Legal spend management for in-house legal departments
Achieve a watertight understanding of your legal budget with our simple - but powerful - legal spend management tool. You’ll simplify and speed up your invoice admin and approvals.
No spend caps. No vendor caps. No hidden costs.


Avoid legal budget blowout with spend management software
Receiving, reviewing and approving invoices from law firms can be a headache. Achieving clear and complete data to inform your in-house legal team financial planning and reporting can also be challenging.
Xakia’s simple legal expense and spend management software allows you to streamline your processes to eliminate guesswork, unwanted surprises and understand how your Legal Department is spending money.
Our legal spend and counsel management software helps clients to:
› Eliminate guesswork
› Reduce admin
› Enjoy real-time budget management
› Rate external resources on metrics that matter
› Gain increased visibility on spend with our robust reporting tools
Take a quick tour of our legal spend management software

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Benefits of Xakia's legal spend management software
Increased transparency
Keep track of all invoices submitted. Easily review, approve or reject invoices from one cloud based legal software.
Take back control
Keep track of costs to date vs estimated costs, forecast trends and make data-driven decisions with our legal reports.
One central location
Control and manage legal spend from one convenient cloud based legal matter management software - no spend caps!
Less admin
Reduce the time required to process invoices with configurable billing guidelines for external resource compliance.

“Xakia has truly revolutionized the way the team work. It has replaced the limitations of Excel with a powerful, all-encompassing solution.”
David Mather
Global Compliance Coordinator - Sales Finance

Simplify management of your in-house legal budget
Xakia’s spend management solution allows corporate Legal Departments to manage spend and outside counsel from one centralized cloud based matter management software. In-house Legal Departments will enjoy improved transparency and easily manage and monitor spend from external resources.
- Receive, review, approve and reject invoices from external counsel
- Configure invoice approval workflows
- Track legal matter estimates vs actual spend
- Implement billing guidelines in minutes to ensure invoices comply with your requirements the first time
- Real-time financial data in interactive dashboards and beautiful, detailed reports
- Flexibility to analyze external spend by fee type, division, work category, law firm and more
- Clear and powerful analytics to surface information about resource engagement and efficiency
Simplify admin of your external counsel invoices
Immediately reduce time wasted on invoice management across your team. Xakia’s outside counsel management software solution helps streamline the receipt-to-payment process without months (or years) long implementation. Our outside counsel management tool removes clunky email exchanges and spreadsheet management so you can easily manage your invoice process:
- Receive, review, approve and reject invoices from external counsel
- Enforce delegated authority limits on invoice approvals
- Configure multi-level invoice approval workflows

Manage legal spend and external resources without the stress
Xakia Connect for external resources
External resources will enjoy access to ‘Xakia Connect’. This portal allows external resources to:
- Receive legal work invitations from clients using Xakia
- View selected information about the legal matter with the ability to add your own notes and annotations
- Upload and manage invoices, in draft and final
- Engage in discussions with your clients
- Manage user access
- Confirm compliance with client billing guidelines
Bonus - no hidden costs/charges:
- For your external counsel to use or get added to Xakia Connect
- For you, when you surpass an arbitrary external counsel spend - just one transparent subscription fee that is not dependent on your outside counsel spend

Your matter management essentials in one place
From legal matter management to reporting and more, Xakia's legal operations software is your single source of truth.

LEGAL INTAKE
A better experience for your internal clients and legal team. It's a win-win!

LEGAL REPORTS
Get critical insights in real-time and show the value of your Legal Department.

“In a rapidly changing environment, adopting a simple, easy to implement and innovative matter management system such as Xakia was a top priority for us.”
Sawako Ohgi
General Manager, Strategic Legal Unit, Legal Group
Take control of your legal spend with Xakia
Explore our legal spend and budget management resources
Legal Spend Management for Beginners
10 Steps to a Smarter In-House Legal Budget
Five Essentials of Legal Spend Management
Some commonly asked questions about our legal spend management system
How can your spend management software help me?
A single source of truth
Engage in a discussion with the external resource on the invoice for transparent team collaboration and a complete audit trail from one centralized location.
Get rid of manual approval routing
Save time and replace paper- or email-based manual approvals with Xakia’s spend management software. You can easily configure legal invoice approval workflows, delegated authority limits and multi-level approval workflows in Xakia’s matter management system.
Reduce your admin
Configure permission settings in the Xakia legal matter management software to allow your external resources to manage user and matter access in our free external resource portal – Xakia Connect.
Speak to the team today for a demo if you would like to learn more about our legal spend management software.
What plan is the expense & budget management software available on?
Our legal spend management software is available on the Plus, Advance and Professional plans. See our pricing page for more details.
What is Xakia Connect?
Spend less time dealing with admin work. Your external resources can receive legal work invitations from you, upload and manage their invoices, manage user access and more in Xakia Connect. To learn more about the external resource portal, speak to the team today for a demo.
What plan is the external resource portal available on?
Xakia Connect is available on the Plus, Advance and Professional plans and there is no additional fee for external resources and law firms to use the portal. See our pricing page for more details.
Is there a limit on the number of external resources who can register and use Xakia Connect?
No! There is no limit to the number of external resources or law firms who can sign up and use Xakia Connect.
Plus, there are no additional fees for your external resources to use Xakia Connect. They can sign up for an account today! To learn more, get in touch with the team today.
Is there a cost to use Xakia Connect?
Nope. It's as simple as that.
- No additional fees/charges for your external resources or law firms to get added or use Xakia Connect
- No additional cost to you as a Xakia client
- No limits on fees or invoices submitted
We aim to make legal matter management solutions affordable and accessible to all. We believe in helping legal teams of all sizes work as efficiently and effectively as possible. That's why Xakia Connect is available on all our subscription plans. You can view our pricing page to learn more.
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