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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 Tallie

    Score5.8 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
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    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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    Features
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    Expense Management
    Comparison of Expense Management features of DATABASICS Expense and Emburse Tallie
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    Emburse Tallie
    9.5
    3 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Employee Expense Reporting00 Ratings9.23 Ratings
    Corporate Card Reconciliation00 Ratings9.92 Ratings
    Payment Management
    Comparison of Payment Management features of DATABASICS Expense and Emburse Tallie
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    Emburse Tallie
    8.3
    3 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Customizable Approval Policies00 Ratings8.63 Ratings
    Financial Document Management00 Ratings8.52 Ratings
    Payment Status Tracking00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Payment Audit Trail00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Duplicate Bill Detection00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Advanced OCR00 Ratings6.92 Ratings
    Electronic Funds Transfer00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
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    DATABASICS ExpenseEmburse Tallie
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    Enterprises
    Emburse Expense Enterprise (formerly Chrome River)
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    User Ratings
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    User Testimonials
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    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
    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
    DATABASICS
    • Mobile application.
    • Easy to attach supporting documents.
    • The approver can approve from a mobile phone.
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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
    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
    • 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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    Usability
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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
    DATABASICS
    Happy with customer support services and the improvements it added to our operations.
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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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    Alternatives Considered
    DATABASICS
    It costs less. Flexible employees allow you to customize the system to fit your requirements.
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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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    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
    • 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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