whatever someone remembered to enter

Built for 20 to 200 employees

Yes.

Small to mid sized business, roughly 20 to 200 employees

Partly.

Any size, but reliability drops as vendor count grows

No dedicated owner needed

Yes.

No, ingestion is automated from your accounting platform

No.

Yes, always

Core capabilities

Spend visibility

Yes.

Spend view across all vendors, updated automatically from your accounting platform

No.

Only what was manually entered, often out of date

Vendor management

Yes.

Vendor list covering software, agencies, contractors, and suppliers, updated automatically

No.

A list, if someone keeps it current

Contract intelligence

Yes.

Contracts captured from your email inboxes, stored and summarised in one place

No.

Contracts live in inboxes and drives, separate from the list

Renewal tracking

Yes.

Renewal dates tracked with alerts across all vendor types

No.

Manual date columns, easy to miss when nobody checks them

Automation and data capture

Connects to your accounting platform

Yes.

Yes, pulls spend directly from your accounting platform

No.

No, data is entered manually or pasted in

No manual data entry

Yes.

No, ingestion is automated

No.

Yes, every row

Pricing and commercials

Under A$100 per month

Yes.

A$99 per month

Yes.

Free

Pricing published in full

Yes.

Fully published

Yes.

Free

Free trial

Yes.

14 day free trial

Yes.

Always free

Reliability and maintenance

Stays current automatically

Yes.

Yes, updates as new spend and vendors land

No.

No, only if someone remembers to update it

Cross-checks against actual accounting data

Yes.

Continuous

No.

Rarely, usually a manual exercise done once a year at best

No single point of failure

Yes.

No

No.

Yes, if the person who maintains it is away or leaves

How it works

Get up and running in a day

[01]

Xero
Google
Microsoft

Connect your tools to Ensurva

Securely connect Xero and the email accounts of your company card holders and contract signers.

[02]

Ensurva captures your vendor spend

AI agents pull and transform every vendor, payment, and contract on a recurring basis.

[03]

Cut SaaS by $10k per month
Renegotiate agency retainer
Consolidate notetaker tools
Cancel cleaning contract
$14.3k
Monthly savings

Cut costs and optimise your spend

Identify savings opportunities across every software, service provider and supplier you pay.

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