Accounting · head to head
Circula vs Yooz
Circula
Accounting
Expense, travel and employee benefit management for German speaking finance teams
- From
- €15/month
- Rated
- -
Yooz
Accounting
AP automation for mid-sized finance teams, with unlimited users included in the subscription
- From
- $199/month
- Rated
- -
The short version
- Each has a real cost: Circula the module pricing stacks: expenses at fifteen euro per licence plus ninety nine euro for cards plus a hundred and forty nine euro for accounts payable means a fifty person company pays well over a thousand euro a month before add ons.; Yooz it is accounts payable only, with no requisitioning, sourcing or contract management, so procurement control has to come from somewhere else.
- They diverge on capability: Circula covers German per diem engine, Yooz covers Invoice capture.
- Prices and features above were last checked on 1 September 2026.
Where they differ
Only the attributes on which Circula and Yooz actually diverge.
Identical on both: free tier (No), platforms (Web, iOS, Android), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Accounting).
What each one covers
Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.
Only in Circula
- German per diem engine
- Receipt capture and OCR
- Corporate credit cards
- Employee benefits
- Accounts payable
- Mileage and travel
- DATEV and ERP export
- Approval workflows
Only in Yooz
- Invoice capture
- Automatic coding
- Purchase order matching
- Approval workflow
- Fraud and duplicate detection
- Payment initiation
- Unlimited users
- E-invoicing readiness
What people use each for
The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.
Circula
- A German company that must apply statutory per diem rates and meal deductions correctly to avoid payroll tax exposurenot Yooz
- A finance team wanting card spend, expense claims and benefits in one DATEV exportnot Yooz
- An employer offering the tax free monthly benefit allowance and needing auditable records of itnot Yooz
- A mid sized business replacing spreadsheet mileage claims with rule enforced distance calculationsnot Yooz
Yooz
- A finance team with thirty occasional approvers that cannot justify per-seat AP automationnot Circula
- An accounting practice processing invoices on behalf of many client companiesnot Circula
- A French or European business preparing for mandatory electronic invoicing without buying an enterprise platformnot Circula
- A company losing early payment discounts because paper invoices sit in someone's tray for two weeksnot Circula
Where each one falls short
Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.
Circula
- The module pricing stacks: expenses at fifteen euro per licence plus ninety nine euro for cards plus a hundred and forty nine euro for accounts payable means a fifty person company pays well over a thousand euro a month before add ons.
- A minimum of ten licences excludes small teams, and the flexible licensing model for occasional claimants makes monthly cost harder to forecast than a flat per seat price.
- Strength is in German tax rules, so companies with significant operations outside the DACH region gain little from the feature that justifies the price.
- The accounts payable module includes only a hundred invoices per month, so invoice heavy businesses face metered overage on top of the platform fee.
- Card issuing carries a per card transaction ceiling and depends on partner issuing, so high value procurement spend can hit limits that a bank issued corporate card would not.
Yooz
- It is accounts payable only, with no requisitioning, sourcing or contract management, so procurement control has to come from somewhere else.
- Pricing is published only as a starting point and the real number depends on invoice volume and connector requirements, so the advertised figure understates what most buyers pay.
- Country compliance depth is strongest in France and francophone Europe; buyers needing many national e-invoicing mandates at once are better served by a vendor built for that.
- Extraction accuracy on unusual supplier layouts still requires human correction, and the learning improves only with volume, so small-volume users see less benefit from the automation they are paying for.
- ERP connectors vary in depth between accounting systems, and a shallow connector turns the promised straight-through posting into a periodic file export that someone has to run.
Pricing, plan by plan
Circula
€15/month- Employee and Travel Expenses$15/month
- Per licence, billed annually
- Minimum 10 licences
- OCR receipt capture
- Credit Cards$99/month
- Platform fee, unlimited cards
- Per card spend limits
- Transaction limit of EUR 750,000 per card
- Accounts Payable$149/month
- Platform fee
- Includes 100 invoices per month
- Supplier invoice capture and approval
- Benefits$1/month
- Per licence
- Tax free benefit allowances
- Mobility and meal benefits
Yooz
$199/month- Entry$199/month
- Unlimited users
- Invoice capture, coding and approval workflow
- Volume allowance applies
- Volume tiers$undefined/month
- Priced by monthly invoice volume
- European mid-market typically €300 to €600 a month at 200 to 500 invoices
- Purchase order matching and fraud detection
Which should you pick?
Choose Circula if
- You need german per diem engine.
- You work on Web, iOS, Android.
- You also want receipt capture and ocr.
Choose Yooz if
- You need invoice capture.
- You work on Web, iOS, Android.
- You also want automatic coding.
Questions people ask
- Is Circula or Yooz better?
- Neither clearly leads. Circula starts at €15/month and Yooz at $199/month, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
- Which is cheaper, Circula or Yooz?
- Circula starts at €15/month and Yooz at $199/month.
- Does Circula or Yooz run on more platforms?
- Both run on Web, iOS, Android, so platform support will not decide this one for you.
- What is Circula best used for?
- Circula is most often used for a german company that must apply statutory per diem rates and meal deductions correctly to avoid payroll tax exposure, a finance team wanting card spend, expense claims and benefits in one datev export, an employer offering the tax free monthly benefit allowance and needing auditable records of it, a mid sized business replacing spreadsheet mileage claims with rule enforced distance calculations. Of those, a german company that must apply statutory per diem rates and meal deductions correctly to avoid payroll tax exposure and a finance team wanting card spend, expense claims and benefits in one datev export are not what Yooz is typically brought in for.
- What can Circula do that Yooz cannot?
- Circula covers German per diem engine, Receipt capture and OCR, Corporate credit cards, Employee benefits. Yooz covers Invoice capture, Automatic coding, Purchase order matching, Approval workflow.
Answered from the vendors’ own pages
Circula: Does Circula calculate German per diems automatically?
Yes, by destination country and trip duration, including meal and accommodation deductions, which is the main reason DACH finance teams buy it.
Yooz: How is it priced?
On monthly invoice volume, with unlimited users included. Entry pricing is around $199 a month, and European mid-market deployments commonly land at €300 to €600.
Circula: What does it actually cost for fifty employees?
Roughly seven hundred and fifty euro a month for expense licences alone at the fifteen euro rate, before the ninety nine euro card platform fee and any accounts payable module.
Yooz: Are there per-user charges?
No, and that is its main commercial advantage over competitors that meter approvers.
Circula: Is there a minimum commitment?
Yes. A minimum of ten licences and annual billing on the published rates.
Yooz: Does it do procurement as well?
No. It automates accounts payable. Requisitions, sourcing and contracts need a separate system.
Yooz: Is it ready for European e-invoicing mandates?
Yes for France and francophone Europe in particular. For a wide multi-country mandate footprint, compare against a vendor built for that specific problem.
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