Benefits

Streamline Your Time & Expense Process

With modern, mobile-ready tools for time tracking and expense entry that your entire team will use.

  • Boost profitability

    Control expenses at every levelfrom firm-wide budgets to individual project costs. 

  • Stay compliant and reduce risk

    Enforce policies automatically and maintain visibility with audit-ready data while minimizing the risks of non-compliance for your firm. 

  • Gain real-time visibility

    Track spending trends instantly to support smarter, faster decisions. 

  • Eliminate manual work

    Automate approvals and expense tracking to reduce errors and free up time. 

  • Empower every team member

    Give finance, operations, and field staff the tools they need to manage spend efficiently. 

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Features

Key things you can do with Unanet Spend Management

  • Centralized spend controls:

    Set firm-wide policies, approval workflows, and vendor guidelines to prevent waste and enforce discipline. 
  • Automated expense management

    Track expenses and collect receipts automatically with seamless ERP integration. 
  • Virtual and physical corporate cards

    Issue cards with custom controls by project, vendor, or employee—instantly and securely.

  • Travel booking and management

    Manage travel expenses with built-in tools that streamline compliance and cost control. 
  • Real-time analytics and reporting

    Monitor project and firm-level spend in one view to spot trends and avoid surprises. 

Built for the way GovCons firms work 

Whether you’re managing complex cost-plus contracts or day-to-day indirect spend, Unanet Spend Management powered by Mesh fits seamlessly into your existing GovCon workflows. It helps teams stay compliant with DCAA, JTR, GSA, and FTR requirements while enforcing allowable vs. unallowable cost rules at the point of spend. From project managers and travelers to finance and compliance leadership, everyone gets the real-time controls and visibility they need to keep spending smart, auditable, and in-policy.

Ready to simplify spend management? 

Gain confidence in your numbers, protect your bottom line, and get back to building what matters. Talk to our team to see how Unanet Spend Management powered by Mesh can transform your financial workflows. 

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Frequently Asked Questions

Unanet Spend Management, powered by Mesh, captures spend in real time at the point of purchase, so the expense report largely builds itself instead of being assembled after the fact. When a charge hits a Unanet/Mesh card, the transaction flows in automatically, OCR reads the receipt to fill in vendor, date, and amount, and the employee just confirms the expense type—turning what executives describe as hours of monthly expense work into a few clicks.

Unanet replaces the scattered personal-card-and-expense-report approach with corporate cards that give you real-time visibility and control before money is spent. You can issue virtual and physical cards with custom limits by project, vendor, or employee, see every transaction as it happens, and set budgets and policies up front—so you stop losing visibility when expense reports are late and stop reconciling spend you didn't know about.

No. Unanet Spend Management can issue its own cards or integrate with your existing Visa, Amex, or Mastercard corporate card program, so you don't have to disrupt your current banking relationship. That card-agnostic approach means you keep the card program and rewards you have today while still getting real-time transaction capture, receipt OCR, and automated coding—then everything flows into the Unanet ERP at the entity level.

Yes. Spend Management enforces your policies at the point of spend and is built around GovCon rules—DCAA, JTR, GSA, and FTR—so compliance happens as the purchase is made, not in a month-end scramble. You can apply spend controls and approval workflows automatically, capture audit-ready data on every transaction, and handle allowable versus unallowable cost so what's charged to the government stays compliant and your firm reduces audit risk.

Yes. Unanet includes built-in travel booking and management, so you can plan trips, control travel spend, and keep it all on the same compliant platform as the rest of your spend. Because travel is captured in real time alongside cards and expenses—and GSA per diem and allowable-cost rules are applied automatically—travel-heavy contractors get policy enforcement and cost control without bouncing between a separate travel tool and spreadsheets.

Every transaction is captured with its project and expense type and flows directly into the Unanet ERP, so spend lands on your projects and in your GL automatically instead of being re-keyed from spreadsheets. You get real-time analytics across project- and firm-level spend in one view to spot trends and avoid surprises, and finance stops doing the manual exports and credit-card reconciliation that GovCons consistently cite as their biggest spend headache.

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