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What is Emburse Chrome River?

Chrome River EXPENSE is expense management software, from Chrome River Technologies in Los Angeles, California.

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Chrome River Review

7 out of 10
October 16, 2023
Incentivized
we use it to do expense reports for any time of purchases and travel, government per diem, and anything spent on our travel card
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Great Software!

10 out of 10
September 13, 2022
Chrome River EXPENSE has made such a difference in how we manager our expense reports. Our employees out in the field are able to timely …
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What is Emburse Chrome River?

Chrome River EXPENSE is expense management software, from Chrome River Technologies in Los Angeles, California.

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What is SAP Concur?

SAP Concur is a SaaS expense report management product, and handles corporate travel booking, expense report automation, reimbursement, audit, and business intelligence, and corporate card integration.

What is Expensify?

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 Chrome River?

Chrome River EXPENSE is designed to automate and simplify the submission, approval and reimbursement of an employee's travel and expense spend. Its intuitive interface works effortlessly and provides full functionality on any device, anywhere, at any time.

Chrome River EXPENSE integrates an employee's travel transactions (including through a corporate travel agency or travel booking tool), as well as personal and corporate credit card purchases and out-of-pocket expenses. Employees can also upload receipt images or forward emails to create accurate expense reports without typing. With its responsive design, users will have the same features and experience on any mobile browser or using mobile apps as they have on a computer or tablet.

Accounts payable teams can use Chrome River's automated compliance, approvals, audit and reporting capabilities that integrate with any ERP solution or financial system. Chrome River EXPENSE is designed to be configurable to fit the way any business works.

Emburse Chrome River Screenshots

Screenshot of A consistent experience across any screen size or operating systemScreenshot of Simple, customizable tiles for expense entryScreenshot of Approve expenses directly from your inbox with a single click

Emburse Chrome River Videos

See how we streamline expense management workflows
In this video, the TrustRadius team discusses how to manage your expenses using the Sage Business Cloud, SAP Concur, Emburse Chromeriver, and Webexpenses.

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Emburse Chrome River Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry, Mobile Web
Supported CountriesGlobal
Supported LanguagesArmenian, Bulgarian, Canadian, French, Chinese - Simplified, Chinese - Traditional, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English - UK, English - US, Estonian, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Thai, Ukrainian, Vietnamese

Frequently Asked Questions

Chrome River EXPENSE is expense management software, from Chrome River Technologies in Los Angeles, California.

Emburse Certify, NetSuite ERP, and Coupa are common alternatives for Emburse Chrome River.

Reviewers rate Corporate Card Reconciliation and Payment Status Tracking highest, with a score of 9.

The most common users of Emburse Chrome River are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Score 9 out of 10
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Incentivized
We use Chrome Rive Expense for university purchase card and travel management, to include travel pre-approvals. It is used across the whole organization--to include 3 sister campuses. It addresses university purchase card receipts and invoice management, accounting reviews, reporting, and audit functions. It eliminated a cumbersome and wasteful paper-based system and automated the approval and review process.
  • Chrome River uses a clean operating environment to include a companion mobile app.
  • Provides multiple (simple) ways to upload receipts.
  • It includes 100s (1000s?) of business rule customizations, and it's becoming easier to manage those in our admin roles without having to request changes through Chrome River.
  • Needs increased flexibility in the forms that are used.
  • Allow admins to create/customize forms.
  • Allow for more editing on returned reports, currently impossible to edit header information.
  • Per diem rules linked to start and end times need increased functionality. Our state has very specific rules as they relate to times, and we need greater ability to customize these rules.
  • Admins/super delegates should have the ability to see reports in the approval queue of other users.
Well suited for organizations with straightforward business rules and a manageable amount of expense types/cost codes. Tougher to use in organizations with a high turnover rate of employees (lots of changes to supervisors and moving departments impacts the automated routing). Also, the interface can get cumbersome with the huge number of expense types and cost codes that we have.
Expense Management
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Payment Management
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  • The time it takes to process monthly p-card reports greatly reduced.
  • Built-in business rules allow A/P review team to better function in an auditor role.
  • Elimination of the paper-based system allowed our business procedures to continue largely unchanged in the COVID-19, remote work, environment.
  • Certain faculty members feel like they are taking on more work as many of them are asked to upload receipts and categorize their expense with a valid business purpose, instead of the old process of dropping paper receipts on an admin's desk. It has been a challenge to convince them that the system is actually saving them time and effort in the long run.
  • Reimbursements for travelers went from taking months to process to days, or even hours!
Having spent nearly every day for that past year in Banner, the things that we as admins find intuitive aren't necessarily intuitive to the user who only gets into Chrome River once a month or less. Part of that issue is more on the complexity of our state's business rules and account code usage, and less on Chrome River. We believe with time, the system will be viewed as being very intuitive and we are constantly looking at ways to tweak the interface to make it even better for the user. Chrome River gives us the ability to make those slight changes, and that has helped in the early stages of implementation.
Believe CR stacks up well against Concur based on user feedback
Excellent service from the help desk/center. The Chrome River ticketing system and techs have made fixing our unforeseen issues a much less painful experience than it could have been. In almost every case response has been fast and accurate!
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End user (expense owner/traveler); accounting; procurement; A/P; audit
8
User Interface / End User reps with CR admin skills and responsibilities; financial systems IT experts to assist with more technical aspects, feeds, etc.
  • Purchasing card expense management
  • Travel expense management
  • Spend audit
  • easier to process personal charge abatements for travel
  • Utilizing the robust analytics and audit features
CR is helping us to meet the goals we set prior to implementation.
No
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
Usability for users across the spectrum of financial management and travel procedures expertise was critical. End users who are not comfortable with "numbers" had to be able to access and utilize the system, whether that's weekly or a couple of times per year.
Get more end-users involved and analyze our internal processes prior to evaluation.
  • Implemented in-house
No
Change management was a major issue with the implementation
Went from a paper process where (often) expense owners simply dropped a stack of receipts off on an admins desk for "processing"--asking/requiring them to be more responsible for their purchases was a challenge. It would have helped to have increased understanding and buy-in from a strong cohort of those end users prior to implementation and even evaluation/selection.
  • Personnel changes on our side
  • Testing periods were short
  • Internal systems support and integrations were not properly supported
Evaluated internal processes prior to implementation. Early stages completed by a different team than the one that finished the implementation were trying to fit a square peg in a round hole sometimes.
No...so far the normal support channels have been adequate. We were not expecting major changes from our original implementation
Yes
Mostly the anomalies are diagnosed and fixed in a timely manner. Sometimes (a handful) we need to get our assigned customer service rep involved to help get a response to a ticket.
In the early days we worked with a particular technician often to fix early implementation bugs or oversights we had despite extensive testing. His responsiveness was impressive and saved us on multiple occasions.
  • receipt upload
  • receipt to transaction matching
  • Reviews/approvals
  • Some of the more complicated reporting tools
  • Editing certain items on reports
  • Travel Cash Advances
Yes
Awesome! Definitely a huge benefit of Chrome River.
No
No
No
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