Capila Trip
Travel and expense management for finance teams: mobile receipt capture with OCR, a per-diem and mileage engine covering Slovak, UK and US rules, one-tap approvals, and accounting exports to Pohoda, iDoklad, Xero and QuickBooks.
What is Capila Trip?
Capila Trip is a travel and expense SaaS published by Capila, s. r. o., a Slovak accounting practice based in Bratislava. Under its Slovak name Cestovné náklady, it covers the whole cycle a finance team runs around a business trip: raise a travel order, capture receipts on the move, get an approval, and post the cost to the ledger. The interface is offered in Slovak and English.
What sets it apart is a single rate engine spanning three jurisdictions. For Slovakia it implements § 5, § 7, § 13 and § 16 of the travel-compensation act with the 2026 rate update; for the United Kingdom it applies banded AMAP mileage rates; for the United States it works from IRS Notice 2026-10 with accountable-plan checks. The vendor commits to reflecting new Slovak rates within 48 hours of the Oznámenie MPSVR SR being published, and makes the same promise for UK AMAP and US IRS changes. Its v1.0 changelog cites mileage rates effective 1 January 2026 and per-diem rates effective 1 December 2025.
Two AI components sit inside the flow. Receipts are read by Claude Vision, with Mindee taking over above €500 or when confidence is low; Slovak diacritics are preserved, and receipts move to write-once archiving after a year. An audit agent built on Claude Haiku 4.5 then reviews every expense report for policy match, missing documentation and anomalies — the vendor is explicit that decisions stay with humans.
On the accounting side, exports cover Pohoda XML in Windows-1250 validated against Stormware XSD schemas, iDoklad CSV, OAuth connections to Xero and QuickBooks with attachments, and payroll CSV for Kros Olymp and PAMICA. Multi-entity groups route orders, approvals and exports per entity and consolidate reporting. The front end is a PWA with an offline capture queue and a camera flow, plus a Slovak travel-authorisation PDF; Google and Microsoft Entra SSO, Slack notifications and advanced approval routing arrive with the Business tier. Commercially it runs two ways: a standalone freemium offer, and inclusion without usage limits in the Capila accounting package — which presupposes paying for that separate accounting service.
Treat the dashboard figures on the home page — 12,487 expenses processed year to date, 4.2 days average approval, zero audit findings, closing cut from 15 days to 5, €120k saved a year — as vendor claims: they are advertised without being tied to any named customer.
What it does
- Raise a travel order before departure, from the web or a phone
- Photograph receipts on the move and let OCR fill in the fields
- Apply Slovak, UK and US per-diem and mileage rates automatically
- Have every expense reviewed by an AI audit agent for policy match, missing documents and anomalies
- Get a manager's approval in one tap, or send it through multi-step routing
- Export costs to Pohoda, iDoklad, Xero or QuickBooks, and payroll lines to CSV
- Follow spend live in Capila Reporting, consolidated across entities
When to use Capila Trip / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if Capila Trip is the right fit.
When to use Capila Trip
- Slovak finance teams still running business-trip paperwork on paper and spreadsheets, who want the whole travel-order cycle online
- Multi-entity groups spanning Slovakia, the United Kingdom and the United States, needing per-jurisdiction routing of orders, approvals and exports with consolidated reporting
- Clients of the Capila accounting practice, for whom the tool is bundled into the accounting package with no usage limits and switched on automatically at onboarding
- Small and mid-sized companies of up to ten users on the Starter tier, and larger headcounts that prefer the Enterprise flat fee with unlimited users
- Pohoda (Stormware) users, who get an XML export in Windows-1250 validated against the Stormware XSD schemas rather than a generic CSV drop
When not to use Capila Trip
- Companies travelling outside Slovakia, the United Kingdom and the United States: no rate engine is offered for other jurisdictions, and the only mention of Czechia sits in the home-page structured data, unconfirmed anywhere else
- Individuals tracking personal spending: the terms (art. 04) state the service is primarily intended for business use, and the account and its data belong to the employer
- Teams that want to build on a documented API: an API is sold as a Business-tier feature, yet no documentation page is published anywhere on the site
- Organisations that require a native iOS or Android app from an app store: the product ships as an installable PWA, with no App Store or Google Play listing
- Anyone hoping to run a company on the free tier: the terms cap it at five trips a month, three users and no integrations at all
How to use Capila Trip
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Create an account from the sign-up page; the home page states that no credit card is asked for, and there is no public demo or sandbox to try first
- Clients of the Capila accounting practice skip that step entirely: the tool is switched on automatically during onboarding, with no pricing decision to make
- Install the PWA on the phone — there is nothing to fetch from an app store
- Set up entities, users and approval rules, and pick the accounting or payroll target you will export to
- Employee: raise the travel order before departure, from the web or the phone
- Employee: photograph receipts during the trip; the offline queue holds them where there is no signal
- Let the OCR fill the fields and the rate engine apply the right per-diem and mileage figures
- Manager: approve in one tap, or push the report through multi-step routing
- Finance: export the month to Pohoda, iDoklad, Xero or QuickBooks, or send payroll lines out as CSV
- On the Business tier, add Google or Microsoft Entra SSO and Slack notifications once the flow has settled
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Unusually precise legal grounding: the Slovak travel-compensation sections are named one by one, with a commitment to reflect a new Oznámenie MPSVR SR within 48 hours
- Three jurisdictions in one engine (Slovak rates, UK AMAP, US IRS), which is exactly what a multi-entity group struggles to assemble elsewhere
- Native Pohoda integration producing Windows-1250 XML validated against Stormware schemas — rare outside the Slovak and Czech market
- A well-stocked Trust Centre: subprocessor list with role and location, DPA, RoPA, transfer impact assessment for the Anthropic EU endpoint, retention policy, Slovak paperless declaration
- EU hosting stated plainly — Supabase in eu-central-1 Frankfurt, Cloudflare with EU placement, Sentry EU with PII scrubbing, Resend EU, cookieless Plausible — with 30 days' notice and a right to object before any subprocessor change
- Documented security practice: Postgres row-level security, admin MFA, quarterly secret rotation, an annual external OWASP Top 10 pentest, daily backups with a monthly restore test
- Low entry price at €3.99 per active user per month, a capped Enterprise bill at €79.90 a month for unlimited users, and no marketing or advertising cookies on the site
Cons
- A very young product: version 1.0 shipped in Q3 2026, the domain dates from May 2026, and the Internet Archive holds no capture of the site at all
- No customer reference: the Customer story block on the home page carries placeholder text saying the vendor is still collecting testimonials
- The PROOF figures — closing cut from 15 days to 5, €120k saved a year, zero audit findings — are attached to no customer and carry no source
- No API documentation page anywhere, even though an API is listed as a Business-tier feature
- No support address is published: support is described as a tier benefit (email, then a 4-hour priority SLA) rather than a named channel
- No native iOS or Android application in any store, the PWA being the only mobile route, and the site itself is published in Slovak and English only
- No security certification of the vendor's own — neither SOC 2 nor ISO 27001; the only certification cited belongs to Anthropic, one of its subprocessors
Pricing & Plans
A permanent free plan is documented in the terms of service (art. 05) and in the v1.0 changelog, limited to 5 trips per month, 3 users and no integrations; readers should note that the home-page pricing grid displays no Free card and shows only the paid tiers. The lowest paid entry point is €3.99 per active user per month (Starter), followed by Business at €7.99 per active user per month and Enterprise at a flat €79.90 per month for unlimited users. Billing counts active users rather than provisioned seats, and all three paid tiers include a 14-day free trial with no credit card required at sign-up. A second and quite different form of free access exists: Capila Trip is bundled at no extra cost and without usage limits for clients of the Capila accounting practice. That is not a public free offer of the product, since it presupposes a paid subscription to a separate service from the same vendor. SSO, custom SLAs and dedicated support are quoted through the vendor's sales address.
- 5 trips per month
- 3 users
- no integrations (described in the terms of service art. 05 and in the v1.0 changelog)
- unlimited trips and expenses
- up to 10 users
- SK + UK + US rate engines
- Pohoda and iDoklad export
- email support
- 14-day trial
- everything in Starter with no user cap
- receipt OCR (Claude Vision)
- multi-entity
- AI audit agent and advanced approval routing
- Xero + QuickBooks + custom CSV templates
- Google and Microsoft Entra SSO
- Slack and in-app notifications
- 4-hour priority support SLA
- everything in Business with a capped bill
- a dedicated customer success manager
- bespoke onboarding and data import
- custom SLA and security review
- 14-day trial
- unlimited trips and users
- full Pohoda integration
- multi-entity across the whole group
- live figures in Capila Reporting
- switched on automatically at onboarding and conditional on subscribing to the Capila accounting service
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how Capila Trip handles your data.
GDPR overview
Implementation is specific and documented. Capila, s. r. o., Bottova 2/A, 811 09 Bratislava — Staré Mesto, claims compliance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and Slovak Act No. 18/2018 Z. z.; the three legal documents carry an effective date of 29 April 2026. No Data Protection Officer is appointed — the notice states the Article 37 obligation does not apply to it — and privacy requests go to info@capila.io. Rights under Articles 15 to 21 are enumerated, with a 30-day response window extendable by two months, and the supervisory authority named is the Úrad na ochranu osobných údajov SR in Bratislava. Transfers to Anthropic and Stripe rest on Article 46(2)(c) standard contractual clauses or the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (decision (EU) 2023/1795). Every paying customer signs a negotiable DPA aligned with the 2021 EU clauses; a RoPA, a transfer impact assessment and a retention policy sit in the Trust Centre.
Who owns the data?
The terms of service (art. 06) state that everything a customer or its users upload into Capila Trip — travel orders, expense reports, receipts, attachments and approval records — remains the customer's property. Capila, s. r. o. acts as a processor under Article 28 GDPR and handles that content on the customer's instructions. The privacy notice (art. 05) keeps the customer as controller of application data, so an employee asking about their own records goes to their employer first; Capila is controller only for site visitors, users, prospects and client contacts. Data can be exported in a structured, machine-readable format at any time, and on termination the export is free and prompt before deletion follows the published retention policy.
Reuse rights
Customers keep full reuse rights over their own content: a structured, machine-readable export is available at any time and needs no permission from the vendor. Capila's own processing is pinned to named legal bases (privacy art. 03): performance of the contract, Slovak accounting and VAT obligations under Acts 431/2002 and 222/2004, legitimate interests covering security, rate-limiting, the audit trail, the AI audit agent and product improvement, and consent for the newsletter and cookies. Receipt content is sent to Anthropic on an EU endpoint for structured extraction, and to Mindee in France as a fallback above €500 or on low confidence; the notice states that providers do not use the content for model training. Direct marketing is limited to existing customers about services already supplied. In the opposite direction, the terms (art. 03) forbid reusing the site's own content as LLM training data, invoking Article 4(3) of Directive (EU) 2019/790 and § 35(4) of the Slovak copyright act.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
The data sits in the European Union. Database and file storage run on Supabase (Pro plan) in eu-central-1, Frankfurt; the application runtime, CDN and WAF are Cloudflare with EU placement, and the privacy notice also names Vercel for runtime. Error monitoring uses an EU-hosted Sentry project with personal-data scrubbing, transactional email goes through Resend in its EU region, and the marketing site is measured with cookieless Plausible in the EU. The site's FAQ sums this up as EU only, on Supabase Pro in eu-central-1. Two flows cross that perimeter under a transfer regime rather than staying inside it: receipt OCR runs on Anthropic's EU endpoint, with Mindee in Paris as the fallback above €500, and payments run through Stripe. Transfers outside the EEA are covered by standard contractual clauses or by the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. The full subprocessor list, with each party's role and location, is published in the Trust Centre, and the vendor commits to 30 days' notice and a customer right to object before adding or replacing any subprocessor.
Where Capila Trip works
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Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting Capila Trip.
- The vendor's own documents disagree on which tiers exist: the terms of service (effective 29 April 2026) and the v1.0 changelog describe Free, Starter and Business, while the home-page pricing grid and its FAQ describe Starter, Business and Enterprise with no Free card at all. Get the tier you are buying confirmed in writing.
- The free plan is not a right: the terms reserve the vendor's ability to modify or withdraw it at any time, with 30 days' notice for material changes — so a workflow built on its limits can be repriced.
- The free-for-Capila-clients arrangement is bundled into a paid accounting engagement with the same vendor. It is attractive, but it ties your expense system to your accountant, and leaving one means repricing the other.
- An AI agent reviews every expense, which invites the very human habit of rubber-stamping whatever the machine has already blessed. The terms (art. 08) put the final assessment squarely back on the customer and its accountants, and the vendor itself says decisions stay with humans.
- Receipt content leaves the product: items above €500 go to Mindee in Paris, the rest to Anthropic on an EU endpoint. Receipts routinely carry the names, locations and habits of individual employees, so this belongs in your own record of processing, not only in the vendor's.
- The showcase metrics are not measurements. The 12,487 expenses figure is hard-coded in the site's JavaScript bundle next to an arbitrary sparkline, and zero audit findings, 15-to-5 days and €120k a year are tied to no customer — while the same page admits none can yet be cited.
- Several technical signals point at a domain that does not exist: the canonical URL, the hreflang tags, the og:image and the three legal documents all name trip.capila.io, which does not resolve, leaving the social preview image dead. Separately, the home-page FAQ answers are not served in the HTML at all — they live only in the JavaScript bundle — and the structured data claims Czechia as a served area, which nothing else on the site supports.
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Low for most teams. Clients of the Capila accounting practice have nothing to do: the tool is switched on automatically at onboarding. Everyone else signs up online without a card and installs the PWA — there is no app store step. File exports for Pohoda (XML) and iDoklad (CSV) need no connection work; Xero and QuickBooks require an OAuth authorisation. Business-tier teams configure Google or Microsoft Entra SSO and any custom payroll CSV mappings, and Enterprise buys bespoke onboarding and data import. The one thing that cannot be prepared in advance is a programmatic integration: no API documentation is published.
Deployment
Integrations
Supported languages
Behind Capila Trip
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Frequently asked questions
Is Capila Trip really free for Capila accounting clients?
Does it work without Capila accounting?
Is there a permanent free plan?
Is there a free trial?
Which payroll software is supported?
Where is the data stored, and is a DPA available?
Are the per-diem rates kept up to date automatically?
Does multi-entity work across several companies?
Is there a mobile app in the app stores?
Is there a documented API?
Should you pick Capila Trip?
Capila Trip is an unapologetically niche product, and that is its strongest argument. Very few travel-and-expense tools name the specific sections of Slovak travel-compensation law they implement, commit to reflecting a new rate publication within 48 hours, and ship a Pohoda XML export in Windows-1250 validated against Stormware schemas. Put UK AMAP and US IRS rates in the same engine and a group with Slovak, British and American entities gets something genuinely hard to assemble elsewhere. The data story holds together too: EU hosting, a subprocessor list with roles and locations, a published retention policy, no marketing cookies, and an AI layer whose vendor states plainly that the final judgement stays with the customer and its accountants.
The reservations are just as clear. Version 1.0 shipped in Q3 2026 and there is no customer reference to point at — the testimonial block on the home page still says the vendor is gathering them. The dashboard numbers displayed nearby, from days-to-close to annual savings and zero audit findings, are vendor claims attached to nobody. There is no security certification of the vendor's own, no API documentation despite an API being sold on the Business tier, and no published support address.
Pricing deserves a careful read. The cheapest genuinely free route is being a client of the Capila accounting practice, which means paying for a different service from the same vendor. Beyond that, the contractual documents and the commercial pricing grid do not describe the same tiers: the terms and the changelog carry a Free plan the pricing page never shows, while the pricing page carries an Enterprise tier the contracts never mention. Get the tier list, its limits and its price confirmed in writing before you sign.
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