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Emburse Abacus

Emburse Abacus

Overview

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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Emburse Abacus has been widely used by organizations for a variety of expense management tasks. Users have reported that the platform is …
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We love Abacus!!

10 out of 10
January 28, 2020
Incentivized
Every department at my company uses Abacus to track various expenses for reimbursement. It is nice to have a way to submit these requests …
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Abacus For Expenses

7 out of 10
November 19, 2019
Incentivized
We use Abacus to manage all expense tracking and reimbursement within our organization. It allows us an easy and efficient way to report …
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Abacus Review

10 out of 10
November 05, 2019
Incentivized
We use it for expenses and travel for all corporate employees and consultants. It is used to manage and approve all expenses and transfers …
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Pricing

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Starter

$9

Cloud
per active user/per month

Professional

Custom Pricing

Cloud

Enterprise

Custom Pricing

Cloud

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • 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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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

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 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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Reviews

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Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
January 04, 2022

Where is my Support?

Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
Jason Chandler | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
Jason Guinn | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
January 28, 2020

We love Abacus!!

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
November 19, 2019

Abacus For Expenses

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
November 05, 2019

Abacus Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
October 22, 2019

Abacus for the win!

Alexa Terry | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
March 03, 2017

Great expense product

Jennifer Paxton | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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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