Product Updates

You can now sign into Brex with a passkey instead of your password and multi-factor authentication (MFA). Passwords and one-time codes can be phished, guessed, or stolen, and that's often how account takeovers start. Passkeys close that gap.

Passkeys let you sign in with something your device already uses to verify you: biometrics (such as Touch ID or Windows Hello) or a device PIN. There's nothing to reuse or hand to an attacker, which is what makes passkeys phishing-resistant.

Signing in with a passkey is faster too: one check on your device, with no fumbling for a second factor like a one-time code or authenticator app.

A "Sign in with passkey" button now appears next to the password option. Set up one or more passkeys in your personal settings, and use any of them to sign in. Password and MFA sign-in still work too; passkeys are an additional way to authenticate into your account.

Passkeys sync across your devices and through password managers like iCloud Keychain, Google Password Manager, and 1Password, so you can sign in wherever you work.

Every passkey added or removed is recorded in your audit log, so you and your team can see exactly what changed and when.

To enable passkeys, admins should go to Settings > Early Access and toggle on the feature to allow their organization’s users to set up passkeys.

You can now set merchant category code (MCC) spend controls at the policy level in Policy Rule Builder. Now you can set a restriction once at the policy level and enforce it automatically across all cards governed by that policy.

You can view MCCs with their descriptions, assign MCCs controls to the policy documentation requirements, approvals, and transaction restrictions sections of the Policy Canvas.

This feature is available to customers using Policy Rule Builder. To enable it, first go to Settings > Early Access and toggle on Enable early access features. Then visit Policy Setup to add MCC controls.

You can now select multiple values in a single custom-rule extended-field filter instead of one at a time.

For example, you can select NetSuite Department = Engineering / Sales / HR, or Expense Category = Meals / Travel / Taxis instead of building one rule per value.

Get started at Accounting > Manage Automations > Custom rules.

If you have employee cards enabled, you can now change the currency on an employee card limit even after spend has already occurred. Brex updates the limit currency and related expenses automatically. There’s no need to move expenses out of the limit and back in again.

To use this feature, go to Settings > Early Access and toggle on Enable early access features.

To change the currency on a card limit, navigate to the card and click “Edit card.”

We’ve renamed “Limit per user” to “Spend limit group” across Cards and Limits to make spend limit actions clearer.

The new creation flow asks users upfront to choose between a “Single spend limit,” meaning one shared pool for one or more users, and a “Group of spend limits,” meaning each selected user receives an individual limit with the same or different amounts.

To enable, go to Settings > Early Access and turn on "Automatic experience updates."

Brex can now keep vendor details consistent across Brex and QuickBooks Online with near real-time, bidirectional sync. Once a Brex vendor is linked to a QuickBooks Online vendor, changes to supported fields in either system sync automatically. This reduces manual fixes and reconciliation work.

Synced fields include email, website, phone number, 1099 eligibility, and address.

To enable, go to Settings > Early Access and toggle on the feature.

To manage, open Vendors > Manage vendors sync. There you can turn Sync vendors from QuickBooks on and off.

Use Slackbot’s new Brex connector to get answers about your spend and take action on your expenses without leaving Slack. Once connected, you can message Slackbot in plain language to check expenses, find items missing receipts, look up cards and spend limits, and update memos or receipts on your own expenses.

Admins and bookkeepers can also ask company-wide questions about spend, banking, bills, vendors, travel, and accounting records.

Brex in Slack works through Slackbot's connection to the Brex app. The app respects your existing Brex permissions, so you only see and change what your account is allowed to. Additionally, your Slack plan must include Slack AI.

To get started, go to Settings > Early Access and toggle on the feature.

You can now create a new general ledger (GL) account in QuickBooks Online without leaving Brex. Access the feature from the Accounting tab by going to QuickBooks settings, opening Entity settings, selecting any GL account dropdown, and choosing “Create GL account.”

This will open a creation drawer where you set the GL name, account type, and an optional account number. The account is created directly in QuickBooks Online and becomes immediately available to use in Brex.

To get started, visit the Accounting tab of your Brex dashboard.