ExpenseWire vs. Zoho Expense

Our organization was able to get a deep discount on the product, so it's suited for small businesses that are very cost conscious that just need basic tools. It's best to evaluate your accounting platform and how the information can flow from ExpenseWire to the financial application, since what we use currently doesn't allow automatic sync, which might be problematic in many cases.

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Zoho Expense is wonderful when you have a distributed or remote team or workforce that needs to submit expenses reports throughout the month into a single software and approval system. Zoho Expense does make it easy to train, onboard, and use all of the end-user features for submitting and generating expense reports.

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• Ability to directly reimburse employees' bank accounts on the application itself; no need to do a separate wire/ACH payment via the company bank
• Keeps track of all receipt submissions and you can view them on the application
• Approval flow meets our needs

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• The program will notify users if they have entered a duplicate charge.
• Once the end-users understood that receipts were mandatory, attaching those receipts has become second-nature. The app makes it very easy to do so.

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• Increase ability to integrate with different accounting platforms automatically (we use Xero)
• Enhance the ability to generate more types of reports with different field combinations
• User interface is not as user friendly compared to other solutions

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• Could have more default options. Instead of making my users select payment method, allow us to default it to one of the options.
• More room for customization by department. My service department needs different categories of expenses then my sales department.

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Probably the easiest Zoho Application to setup, which is to say quite easy. No user has complained about it being difficult. Admin staff like it as well.

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The only reason I give Zoho a 9 is because of the issue with the Chart of Accounts skewing every time I export/import. I believe this is due to the fact that I use sub-accounts and Zoho cannot differentiate. Still hoping. :)

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I've used Concur in the past for managing and submitting expenses. When comparing what I know about Zoho to Concur, Zoho seems to be a more simplified tool focused on simply managing expenses, inputting, tracking, submitting and getting reimbursed. Based on what I know, Zoho gets the job done with no frills.

• Less time spent inputting/tracking expenses
• Positive employee feedback (greater satisfaction as compared to Excel)

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• We have had some issues with the credit card reconciliation process which has made our monthly accounting / close process. This has been a negative
• Positive ROI is that team members spend less time on expense reports due to the ease of reporting
• Positive ROI is that substantial training and onboarding is not needed due to the features and simplicity.

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