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Kodo
Corporate cards and intake to pay for Indian businesses
As of 1 September 2026, Kodo's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. An Indian spend platform issuing corporate cards and running purchase to payment workflow with GST aware coding. Softwr lists it under Accounting. Kodo is available on Web, iOS, Android.
Overview
What Kodo does
Kodo issues corporate cards, runs vendor payouts and automates the intake to pay chain for Indian companies: purchase request, approval, invoice capture, three way check and payment, with coding to Tally, Zoho, Oracle and SAP. Its practical strength is Indian tax and payments plumbing that foreign tools do not have, including GST treatment on invoices, TDS handling and payouts over NEFT, RTGS, IMPS and UPI. The structural fact a buyer needs is that Kodo is not a bank. Cards are issued under a partner bank and card network arrangement, and the credit limit, settlement cycle and eligibility criteria are set by that bank, not by Kodo. In India this matters more than elsewhere because Reserve Bank of India rules on prepaid instruments and on card issuing partnerships have changed repeatedly, and a partnership change has in the past forced Indian fintechs to reissue cards or pause new issuance. Ask which bank sponsors the programme, what happens to your limits if that partnership changes, and whether cards are credit or prepaid, because those are three different products with the same plastic. Buyers are Indian startups and mid sized companies, often venture funded, replacing founder personal cards and manual bank transfers. The trade off is scope: Kodo is India first, so a company with overseas subsidiaries gets no card coverage there, and pricing is quoted rather than published, which makes benchmarking against Happay or Zoho Expense a sales process rather than a comparison.
What people use it for
- An Indian startup replacing founder personal cards with issued cards carrying per employee limits
- A finance team automating vendor payouts across NEFT, RTGS and UPI with maker checker approval
- A company that needs GST compliant invoice coding flowing into Tally without rekeying
- A business enforcing purchase requests and approvals before spend rather than reconciling it afterwards
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Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Kodo.
- Kodo is not a licensed issuer, so card limits, settlement cycles and eligibility come from a partner bank whose terms you do not directly control and which can change the programme.
- Indian regulatory changes on prepaid instruments and card issuing partnerships have repeatedly disrupted fintech card programmes, so continuity risk is higher here than in equivalent European or United States products.
- Pricing is not published, so comparing Kodo against Happay, Zoho Expense or a bank corporate card requires a full sales cycle and disclosure of your spend volumes.
- Coverage is India only, so any group with overseas subsidiaries runs a second card and payables system and loses the consolidated view.
- The intake to pay workflow is lighter than a dedicated procurement suite, with limited contract management and supplier onboarding, so regulated or heavily audited buyers will find gaps.
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What people choose instead of Kodo
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Pricing
What Kodo costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Kodo
On request
- Quoted per customer, no published rate card
- Card limits and settlement terms set by the sponsoring partner bank
- Payout volumes and payment rails may carry per transaction charges
- ERP integration and multi entity typically quoted separately
Capabilities
Features
Corporate cards
Physical and virtual cards with per card limits and merchant controls
Purchase requests
Intake forms with approval routing before spend is committed
Invoice capture and matching
Supplier invoice OCR with matching against purchase requests
Vendor payouts
NEFT, RTGS, IMPS and UPI payouts with maker checker controls
GST and TDS handling
Tax coding on invoices and deduction handling for supplier payments
ERP integration
Coded exports and sync to Tally, Zoho Books, Oracle and SAP
Approval workflows
Multi level approvals by amount, department and entity
Spend analytics
Category, vendor and cost centre reporting across cards and payouts
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Questions people ask
Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
Who actually issues the cards?
A partner bank under a card network arrangement, not Kodo. Ask which bank, whether the product is credit or prepaid, and what happens to your limits if the partnership changes.
Is pricing published?
No. Kodo quotes per customer, so benchmark against at least two Indian rivals before signing.
Does Kodo work outside India?
No meaningful coverage outside India for card issuing or payouts.
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