Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
BrightHR
Score 7.4 out of 10
N/A
British company BrightHR offers a human resources platform which helps replace paper documents with edocuments and contains features for managing employee scheduling and ROTA, sick leave and tardiness, vacation and holiday shift planning, as well as providing employment law legal advice.
$4.50
Expensify
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Expensify automates the entire spend management process. Scan receipts, track mileage, submit and approve expenses, manage corporate cards, reimburse employees, pay bills, send invoices, and book travel. Built for individuals and companies of all sizes, anywhere in the world.
$5
per month per user
Sage Expense Management
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Sage Expense Management (formerly Fyle) is a platform for finance teams who want real-time expense control without the disruption of switching corporate cards. Its direct integration with existing Visa, Mastercard, and American Express delivers transactions instantly upon swipe. Finance teams get instant visibility into spending, and employees can upload receipts through Outlook, Gmail, text message, or the mobile app. Its
$74.95
per month for 5 users (minimum)
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Collect
$5
per month per user
Control
$9
per month per user
Growth
$14.99
per month per user (minimum 5)
Business
$17.99
per month per user (minimum 10)
Enterprise
Custom Pricing
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
NoYesNo
Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsPrices start at £4.50 (per employee/per month)Discount available for annual pricing.
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Considered Multiple Products
BrightHR

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Expensify
Chose Expensify
They have better support and better pricing. Fewer glitches
Sage Expense Management

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Features
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Human Resource Management
Comparison of Human Resource Management features of Product A and Product B
BrightHR
7.0
37 Ratings
15% below category average
Expensify
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Employment history7.031 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Job profiles and administration7.730 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.7.218 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Organization and location management6.129 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)6.916 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
BrightHR
7.4
14 Ratings
9% below category average
Expensify
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Pay calculation7.412 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for external payroll vendors6.78 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management8.09 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Reimbursement management7.68 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Leave and Attendance Management
Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of Product A and Product B
BrightHR
7.1
49 Ratings
14% below category average
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Approval workflow6.447 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Balance details7.442 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Annual carry-forward and encashment7.525 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Employee Self Service
Comparison of Employee Self Service features of Product A and Product B
BrightHR
8.1
48 Ratings
1% below category average
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View and generate pay and benefit information7.316 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Update personal information8.246 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
View company policy documentation9.045 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
HR Reporting
Comparison of HR Reporting features of Product A and Product B
BrightHR
6.9
22 Ratings
9% below category average
Expensify
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Pre-built reports6.922 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Onboarding
Comparison of Onboarding features of Product A and Product B
BrightHR
7.2
15 Ratings
10% below category average
Expensify
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New hire portal7.013 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Manager tracking tools7.412 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance Management
Comparison of Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
BrightHR
7.3
18 Ratings
8% below category average
Expensify
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Review reminders7.518 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple review frequency7.115 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
BrightHR
6.2
14 Ratings
23% below category average
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Job Requisition Management5.97 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Applicant Tracking5.86 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Notifications and Alerts7.013 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Expense Management
Comparison of Expense Management features of Product A and Product B
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Expensify
9.7
160 Ratings
16% above category average
Sage Expense Management
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Employee Expense Reporting00 Ratings9.8159 Ratings00 Ratings
Corporate Card Reconciliation00 Ratings9.668 Ratings00 Ratings
Payment Management
Comparison of Payment Management features of Product A and Product B
BrightHR
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Expensify
9.4
147 Ratings
16% above category average
Sage Expense Management
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Customizable Approval Policies00 Ratings9.3101 Ratings00 Ratings
Financial Document Management00 Ratings9.3106 Ratings00 Ratings
Payment Status Tracking00 Ratings9.7120 Ratings00 Ratings
Payment Audit Trail00 Ratings9.894 Ratings00 Ratings
Duplicate Bill Detection00 Ratings9.1120 Ratings00 Ratings
Advanced OCR00 Ratings9.0100 Ratings00 Ratings
Electronic Funds Transfer00 Ratings9.582 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
(47 ratings)
9.6
(239 ratings)
8.6
(3 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.3
(1 ratings)
10.0
(14 ratings)
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Usability
6.9
(32 ratings)
9.6
(140 ratings)
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Support Rating
6.0
(4 ratings)
8.5
(45 ratings)
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Implementation Rating
7.3
(1 ratings)
9.5
(2 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
BrightHR
I feel Bright HR is well suited to most small/medium sized businesses where they have a 'straight' forward resource set up. For larger businesses or for complex businesses similar to ourselves, where we operate 24 hours per day, rotational shift patterns, ambulatory staff, locums etc...we have to 'fudge' the way we use the information sometimes to make it work for us.
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Expensify
I think it's really good for small businesses. At least in the way we use it. It's very good for keeping an eye on employee spending in nearly real time. I'm not sure how it works for larger companies when there is a larger number of people to keep track of.
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Sage Expense Management
Fyle is a much better software than traditional excel reports as it provides both a mobile app and desktop application. Though there is much room for improvement, it still can be rated higher for more users as it makes the process of claims processing and auditing much faster and easier as compared to handling physical bills and receipts. It has helped my organization to save on 2 man-months cost as well by reducing the redundant activities of automating bill submission through apis for common apps like UBER, OLA, etc.
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Pros
BrightHR
  • BLIP is working very well. Staff find it easy to use and the geo-fencing that can be set up is very useful.
  • Reporting, in particular reporting of Absence. We run this monthly and the information we can download is flexible and useful.
  • Sick analysis - helps in controlling absence.
  • Holiday planning and authorization is very helpful and details including date booked helps manage requests.
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Expensify
  • Easy to access online portal whether using a mobile device or desktop app
  • Receipts can be uploaded in a breeze and automatically categorized
  • Expense Reports are submitted monthly on autopilot
  • Expenses for gas is calculated on the app by entering the starting/ending destinations.
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Sage Expense Management
  • Expense management
  • Submitting bills for Reimbursement
  • Approval process
  • Expense tracking
  • The ability to converse within the app. If the approver rejects, the requester can see the reason and type back their response/rectify and resubmit. All within the app.
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Cons
BrightHR
  • Notifications for requests should be optional based on individual employees. For example an admin won’t necessarily want every staff members leave requests by email and push notification. The settings only currently allow for notifications for everyone or no one. Being assigned as a manager may not allow data viewing required of wider staff.
  • Toil should automatically be accrued into a balance if the employees clocked in time amounts to more than the target hours. It shouldn’t have to be calculated and requested.
  • When reviewing hours worked for the week, the history calculation should take into account approved leave and sickness etc. I have a staff members target of 37 hours, but if their hours show 29 hours worked then I have to work out why they worked less. It should account for this if the absence is approved.
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Expensify
  • I wish that I could sync accounts on the back end kind of like with banking software, so that Expensify would automatically port over receipts for recurring expenses as soon as they're available
  • It would be nice to one-click submit an expense all the way through instead of having to attach it to a report
  • Wackier profile icons? :) Not a big deal. This software is pretty much amazing as it is now, and typically the urge to update and modify very good software leads to poor outcomes!
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Sage Expense Management
  • Calculate miles on the go
  • Bugs at time of submission
  • Not enough categories for expenses. More dropdowns would be helpful.
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Likelihood to Renew
BrightHR
It's not entirely my decision - we are members of a 'community' of veterinary practices who have signed up to the contract with pensinusla and have bright hr as part of that contract however, I am usually involved in the tender process as I am one of the biggest users of both bright hr and the services from peninsula
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Expensify
We like using the tool and we receive positive feedback from employees and management who use the tool. It saves time and helps us concentrate on the value adding activities so we are very likely to keep using Expensify in the future
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Sage Expense Management
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Usability
BrightHR
Great modern interface and mostly intuitive but feels like it needs a bit more functionality or improvement to be truly intuitive. For example, you get a notification that you have an overtime request, you click it and it doesn't take you to the page where you can authorize the request and when you do navigate to the right place and action the request, you still have to go back to notifications and mark the request as complete and remove it.
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Expensify
My rating of 8 out of 10 for Expensify's overall usability reflects its strong performance in empowering individual users and streamlining core expense processes, while acknowledging that there are specific areas, particularly on the administrative or enterprise side, where the user experience could be further refined. Exceptional End-User Experience (for basic tasks).Automation & Time-Saving Features.Clear Workflow for Approvers. Why it's not a perfect 10 (areas for improvement that dock points): Limited corporate bank to choose from, limited multi-currency to pay to ( for instance, as a foreign corporatio,n i cannot pay with my US account to Israeli employees, or pay to our UK employees)
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Sage Expense Management
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Support Rating
BrightHR
The team are proactive, having an advocacy team is just amazing and a great way to really understand their product roadmap and have input into useful features or feedback
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Expensify
Our rep has been amazing. He has built custom reports for us that have been very time consuming and difficult. Our reps are also currently looking into new submission solutions for us that we are excited about. They came up with this and recommended it on their own without me complaining about an issue. They are about our success and are very excited about the product they offer.
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Sage Expense Management
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Implementation Rating
BrightHR
it was fairly easy to do but timely as i had to enter everything from scratch - i didn't at the time realise how important it was to set up the variable or fixed working pattern correctly given future changes as this is very tricky once it has been set up and i wished i had been aware that sometimes you can't make future changes without deleting the whole profile and starting again
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Expensify
The implementation process went rather smoothly, linking it to the bank and cards was handled easily. without too many unnecessary steps. Getting the accounts setup did take some time, but that would be true with any organization. All in all things went smoothly and I was very pleased with the setup and implementation process
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Sage Expense Management
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Alternatives Considered
BrightHR
I chose BrightHR as it offered a one-stop platform for HR management for which we have dedicated UK and ROI HR specialists who not only give HR advice but also write policies and handbooks, etc. They are a one-stop-shop, which was very important as when I signed the contract I did not have an HR person in my team and they were essentially my back office. Also, by signing up, I got access to Bright Safe too; which is great as again it's a one-stop-shop for Health and Safety in the workplace. So I can roll out toolbox talks, training, and accident management.
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Expensify
It is definitely 10 times better than using an Excel spreadsheet. We are talking a digitized with AI type capabilities to do the work for you. It’s honestly a lifesaver. This beats manual calculations and data entry any day. Scanning 100 receipts and saving them to pdf files not only takes space on your storage but it is an extra unnecessary step
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Sage Expense Management
Features wise both Zoho and Concur are equivalent to Fyle - may be they even offer more features. We picked Fyle particularly because: a) We are a small organization of less than 200 employees and were looking for a cloud based offering b) We had to keep our costs minimal without making major changes to our organization structure Fyle was most optimal that catered to all our requirements.
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Return on Investment
BrightHR
  • Able to reduce one member of staff in personnel from 5 days to 3 days.
  • Able to reduce time spent by payroll on holiday records significantly and improve accuracy significantly.
  • Able to improve control of sick absence and improve record keeping.
  • BLIP meant we did not need to buy expensive attendance software.
  • Looking at possible use of payroll and other aspects of Bright HR not used at present.
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Expensify
  • We went from paying credit card fees with no approval process to a no fees and complex approval processes.
  • I personally save time in not having to develop a spend report I just have my admin assistent fill in the details of the auto generated report and it is done. Went from an hour long process to 5- 10 minutes max to prepare a high quality audit ready report.
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Sage Expense Management
  • Saves so much time!
  • Makes it easier for everyone involved in the processes
  • Ease in releasing payments/reimbursements.
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ScreenShots

BrightHR Screenshots

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Expensify Screenshots

Screenshot of the dashboard used to manage expenses, book travel, reimburse employees, and create expense reports.Screenshot of corporate cards. The Expensify Card offers cash back on every US purchase.

Sage Expense Management Screenshots

Screenshot of AI-powered insights on expenses, reports, categories, merchants, or any support queriesScreenshot of where employees can track and create expenses right from Text Message, Gmail, Outlook, Sage Expense Management mobile app and web app.Screenshot of Sage Expense Management's 2-way integrations with QuickBooks Desktop, QuickBooks Online, Sage Intacct, Xero and NetSuite.Screenshot of where employees can submit and track expenses and approvers can approve reports on-the-go with Sage Expense Management Android and iOS mobile app.Screenshot of where to receive real-time notifications for card spend via SMS and reconcile the spend instantly by replying with a picture of the receipt.