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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 That application's capabilities are now completely superseded by…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

    Pleo

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/APleo, headquartered in Copenhagen, offers smart company cards that enable employees to buy the things they need for work, all while keeping a company's finance director in control of spending.N/A
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    Emburse Spend (formerly Abacus)Pleo
    Editions & Modules
    Starter
    $9
    per active user/per month
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    Emburse Spend (formerly Abacus)Pleo
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Emburse
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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%
    Happy with the feature set
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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%
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    Features
    Emburse Spend (formerly Abacus)Pleo
    Expense Management
    Comparison of Expense Management features of Emburse Spend (formerly Abacus) and Pleo
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    Ratings
    Pleo
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    19% above category average
    Employee Expense Reporting00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Corporate Card Reconciliation00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Payment Management
    Comparison of Payment Management features of Emburse Spend (formerly Abacus) and Pleo
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    Pleo
    9.6
    1 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Customizable Approval Policies00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Financial Document Management00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Payment Status Tracking00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Payment Audit Trail00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Duplicate Bill Detection00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Advanced OCR00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Electronic Funds Transfer00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Emburse Spend (formerly Abacus)Pleo
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.0
    (17 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    9.0
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    User Testimonials
    Emburse Spend (formerly Abacus)Pleo
    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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    Pleo Technologies Ltd
    Pleo is ideal for SMBs looking to streamline their expense management processes. It offers a cost-effective solution for controlling and tracking expenses without the complexity of larger enterprise systems.Startups often have limited resources and need efficient expense tracking. Pleo's user-friendly interface and real-time expense data can help startups maintain control over their spending. for businesses that provide company cards to employees. It allows for easy card issuance, spending control, and real-time tracking of card transactions.
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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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    Pleo Technologies Ltd
    • Expense Tracking and Management
    • Compliance and Policy Adjerence
    • Cost Control with streamlined reimbursements
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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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    Pleo Technologies Ltd
    • integration options
    • reporting and analytics
    • mobile app usability
    • expense rule automation
    • multi-currency support
    • receipt management
    • expense policy customization
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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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    Pleo Technologies Ltd
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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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    Pleo Technologies Ltd
    1.its user-friendliness and ease of use, making it suitable for our company 2.cost-effective with a straightforward pricing model and lower initial setup costs. 3.simplifies company card management and provides real-time expense tracking
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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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    Pleo Technologies Ltd
    • improving efficiency
    • providing valuable financial insight
    • Improved Compliance:
    • Visibility and Reporting
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