BigTime Software vs Emburse Abacus

Likelihood to Recommend

Very convenient software. No VPN is needed, and you can log in by phone, via the app, or from desktop computers. I love the feature to downloads XLS files so I can manipulate the data for quick analysis and entry into other reports. While the downside, some features are a bit hard to find. Certain configurations are not obvious, but things will go smoothly once set up.

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Fajar Wirawan

Founder

The Lostboys Co.Broadcast Media, 1-10 employees

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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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Jason Guinn

Chief Financial Officer

Clinical Management Concepts, Inc.Pharmaceuticals, 51-200 employees

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Pros

I like the functionality of being able to make payments electronically and the amount of banks and payment methods that are available.
Another very useful feature of this tool is that the system allows to set a parameter to perform automatic invoices.
I also really like the amount of templates that this tool has. Since it allows us to make customizable reports to our clients.

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Tommy Parker

Management Consultant

Westinghouse Electric CompanyOil & Energy, 10,001+ employees

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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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Verified User

Employee in Finance and Accounting

Medical Devices Company, 11-50 employees

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Cons

For some types of projects, we are unable to use BigTime's invoicing feature. It would be nice if we could further customize invoices to fit our needs. We still have to use Quickbooks to complete certain invoices.
Being able to create Purchase Orders in BigTime would be extremely useful to us. We currently use Quickbooks for this.

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Verified User

Administrator in Marketing

Oil & Energy Company, 1-10 employees

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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.

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Jennifer Paxton

Talent Manager

TrueMotionComputer Software, 11-50 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

Optional

Starting Price

$0

BigTime Software Editions & Modules

Edition

Express	$10¹
Pro	$40¹
Premier	$30¹
Enterprise	Custom

User per Month
none

Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

$0

Emburse Abacus Editions & Modules

Edition

Starter	$9¹
Professional	Custom Pricing
Enterprise	Custom Pricing

per active user/per month
none

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Likelihood to Renew

BigTime Software 9.6

Based on 2 answers

Its been a huge help in saving time and making billing more efficient. Would like to see the product grow and be able to continue to use it.

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Verified User

Account Manager in Other

Civil Engineering Company, 1-10 employees

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No score

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Usability

BigTime Software 8.8

Based on 2 answers

Staff adapted to the new timesheets immediately. The invoice platform is nice and tracking WIP is great!Color backgrounds still need work. The new vibrant mode is OK. still trying it out.

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Verified User

Account Manager in Other

Civil Engineering Company, 1-10 employees

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No score

No answers yet

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Support Rating

BigTime Software 9.0

Based on 4 answers

The support is amazing! They are always available through the chat interface in the program. Each support person has fully answered my questions the first time. I have had a positive experience with each inquiry. It is very important to me that I am able to get instant access to help so that I can make the most of the software and all of its capabilities.

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Heather Brumbaugh

Assistant Director

California Learning Center, SacramentoPrimary/Secondary Education, 1-10 employees

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Emburse Abacus 9.0

Based on 18 answers

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.

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Verified User

Strategist in Other

Public Relations & Communications Company, 51-200 employees

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Alternatives Considered

I liked the client management, but it didn't do time tracking, billing or syncing with quickbooks. It was too robust for my needs. I tried it for the client management and thought I might use it along with bigtime, but it was too cumbersome and would involve too much double entry. And it didn't track time or bill which are necessary functions

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Suzanne Priddle-Luck

Owner

Priddle-Luck Professional CorporationAccounting, 1-10 employees

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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.

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Patrick Coelho

CFO (Chief Financial Officer)

Evangelical Presbyterian ChurchNon-profit Organization Management, 11-50 employees

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Return on Investment

Before BigTime, we were using Excel to track everything, creating invoices, and run reports. Getting on BigTime has saved us tons of time and effort which equates to dollars saved on labor.
From a legal standpoint, BigTime has allowed us to be organized and prepared in the event we would need to present financial details to anyone.

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Bobak Tehrany, P.E., PTOE

President

BOE Consulting Services, LLCCivil Engineering, 1-10 employees

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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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Jason Chandler

Key Account Manager

vente-privee devient VeepeeInternet, 5001-10,000 employees

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