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    Emburse Tallie

    Score5.9 out of 10
    N/ATallie is an expense reporting tool that integrates with other billing or accounting platforms (e.g. bill.com, Quickbooks, etc.) to present an expense management solution. It was supported by Certify since the 2017 merger with that company and Nexonia under the new company Certify Travel and Expense, and is now from Emburse, the company formed from the merger of Certify and Chrome River Technologies in March 2019.N/A

    Smartbills

    N/AN/ASMARTBILLS is an app for managing receipts, tracking expenses, invoices, and bills, and automating finances. Receipts and invoices are collected automatically and securely – no scanning, no manual entry, and no lost documents. How it works: 1) Create a SMARTBILLS account 2) Add payment methods 3) Make purchases at participating stores and receive receipts directly into the SMARTBILLS account 4) You can also take a picture of a…

    $12.99

    per month per seat

    Pricing
    Emburse TallieSmartbills
    Editions & Modules
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    Startup & SMB
    $12.99
    per month per seat
    Scale
    $16.99
    per month per seat
    Entreprise
    $22.99
    per month per seat
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Emburse TallieSmartbills
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    92%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    90%
    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
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    7 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
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    Features
    Emburse TallieSmartbills
    Expense Management
    Comparison of Expense Management features of Emburse Tallie and Smartbills
    Feature
    Emburse Tallie
    9.5
    3 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Smartbills
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    Ratings
    Employee Expense Reporting9.13 Ratings00 Ratings
    Corporate Card Reconciliation9.92 Ratings00 Ratings
    Payment Management
    Comparison of Payment Management features of Emburse Tallie and Smartbills
    Feature
    Emburse Tallie
    8.3
    3 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Smartbills
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    Ratings
    Customizable Approval Policies8.53 Ratings00 Ratings
    Financial Document Management8.52 Ratings00 Ratings
    Payment Status Tracking8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Payment Audit Trail8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Duplicate Bill Detection8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Advanced OCR6.92 Ratings00 Ratings
    Electronic Funds Transfer10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Emburse TallieSmartbills
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    Score9 out of 10
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    Score9 out of 10
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    Score9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Emburse Expense Enterprise (formerly Chrome River)
    Score8.3 out of 10
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    Score8.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Emburse TallieSmartbills
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (18 ratings)
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    Usability
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    9.7
    (8 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Emburse TallieSmartbills
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Emburse
    Tallie is great for companies or outsourced accounting teams who are heavily involved with helping users upload receipts or code changes to the correct G/L Account groups or dimensions. Tallie allows for you to set up specific Expense options that are easier for users to chose what charges are for that are mapped to G/L Account groups in the background which allows for more accurate accounting. However, if your accounting books are using other dimensions like departments or projects the more complex the set up the more help a user might need, so it's nice how easy it is to drop into an account to help finish the more complex coding for users prior to them being submitted for approval.
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    Pros
    Emburse
    • Seamless integration with Bill.com. While this will not specifically benefit every user, our organization was able to quickly marry the two tools and provide timely reimbursements to employees.
    • Customer support -- they're available via so many mediums: user training, email, phone, support case reference numbers. If you need assistance, whether an end-user or administrator, you can get it.
    • In-app camera with intelligent image analysis to extrapolate the vendor name, date of the transaction, amount. It also offers the ability to import a photo from your mobile gallery, and then perform the analysis.
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    Cons
    Emburse
    • Search functions need much improvement; i.e. vendor search for transactions.
    • Impossible to import transactions for dates prior to card being added to system. There's no going back.
    • Needs better recognition of expense categories. Sees airlines and Chick-Fil-A as Dues and Subscriptions (?)
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    Usability
    Emburse
    Certainly not as robust as bigger products/names on the market, but the features/solution it offers do extremely well, with a good mobile app experience and a nice, clean interface. It helped our organization (7 locations) go paperless, which rapidly improved our expense capture and timeliness in reporting and also gave our staff a better, user-friendly expense report and reimbursement process.
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    Support Rating
    Emburse
    As a user of Tallie, I have never needed any support to use it. It is simple, logical and needs no training to use. As a company, I don't think we need any ongoing support but I believe the setup process, which they guided us through a year ago went well.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Emburse
    Tallie stacks up well to Concur. In terms of ease of use, Tallie wins by a landslide. However, when it comes to deeper functionality and integrations into other systems within the business, Concur definitely wins there. So, Tallie is easier for more simple purposes, while Tallie works for more complex organizations.
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    Return on Investment
    Emburse
    • Tallie allows my finance team to spend so much less time on expense reports. After a large event, we would have 20 employees submitting reimbursements taking many hours of their time. This has cut out that time.
    • Tallie allows me to spend a total of fifteen minutes updating records in a report for reimbursement compared to the two hours I used to spend on our archaic system.
    • Tallie allows direct deposit into your account 2-3 days after your report is approved compared to the weeks it used to take to receive reimbursement.
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