CoreIntegrator Workflow vs Emburse Certify

Likelihood to Recommend

I have found CoreIntegrator to work well for our needs as an Accounts Payable workflow solution. The system was implemented with very little internal technical assistance. It can be administered by a business user without a great deal of technical knowledge because the CI support staff is knowledgeable and helpful.

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Verified User

Manager in Finance and Accounting

Insurance Company, 501-1000 employees

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Certify is not well suited for multi-dimensional ERPs. Although Certify 'offers' general ledger dimensions GLD, the use of them is extremely limited. Filtering on any GLD can only be done once. There is not the possibility for creating hierarchies with the dimensions. The only method of exporting is via a flat file or the open API, which I understand is quite limited. This software is for a smaller scaled business that is not trying to track across dimensions or create hierarchies. Data flow is one directional. I cannot emphasize enough the shortcomings of the reporting. The parameters are mostly based on expense dates rather than expense reports. There are entirely too many of them, and some of them perform the function!

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Carla Lottie

Accounts Payable Manager

Liberty Fund IncNon-profit Organization Management, 11-50 employees

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Pros

Integration to Great Plains
Simple to use

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Verified User

C-Level Executive in Information Technology

Education Management Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Integration with Amtrav or other travel booking systems. Certify has a tight integration with travel systems that makes it feel nearly like one cohesive tool.
Easy expense options. Use OCR on receipts, import from credit cards and merge items, approve and inquire about expenses. Track your submissions.
Easy UI. Friendly and easy to navigate without getting lost.

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Tristan Dobbs

Vice President of Shared Services

CloudbakersComputer Software, 51-200 employees

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Cons

The system administration is somewhat difficult for someone that is not highly technical.
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Verified User

Manager in Finance and Accounting

Insurance Company, 501-1000 employees

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Reporting: I would like to see more chart availability from the program. We include various data points from Certify in our monthly financial statement package. Currently, we export data from the program and create our own pivot tables to create charts.
Dashboard feature: It would be nice to be able to use the data for a specific date and then be able to print that information.
Can't think of another one. As stated before, they listen to their customers so prior issues have been addressed and implemented.

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Verified User

Executive in Finance and Accounting

Information Technology and Services Company, 51-200 employees

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Pricing Details

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Free Trial

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

Required

$8

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Usability

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Emburse Certify 7.3

Based on 41 answers

If the integrations with our card programs had succeeded, I expect [Emburse] Certify would have worked well for expense submitters and approvers. During the short time that the American Express Business integration was active, transactions flowed smoothly, and the expense reporting and receipt matching functions were quite good. The [Emburse] Certify mobile app was particularly powerful and easy to use.

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Enrique Abello

Vice President, Human Resources & Administration

SageWaterConstruction, 201-500 employees

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Support Rating

CoreIntegrator Workflow 7.7

Based on 4 answers

Sometimes we receive slow responses.

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Verified User

C-Level Executive in Information Technology

Education Management Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Emburse Certify 4.8

Based on 6 answers

The measure of support is how well they respond when you really need them, like when the system is not performing correctly. We have been on the platform less than a year, and there have been at least 2 instances, where the platform was down. The 2nd time was the day before out fiscal year end. And they need a development website. When they are making changes to your LIVE instance, and things go wrong, the client is the first to know about it! I've come to understand that Certify has tiers of support. Those in tier 1, barely know more about the software than the users. I sent a request for a report that shows expense reports currently pending approval and after 5 days of back and forth I was told to build it myself.

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Carla Lottie

Accounts Payable Manager

Liberty Fund IncNon-profit Organization Management, 11-50 employees

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Alternatives Considered

We didn't review another product because CoreIntegrator so perfectly met our needs.

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Stephanie Sylvestre

Chief Programs Officer/Chief Information Officer

The Children's Trust of Miami-Dade CountyGovernment Administration, 51-200 employees

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Before Certify, there was only manual expense reports entered for our company. This took too much time for employees too finish and caused a delay of efficiency. With Certify, it is easier to access and finish each report with the right amount of effectiveness and efficiency it needs. Certify is really helpful in saving a lot of time for employees that do not have time.

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Verified User

Employee in Finance and Accounting

Arts and Crafts Company, 51-200 employees

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Return on Investment

Time saving outweighs the cost.
Ease of use is so much better than most software solutions.

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Stephanie Sylvestre

Chief Programs Officer/Chief Information Officer

The Children's Trust of Miami-Dade CountyGovernment Administration, 51-200 employees

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The organization and automatic flow of the expense report to approvers and then AP saves time for all. The user has agreed that it is easier and quicker to prepare the expense report and the managers and AP department finds the automated process to be quicker and more efficient. Time saved is money saved.
Certify can recognize if a duplicate expense is submitted or if an expense is submitted too late to be reimbursed according to our policies. This prevents us from reimbursing an expense in error.
We use a customized report to track a specific type of expense that gets submitted by our sales team. There is a limit on what can be spent on specific expenses that fall into an entertainment category and the report helps us to stay within the limits. Previously, without this tool, we had spent so much more time manually tracking these expenses and had gone over the limits, creating a deficiency in our processes.

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Linda Lavella

Senior Manager, Corporate Accounting

Enzo Biochem, Inc.Hospital & Health Care, 201-500 employees

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CoreIntegrator Workflow vs Emburse Certify