May: Auto-Enrolment, Spend Cards, Insurers, SSO

A heavy month of shipping. Spend cards now have the admin tooling and digital wallet support Finance teams have been asking for. Our benefits library expanded into Spain and deepened across the UK and Ireland. And Irish employers can now automate compliance with the new Auto-Enrolment rules.

Watch Luke and Tadhg walk through the highlights:

Kota Spend

Digital wallets

Kota Spend cards now work in digital wallets. Employees add the card from the app in about a minute, then tap to pay anywhere contactless is accepted. Lunch allowances, wellness budgets, and work-from-home stipends now work the way employees actually spend.

Admin dashboard

Finance teams see every transaction in one place. Opening balance, all spend, closing balance, exportable as a single ledger. Per-card detail is still there, but you no longer have to assemble the bigger picture by hand.

Stripe alerts in-portal

If Stripe ever needs information from your account to keep cards working, you'll now see a clear alert in the portal with a link to resolve it. No more cards quietly stopping without warning.

Receipt tracking with OCR

Every Kota Spend transaction triggers a push notification that takes the employee straight to the upload screen. They take a photo, OCR reads the receipt and fills in the details. On the admin side, you can see whether the receipt amount actually matches the transaction, not just whether something was attached. Audits move a lot quicker.

New benefits and providers

Seven new benefits went live across the UK, Ireland, and Spain:

• Bupa Health Cash Plans in the UK
• Unum income protection and life cover in the UK
• Sanitas health insurance in Spain
• Several new UK provider integrations

That brings whole-of-market coverage to every major employee benefit in Ireland, and meaningfully deeper options across the UK and Europe.

Auto-Enrolment for Ireland

Irish employers now have automated flags and rules to make staying compliant with occupational pension rules. Set the enrolment criteria once and the platform applies them to every new joiner, eligibility change, and opt-in/opt-out. HR teams no longer need to manually track who's in and who's out via spreadsheets.

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