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Ramp is a unique finance platform that allows businesses to automate different accounting functions. Learn how Cherry Bekaert’s consulting services can help you implement this solution to start cutting costs and optimizing workflows.

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Ramp Accounting Software

Ramp is an all-in-one financial operations platform designed to help businesses spend less and automate manual accounting “busywork.” By consolidating corporate cards, expense management and bill pay into a single system, Ramp allows finance teams to close their books significantly faster — often reported as 8x faster than traditional methods. 

Who Is Ramp Designed For?

This versatile financial platform caters to organizations of all sizes, from high-growth startups to global enterprises requiring complex multi-entity management. U.S.-based corporations, LLCs or LPs with at least $25,000 in cash reserves are eligible. The platform is particularly popular among techconstruction and financial service firms, helping them automate tasks from software spending to complex audit trails.

Overall, Ramp serves as an all-in-one solution for any incorporated team looking to consolidate cards, expenses and bill payments into a single automated system.

Optimize Your Finance Operations With Ramp Integrations

Ramp proactively controls wasteful spending by allowing users to set merchant-level restrictions and utilizing AI to automatically capture receipts and identify out-of-policy items. This simplifies procurement through automated bill pay with high-accuracy OCR technology and centralized vendor management for improved negotiation.

To see these features in action, contact us today for a live demo.

Ramp Finance and Accounting Automation Tools

Corporate Cards

Ramp’s corporate cards are designed as a comprehensive financial operations tool rather than just a payment method, offering businesses a combination of high-limit credit, automated expense management and proactive spend control. Benefits include:

  • Cash Back: Ramp offers simple cashback rewards on all business purchases without complex category tracking and point systems. 
  • Virtual and Physical Cards: Ramp provides extensive flexibility for businesses, allowing them to issue unlimited virtual and physical cards to employees, teams and departments, all managed under one set of granular controls. 
  • Spend Controls: Ramp provides finance teams with the tools to move from reactive oversight to proactive spend control. By setting detailed rules, companies can be sure every dollar spent aligns with their business goals. 
  • No Fees: Ramp provides a cost-effective solution for business finances, offering its core product without the burden of traditional banking fees. 

Expense Management

Ramp simplifies expense management by consolidating spending, policies and accounting into one automated platform, offering: 

  • Receipt Capturing: Ramp streamlines expense management, letting users instantly capture receipts through photos, text or email forwarding. Its AI-powered system automatically extracts data and identifies out-of-policy items to simplify the reconciliation process. 
  • Policy Enforcement: Ramp allows businesses to move from manual oversight to automated policy enforcement by embedding rules directly into every corporate card. 
  • Mobile Access: Ramp provides several convenient ways for users to access the platform and upload receipts directly from their mobile devices, ensuring expenses are recorded in real-time. 
  • Accounting and ERP Integrations: Ramp’s integration with Sage, specifically Sage Intacct, is a native, two-way API connection designed to automate financial workflows and accelerate the month-end close process. 

Accounting and Bookkeeping Automation

Ramp helps businesses save money by combining automated tools with direct financial incentives to reduce wasteful spending and operational costs.

  • Invoice Processing: Ramp uses advanced automation to streamline invoice processing, integrating data capture and error detection to minimize the need for manual data entry and oversight by finance teams. 
  • Multi-step Approvals: Ramp enables businesses to create custom, multi-step approval workflows using a no-code workflow builder,  so every payment is vetted according to company policies. Finance teams can layer and nest conditions to automate complex authorization paths. 
  • Batch Payments: Ramp consolidates multiple invoices for a single vendor into one batch transaction, significantly reducing administrative overhead. The platform simplifies high-volume accounts payable workflows with intelligent data capture and error detection, supporting payment accuracy and automated categorization. 
  • Tax Compliance: Ramp simplifies tax compliance by automating financial data collection and organization, helping businesses remain audit-ready and compliant with IRS regulations year-round. 

Real-time Tracking

Ramp additionally offers:

  • Notifications: Ramp gives finance teams automated, real-time notifications to help manage company spend and compliance proactively. Custom alerts surface critical information immediately, reducing the need for manual monitoring. 
  • Spending Insights: Ramp uses AI-powered spending insights to help businesses identify waste, consolidate vendor relationships and negotiate better pricing.
  • Centralized Data: Ramp provides a centralized platform that consolidates all vendor information, giving finance teams a single source of truth for their business spend.

Travel and Procurement Management

Ramp helps businesses manage travel and procurement through automated workflows and embedded controls that ensure all spending remains in policy.

  • Simplified Bookings: Ramp simplifies business travel with an all-in-one booking platform, Ramp Travel. Users can manage flights, hotels and rental cars directly within their dashboard. The platform uses Priceline’s global inventory to offer competitive rates and embeds company travel policies into the booking flow. 
  • Expense Tracking: Ramp automates travel expense tracking, providing real-time visibility and smart categorization for bookings. Its AI-driven system seamlessly matches receipts to transactions and codes them to your general ledger, leaving an audit-ready trail for your ERP without manual effort. 
  • Price Protection: Ramp's Hotel Price Drop feature monitors refundable bookings and  automatically rebooks if prices drop over $50, typically saving about 12%. The process is risk-free, as the original reservation is only canceled once the new, lower-rate booking is confirmed. 

Corporate Cards

Ramp’s corporate cards are designed as a comprehensive financial operations tool rather than just a payment method, offering businesses a combination of high-limit credit, automated expense management and proactive spend control. Benefits include:

  • Cash Back: Ramp offers simple cashback rewards on all business purchases without complex category tracking and point systems. 
  • Virtual and Physical Cards: Ramp provides extensive flexibility for businesses, allowing them to issue unlimited virtual and physical cards to employees, teams and departments, all managed under one set of granular controls. 
  • Spend Controls: Ramp provides finance teams with the tools to move from reactive oversight to proactive spend control. By setting detailed rules, companies can be sure every dollar spent aligns with their business goals. 
  • No Fees: Ramp provides a cost-effective solution for business finances, offering its core product without the burden of traditional banking fees. 

Expense Management

Ramp simplifies expense management by consolidating spending, policies and accounting into one automated platform, offering: 

  • Receipt Capturing: Ramp streamlines expense management, letting users instantly capture receipts through photos, text or email forwarding. Its AI-powered system automatically extracts data and identifies out-of-policy items to simplify the reconciliation process. 
  • Policy Enforcement: Ramp allows businesses to move from manual oversight to automated policy enforcement by embedding rules directly into every corporate card. 
  • Mobile Access: Ramp provides several convenient ways for users to access the platform and upload receipts directly from their mobile devices, ensuring expenses are recorded in real-time. 
  • Accounting and ERP Integrations: Ramp’s integration with Sage, specifically Sage Intacct, is a native, two-way API connection designed to automate financial workflows and accelerate the month-end close process. 

Accounting and Bookkeeping Automation

Ramp helps businesses save money by combining automated tools with direct financial incentives to reduce wasteful spending and operational costs.

  • Invoice Processing: Ramp uses advanced automation to streamline invoice processing, integrating data capture and error detection to minimize the need for manual data entry and oversight by finance teams. 
  • Multi-step Approvals: Ramp enables businesses to create custom, multi-step approval workflows using a no-code workflow builder,  so every payment is vetted according to company policies. Finance teams can layer and nest conditions to automate complex authorization paths. 
  • Batch Payments: Ramp consolidates multiple invoices for a single vendor into one batch transaction, significantly reducing administrative overhead. The platform simplifies high-volume accounts payable workflows with intelligent data capture and error detection, supporting payment accuracy and automated categorization. 
  • Tax Compliance: Ramp simplifies tax compliance by automating financial data collection and organization, helping businesses remain audit-ready and compliant with IRS regulations year-round. 

Real-time Tracking

Ramp additionally offers:

  • Notifications: Ramp gives finance teams automated, real-time notifications to help manage company spend and compliance proactively. Custom alerts surface critical information immediately, reducing the need for manual monitoring. 
  • Spending Insights: Ramp uses AI-powered spending insights to help businesses identify waste, consolidate vendor relationships and negotiate better pricing.
  • Centralized Data: Ramp provides a centralized platform that consolidates all vendor information, giving finance teams a single source of truth for their business spend.

Travel and Procurement Management

Ramp helps businesses manage travel and procurement through automated workflows and embedded controls that ensure all spending remains in policy.

  • Simplified Bookings: Ramp simplifies business travel with an all-in-one booking platform, Ramp Travel. Users can manage flights, hotels and rental cars directly within their dashboard. The platform uses Priceline’s global inventory to offer competitive rates and embeds company travel policies into the booking flow. 
  • Expense Tracking: Ramp automates travel expense tracking, providing real-time visibility and smart categorization for bookings. Its AI-driven system seamlessly matches receipts to transactions and codes them to your general ledger, leaving an audit-ready trail for your ERP without manual effort. 
  • Price Protection: Ramp's Hotel Price Drop feature monitors refundable bookings and  automatically rebooks if prices drop over $50, typically saving about 12%. The process is risk-free, as the original reservation is only canceled once the new, lower-rate booking is confirmed. 

Our Ramp Consulting Service Offerings

Cherry Bekaert’s integration services help businesses tailor Ramp to their operational needs. Services include: 

  • Implementation: As a strategic Ramp service partner, Cherry Bekaert follows a structured approach to optimize the platform for a business's unique operational requirements. 
  • ERP Integration: Cherry Bekaert provides technical guidance and end-to-end configuration to connect Ramp with major ERP platforms like Sage IntacctSage 100Sage 100 ContractorSage 300Sage X3 or Microsoft Dynamics 365.
  • Customization and Configuration: Cherry Bekaert manages critical data mapping, automates approval workflows and offers post-live support to keep expense tracking accurate with your ERP as the sole source of truth.
  • Process Optimization: By mapping out your business journey, Cherry Bekaert identifies repetitive tasks and automates them so your team can focus on strategic priorities. 
  • On-going Support and Maintenance: Beyond initial setup, Cherry Bekaert provides team training and outsourced solutions to overcome talent shortages and support long-term adoption and process upkeep. 
  • Security and Compliance: Cherry Bekaert helps organizations maintain compliance and data security when using Ramp, providing specialized risk advisorycybersecurity services and custom integration solutions. 

Cherry Bekaert Can Guide You Forward

As a premier Ramp Services Partner, Cherry Bekaert leverages its Digital Advisoryexperience to bridge the gap between Ramp’s spend management power and complex enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. With our deep background in finance modernization, we guide technology implementation to meet specific business objectives instead of being a generic "out-of-the-box" setup. 

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Our Industries

Cherry Bekaert leverages specialized industry knowledge to configure Ramp for complex sectors like healthcare and government contracting while providing a "finance-first" approach to digital transformation.

Beyond technical setup, we offer Risk & Compliance Advisory for standards like SOC and FedRAMP, as well as Finance Modernization to optimize accounting workflows. Our advisors provide strategic ERP road mapping, advanced cybersecurity protection and tailored talent solutions to drive long-term business growth and platform success. 

Our Professionals

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Roy Nicholson

Business Optimization Leader

Partner, Cherry Bekaert Advisory LLC

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Dave Kerr

ERP Sage Implementations Leader

Partner, Cherry Bekaert Advisory LLC

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Koray Ozturk

Enterprise Resources Planning - Sage

Partner, Cherry Bekaert Advisory LLC

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Paul White

Client Success – Sage

Managing Director, Cherry Bekaert LLC

Ramp Frequently Asked Questions

Ramp is an all-in-one corporate card and accounting automation platform designed to help businesses control spending, automate expenses and streamline their accounting processes. By consolidating corporate cards, expense management, bill payments and accounting integrations into a single system, Ramp helps finance teams eliminate manual data entry, reduce wasteful spending and close their books faster.

Ramp offers a vast ecosystem of over 1,000 integrations designed to automate financial workflows by connecting with your entire tech stack. The platform provides bi-directional syncing with more than 30 major ERPs, including a direct, no-code integration with Sage Intacct that maintains all tracking dimensions in real-time.  

Beyond accounting, it automates employee lifecycle management by syncing with HRIS partners like ADP and Gusto for instant card provisioning. Automated receipt capture from apps like Gmail and Amazon Business, alongside seamless communication via Slack and Microsoft Teams, further enhances productivity.

Cherry Bekaert typically completes a standard Ramp implementation in two to four weeks, though focused automation projects can often be even faster. While complex ERP integrations with systems like Sage Intacct or Microsoft Dynamics 365 can span three to nine months, the initial setup is accelerated by specific phases, such as five to 10 days for data preparation and seven to 20 days for mapping accounting fields.

Ultimately, the speed of your rollout is heavily influenced by your team’s availability for testing and training, which is critical for meeting the two-to-four-week target.

Ramp offers three primary pricing tiers, starting with a Free version for basic corporate card needs and scaling up to Plus and Enterprise for advanced multi-entity management and custom ERP integrations. We recommend reaching out to our consultants for a customized quote so we can help you select the most cost-effective plan for your financial requirements and maximize ROI.

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