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Subscription and SaaS spend audit

Turn recurring spend into a register you can trust. The assistant finds the charges nobody has marked as subscriptions and the vendors carrying more than one record, shows the evidence and the money at stake, then confirms, dismisses and consolidates them with you - every change previewed before it is made, and nothing deleted.

How it works

  1. Maps every recurring charge from actual card and invoice spend, not from a manually kept register, and flags price rises with the evidence behind each flag.
  2. Surfaces the charges Payhawk detected as recurring that nobody has confirmed or dismissed, grouped by vendor with the spend at stake.
  3. Confirms the real ones and dismisses the rest with you, consolidates a vendor onto one record, and lists what it could not action.

Common questions

We already track subscriptions in a spreadsheet. Why this?

This works from what was actually charged - every recurring card charge and invoice - so it catches what registers miss: the tool someone expensed outside procurement, the price rise nobody noticed, the duplicate bought by another team. There is no inventory to maintain.

Does it cancel the subscription?

No, and it says so rather than implying the money has stopped. It cleans up what Payhawk tracks: confirming the charges that really are subscriptions, dismissing the ones that are not, and consolidating a vendor down to one record. Ending the contract stays between you and the vendor.

Can it tell us which licenses nobody uses?

No. Payhawk sees what you are charged, not who logs in, so seat usage has to come from the vendor. What it can prove is what each subscription costs, how that cost has moved, and where the same vendor is being paid twice - which is usually where the money is anyway.