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Emburse Certify

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What is Emburse Certify?

Certify is travel and expense management software developed by the company of the same name in Maine, which merged with Chrome River in 2019 to form Emburse.

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Emburse Certify

7 out of 10
May 03, 2021
Incentivized
We use it for staff across the organization to submit receipts for business expense reimbursement. It's used by a cross section of staff …
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Certify--Average

5 out of 10
February 27, 2020
Incentivized
We use Certify for all of our expense reports/processing needs for Accounting and reimbursement. We have multiple executives in the field …
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What is Emburse Certify?

Certify is travel and expense management software developed by the company of the same name in Maine, which merged with Chrome River in 2019 to form Emburse.

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Expensify automates the entire spend management process. Scan receipts, track mileage, submit and approve expenses, manage corporate cards, reimburse employees, pay bills, send invoices, and book travel. Built for individuals and companies of all sizes, anywhere in the world.

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Product Details

What is Emburse Certify?

Emburse Certify Expense aims to help make expense reporting easier with its automated expense report creation and mobile receipt capture. Employees, managers and accountants can create, submit and approve expense reports, check the status of expense reports and access reports on demand.

Certify AP is designed to give finance teams insight into their company purchases and the ability to manage spend before it happens, paper is eliminated, and approvals are handled online, making remote work feasible. By automating these processes, finance teams now have valuable time to be able to work more strategically across their organization.

Emburse Certify Features

  • Supported: Approval Process Control
  • Supported: Invoice Management
  • Supported: Multi-Currency
  • Supported: Receipt Management
  • Supported: Receipt Upload
  • Supported: Reimbursement Management
  • Supported: Spend Control
  • Supported: PO creation
  • Supported: Purchase Requisition creation

Emburse Certify Screenshots

Screenshot of Certify Homepage - User interface for all users that includes a quick view of their expenses, pending expense reports and approval requests.Screenshot of Certify Mobile - Snap photos of receipts on the go and upload them instantly to your virtual Certify Wallet.Screenshot of Certify Travel - Now, corporate travel is even easier. Introducing Certify Travel, your end-to-end corporate travel solution to simplify bookings for employees while helping your company manage travel practices and costs. All for one low monthly fee and no booking fees! Certify Travel is easy to use, yet it is also a powerful enhancement to your company’s expense management system.Screenshot of Certify Reporting & AnalyticsScreenshot of Certify AP- manage cashflow with accounts payable automationScreenshot of Certify AP- streamlining employee purchasing

Emburse Certify Video

Certify 101: Automated Expense Reports with Certify's Report Executive

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Emburse Certify Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry, Mobile Web
Supported CountriesUnited States, Canada, Latin America, United Kingdom, Europe, Middle-East and Africa, Asia, Australia, China, India, Japan, Germany, Brazil, Mexico
Supported LanguagesArabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Taiwanese, Thai

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Frequently Asked Questions

Certify is travel and expense management software developed by the company of the same name in Maine, which merged with Chrome River in 2019 to form Emburse.

Expensify, Coupa, and SAP Concur are common alternatives for Emburse Certify.

Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 7.2.

The most common users of Emburse Certify are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Emburse Certify is a versatile expense management solution that has proven to be invaluable for businesses across various industries. Users have praised its ability to track and approve expenses, providing them with a seamless process to report on expenditures and make informed decisions based on those reports. By streamlining the expense reporting process, Certify increases visibility into company spend and makes it easier for businesses to manage their expenses effectively.

One of the key use cases of Certify is its ability to simplify travel booking and research experiences across teams. This feature has significantly streamlined the travel planning process, enabling teams to collaborate more efficiently and ensuring a seamless booking experience. Additionally, users have found Certify's compatibility with popular accounting software such as QuickBooks and NetSuite to be highly beneficial. The integration capabilities of Certify have saved users time by reducing the need for double data entry, making financial reporting more efficient and accurate.

Certify offers additional functionalities that further enhance expense management. Users appreciate the ease of submitting expense reports through Certify, simplifying the reimbursement process and ensuring timely payments. The platform also provides features like importing reports into the organization's ERP via API, improving efficiency and accuracy in financial reporting. Moreover, Certify offers robust controls, allowing businesses to require specific information for expenses, thus enhancing accuracy and compliance.

Certify's user-friendly interface has been consistently praised by customers. With its intuitive design, approximately 200 employees who submit daily expense reports have reported no issues or questions, providing a seamless user experience. The mobile app provided by Certify eliminates concerns about losing receipts, making it convenient and reliable for users to capture and organize their expenses.

Overall, Emburse Certify has proven itself as an effective solution for expense management across organizations. Its ability to simplify processes, improve collaboration, increase visibility into spending, and enhance financial control make it a valuable tool for companies seeking efficiency and accuracy in managing their expenses.

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October 20, 2021

Expense Reporting Done Right!

Verified User
Professional in Human Resources
Food & Beverages Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Certify is well suited for organizations that have hundreds of users send expense reports, especially if users own company credit cards. Since we have a lot of employees, I am unsure if this would be the best system for companies with a small number of employees.
May 03, 2021

Emburse Certify

Verified User
Manager in Finance and Accounting
Non-profit Organization Management Company, 201-500 employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Emburse Certify is well suited for submitting, approving, reviewing, and storing details and records of employee business expenses for reimbursement. Emburse Certify may not be as useful users that have infrequent reimbursable business expenses. Emburse Certify is also a travel booking tool.
May 03, 2021

Emburse Certify is Easy to Use

Verified User
Director in Finance and Accounting
Non-profit Organization Management Company, 51-200 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Emburse Certify is great for travelling employees who are comfortable using a smart phone or other technology. It is great for organizations who want to know a lot about how/what their employees are expensing. There are so many reports! If you have a complicated internal structure setting up the approvals and expenses codes can be time consuming.
May 03, 2021

Emburse Certify Review

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Carla Lottie
Accounts Payable Manager
Liberty Fund Inc (Non-profit Organization Management, 11-50 employees)
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Certify is not well suited for multi-dimensional ERPs. Although Certify 'offers' general ledger dimensions GLD, the use of them is extremely limited. Filtering on any GLD can only be done once. There is not the possibility for creating hierarchies with the dimensions. The only method of exporting is via a flat file or the open API, which I understand is quite limited. This software is for a smaller scaled business that is not trying to track across dimensions or create hierarchies. Data flow is one directional. I cannot emphasize enough the shortcomings of the reporting. The parameters are mostly based on expense dates rather than expense reports. There are entirely too many of them, and some of them perform the function!
April 13, 2021

Powerful software, if it worked the way it was supposed to

Enrique Abello | TrustRadius Reviewer
Enrique Abello
Vice President, Human Resources & Administration
SageWater (Construction, 201-500 employees)
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
[Emburse] Certify seems to have been designed with large organizations in mind, particularly those with corporate card programs as opposed to "small business" cards. The integration with American Express Business accounts failed after less than a year, and was not reestablished before we pulled the plug on the whole project. Even worse, [Emburse] Certify's support team wasn't able to offer alternatives.
September 02, 2020

Not easy for an infrequent user

Verified User
Manager in Quality Assurance
Chemicals Company, 201-500 employees
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I really think overall the product works well. As noted earlier, employees who used Certify frequently found it easy to use. For an infrequent user like me (I traveled 2 - 4 times per year), it didn't seem very intuitive. Things like starting the document on your phone and then moving to the desktop environment were difficult. The scanned receipts often didn't register with the program so much information had to be entered manually. Uploading a combination of cell phone scans and other documents (egs. hotel receipts received by e-mail) seemed awkward.
February 27, 2020

Certify--Average

Verified User
Analyst in Human Resources
Hospital & Health Care Company, 51-200 employees
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Certify does well with being able to upload receipts, but it often will go onto the wrong expense. I use a date range to generate an expense report, and it will pull data from previous reports that are not applicable. Probably good for a bigger organization and nice to see it has approval paths.
January 31, 2020

I recommend using Certify.

Verified User
Employee in Other
Media Production Company, 201-500 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Certify is a great tool to track your expenses and submit them to your managers. I never had an issue with using the app, whether I was submitting a small lunch expense or dozens of expenses from a week-long work trip. It's suited to every employee level and status. I can't think of a scenario where using Certify wouldn't be appropriate. Perhaps if you forgot to do a lot of your expenses and you have a massive backlog of them.
January 07, 2020

Effective expense management tool with a bit of an awkward interface

Verified User
Manager in Finance and Accounting
Real Estate Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Certify is not bad software by any means - it does everything it claims to do. Users can save receipts, sync them to automatically imported expenses, track travel expenditures, and submit expense reports. Having all of those features in one place is helpful in accounting efficiency. However, having switched to this platform from Expensify, I would say that Certify has a significantly greater learning curve. The workflow is not intuitive and requires training videos or experimentation before new users can get the hang of it.
November 27, 2019

Certify will help keep your team on track with expenses

Adam Neveu | TrustRadius Reviewer
Adam Neveu
Sales Manager, U.S.
Our People, Inc. (Education Management, 11-50 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Certify is great for growing companies and large organizations. The system on the backend is customizable making it easy for my team to use it. At larger companies, I can see that this solution is perfect for many enterprise accounts that need a diverse and scalable solution for their organization.
November 21, 2019

Use it anywhere!

LaDarryl l.a. Hollingsworth | TrustRadius Reviewer
LaDarryl l.a. Hollingsworth
Marketing Coordinator
CRC Industries (Automotive, 501-1000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Certify is perfect for fast-paced expense tracking. You can expense purchases while sitting in the airport waiting for your next flight or while at dinner while conversing with coworkers. It is extremely easy to use and takes little effort to understand.
November 20, 2019

Expense reports are a breeze with Certify!

Verified User
Director in Other
Non-profit Organization Management Company, 51-200 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Certify is well suited for situations when employees must compile monthly expense reports that need to be submitted to at least one person to approve them. It is also well suited for someone who has a lot of receipts, but doesn't want to carry around the paper copy. Certify makes it easy to snap a photo and then get rid of the receipt.
November 20, 2019

Expense reporting software

Michael Palecek | TrustRadius Reviewer
Michael Palecek
IT Manager
TJ Hale (Furniture, 51-200 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
It is very easy to use and to get users trained and up to speed. I have used other software packages and Certify is very competitive in the market place. It is very easy to classify expenses, which is something I need to do regularly because I make purchases for all departments in the company.
November 08, 2019

Certify is Certifiably great!

Tristan Dobbs | TrustRadius Reviewer
Tristan Dobbs
Vice President of Shared Services
Cloudbakers (Computer Software, 51-200 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Certify is excellent as a platform. It allows for integrations with common systems like Amtrav and can be used for more than simple expense reporting. It is excellent for the small to medium business market and handles most things very well.
Beware if integrations break as it is difficult to get support on the platform itself.
October 31, 2019

Easy to use reporting app!

Sheila Garcia | TrustRadius Reviewer
Sheila Garcia
Chief Communications Officer
Hops and Grain LLC (Food & Beverages, 11-50 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
The ease of adding receipts with photos through the mobile app is helpful in many ways! It lets you add as you go, and no more holding on to lots of paper receipts since it’s all stored digitally.

It was frustrating to submit an expense report for review but then not be able to access it again for reference, either as an employee or mid-tier reviewer.
May 22, 2019

Certify: you get what you pay for!

Verified User
Director in Sales
Information Technology and Services Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
In a smaller organization setting, or for people that are NOT road warriors like myself that have multiple receipts each day, it would probably be better suited. When you have many many receipts to document each month, going through each to ensure accuracy takes quite a long time and is burdensome.
May 21, 2019

Certify: Solid platform with good customer service.

FO
FRANCISCO OLIVEIRA
Assistant Controller
Flavor Materials International (Food & Beverages, 51-200 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
The flexibility of using mobile and desktop platforms, as well as the ability to upload receipts and invoices from different sources in a variety of methods. So far, it has been suitable for us for its intended purpose, as well as an alternative method of inter-company control. So far I can't think of a thing that the system hasn't been suited for, except the cost-benefit of the add on services of invoices and travel not making financial sense to us.
April 20, 2019

Certify makes expense reporting easy peasy lemon squeezy!

Verified User
Executive in Finance and Accounting
Information Technology and Services Company, 51-200 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
It fits our organization very well. As stated before we were on the Excel spreadsheet method which did not translate into usable data in our accounting software. All of our employees find it easy to use and the accounting team is able to dive into data for both current and prior reports when questions arise. This has been a great company addition. Happy with our selection!
April 19, 2019

Certify helps streamlined expense reporting and reimbursement

Verified User
Administrator in Finance and Accounting
Wholesale Company, 51-200 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Certify works well for organizations where the same group of employees incurs expenses on a regular basis. It would not be best for situations where various employees incur expenses on a less consistent basis, due to the effort involved in setting up accounts for those employees and training them on the process.
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