Compt

Here at Compt, we price our lifestyle benefits platform on a fixed annual tier based on your employee headcount, not a per-employee-per-month (PEPM) fee. Your software cost stays flat for the length of your contract, whether you add five people or 500. Compt also never requires you to prefund your employee benefit balances. You pay the software fee, plus the stipend expenses you actually approve and reimburse — nothing more.

Benefits planning asks HR and Total Rewards teams to perform a task almost no one is particularly good at: accurately predict the future. What will employees need next year? Which benefit will become the newest table stakes? Where should you put your limited benefits dollars today so the program still makes sense six or 12 months from now? In spite of your best educated guesses, employee needs have a habit of moving faster than annual planning cycles.

If you've connected your HRIS using an API or SFTP integration, Compt builds eligibility groups from location, department, employment type, seniority, or custom columns you've added (like dependent count) straight from your HRIS data. Then, groups sync automatically, so when someone gets promoted, changes departments, or moves offices, their stipend eligibility updates on the next sync.

By default, unused LSA funds do not roll over. Rollover is possible, but it's the exception rather than the norm; the majority of companies using Compt configure their LSA programs as "use it or lose it" within each cycle. We get asked this all the time. Many rollover questions stem from prior experience with FSAs and prepaid benefit cards, but LSAs aren't the same thing.

Every software company is under pressure to call itself AI-powered right now, and a lot of the time that means bolting an AI tool onto whatever the product already does and updating the marketing copy. We’ve felt that pressure, too. But employee benefits and payroll put you in a different position from most B2B software categories.

In 2018, I traveled to Microsoft's campus in Redmond to cover its global hackathon. More than 18,000 people across 4,000 cities and 75 countries participated. The main event took place under giant white tents. There was a science fair, a petting zoo, cool swag (like organic basil seeds I grew on my windowsill later that summer), and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella wandering through the demos. Truthfully, I didn't learn much about the actual technology behind the builds.

With Compt, stipend software implementation is so simple that most customers are live within a month. The platform-side work, including integration, configuration, and SSO, usually takes about a week. The pieces that shape the full timeline are the internal ones: IT configuring SSO, Finance confirming payroll details, and your team finalizing the program design.

Professional development stipends are the most underused benefit in most companies’ portfolios. According to Compt’s 2026 Annual Lifestyle Benefits Benchmark Report, standalone professional development stipends sit at just 40% utilization — less than half the rate of all-inclusive Lifestyle Spending Accounts.

Rolling out a Lifestyle Spending Account (LSA) program is as much a systems decision as it is a cultural one. Whether it runs cleanly or creates ongoing work for HR and Finance depends on how it connects to the infrastructure you already have. Payroll in 2026 is structured and standardized, so it's predictable. LSAs aren't, unless you've intentionally designed one to be. Without the right setup, you end up with manual uploads and inconsistent reporting that create huge compliance risk.

Happy June. This quarter's Compt product updates are focused specifically on making it easier to see what's happening across your Compt lifestyle benefits programs and harder for employee claims to fall through the cracks. There's also something bigger coming on the AI side that we'll share more about in our next update. Here's what's new. We redesigned the Compt dashboard. The next phase of modernizing and improving the Compt platform's admin experience is focused on the dashboard.