Huilianyi alternatives: 12 tools compared (October 2026)

Fenbeitong is a Beijing-based platform that combines business travel booking, expense reimbursement and corporate payments for Chinese companies, and adds AI agents for trip planning, approvals and policy control.

Key functions

• Travel agent plans an itinerary from a single plain-language request and suggests suitable options
• AI approval checks requests across several scenarios, extracts key details and flags risks with an audit trail
• Control agent reviews more than 50 cost-saving points and over 110 compliance checkpoints and makes recommendations

Compared with Huilianyi

• States no EU hosting option; Huilianyi has one.
• Strong in the same markets as Huilianyi: China.

Check before buying: Fenbeitong fits companies with operations and employees in China. Clarify which interface languages are available for your users, since the website is in Chinese. Ask how data stored in China is handled under PIPL and your group's data protection rules, whether a data processing agreement is offered, and how the platform connects to your ERP and approval workflows. Prices are not published, so request a quote and a trial.

Kingdee Cloud is the cloud ERP line of China's Kingdee, with Galaxy for mid-sized and Constellation for large companies. Its finance cloud adds AI agents for close, expense review, payment checks and forecasting.

Key functions

• Month-end closing agent generates closing checklists and tracks progress and exceptions
• Procurement payment review agent checks payment validity against several data sources
• Travel Expense AI Agent and multi-modal document review AI for travel costs and supporting documents

Compared with Huilianyi

• Publishes a price; Huilianyi quotes on request.
• Names 9 security certificates, Huilianyi 7.
• States no EU hosting option; Huilianyi has one.

Check before buying: Kingdee Cloud suits groups with a subsidiary in mainland China or companies that already run Kingdee there. Clarify which cloud your data lands in: the international offering runs in Singapore, while hosting for mainland Chinese deployments is not described on the global site. Ask for the SOC 1 and SOC 2 reports, check how the data processing agreement handles transfers under GDPR, and budget AI credits separately from user licenses.

Maycur is a Chinese spend management platform for expense reimbursement, travel, invoices, payables, receivables and electronic archives. AI reads fapiao, reviews claims and attachments and answers policy questions for mid-sized and large companies.

Key functions

• Invoice recognition reads paper, electronic and PDF invoices and creates expense lines
• AI review with a language model understands non-standard attachments and contracts, plus 13 or more compliance checks per document
• AI trip planning, allowance calculation and automatic matching to travel policies

Compared with Huilianyi

• States no EU hosting option; Huilianyi has one.
• Strong in the same markets as Huilianyi: China.

Check before buying: Maycur fits groups whose employees in China claim expenses with fapiao and use DingTalk, Feishu or WeCom. The privacy policy places data on servers in mainland China, so ask whether an international deployment exists and how cross-border transfers are handled. Request the SOC 1 report if auditors rely on the expense process, and clarify the ERP connector for your general ledger.

YonSuite is Yonyou's cloud ERP for growing companies, covering finance, HR, supply chain and manufacturing. Its YonGPT features generate financial diagnosis reports, flag anomalies and forecast profit.

Key functions

• AI diagnosis report generates an evaluation of financial and business figures in one click
• Anomaly detection with root cause analysis in financial data
• Profit forecasting linked to the budget

Compared with Huilianyi

• States no EU hosting option; Huilianyi has one.
• Strong in the same markets as Huilianyi: China.

Check before buying: YonSuite fits companies with operations in China or Chinese groups abroad that want one ERP across entities. Clarify which data center your tenant uses and how data moves between China and other regions under the Personal Information Protection Law and GDPR. Yonyou publishes no prices, certifications or data processing agreement on its global site, so request these documents before a pilot.

Spend management platform from Beijing, formerly Ekuaibao, covering expenses, business travel, payables and digital archiving.

Key functions

• HOSE AI agents cross-validate receipts, invoices and payments for approval, recognise and translate overseas receipts, and fill expense forms from natural language.

Compared with Huilianyi

• Strong in the same markets as Huilianyi: China.

Factorial is an all-in-one HR and business management platform for small and midsize companies, covering time tracking, payroll, recruiting, performance and finance, with an AI agent called One that drafts documents, answers data questions and supports recruiting tasks.

Key functions

• AI agent One drafts reports, surveys, reviews and job descriptions and answers questions from policies and documents
• Automated analytics spanning time tracking, recruiting, performance and compensation
• AI-suggested shift scheduling to reduce planning errors

Compared with Huilianyi

• Publishes a price (from €8 per user/month); Huilianyi quotes on request.
• Headquartered in Spain, Huilianyi in China.
• Targets companies under 50 employees, which Huilianyi does not.
• Different pricing model: per user instead of contact for pricing.

Check before buying: Before adopting Factorial, clarify which modules are included in the published per-user starting price and which need a custom quote, and confirm a data processing agreement under GDPR Article 28. Because it tracks time, runs performance reviews and lets AI suggest candidate matches, German works councils typically hold co-determination rights under Section 87 (1) BetrVG, and using it for recruiting decisions falls under the EU AI Act's high-risk category from December 2027.

FreeAgent is cloud accounting software for UK small businesses, sole traders, landlords and their accountants. It covers bookkeeping, invoicing, payroll and UK tax filing, with AI receipt capture and machine learning that suggests categories for bank transactions.

Key functions

• Smart Capture reads receipts and bills from photos, PDFs and images and automatically matches them to the relevant bank transaction
• Smart Capture applies AI-based categorization to captured documents, and users only approve the result
• Machine learning categorizes bank transactions automatically, learns from earlier choices and explains new transactions based on previous descriptions

Compared with Huilianyi

• Publishes a price (from £10 per month); Huilianyi quotes on request.
• Headquartered in United Kingdom, Huilianyi in China.
• Targets companies under 50 employees, which Huilianyi does not.
• Different pricing model: flat fee instead of contact for pricing.

Check before buying: FreeAgent is designed for UK tax rules and UK banks, so check that your business files with HMRC and whether your bank account qualifies for free use. Customer data is held in data centers in Ireland, and a subprocessor list is public. The data processing addendum, version 1.0 from June 2026, is published and forms part of the terms. Single sign-on works through a NatWest group bank login or a Google account. Plan for Smart Capture Unlimited above ten receipts a month.

Mobilexpense is expense management software from Brussels, part of Visma, with Declaree for midsize companies and MXP for multinationals, using AI to capture, categorize and validate receipts and to detect duplicates and anomalies.

Key functions

• AI captures, categorizes and validates receipts
• Duplicate detection and expense policy enforcement
• Anomaly detection and insights into spending patterns

Compared with Huilianyi

• Publishes a price (from €8 per user/month); Huilianyi quotes on request.
• Headquartered in Belgium, Huilianyi in China.
• Different pricing model: per user instead of contact for pricing.
• Names fewer security certificates: 3, Huilianyi 7.

Check before buying: Decide between Declaree and MXP based on the number of countries and entities you run. Mobilexpense states that data is stored in certified EU data centers; ask for the exact location, the DPA and the sub-processor list, which were not published on the pages we reviewed in September 2026. Also confirm the ERP and HR connectors you need. For German entities, check DATEV export and GoBD compliant receipt archiving.