Emburse Chrome River Invoice vs. Expensify

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Chrome River INVOICE
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Chrome River INVOICE, from Emburse, is a software solution designed to Increase AP team agility with fully mobile invoice management software that the vendor states improves accuracy, expedites processing and increases spend visibility.N/A
Expensify
Score 7.2 out of 10
N/A
Expensify automates the entire spend management process. Scan receipts, track mileage, submit and approve expenses, manage corporate cards, reimburse employees, pay bills, send invoices, and book travel. Built for individuals and companies of all sizes, anywhere in the world.
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per month
Pricing
Emburse Chrome River InvoiceExpensify
Editions & Modules
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Collect
$5
per month per user
Control
$9
per month per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Chrome River INVOICEExpensify
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Top Pros
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Features
Emburse Chrome River InvoiceExpensify
Expense Management
Comparison of Expense Management features of Product A and Product B
Emburse Chrome River Invoice
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Ratings
Expensify
7.0
9 Ratings
13% below category average
Employee Expense Reporting00 Ratings7.79 Ratings
Corporate Card Reconciliation00 Ratings6.34 Ratings
Payment Management
Comparison of Payment Management features of Product A and Product B
Emburse Chrome River Invoice
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Ratings
Expensify
6.9
8 Ratings
15% below category average
Customizable Approval Policies00 Ratings6.97 Ratings
Financial Document Management00 Ratings7.24 Ratings
Payment Status Tracking00 Ratings6.66 Ratings
Payment Audit Trail00 Ratings7.85 Ratings
Duplicate Bill Detection00 Ratings6.77 Ratings
Advanced OCR00 Ratings7.18 Ratings
Electronic Funds Transfer00 Ratings5.94 Ratings
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User Ratings
Emburse Chrome River InvoiceExpensify
Likelihood to Recommend
9.5
(2 ratings)
5.1
(97 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(8 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.5
(42 ratings)
User Testimonials
Emburse Chrome River InvoiceExpensify
Likelihood to Recommend
Emburse
  • Easy to use with little to no navigational training needed for most users.
  • Being able to add our own compliance rules eliminates the back and forth between creator and approver.
  • Invoices can be created, approved, and paid within hours.
    • Normally, our processing time is two or three days. Before Emburse Chrome River Invoice, it was up to two weeks.
  • Easily upload receipts/invoices into the system using email or the application SNAP. No need to have a scanner.
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Expensify
Expensify has been incredibly useful to me for many years. Considering I am using the free version, it's hard to find a better value! If your company does not have a good expense-capturing system, Expensify will save you hours on submitting reports. You can take a picture and toss the paper receipts right at the point of sale without worrying about losing them during your travels. If you have a small business, you can use it to track and organize regular expenses to make billable expenses and end-of-year taxes a whole lot easier.
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Pros
Emburse
  • Look for duplicate invoice numbers
  • Export into the current ERP system to initiate the check
  • Create an error report to view if the address is not correct in the system
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Expensify
  • Submitting expenses. It's easy to enter an expense, choose a category, enter the dollar amount and submit it. That's about it.
  • Uploading receipts. You can send receipts to Expensify from your phone, or upload them from your computer.
  • Entering hours worked. It's simple to move from expenses over to timesheets to submit the hours that you've worked.
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Cons
Emburse
  • Accessing invoice history
  • Reporting
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Expensify
  • Make it easier to submit multiple receipts/files in one expense
  • Often times I get a warning that the value of a receipt doesn't match what I manually I inputted. So making Smart scanner a little smarter, essentially.
  • It would be fun to see stats about my expenses
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Likelihood to Renew
Emburse
No answers on this topic
Expensify
We like using the tool and we receive positive feedback from employees and management who use the tool. It saves time and helps us concentrate on the value adding activities so we are very likely to keep using Expensify in the future
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Usability
Emburse
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Expensify
Mobile works great, but let's be honest. It's just a photograph. Their OCR and human turk technology works great to scan that photo and enter the proper information. The web interface is decent and allows you to work with single expenses in great detail. What's missing is the ability to mass update expenses, and this sometimes hurts, especially if you're a heavy user of the system.
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Support Rating
Emburse
No answers on this topic
Expensify
Our rep has been amazing. He has built custom reports for us that have been very time consuming and difficult. Our reps are also currently looking into new submission solutions for us that we are excited about. They came up with this and recommended it on their own without me complaining about an issue. They are about our success and are very excited about the product they offer.
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Alternatives Considered
Emburse
We were previously using paper check requests or Jaeger for invoicing payments. We do still use them for anything other than travel. However, all travel-related items are processed through Emburse Chrome River Invoice--we are hopeful that in the future we will navigate to processing all payments in Emburse Chrome River.
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Expensify
Concur was a great product as well but Expensify offers the ability to quickly upload expenses and submit reports just the same. There is no free version with Concur, so for a small business that's interested in keeping costs down I would highly recommend Expensify.
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Return on Investment
Emburse
  • No more lost campus mail
  • No more staff walking documents through approvals
  • No more scanning
  • No more file storage needed
  • No more multiple copies of the same information in several departments
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Expensify
  • Our organization no longer spends countless hours per month orchestrating the consolidation of data (MS Excel, typically) into our general ledger.
  • Our accounting department is no longer tasked with making sure the correct individuals have approved submitted reports.
  • Our accountants have a much easier time coding the reports that have been submitted by users. For the most part, we rely on users to code their submissions to the correct accounts.
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ScreenShots

Expensify Screenshots

Screenshot of the Expensify financial management app for expenses and corporate cards.Screenshot of The Expensify Card, which offers up to 2% cash back and 50% off the monthly Expensify bill. It includes realtime alerts, spend limits, and auto-reconciliation.