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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Emburse Expense Enterprise (formerly Chrome River)

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AEmburse Enterprise is the enterprise expense and invoice-management product that replaces the former Chrome River name. Emburse states that the renaming does not change the product’s expense and invoice functionality, workflows, interface, or support; existing Chrome River customers use the same product under Emburse branding.N/A

    Emburse Spend

    Score6 out of 10
    N/AEmburse Spend is a Spend Management platform for small and growing businesses that monitors and controls card purchases, employee reimbursements, receipts, approvals, and expense policies. It connects to supported existing corporate and business card programs, so finance teams can add spend controls without replacing their current cards. Emburse Spend replaces the former Emburse Abacus. Abacus was acquired by Emburse in 2020. That application's capabilities are now completely superseded by…

    $9

    per active user/per month

    Pricing
    Emburse Expense Enterprise (formerly Chrome River)Emburse Spend
    Editions & Modules
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    Starter
    $9
    per active user/per month
    Professional
    Custom Pricing
    Enterprise
    Custom Pricing
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Emburse Expense Enterprise (formerly Chrome River)Emburse Spend
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsWe offer three cost-effective, subscription-based pricing models: A transaction-based model, priced according to expense report volume A submitter-based model, priced according to an average number of monthly submitters An enterprise-level model that includes unlimited expense reports. Pricing for this model is based on total employee headcount Feel free to contact us to discuss the best one for your organization.
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    Community Pulse
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    95%
    Would buy again
    19 Answers
    85%
    Would buy again
    11 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    15 Answers
    89%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    19 Answers
    92%
    Happy with the feature set
    12 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    82%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    9 Answers
    78%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    7 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    83%
    Implementation went as expected
    10 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    10 Answers
    Features
    Emburse Expense Enterprise (formerly Chrome River)Emburse Spend
    Expense Management
    Comparison of Expense Management features of Emburse Expense Enterprise (formerly Chrome River) and Emburse Spend
    Feature
    Emburse Expense Enterprise (formerly Chrome River)
    8.5
    4 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Emburse Spend
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    Ratings
    Employee Expense Reporting8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Corporate Card Reconciliation9.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Payment Management
    Comparison of Payment Management features of Emburse Expense Enterprise (formerly Chrome River) and Emburse Spend
    Feature
    Emburse Expense Enterprise (formerly Chrome River)
    7.9
    4 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Emburse Spend
    -
    Ratings
    Customizable Approval Policies8.33 Ratings00 Ratings
    Financial Document Management7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Payment Status Tracking6.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Payment Audit Trail9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Duplicate Bill Detection8.33 Ratings00 Ratings
    Advanced OCR8.52 Ratings00 Ratings
    Electronic Funds Transfer8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Score9 out of 10
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    Enterprises
    SAP Concur
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    Emburse Enterprise
    Score8.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Emburse Expense Enterprise (formerly Chrome River)Emburse Spend
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.1
    (124 ratings)
    6.0
    (17 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.8
    (18 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (108 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (113 ratings)
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.8
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Emburse Expense Enterprise (formerly Chrome River)Emburse Spend
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Emburse
    The Emburse Chrome River is well suited for tracking expenses and reimbursement. The compliance part of the software makes the task very easy to ensure all the reports that are being used within the company are updated and easy to verify. The Automating invoice processing makes some redundant task easy to execute.
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    Emburse
    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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    Pros
    Emburse
    • [Emburse] Chrome River listens to its customer's needs and does its best to match current products to those needs, or collaborate internally to determine if an enhancement can be made available that will not only benefit that customer, but will be a good use case for all Chrome River customers.
    • The [Emburse] Chrome River customer service team is great. Unlike most companies, you can speak to a liver person!
    • [Emburse] Chrome River's training offerings are relevant and pertinent to the day to day operations of the software.
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    Emburse
    • 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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    Cons
    Emburse
    • Would be great to have pre-saved templates available to apply to line items at the expense report header level rather than having to go into each line.
    • Would be nice to have a mass upload functionality for things like cost codes, allocations, and credit card users.
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    Emburse
    • 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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    Likelihood to Renew
    Emburse
    Chrome River is easy to use. We needed little training for our users and instead pointed them to Chrome River's Help Guides which are clearly written and easy to understand. With tools SNAP and the ability to email receipts means we can be completely remote when submitting reports.
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    Emburse
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    Usability
    Emburse
    I would rate Chrome River Expense a 10 because, as I mentioned before, it is very simple and easy to use. This is important from an administrative point-of-view as well as for the field employee. Being a general contractor, it makes it all the better for our employees to use a program that is easy to understand and requires little time and effort. It has made tracking expenses very simple and has been well received by the entire company.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Emburse
    The software is always running effectively. I use many Cloud based systems and never had issues with Chrome River
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    Performance
    Emburse
    System runs normal pretty much all the time. Does not slow any other systems down.
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    Emburse
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    Support Rating
    Emburse
    This has been easy for me because we have a rep that contacts the supporters for this product to correct any issues we may have with the software or changes needed to help out employees use Chrome River easier. This from my understanding has been a hit or miss kind of interaction with our rep and Chrome River.
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    Emburse
    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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    Online Training
    Emburse
    The software is very user friendly, so the online training was easy to pickup for everyone.
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    Emburse
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    Implementation Rating
    Emburse
    Before implementation begins, make sure you have a plan on how you would like your workflow and platform setup for a system like Chrome River. It will speed the process and eliminate the need to make changes when you go live.
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    Emburse
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    Alternatives Considered
    Emburse
    It's the [industry-leading] software for Enterprise level organizations with [large-scale] teams and financial responsibilities. The software has the most robust set of tools and pays for itself with the amount of time it saves. Many newer alternatives have sprouted up but I don't know that we would ever trust another software to do our Expense Tracking and Management.
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    Emburse
    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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    Scalability
    Emburse
    It's very easy software to design to your needs.
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    Emburse
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    Return on Investment
    Emburse
    • We have seen a return on approver time of nearly 60% meaning our approvers have tripled their output.
    • We have had feedback from our users that time spent creating expenses has gone from an average of 2 hours to perhaps 20 minutes, tops.
    • We have seen in our dashboards that the Emburse Certify Suite of tools has returned an average savings of over $500K a year.
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    Emburse
    • 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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    Screenshot of A consistent experience across any screen size or operating systemScreenshot of Simple, customizable tiles for expense entryScreenshot of Approve expenses directly from your inbox with a single click

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