Emburse Abacus vs Marqeta

Likelihood to Recommend

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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Jason Guinn

Chief Financial Officer

Clinical Management Concepts, Inc.Pharmaceuticals, 51-200 employees

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Great platform for FinTechs that want to build a global business in one place. Lots of control available to run a card program. If you want to do less work (just get cards for your customers with less customization and not worry about details) there are better options.

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Verified User

C-Level Executive in Corporate

Financial Services Company, 201-500 employees

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Pros

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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Verified User

Employee in Finance and Accounting

Medical Devices Company, 11-50 employees

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Money delivery.
Support is excellent.

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Verified User

Employee in Sales

Financial Services Company, 51-200 employees

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Cons

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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Jennifer Paxton

Talent Manager

TrueMotionComputer Software, 11-50 employees

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Is not available for business users.
Is not available for international users.

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Verified User

Employee in Sales

Financial Services Company, 51-200 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

$0

Emburse Abacus Editions & Modules

Edition

Starter	$9¹
Professional	Custom Pricing
Enterprise	Custom Pricing

per active user/per month
none

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

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Support Rating

Emburse Abacus 9.0

Based on 18 answers

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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Verified User

Strategist in Other

Public Relations & Communications Company, 51-200 employees

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Marqeta 10.0

Based on 2 answers

The support team has been excellent and very responsive. Whenever we had issues and reached out, we were able to resolve most problems within 24 hours. I think it really helps that they are still a new-ish startup and are very hands-on with their business and with support.

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Verified User

Employee in Sales

Financial Services Company, 51-200 employees

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Alternatives Considered

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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Patrick Coelho

CFO (Chief Financial Officer)

Evangelical Presbyterian ChurchNon-profit Organization Management, 11-50 employees

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We evaluated a couple back in 2018 (GPS and Galileo), but I'm not sure that is relevant anymore.

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Verified User

C-Level Executive in Corporate

Financial Services Company, 201-500 employees

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Return on Investment

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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Jason Chandler

Key Account Manager

vente-privee devient VeepeeInternet, 5001-10,000 employees

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Our entire card payments business runs on Marqeta and Marqeta's cost is a fraction of the revenue provided.
Costs very reasonable at scale.

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Verified User

C-Level Executive in Corporate

Financial Services Company, 201-500 employees

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Emburse Abacus vs Marqeta

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Starting Price

Emburse Abacus Editions & Modules

Edition

Additional Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Starting Price

Marqeta Editions & Modules

Additional Pricing Details

Support Rating

Alternatives Considered

Return on Investment

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