Why customers choose Ceviche over StavPay
Software your controller runs. Not a service team you wait on.
StavPay bundles a spend platform with an operations team, and bill pay runs through their rails. Ceviche does one job, fund expense allocation, with your team at the controls and your existing AP stack untouched. Keep Ramp. Keep Brex. Keep Bill.com.
SOC 2 Type 2 compliantTop 3 reasons controllers pick Ceviche over StavPay
Your stack stays
Invoices flow in from Ramp, Brex, Bill.com, Expensify, and SAP Concur. Ceviche is the allocation layer above your AP stack, not another AP system to pay for.
Your team runs it
No operations team in the loop. Queries, reports, and rule changes are self-serve, same-day for simple changes, 48 hours for complex ones. The rules are yours, and the audit trail sits under your review.
Live in 3 to 4 weeks
Onboarding runs from signed contract to first close run in 3 to 4 weeks, with no separate implementation bill. Customers report months for custom StavPay configurations. Your close does not wait on a statement of work.
Compare Ceviche vs StavPay
The differences that decide your close, side by side.
 Ceviche | StavPay | |
|---|---|---|
| Your AP stack | Stays. Ramp, Brex, Bill.com, Expensify, Concur | Replaced. Bill pay runs through StavPay's rails |
| 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 | Self-serve, same-day to 48 hours | Changes route through StavPay's services team |
| LPA policies | Enforced at allocation time | No enforcement at allocation time |
| Time to live | 3–4 weeks, no separate implementation bill | Services-led, scoped per engagement |
Compare using AIOpens ChatGPT in a new tab.Your spend stack stays put
Your card program, approval flows, and payment runs already live in Ramp, Brex, or Bill.com. Ceviche reads expenses from them, allocates line by line under your LPA, and posts entries to your GL. Nothing about how you pay changes.
Example: a 26-line law firm invoice lands in Bill.com. Ceviche splits every line across four entities under the LPA, posts the entries to your GL, and the payment goes out from Bill.com like it always has.
Ramp
Brex
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Expensify
SAP Concur
NetSuite
QuickBooks
Sage Intacct
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.
One more difference worth naming: since its Series A, Stavtar's roadmap 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 unified quarterly allocations 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.”
Every allocation traces back to source documentation with a full audit trail, turning year-end fire drills into one-click PDF pulls.
Why does Ceviche stand out?
Pick StavPay to replace your spend stack and add a service team. Pick Ceviche if your stack works and allocation is the broken part.
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. Nobody else's queue is in your close.
Ceviche vs StavPay, answered
No. Ceviche doesn't touch payments. Bills keep getting paid wherever they're paid today.
Nothing. Ceviche reads card transactions from Ramp or Brex and allocates them. No reissuing, no retraining.
Your team, in your workflow. There is no bundled operations team between you and your data.
StavPay is a business-spend platform for alternative asset managers built by Stavtar: payments, procurement, budgeting, legal spend, 1099 generation, and expense allocation in one system, delivered with a bundled operations team.
Stop reconciling. Get it right the first time.
Move your fund expense allocation process on Ceviche today.