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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.

Reviews

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Where is my Support?

Rating: 1 out of 10
January 04, 2022
BS
Vetted Review
Verified User
Emburse Abacus
5 years of experience
  • Simple to use
  • Training is easy
  • Most users can understand the software after submitting 4-5 expenses

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
  • It is a very useful platform it helps me effectively, it allows me to put restrictions on the dates, till a card could be used.
  • Embrace Abacus has provided me much relief and saved my time which was spent in chalking out the financial status of my organization.
  • Emburse Abacus has equipped me with amazing features which are helping me to automatically set various limits about the expenditures and I always remain up to date about any purchase.

We love Abacus!!

Rating: 10 out of 10
January 28, 2020
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Emburse Abacus
1 year of experience
  • Easy to upload pictures of receipts and attachments.
  • Mobile app is awesome! It is so easy to use.

Abacus For Expenses

Rating: 7 out of 10
November 19, 2019
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Emburse Abacus
3 years of experience
  • It allows you to organize expenses into specific trips and categories.
  • It allows our business to track expenses across organizational departments and understand how we are spending money.
  • It is aligned with our expense policy, so we know when expenses are within or outside our policy guidelines.

Abacus Review

Rating: 10 out of 10
November 05, 2019
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Emburse Abacus
3 years of experience
  • No need to carry receipts.
  • Links with credit card.
  • Transfer of payment is easy.

Abacus is a time saver

Rating: 10 out of 10
October 22, 2019
KR
Vetted Review
Verified User
Emburse Abacus
3 years of experience
  • Abacus has one of the best UX experiences. Very easy to understand and keep track of your expenses.
  • Abacus has an app in the iPhone and Google store that allows the user to enter receipts on the spot. No more losing those small pieces of paper.
  • Abacus emails you when an expense has been approved.

Abacus for the win!

Rating: 9 out of 10
October 22, 2019
AT
Vetted Review
Verified User
Emburse Abacus
2 years of experience
  • Speaks to your finance team for you
  • Easy to log vendors (geolocating as well!)
  • Can see the flow of approval from your team

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
  • User-Friendly Interface: Reviews from our employees (ages ranging from 20s-70s) are all positive in regards to the ease of submitting an expense and getting reimbursement on Abacus
  • Timely Reimbursement: After final approval, money hits user accounts within 2 days
  • Approval routing: ability to set up multi-tier complex approval routes
  • Syncs with Sage Intacct: pushes entries on a day to day basis in to Intacct and it hits our GL accordingly
  • Abacus is competitively priced compared to the competition
  • Abacus utilizes "by expense" management. Getting rid of expense reports and batch reports (they do have an option where you can batch if need be)

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
  • New prospecting opportunities
  • Existing customer modeling for suppression
  • Existing customer modeling for reactivation

Great expense product

Rating: 8 out of 10
March 03, 2017
  • It is very easy for employees to upload their expense receipts to abacus.
  • Abacus has an easy UI.
  • We haven't had any issues with their customer service team not responding when asked.
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