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    BILL Spend & Expense

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/ABILL Spend and Expense (formerly Divvy) is an all-in-one expense management solution that combines free software with corporate cards to provide you with real-time visibility and customizable control over your business finances.

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    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 Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsBILL Spend & Expense is free for all users—
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    BILL
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Would buy again
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    92%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    90%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Happy with the feature set
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    92%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    89%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    BILL Spend & ExpenseEmburse Tallie
    Expense Management
    Comparison of Expense Management features of BILL Spend & Expense and Emburse Tallie
    Feature
    BILL Spend & Expense
    9.2
    8 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Emburse Tallie
    9.5
    3 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Employee Expense Reporting8.86 Ratings9.23 Ratings
    Corporate Card Reconciliation9.67 Ratings9.92 Ratings
    Payment Management
    Comparison of Payment Management features of BILL Spend & Expense and Emburse Tallie
    Feature
    BILL Spend & Expense
    8.9
    7 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Emburse Tallie
    8.3
    3 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Customizable Approval Policies9.37 Ratings8.63 Ratings
    Financial Document Management9.27 Ratings8.52 Ratings
    Payment Status Tracking8.94 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Payment Audit Trail9.75 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Duplicate Bill Detection7.43 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Advanced OCR8.73 Ratings6.92 Ratings
    Electronic Funds Transfer9.25 Ratings10.01 Ratings
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    Small Businesses
    Brex
    Score9 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
    BILL Spend & ExpenseEmburse Tallie
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (18 ratings)
    8.3
    (18 ratings)
    Usability
    9.5
    (7 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    9.7
    (8 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    BILL Spend & ExpenseEmburse Tallie
    Likelihood to Recommend
    BILL
    There is a lot of functionality available for any company, and when you combine it with their A/P processing software, I'm sure the value of the software only increases. If you don't look back through your credit card receipts often, or don't have a lot of volume, the receipts not uploading into the accounting software isn't as much of an issue. For us, with roughly $200k of credit card spending each month, it became an issue. The rewards program was hard for us to take advantage of also, mostly because of our spending being spread across multiple companies. Even though we had everything set up together as one business, they still recognized each one as it's own, with it's own rewards requirements. I wouldn't deter anyone from going with Bill Spend & Expense, it's a solid program with a lot of capability, there are just a few small items that mattered to us more than the capabilities we take advantage of.
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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
    BILL
    • Divvy does purchases very well. Getting money into the hands of those who need it, when they need it.
    • Budgeting is a breeze because card holders can only spend what is in their specific budget or on their card.
    • Customer support is usually pretty quick to respond
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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
    BILL
    • I wish there were more options in the BILL reimbursement platform - for example, the ability to do a report instead of submit a single expense.
    • We would love for reimbursements to feed into QuickBooks differently, but we understand that this is an early feature and hope it is further developed in the future.
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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
    BILL
    The Divvy card provides convenience and flexibility for Finance to manage and monitor each user's transactions at any time. User can issue many virtual cards for different purposes. Transactions can be easily approved. Since we can monitor transaction closely, fraud can be prevented effectively. Mobile app is user friendly and safe.
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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
    BILL
    We have enjoyed using Divvy and its functions. The Divvy team has been great, and their support team is outstanding. They have a chatbox on the platform, and they only seem to be someone on call. I have found its benefits to be outstanding, that I recommend it to my clients. I also feel that Divvy rolling out new features only makes it more compelling to stay on as a user.
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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
    BILL
    Nothing out there compares to the agility and ease of use of Divvy. Adoption by those most resistant to any expense reporting tool has always been the #1 painpoint to all other such software. Divvy takes the pain away even for creatives and salespeople!
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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
    BILL
    • Divvy is free, so it was tough for us to turn down. We decided to withhold our larger transactions from Divvy to receive those rewards directly.
    • Divvy has saved our Finance/Accounting team tons of time digging through expenses, reimbursements, invoices, etc.
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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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    ScreenShots

    BILL Spend & Expense Screenshots

    Screenshot of Company Dashboard - High level overview of a business's available credit and current spending.Screenshot of Mobile Wallet - Spend Smarter™ - To manage budgets and expenses on the goScreenshot of Budget Detail - For monitoring business budgetsScreenshot of Insights - Real-time visibilityScreenshot of Transactions - Displays a complete list of all transactions and their current status on a business's physical and virtual cards.