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    Emburse Spend (formerly Abacus)

    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 That application's capabilities are now completely superseded by…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

    Sage Expense Management

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/ASage Expense Management (formerly Fyle) is a platform for finance teams who want real-time expense control without the disruption of switching corporate cards. Its direct integration with existing Visa, Mastercard, and American Express delivers transactions instantly upon swipe. Finance teams get instant visibility into spending, and employees can upload receipts through Outlook, Gmail, text message, or the mobile app. Its

    $74.95

    per month for 5 users (minimum)

    Pricing
    Emburse Spend (formerly Abacus)Sage Expense Management
    Editions & Modules
    Starter
    $9
    per active user/per month
    Professional
    Custom Pricing
    Enterprise
    Custom Pricing
    Growth
    $14.99
    per month per user (minimum 5)
    Business
    $17.99
    per month per user (minimum 10)
    Enterprise
    Custom Pricing
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Emburse Spend (formerly Abacus)Sage Expense Management
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details—Discount available for annual pricing.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    85%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    89%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    92%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    78%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    Emburse Spend (formerly Abacus)Sage Expense Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.0
    (17 ratings)
    8.6
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    Support Rating
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Emburse Spend (formerly Abacus)Sage Expense Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Sage Expense Management
    Fyle is a much better software than traditional excel reports as it provides both a mobile app and desktop application. Though there is much room for improvement, it still can be rated higher for more users as it makes the process of claims processing and auditing much faster and easier as compared to handling physical bills and receipts. It has helped my organization to save on 2 man-months cost as well by reducing the redundant activities of automating bill submission through apis for common apps like UBER, OLA, etc.
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    Pros
    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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    Sage Expense Management
    • Expense management
    • Submitting bills for Reimbursement
    • Approval process
    • Expense tracking
    • The ability to converse within the app. If the approver rejects, the requester can see the reason and type back their response/rectify and resubmit. All within the app.
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    Cons
    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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    Sage Expense Management
    • Calculate miles on the go
    • Bugs at time of submission
    • Not enough categories for expenses. More dropdowns would be helpful.
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    Support Rating
    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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    Sage Expense Management
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Sage Expense Management
    Features wise both Zoho and Concur are equivalent to Fyle - may be they even offer more features. We picked Fyle particularly because: a) We are a small organization of less than 200 employees and were looking for a cloud based offering b) We had to keep our costs minimal without making major changes to our organization structure Fyle was most optimal that catered to all our requirements.
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Sage Expense Management
    • Saves so much time!
    • Makes it easier for everyone involved in the processes
    • Ease in releasing payments/reimbursements.
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    Sage Expense Management Screenshots

    Screenshot of AI-powered insights on expenses, reports, categories, merchants, or any support queriesScreenshot of where employees can track and create expenses right from Text Message, Gmail, Outlook, Sage Expense Management mobile app and web app.Screenshot of Sage Expense Management's 2-way integrations with QuickBooks Desktop, QuickBooks Online, Sage Intacct, Xero and NetSuite.Screenshot of where employees can submit and track expenses and approvers can approve reports on-the-go with Sage Expense Management Android and iOS mobile app.Screenshot of where to receive real-time notifications for card spend via SMS and reconcile the spend instantly by replying with a picture of the receipt.