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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Egencia

    Score5.5 out of 10
    N/AEgencia, part of the Expedia group, offers their corporate travel management program and applications. Egencia supports business travel compliance with authorization workflow, as well as travel expense tracking, travel risk management and policy adherence, mobile app, as well as travel consulting services available on demand.N/A

    Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify)

    Score7.6 out of 10
    N/AEmburse Professional (formerly Certify) aims to help make expense reporting easier with its automated expense report creation and mobile receipt capture. Employees, managers and accountants can create, submit and approve expense reports, check the status of expense reports and access reports on demand.N/A
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    EgenciaEmburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify)
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    EgenciaEmburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify)
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee$8 Expense report
    Additional DetailsCertify AP has volume based pricing based on processed invoices
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    EgenciaEmburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify)
    Considered Both Products
    Expedia Group
    Chose Egencia
    Egencia has the most variety when booking your hotel/flight, as well as the best pricing. We use Airbnb for Work alongside Egencia so that we can book accommodation outside of hotels, but this does not cover the flights. Egencia has it all (flights and accommodation) in …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    78%
    Would buy again
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    63%
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    Delivers good value for the price
    60%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    78%
    Happy with the feature set
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    75%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    EgenciaEmburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify)
    Travel Management
    Comparison of Travel Management features of Egencia and Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify)
    Feature
    Egencia
    1.0
    1 Ratings
    138% below category average
    Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify)
    -
    Ratings
    Customizable Approval Workflows1.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Travel Spend Reports1.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Consolidated Invoicing1.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Centralized Itinerary Management1.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Collaborative Booking1.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reuses Traveler Information1.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrated Expensing Tool1.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Expense Management
    Comparison of Expense Management features of Egencia and Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify)
    Feature
    Egencia
    -
    Ratings
    Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify)
    7.6
    2 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Employee Expense Reporting00 Ratings8.12 Ratings
    Corporate Card Reconciliation00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Payment Management
    Comparison of Payment Management features of Egencia and Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify)
    Feature
    Egencia
    -
    Ratings
    Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify)
    7.7
    2 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Customizable Approval Policies00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Financial Document Management00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Payment Status Tracking00 Ratings9.12 Ratings
    Payment Audit Trail00 Ratings5.52 Ratings
    Duplicate Bill Detection00 Ratings7.32 Ratings
    Advanced OCR00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    EgenciaEmburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify)
    Small Businesses
    Airbnb for Work
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Brex
    Score9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Lola.com
    Score8 out of 10
    Expensify
    Score9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Navan
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Emburse Expense Enterprise (formerly Chrome River)
    Score8.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    EgenciaEmburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    1.0
    (15 ratings)
    8.3
    (57 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (41 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.4
    (8 ratings)
    4.9
    (5 ratings)
    Online Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Vendor pre-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    EgenciaEmburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Expedia Group
    Overall, Egencia is a good tool for my employees to use when I (or my work partner) aren't available to make the reservations. They can easily access their account and the charges will go on the corporate credit card. This makes it all around easy for the traveling employees.
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    Emburse
    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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    Pros
    Expedia Group
    • Egencia is an all-in-one booking tool so you can keep everything in once place.
    • Egencia works with SAML, so it's easy for users to get set up and logged in.
    • Egencia helps keep things in order by preventing bookings without the approval of managers. This can help keep costs low as well.
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    Emburse
    • 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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    Cons
    Expedia Group
    • Customer service was awful. It was a running joke that when we had to call customer service for something (frequent), it was a crap-shoot whether we were going to get someone that knew what they were doing.
    • The website was not intuitive and sometimes made it difficult to find the flights we wanted. Most of the admins resorted to looking for flights on other services and then searching for that flight specifically in Egencia.
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    Emburse
    • 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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    Usability
    Expedia Group
    It is just so simple to use.
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    Emburse
    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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    Support Rating
    Expedia Group
    When I had a problem with cancelled and rescheduled flight Egencia team was not helpful at all. They claimed that in their system the flight is still happening hence they will not advise on anything else. I had to spend a lot of time calling the airline to clarify the details and to find out when my flight is happening in the end.
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    Emburse
    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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    Online Training
    Expedia Group
    My training was over the phone with some trial and error.
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    Emburse
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    Alternatives Considered
    Expedia Group
    It's not even close! Axios was much more difficult to navigate than Egencia. In my opinion, Egencia more closely mirrors travel booking systems we all use outside of work, which makes training much easier for new users. The ability to automatically download calendar invites, share itineraries, and download PDF receipts is such a big help
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    Emburse
    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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    Return on Investment
    Expedia Group
    • More efficient booking - save time.
    • We can specify when additional approval needs to take place based on perimeters that we set (price, class, etc) - save money!
    • All electronic - bookings all online so have easy access to all staff trips.
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    Emburse
    • 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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    ScreenShots

    Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify) Screenshots

    Screenshot of Certify Homepage - User interface for all users that includes a quick view of their expenses, pending expense reports and approval requests.Screenshot of Certify Mobile - Snap photos of receipts on the go and upload them instantly to your virtual Certify Wallet.Screenshot of Certify Travel - Now, corporate travel is even easier. Introducing Certify Travel, your end-to-end corporate travel solution to simplify bookings for employees while helping your company manage travel practices and costs. All for one low monthly fee and no booking fees! Certify Travel is easy to use, yet it is also a powerful enhancement to your company’s expense management system.Screenshot of Certify Reporting & AnalyticsScreenshot of Certify AP- manage cashflow with accounts payable automationScreenshot of Certify AP- streamlining employee purchasing