Yokoy vs Candis
Side-by-side trajectory, velocity, and editorial themes.
Yokoy compounds expense automation through zero-touch mobile, smarter tax calc, and rules-driven invoice handling.
Yokoy is in steady iteration mode on its core expense and invoice products. The recent run leans heavily into reducing manual touch on expense capture — mobile zero-touch flow, optimized receipt preview, automatic VAT calculation on mileage — and automating downstream paperwork via regex rules for supplier coding and CSV imports.
The team is incrementally collapsing the manual steps in the expense lifecycle: snap a receipt, auto-extract, auto-tax, auto-export, auto-route. Invoice work is moving in parallel toward more rule-based assignment and access control. Nothing in this window suggests a category change — it's a methodical, automation-first roadmap focused on chipping away at submitter friction and finance-team config overhead.
Expect the next visible step to be closer integration between the mobile capture flow and the auto-export rules — likely a path where a submitted receipt reaches a finance system with no human review for low-risk policies. Continued small wins on per-country tax rules and invoice automation are likely.
Candis extends from AP into procurement — purchase requisitions, auto-tax, and a mobile expense app land together.
Candis is shipping aggressively at the procure-to-pay seam for DACH finance teams. The May releases bring purchase requisitions inside Candis with auto-matching against incoming invoices, automatic tax calculation derived from account tax keys, DATEV-style Automatikkonten support, and a Mobile App 2.0 that lets approvers handle expenses from a phone. The credit-card transaction surface is also being tightened — faster table, better automatching against invoices.
Candis is broadening from 'AP automation for DACH SMBs' into a fuller P2P stack: requisition through invoice through expense, with DATEV at the core of the accounting integration. The DATEV-flavored features (Automatikkonten, account-derived tax rates) signal a deliberate optimization for the German accounting workflow rather than a generic European AP tool. Mobile expense approvals plus central user management across multiple Gesellschaften suggest mid-market multi-entity customers are now the target.
Expect a tighter Bestellanforderungen + budget approval workflow next, with vendor-level controls on top of the new requisitions surface. The DATEV-specific tax automation will likely roll out to all eligible customers within weeks, and at least one more accounting connector (likely an ERP, after Microsoft Business Central and Sage earlier this quarter) should land.
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