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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Avaza

    Score8 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Avaza is a software suite targeted for all business sizes. It includes modules for project management and collaboration, resource scheduling, team chat, time tracking, expense management, quoting and invoicing. Depending on their business needs, companies can use as many, or as few, of the modules as they need. Avaza offers reporting functionality, and the project management module is designed with both list view and Kanban style task management, so users can choose…

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    Emburse Spend (formerly Abacus)

    Score6 out of 10
    N/AEmburse Spend is a Spend Management platform for small and growing businesses that monitors and controls card purchases, employee reimbursements, receipts, approvals, and expense policies. It connects to supported existing corporate and business card programs, so finance teams can add spend controls without replacing their current cards. Emburse Spend replaces the former Emburse Abacus. Abacus was acquired by Emburse in 2020. That application's capabilities are now completely superseded by…

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    Pricing
    AvazaEmburse Spend (formerly Abacus)
    Editions & Modules
    Free Plan
    $0
    Unlimited Project Collaborators, 1 Admin, 1 Timesheet/ Expense User, 1 Resource Scheduling User
    Startup Plan
    $11.95
    per month
    Basic Plan
    $23.95
    per month
    Business Plan
    $47.95
    per month
    Starter
    $9
    per active user/per month
    Professional
    Custom Pricing
    Enterprise
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    AvazaEmburse Spend (formerly Abacus)
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional Details
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    Community Pulse
    AvazaEmburse Spend (formerly Abacus)
    Considered Both Products
    Avaza Limited
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    Emburse
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    85%
    Would buy again
    11 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    89%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    92%
    Happy with the feature set
    12 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    78%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    7 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    10 Answers
    Features
    AvazaEmburse Spend (formerly Abacus)
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Avaza and Emburse Spend (formerly Abacus)
    Feature
    Avaza
    8.0
    7 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Emburse Spend (formerly Abacus)
    -
    Ratings
    Task Management10.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Resource Management7.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Gantt Charts7.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scheduling8.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Team Collaboration10.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for Agile Methodology7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for Waterfall Methodology7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Document Management9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email integration8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Access8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Timesheet Tracking7.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Budget and Expense Management8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Professional Services Automation
    Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Avaza and Emburse Spend (formerly Abacus)
    Feature
    Avaza
    10.0
    4 Ratings
    26% above category average
    Emburse Spend (formerly Abacus)
    -
    Ratings
    Quotes/estimates10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Invoicing10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Project & financial reporting10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with accounting software10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Medium-sized Companies
    KanbanFlow
    Score7.3 out of 10
    Expensify
    Score9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Microsoft To Do
    Score7.9 out of 10
    Emburse Expense Enterprise (formerly Chrome River)
    Score8.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    AvazaEmburse Spend (formerly Abacus)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    6.0
    (17 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    AvazaEmburse Spend (formerly Abacus)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Avaza Limited
    We are a pretty unique business because we deal with bookkeeping, marketing, and HR and across all 3 departments, we have been able to successfully use the tool. Other software we have tried usually caters to one industry at a time.
    Incentivized
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    Emburse
    Emburse Abacus is well suited for mid-market organizations that are open to - or embrace - the concept of real-time processing of expense transactions. Emburse Abacus takes a radically different approach from other platforms that rely on modeling paper-based monthly (or periodic) expense reports containing multiple expenses submitted simultaneously. Emburse Abacus allows each transaction to be very rapidly processed individually so that approving managers and accounting professionals are able to perform review tasks and identify potential problems throughout the entire month, relieving the massive monthly influx of large numbers of expense reports simultaneously.
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    Pros
    Avaza Limited
    • It switches between Kanban view, List view, and Gantt charts which fits varying preferences!
    • It helps us work smart by creating dependencies and linking tasks to calendars
    • It has a clean, intuitive dashboard that's very easy to navigate
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    Emburse
    • User-Friendly Interface: Reviews from our employees (ages ranging from 20s-70s) are all positive in regards to the ease of submitting an expense and getting reimbursement on Abacus
    • Timely Reimbursement: After final approval, money hits user accounts within 2 days
    • Approval routing: ability to set up multi-tier complex approval routes
    • Syncs with Sage Intacct: pushes entries on a day to day basis in to Intacct and it hits our GL accordingly
    • Abacus is competitively priced compared to the competition
    • Abacus utilizes "by expense" management. Getting rid of expense reports and batch reports (they do have an option where you can batch if need be)
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    Cons
    Avaza Limited
    • The interface and taxonomy could use an update, sometimes it's hard to figure out where things logically are or should be.
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    Emburse
    • When you upload a receipt to abacus it would be great to port in the information from the receipt to the text fields.
    • It would be good to have a more automated way for Abacus to integrate in with other payroll systems.
    • It would be nice to have more levels of permissions, e.g. manager level, administer level and employee level.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Avaza Limited
    Because it has been amazing and easy to work with.
    Incentivized
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    Emburse
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Avaza Limited
    Avaza is very easy to use, but the mobile app needs work.
    Incentivized
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    Emburse
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Avaza Limited
    They are always available and open to doing a call or a shared screen to walk through the issues.
    Incentivized
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    Emburse
    I have never had to contact Abacus support and have not heard stories from any of my colleagues having to do so either. Our accounting department stresses the ease of Abacus and has not voiced any concerns with the software or the product support team or the product support process.
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    Avaza Limited
    Avaza takes the easy of Asana and adds the invoicing and bookkeeping capabilities you need all in one place.
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    Emburse
    I chose Abacus because of its ease of use and flexible billing. The billing is based on the number of submissions rather than users in the system. Because we reimburse committee members, we have a lot of users in the system, but the activity can vary widely from month to month.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Avaza Limited
    • Avaza has made it easier to see how long I spend on certain types of projects and where I could be spending more time.
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    Emburse
    • It is giving reliable services.
    • I am happy with its user-friendly services. Since I have issued the virtual and physical cards, I am getting real-time, and end-to-end control over my employee expenses. They can now easily go to visits and this has built their trust too. Further through receipts and expense details, I can easily control the pre-set budgets and easily configure rules to control spending.
    • I will also like to praise their customer care team they are very helpful and always ready to assist.
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    Avaza Screenshots

    Screenshot of avaza, appearing across platformsScreenshot of visual project resource scheduling for teamsScreenshot of time and expense trackingScreenshot of team chatScreenshot of time trackingScreenshot of the expense management interface

    Emburse Spend (formerly Abacus) Screenshots

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