What is Alaan?
Alaan is a smart corporate card and spend management platform built for businesses in the UAE. It combines physical and virtual Visa corporate cards with real-time expense tracking, automated accounting, and powerful controls—all in one easy-to-use system. Instead of juggling spreadsheets, reimbursements, and manual approvals, companies get full visibility into every dirham spent, instantly.
With Alaan, finance teams save hours each month while employees enjoy seamless spending. The platform offers up to 2% cashback, no setup fees, and integrates directly with popular accounting software like Xero, QuickBooks, and NetSuite. Whether you're paying vendors globally or managing employee expenses locally, Alaan streamlines it all—so you can focus on growing your business, not chasing receipts.
What are the features of Alaan?
- Smart Corporate Cards (SuperCard®): Issue physical or virtual Visa cards with custom spend limits, category restrictions, and real-time transaction alerts.
- Real-Time Spend Management: Track every expense as it happens—by employee, department, project, or merchant—with detailed dashboards and reports.
- Zero-Fee Global Payments (SuperPay™): Pay international suppliers at competitive FX rates with no hidden transfer fees.
- Automated Accounting: Auto-sync expenses to Xero, QuickBooks, NetSuite, and other ERPs—eliminating manual data entry and reconciliation.
- AI-Powered Intelligence: Automatically categorize expenses, extract receipt data, and generate reports using built-in AI tools.
- Up to 2% Cashback: Earn rewards on eligible business spending with no annual or setup fees.
- Multi-Entity & Role-Based Controls: Manage separate budgets for different teams, projects, or subsidiaries from a single dashboard.
What are the use cases of Alaan?
- A real estate company uses Alaan to set project-specific card limits for site managers, ensuring payments stay within budget across multiple developments.
- A healthcare provider eliminates petty cash by giving staff virtual cards for urgent supplies, with automatic receipt capture and VAT-compliant reporting.
- A logistics firm pays fuel vendors and maintenance providers globally via SuperPay™, saving on FX markups while tracking costs per fleet.
- An e-commerce business issues virtual cards to marketing teams with monthly ad-spend caps, preventing overspending on Meta or Google Ads.
- A facilities management company assigns location-based cards to field technicians, restricting purchases to approved vendors only.
- A CFO gains instant visibility into all company spending through a unified dashboard, simplifying month-end close and audit prep.
How to use Alaan?
- Sign up for a free demo or open an account on alaan.com—no setup fee required.
- Connect your preferred accounting software (Xero, QuickBooks, etc.) for automatic expense syncing.
- Issue physical or virtual SuperCards® to employees with custom limits and merchant/category restrictions.
- Use SuperPay™ to schedule and send global supplier payments at low FX rates.
- Enable AI receipt scanning—just snap a photo, and Alaan auto-fills expense details.
- Monitor all activity in real time via the mobile app or web dashboard, and receive instant alerts for out-of-policy spends.
