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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

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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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Product Details

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
Abacus is easy to use. When you incur an expense at a restaurant, for example, you can open the app, take a picture of the receipt, fill in a couple of fields, and submit. It's quick and easy. If you ever have an issue with how a transaction was recorded, a banking issue, or the integration, support can take days to respond. Chat support is rarely real-time.

Where is my Support?

Rating: 1 out of 10
January 04, 2022
BS
Vetted Review
Verified User
Emburse Abacus
5 years of experience
Is very easy to use. However, the lack of support makes me not be able to recommend this software. There are issues that make the App not function in the field and users must use the online version as the only solution. This has been an issue for 2 months now.

Manage your budget with Embrace Abacus

Rating: 9 out of 10
May 24, 2021
JC
Vetted Review
Verified User
Emburse Abacus
2 years of experience
This tool is very much helpful for those organizations, whose team works on a remote basis and especially I will recommend it to all the sales and marketing based companies. This application will keep you up to date about the expense of your employees and it will add great ease in the working of your accounting team.

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
Emburse Abacus is well suited for mid-market organizations that are open to - or embrace - the concept of real-time processing of expense transactions. Emburse Abacus takes a radically different approach from other platforms that rely on modeling paper-based monthly (or periodic) expense reports containing multiple expenses submitted simultaneously. Emburse Abacus allows each transaction to be very rapidly processed individually so that approving managers and accounting professionals are able to perform review tasks and identify potential problems throughout the entire month, relieving the massive monthly influx of large numbers of expense reports simultaneously.

Abacus gets your money back!

Rating: 9 out of 10
February 26, 2020
JF
Vetted Review
Verified User
Emburse Abacus
2 years of experience
Abacus is well suited for individuals that travel and have to bill expenses back to the company. I've been at companies where expense reports are such a manual process, and Abacus solved that instantly. It's an app that can be downloaded on your phone, you go to a client dinner take a picture of the bill, submit, and you are done!

Streamline Expenses and See Your Funds Reimbursed Quickly

Rating: 10 out of 10
February 21, 2020
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Emburse Abacus
2 years of experience
Abacus is excellent for companies of all sizes and a gift for company accounting departments. The way that Abacus compartmentalizes expenses and provides clear expense categories makes it simple to use. The added feature of allowing a drop-down menu of all clients and the organization itself ensures that you can always start and submit an expense with ease.

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 found Abacus to be super useful when we have employee incentives. It gives us the flexibility to go out and choose our own items and then submit for reimbursement. It is also nice when we travel - booking flights, hotels, vehicles - these can all be tracked under their own category.

Abacus For Expenses

Rating: 7 out of 10
November 19, 2019
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Emburse Abacus
3 years of experience
It works well when I am on the road because I can quickly capture receipts and store them in the app. It takes the stress out of tracking my expenses and remembering to submit my reimbursements.

Abacus Review

Rating: 10 out of 10
November 05, 2019
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Emburse Abacus
3 years of experience
I see other business travelers struggling with receipts and expenses. I often recommend Abacus. Many people are willing to get it themselves, even if their organization isn’t willing to yet.

Abacus is a time saver

Rating: 10 out of 10
October 22, 2019
KR
Vetted Review
Verified User
Emburse Abacus
3 years of experience
Well suited - When your sales team is remote. When traveling is 50% or more of your job.

Less suited would be when you only have one or two employees that need the ability to expense work products or your organization is small.

Abacus for the win!

Rating: 9 out of 10
October 22, 2019
AT
Vetted Review
Verified User
Emburse Abacus
2 years of experience
Great for a company when people are constantly traveling or having to submit expenses. You upload your receipt images, and it's quickly approved by your team. I am not sure of the pricing of Abacus (I was not the decision maker, just a user), but if it is expensive and people are not logging expenses often, I would imagine it would not have a great ROI for you.

Abacus offers a unique solution for real time expense management

Rating: 8 out of 10
July 02, 2019
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Emburse Abacus
1 year of experience
Abacus is great for smaller companies that need to automate expense management. It is a very user-friendly system that makes it easy for all employees to understand without any training. We have heard of issues with their AMEX program. Companies that have tens or hundreds of corporate AMEX cards should likely explore other options

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
If you are a cataloger or involved in direct mail in any way, Abacus provides a great opportunity to discover new prospects. However, if you are an online-only retailer, this may not be the fit for you.

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
Perfect for reimbursing employees in an efficient manner. I'm not sure how well the software integrates with a company credit card but in some ways the ease of use means that uploading a receipt can be just as fast. There are no hold ups in getting repaid as long as your manager quickly approves the spending amount. I could not recommend this program more highly.

Great expense product

Rating: 8 out of 10
March 03, 2017
Abacus has been great for our small startup of 37 employees, it has grown with our team since we were very small. Since we have not experienced it as a bigger company, I am not sure what the scalability would be like. If you're looking for a site with a cleaner look that is easy to use, Abacus is it. I haven't had to reach out to customer service yet because I haven't had any issues. If that isn't proof positive of how easy it is to use, I don't know what is!
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