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Emburse Abacus

Emburse Abacus

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What is Emburse Abacus?

Abacus is a web and mobile application that helps manage employee expenses and reimbursements. Some key features include: Real-Time Expense Submission, Integrated ACH Payments, and Dynamic Custom Reporting. Abacus was acquired by Certify in summer 2018 and is now…

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Starter

$9

Cloud
per active user/per month

Professional

Custom Pricing

Cloud

Enterprise

Custom Pricing

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Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

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  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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What is Emburse Abacus?

Emburse Abacus is presented by the vendor as a software solution that carries a promise to humanize work while delivering expense and corporate card solutions for smaller organizations.

Emburse Abacus Features

  • Supported: Real-Time Expense Submission (No expense reports)
  • Supported: Integrated ACH Payments for Reimbrusement
  • Supported: Seamless Accounting Sync
  • Supported: Dynamic Custom Reporting

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Emburse Abacus Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android
Supported CountriesU.S.A.
Supported LanguagesEnglish

Frequently Asked Questions

Abacus is a web and mobile application that helps manage employee expenses and reimbursements. Some key features include: Real-Time Expense Submission, Integrated ACH Payments, and Dynamic Custom Reporting. Abacus was acquired by Certify in summer 2018 and is now part of Emburse, formed from the merger of Certify and Chrome River March 2019.

Expensify, Emburse Certify, and Rydoo are common alternatives for Emburse Abacus.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 9.

The most common users of Emburse Abacus are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Emburse Abacus has been widely used by organizations for a variety of expense management tasks. Users have reported that the platform is utilized by their entire organization, enabling them to efficiently manage expenses, review and approve reimbursement requests, generate reports, and securely store receipt images. The software has proven particularly valuable for employee reimbursements, allowing employees to easily log in and upload their receipts while administrators can conveniently review and approve expenses. Travel expense reimbursements, as well as other reimbursable expenses, are effectively handled through Abacus.

One of the main challenges addressed by Abacus is the issue of lost receipts. With this software, users have found it significantly easier to track their expenses, ensuring that no receipts go missing. They have also praised the platform for streamlining the expense reporting process, offering features such as email receipt forwarding, photo capturing, and quick uploading of expenses for prompt reimbursement. Abacus caters to organizations with employees who frequently travel for various purposes including sales calls, conferences, and in-person training sessions. It further facilitates effortless expense reporting by providing user-friendly options for categorizing expenses under specific event or conference categories. Real-time reporting capabilities and credit limit tracking contribute to a transparent view of financial expenses within organizations.

Abacus stands out as a seamless and user-friendly expense management tool that can be integrated with accounting software. It is extensively used by organizations to manage all types of employee expenses, including credit card purchases, ensuring swift and direct compensation. Moreover, it offers the convenience of submitting both client and internal expenses for reimbursement across the entire organization. By automating expense capture and streamlining approval processes within one system, Abacus has revolutionized the way users report and get reimbursed for company spending.

Based on user reviews, there are three common recommendations for Abacus. The first recommendation is the user-friendly interface of Abacus. Users find it much easier to use and understand compared to other expense management software like Concur. Many users recommend Abacus for company-wide adoption due to its great user interface.

The second recommendation is the convenience of the Abacus mobile app. Users highly recommend downloading the app as it allows for easy expense reporting on the go. They find it valuable for tracking and managing company-wide expenses.

The third recommendation is regarding the time-saving and efficient nature of Abacus. Users appreciate its speed and efficiency in processing expenses, finding it faster and cleaner than other similar services like Expensify. Many users report that Abacus has saved them a lot of time, making it ideal for companies that travel frequently or have mobile employees.

Overall, users recommend Abacus as a comprehensive expense management solution with a user-friendly interface, convenient mobile app, and time-saving features. They believe it is superior to other options like Concur and Excel, making it suitable for companies of all sizes, including early-stage startups.

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It's good when everything is going smoothly.

Rating: 6 out of 10
May 01, 2024
PC
Vetted Review
Verified User
Emburse Abacus
5 years of experience
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.

Abacus by Emburse - Modernizing Expense Management

Rating: 8 out of 10
May 13, 2021
JG
Vetted Review
Verified User
Emburse Abacus
1 year of experience
We migrated from SAP Concur to Emburse Abacus after carefully considering a number of factors. Total cost of ownership, new user training and adoption, direct integration with our ERP, and the ability to process individual expenses in real-time as opposed to processing monthly expense reports all weighed in Abacus' favor during the decision and selection process.

We love Abacus!!

Rating: 10 out of 10
January 28, 2020
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Emburse Abacus
1 year of experience
I have never used anything like Abacus but I can't imagine a product that offers more value than this does. It allows you to categorize the expense, which will show where we are spending the most money as a company. It keeps a great record of past expenses and the status (if one was not approved, you will see where it says "denied", by whom, and there will usually be a reason provided so that you know how to correct it).

Abacus for the win!

Rating: 9 out of 10
October 22, 2019
AT
Vetted Review
Verified User
Emburse Abacus
2 years of experience
I, again, was not the decision maker in this process so I did not evaluate any other companies. Expensify is another one I've heard of, but I cannot compare pricing or uses at this time. I would say the user friendliness of Abacus really made me enjoy it, I have no interest in seeing competitors.

22 Years of Success with Abacus

Rating: 8 out of 10
May 06, 2019
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Emburse Abacus
22 years of experience
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Abacus - top tier payment reimbursement software

Rating: 10 out of 10
December 20, 2018
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Emburse Abacus
1 year of experience
Abacus is a better payment reimbursement program than Expensify, which my company had previously used up until switching to Abacus around a year ago. Abacus has a better, sleeker, and more modern user interface. I can't comment on the price comparison of the two programs, but I can tell that our finance team prefers the new program as well for processing payments.

Great expense product

Rating: 8 out of 10
March 03, 2017
I used expensify in my last role, however it was at a bigger company so I was not involved in the process besides being a user. Abacus seems easier to use from a user perspective. It would be great to have a better integration with our payroll system, but it seems like with all softwares, you can't have it all.
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