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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Brex

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ABrex headquartered in San Francisco offers a corporate card for expenses, ecommerce, as well as rewards card, and travel expense management.

    $12

    per month per user

    Emburse Tallie

    Score5.9 out of 10
    N/ATallie is an expense reporting tool that integrates with other billing or accounting platforms (e.g. bill.com, Quickbooks, etc.) to present an expense management solution. It was supported by Certify since the 2017 merger with that company and Nexonia under the new company Certify Travel and Expense, and is now from Emburse, the company formed from the merger of Certify and Chrome River Technologies in March 2019.N/A
    Pricing
    BrexEmburse Tallie
    Editions & Modules
    Essentials
    $0
    per month per user
    Premium
    $12
    per month per user
    Enterprise
    Custom Pricing
    per month per user
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    BrexEmburse Tallie
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details
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    Features
    BrexEmburse Tallie
    Expense Management
    Comparison of Expense Management features of Brex and Emburse Tallie
    Feature
    Brex
    9.0
    2 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Emburse Tallie
    9.5
    3 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Employee Expense Reporting9.52 Ratings9.13 Ratings
    Corporate Card Reconciliation8.52 Ratings9.92 Ratings
    Payment Management
    Comparison of Payment Management features of Brex and Emburse Tallie
    Feature
    Brex
    8.4
    2 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Emburse Tallie
    8.3
    3 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Customizable Approval Policies8.02 Ratings8.53 Ratings
    Financial Document Management10.01 Ratings8.52 Ratings
    Payment Status Tracking8.02 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Payment Audit Trail8.02 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Duplicate Bill Detection8.52 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Advanced OCR9.01 Ratings6.92 Ratings
    Electronic Funds Transfer7.52 Ratings10.01 Ratings
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    BrexEmburse Tallie
    Small Businesses
    Dext
    Score9.5 out of 10
    Brex
    Score9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Expensify
    Score9 out of 10
    Expensify
    Score9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Emburse Expense Enterprise (formerly Chrome River)
    Score8.3 out of 10
    Emburse Expense Enterprise (formerly Chrome River)
    Score8.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    BrexEmburse Tallie
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (10 ratings)
    8.3
    (18 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.5
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    1.0
    (3 ratings)
    9.7
    (8 ratings)
    Configurability
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    BrexEmburse Tallie
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Brex
    Very well suited for founders who are building companies in the US but are not US citizens. Works like a charm for start-ups who are looking for a cutting-edge product and not an outdated bank! Small-medium teams. Not well suited for those who are used to traditional banking and prefer in-person interaction or over the phone.
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    Emburse
    Tallie is great for companies or outsourced accounting teams who are heavily involved with helping users upload receipts or code changes to the correct G/L Account groups or dimensions. Tallie allows for you to set up specific Expense options that are easier for users to chose what charges are for that are mapped to G/L Account groups in the background which allows for more accurate accounting. However, if your accounting books are using other dimensions like departments or projects the more complex the set up the more help a user might need, so it's nice how easy it is to drop into an account to help finish the more complex coding for users prior to them being submitted for approval.
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    Pros
    Brex
    • Rewards - The rewards were the main reason for us switching. Our previous card provider did not have a good rewards program.
    • User Interface and experience - When a charge is recorded on the Brex card, users immediately receive a text notification asking them to send a picture of their receipt. Brex automatically attaches the receipts to the charge which has saved our users a significant amount of time.
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    Emburse
    • Seamless integration with Bill.com. While this will not specifically benefit every user, our organization was able to quickly marry the two tools and provide timely reimbursements to employees.
    • Customer support -- they're available via so many mediums: user training, email, phone, support case reference numbers. If you need assistance, whether an end-user or administrator, you can get it.
    • In-app camera with intelligent image analysis to extrapolate the vendor name, date of the transaction, amount. It also offers the ability to import a photo from your mobile gallery, and then perform the analysis.
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    Cons
    Brex
    • It can be somewhat confusing to transfer money between the credit card and bank side
    • More help identifying areas of overspending
    • More help tracking spending around specific accounts
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    Emburse
    • Search functions need much improvement; i.e. vendor search for transactions.
    • Impossible to import transactions for dates prior to card being added to system. There's no going back.
    • Needs better recognition of expense categories. Sees airlines and Chick-Fil-A as Dues and Subscriptions (?)
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Brex
    It has worked well for us for at least 5 years so I would anticipate us keeping Brex
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    Emburse
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Brex
    The usability is pretty great. I love the UI / UX for uploading the Memo; at times, I do not even need to be inside the platform. I simply use Slack.
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    Emburse
    Certainly not as robust as bigger products/names on the market, but the features/solution it offers do extremely well, with a good mobile app experience and a nice, clean interface. It helped our organization (7 locations) go paperless, which rapidly improved our expense capture and timeliness in reporting and also gave our staff a better, user-friendly expense report and reimbursement process.
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    Support Rating
    Brex
    Prompt and always extremely fast to respond. I also think the intuitiveness of their solution negates the need for much support
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    Emburse
    As a user of Tallie, I have never needed any support to use it. It is simple, logical and needs no training to use. As a company, I don't think we need any ongoing support but I believe the setup process, which they guided us through a year ago went well.
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    Implementation Rating
    Brex
    NA-I wasn't part of the set up process for Brex
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    Emburse
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Brex
    Divvy allows you to get hyper focused in on how much individuals are allowed to spend. Honestly it is comparable to Brex, but is more well suited for micromanaging organizational spend. Brex is good because I am able to give my employees limits that match our budgets and I don't care about micromanaging their spend.
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    Emburse
    Tallie stacks up well to Concur. In terms of ease of use, Tallie wins by a landslide. However, when it comes to deeper functionality and integrations into other systems within the business, Concur definitely wins there. So, Tallie is easier for more simple purposes, while Tallie works for more complex organizations.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Brex
    NA-I wasn't part of the set up process for Brex
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    Emburse
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    Brex
    NA- I don't use Brex in a way that I know how to comment on this
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    Emburse
    No answers on this topic
    Professional Services
    Brex
    NA-I wasn't part of the set up process for Brex
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    Emburse
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Brex
    • No fee wire transfer.
    • Net 60 credit card terms is good for our cashflow.
    • Fast and easy employee credit cards saves us time.
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    Emburse
    • Tallie allows my finance team to spend so much less time on expense reports. After a large event, we would have 20 employees submitting reimbursements taking many hours of their time. This has cut out that time.
    • Tallie allows me to spend a total of fifteen minutes updating records in a report for reimbursement compared to the two hours I used to spend on our archaic system.
    • Tallie allows direct deposit into your account 2-3 days after your report is approved compared to the weeks it used to take to receive reimbursement.
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