# Overview

[The Extend app](/content/platform-overview/index.html)

## Features

- [Virtual cards](/content/app-features#virtual-cards/index.html)
- [Budgets](/content/features/budgets/index.html)
- [Bill pay](/content/features/bill-pay/index.html)
- [Receipt management](/content/app-features#receipt-management/index.html)
- [Reimbursements](/content/app-features#reimbursements/index.html)
- [Reconciliation](/content/app-features#reporting-and-reconciliation/index.html)
- [Integrations](/content/app-features#integrations/index.html)

## Participating banks

- [American Express](/content/pages/american-express/index.html)
- [Banc of California](/content/get-started/index.html)
- [BMO](/content/banks/bmo/index.html)
- [City National Bank](/content/get-started/index.html)
- [Corpay](/content/get-started/index.html)
- [HSBC](/content/banks/hsbc/index.html)
- [PNC](/content/banks/pnc/index.html)
- [Regions Bank](/content/get-started/index.html)
- [Silicon Valley Bank](/content/get-started/index.html)
- [Texas Capital](/content/banks/texas-capital/index.html)

## Extend for

- [Vendor payments](/content/solutions/vendor-payments/index.html)
- [Virtual employee cards](/content/solutions/employee-cards/index.html)
- [Expense management](/content/expense-management/index.html)
- [Tracking spend](/content/solutions/control-spending/index.html)
- [Reconciliation](/content/solutions/automate-reconciliation/index.html)
- [Integrated payments](/content/solutions/integrated-payments/index.html)

## By industry

- [Retail & ecommerce](/content/industries/retail-and-ecommerce/index.html)
- [Legal services](/content/industries/legal-services/index.html)
- [Construction & manufacturing](/content/industries/construction-and-manufacturing/index.html)
- [Media & production agencies](/content/industries/media-and-production-agencies/index.html)
- [Life sciences & medical](/content/industries/life-sciences-and-medical/index.html)

## Make Extend work for you

### Key takeaways

- **Extend is a spend and expense management platform** that supports payments, employee expenses, budgets, and reporting in one place.
- **Businesses use Extend to control company spend** with virtual cards, shared budgets, and real-time visibility across teams and third parties.
- **Finance teams streamline reconciliation and close faster** with **AI-enhanced automation**, centralized reporting, and fewer manual steps.

Here are the most common ways businesses use Extend:

### Accounts payable
#### Pay vendors and suppliers
Pay invoices and manage recurring **vendor payments** or **subscription costs** with the control and security of virtual cards—one card for each payment or vendor.

### Pass-through and procurement
#### Give your team a more secure way to pay
Simplify procurement processes—whether for your company or on behalf of your clients—with easy requests and approvals. Send budgets and virtual cards to your team instead of sharing plastic cards.

### Employee expenses
#### Empower non-carded employees who need to make purchases
Control **employee spending**, gain real-time visibility over every transaction, and keep everyone accountable for their own charges and receipts—perfect for **travel expenses**!

### Budget allocation
#### Organize and co-manage spending across your company
Track spending for **departments, projects, clients, multi-locations**, and **vendors** and keep virtual cards organized. Share a budget with anyone responsible for spending so they can create virtual cards and manage spend under your purview.

### Accounting
#### Close the books faster
Automate expense coding of all transactions with AI-enhanced automation and streamline your reconciliation process. Bid farewell to manual data entry, paper expense reports, and receipt chasing!

### Reporting
#### Gain insight into company spending all in one place
Capture the who, what, and where of all company spending with robust, automated reporting on transactions, virtual cards, budgets, and even reimbursable expenses.

Whatever business you’re in, managing company spending is an arduous task. But with Extend, you can embrace one simple solution to many painstaking challenges.

## Additional resources

- [Webinar: How finance leaders control spending with virtual cards](/content/resource/panel-how-finance-leaders-control-spending-with-virtual-cards?utm_source=extend&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=gsg&utm_content=en/index.html)
- [Customer success stories](/content/resources/case-studies?utm_source=extend&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=gsg&utm_content=en/index.html)