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Mooncard
French corporate card and expense management platform built on the Visa network
As of 1 September 2026, Mooncard's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. A corporate card and expense automation product aimed principally at French and wider European businesses, positioned as a lower-friction alternative to American Express corporate cards. Softwr lists it under Payroll. Mooncard is available on Web, iOS, Android.
Overview
What Mooncard does
Mooncard issues configurable corporate Visa cards tied to an expense management app that automates receipt capture, VAT reclaim and accounting export, aimed at French businesses that have historically relied on Amex corporate cards and manual expense reports. It supports both a card-plus-software offer for single entities and a premium tier for groups and multi-entity structures. The distinguishing detail is the choice of network and market position: Mooncard runs on Visa rather than the closed Amex network, which gives it materially wider merchant acceptance in France, and it has built loyalty tie-ins such as Air France Flying Blue miles to court the Amex corporate card base directly. It has also run notable marketing stunts, including a stratospheric test payment, to reinforce a challenger positioning against Amex. Buyers are mid-size and large French and European companies replacing an Amex corporate card programme or moving off manual expense spreadsheets. The trade-off is that, unlike Payhawk or Extend, Mooncard does not publish pricing at all, so a buyer cannot compare cost without entering a sales conversation, and its market strength and support depth are concentrated in France rather than globally.
What people use it for
- A French business replacing an Amex corporate card programme with wider Visa merchant acceptance
- A finance team automating VAT-compliant receipt capture instead of manual expense reports
- A group with several legal entities wanting consolidated card and expense visibility
- A company whose travellers want Flying Blue miles on corporate card spend
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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 Mooncard.
- Pricing is entirely unpublished, so a company cannot budget or benchmark Mooncard against Payhawk or Extend without starting a sales process.
- Its strongest support, integrations and merchant relationships are concentrated in France, and companies with most spend outside France or Europe get a thinner experience.
- Being built specifically to displace Amex corporate cards, it has less of a track record and feature depth outside the expense and card niche compared with broader spend platforms like Payhawk.
- Group and multi-entity functionality sits behind a separate premium tier, so a growing company may need to renegotiate its plan as it adds entities.
- Marketing-driven positioning, including stunts such as the stratospheric payment demo, does not substitute for third-party benchmarking of actual transaction reliability at scale.
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Pricing
What Mooncard costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Mooncard
On request
- Original offer with cards and expense management software
- Premium tier for groups and multi-entity structures
- Custom quote required, no published rate card
Capabilities
Features
Configurable Visa cards
Physical and virtual corporate cards with per-employee spend rules
Automated expense capture
Receipt matching and VAT-compliant record generation from card transactions
Multi-entity premium tier
Consolidated card and expense management across group structures
Accounting export
Direct export to French and European accounting systems
Flying Blue miles
Air France KLM loyalty points earned on qualifying spend
Real-time spend visibility
Finance team dashboards on live card transactions
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Questions people ask
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Is Mooncard only for France?
No, but its content, support and market presence are strongest in France; other European markets are served but less deeply.
Does Mooncard publish pricing?
No, quotes are provided directly by the Mooncard sales team based on company size and needs.
Which card network does it use?
Visa, which the company positions as giving broader merchant acceptance than the Amex network used by many incumbent French corporate cards.
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