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Economico vs Mercoa
A software company needs AP or AR inside its product.
What Mercoa handles
Mercoa provides embedded finance workflows for builders who want to put payables or receivables into their own application. Economico gives the builder source-linked books for their own company, so they can see what is owed and paid. It does not add payment workflows to the product they sell.
Which starting point fits?
| Fit | Mercoa | Economico |
|---|---|---|
| Target user | Product or engineering team | Builder founder working through their own agent |
| Target company | SaaS platform or fintech embedding finance in its product | Pre-seed or seed software startup, including SaaS and AI products |
| Main job | Add AP, AR and payment workflows for the platform’s customers | Explain revenue, costs, cash and obligations from recorded facts |
| Choose when | Choose Mercoa when you are building financial operations into the product you sell. | Choose Economico when you need to know what your own company owes and is owed from the deals and payments behind each balance. |
Are you building a finance feature or running your own company?
Mercoa offers embedded B2B payments, bill pay and invoicing APIs for vertical SaaS platforms. Its value is letting your customers perform AP or AR work inside the software you sell. That can create product revenue and spare your team from assembling payment workflows from separate providers.
Your software company also has its own suppliers, customer contracts and cash questions. Economico is for those first-party books. It can record a model-provider expense and completed payment with evidence, but it will not add an approval screen or payment rail to the app your customers use. Mercoa and Economico can therefore serve different sides of the same builder’s business.
Ask whose payable you are trying to handle. If it belongs to your customer inside your app, evaluate Mercoa’s API. If it belongs to your own startup, ask your agent to explain the cost and liability in company books.
Your startup’s supplier, not your customer’s supplier
Your SaaS startup receives a model-provider service on net terms. Record the service and amount due in your company’s books. After a separate payment workflow settles it, record the payment and inspect the cost and liability.
Supply your own supplier agreement and completed settlement. Embedded transactions in customer accounts do not automatically become expenses in your startup’s books.
Check your company’s supplier balance
Use one model-provider agreement and payment. Ask your agent what your startup owed and what the payment changed.
Building bill pay or receivables into your product? See how Mercoa supports that.