Why fund controllers choose Ceviche over StavPay
Software your controller runs, with no service team to wait on.
By Stavtar's public materials, StavPay bundles a spend platform with an operations team, and invoice payments run through its rails. Ceviche does one job, fund expense allocation. Your team runs it, and your existing AP stack does not change. Ramp, Brex, and Bill.com all stay.
SOC 2 Type 2 compliantTop 3 reasons to pick Ceviche over StavPay
Your team runs it self-serve
There is no operations team between you and your data. Queries and reports are self-serve. Your team makes simple rule changes itself, and complex ones come back from our team within 48 hours. Core go-live takes 2 to 4 weeks, with onboarding included in the subscription.
Your stack stays
Invoices come in from Ramp, Bill.com, Brex, Expensify, and SAP Concur. Ceviche is the allocation layer above your AP stack, not another AP tool to pay for.
Your LPA enforced at allocation time
Your fund agreements become structured rules: caps, exclusions, and entity eligibility. They apply as costs allocate, not in a month-end or quarter-end cleanup. An expense outside the LPA goes to review before it reaches a fund's ledger.
Compare Ceviche vs StavPay
Competitor columns summarize each vendor's public materials and what we hear from teams we speak with, as of September 2026.
 Ceviche | StavPay | |
|---|---|---|
| Your AP stack | Stays. Ramp, Brex, Bill.com, Expensify, SAP Concur | Invoices route through StavPay's inbox and processing team |
| Focus | Fund expense allocation, one product | One module in a broad spend platform |
| Who runs it | Your accounting team, self-serve | Bundled invoice-processing operations team |
| Rule changes | Simple changes self-serve, complex ones within 48 hours | Not described in Stavtar's public materials |
| LPA policies | Enforced at allocation time | No enforcement at allocation time |
| Implementation period | 2 to 4 weeks to core go-live, onboarding included. New GL connections and historical data are scoped separately | Services-led, scoped per engagement |
Compare using AIOpens ChatGPT in a new tab.Your spend stack stays
Your card program, expense reports, approval flows, and payment runs are already in Ramp, Bill.com, Brex, Expensify, or SAP Concur. Ceviche reads expenses from them, allocates line by line under your LPA, and posts entries to your GL. Your payment process stays the same.
For example, a 25-line law firm invoice arrives in Bill.com. Ceviche splits every line across four entities under the LPA and posts the entries to your GL. The payment goes out from Bill.com as before.
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If you want one vendor for AP, payments, and allocation, run by a managed operations team, that is StavPay's model. If you want your controller running allocation on top of the stack you already chose, that is Ceviche.
By Stavtar's public announcements, its roadmap since its Series A has centered on StavPay, its card and payments product. Allocation is one module inside that platform. At Ceviche, allocation is the whole product.
How Flybridge moved quarterly allocations out of Excel across 18+ fund entities
“Ceviche streamlines our close process, organizes our data for audits, and drafts entries for our fund admin, all in a single workflow.”
Quarterly allocations ran in spreadsheets on top of QuickBooks Online and Bill.com. They now run through Ceviche and post to QuickBooks Online. Every allocation traces back to its source documents, with a full audit trail.
Why Ceviche stands out
If your spend stack works and allocation is the broken part, Ceviche is built for that.
Ceviche digitizes your LPA into rules, splits every invoice line by line, and posts audit-ready entries to QuickBooks Online, NetSuite, or Sage Intacct. Your controller runs it.
Frequently asked questions
No. Ceviche does not handle payments. You pay invoices where you pay them today.
Nothing. Ceviche reads card transactions from Ramp or Brex and allocates them. Nobody reissues cards or retrains on a new tool.
Your team, in your workflow. There is no bundled operations team between you and your data.
By Stavtar's public materials, StavPay is a business-spend platform for alternative asset managers. By the same materials, it covers payments, procurement, budgeting, legal spend, 1099 generation, and expense allocation in one system, with a bundled operations team.
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