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    DATABASICS Expense

    Score9 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    DATABASICS Expense is a cloud-based expense management solution for managing employee expenses, reimbursements, corporate and purchasing card transactions, approvals, and policy compliance. Employees can submit expenses and capture receipts through mobile and web interfaces. OCR extracts receipt details and helps match receipts to transactions. Before reports reach a human approver, AI Expense Approval reviews receipts and expense line items against defined…

    $400

    per month

    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 That application's capabilities are now completely superseded by…

    $9

    per active user/per month

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    $9
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    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsAnnual subscription Billed monthly or quarterly in advance Starting at $800/month Pricing based on volume (see above) with negotiated monthly minimum and overage rates Fixed fee for implementation and other projects Technical support included in monthly subscription—
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    User Ratings
    DATABASICS ExpenseEmburse Spend (formerly Abacus)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.0
    (17 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    DATABASICS ExpenseEmburse Spend (formerly Abacus)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    DATABASICS
    Ability to sync with many other systems and flexible systems. I do not recommend for areas with a bad internet connection.
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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
    DATABASICS
    • Mobile application.
    • Easy to attach supporting documents.
    • The approver can approve from a mobile phone.
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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
    DATABASICS
    • Allow money returns from an advance to be reflected in the advance balance. If an employee settles an advance by returning cash, it does not reflect that in the system.
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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.
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    Support Rating
    DATABASICS
    Happy with customer support services and the improvements it added to our operations.
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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.
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    Alternatives Considered
    DATABASICS
    It costs less. Flexible employees allow you to customize the system to fit your requirements.
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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.
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    Return on Investment
    DATABASICS
    • Flexibility allows us to speed up the process of reconciling advances.
    • Ability to approve reports by mobile phone allows to speed up the process of posting the expenses.
    • Scanning supporting documents becomes easy as you can use a mobile phone camera and attach it to your report.
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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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