Emburse Certify

Certify is well suited for organizations that have hundreds of users send expense reports, especially if users own company credit cards. Since we have a lot of employees, I am unsure if this would be the best system for companies with a small number of employees.

Emburse Certify is well suited for submitting, approving, reviewing, and storing details and records of employee business expenses for reimbursement. Emburse Certify may not be as useful users that have infrequent reimbursable business expenses. Emburse Certify is also a travel booking tool.

Emburse Certify is great for travelling employees who are comfortable using a smart phone or other technology. It is great for organizations who want to know a lot about how/what their employees are expensing. There are so many reports! If you have a complicated internal structure setting up the approvals and expenses codes can be time consuming.

Certify is not well suited for multi-dimensional ERPs. Although Certify 'offers' general ledger dimensions GLD, the use of them is extremely limited. Filtering on any GLD can only be done once. There is not the possibility for creating hierarchies with the dimensions. The only method of exporting is via a flat file or the open API, which I understand is quite limited. This software is for a smaller scaled business that is not trying to track across dimensions or create hierarchies. Data flow is one directional. I cannot emphasize enough the shortcomings of the reporting. The parameters are mostly based on expense dates rather than expense reports. There are entirely too many of them, and some of them perform the function!

[Emburse] Certify seems to have been designed with large organizations in mind, particularly those with corporate card programs as opposed to "small business" cards. The integration with American Express Business accounts failed after less than a year, and was not reestablished before we pulled the plug on the whole project. Even worse, [Emburse] Certify's support team wasn't able to offer alternatives.

I really think overall the product works well. As noted earlier, employees who used Certify frequently found it easy to use. For an infrequent user like me (I traveled 2 - 4 times per year), it didn't seem very intuitive. Things like starting the document on your phone and then moving to the desktop environment were difficult. The scanned receipts often didn't register with the program so much information had to be entered manually. Uploading a combination of cell phone scans and other documents (egs. hotel receipts received by e-mail) seemed awkward.

Certify does well with being able to upload receipts, but it often will go onto the wrong expense. I use a date range to generate an expense report, and it will pull data from previous reports that are not applicable. Probably good for a bigger organization and nice to see it has approval paths.

Certify is a great tool to track your expenses and submit them to your managers. I never had an issue with using the app, whether I was submitting a small lunch expense or dozens of expenses from a week-long work trip. It's suited to every employee level and status. I can't think of a scenario where using Certify wouldn't be appropriate. Perhaps if you forgot to do a lot of your expenses and you have a massive backlog of them.

Great for sales representatives that are traveling. It gives you the ability to easily create expense reports and follow the approval process to be paid out.

Certify is well suited to use across multiple organizations. It's low cost and high functionality.

Certify is not bad software by any means - it does everything it claims to do. Users can save receipts, sync them to automatically imported expenses, track travel expenditures, and submit expense reports. Having all of those features in one place is helpful in accounting efficiency. However, having switched to this platform from Expensify, I would say that Certify has a significantly greater learning curve. The workflow is not intuitive and requires training videos or experimentation before new users can get the hang of it.

Certify is great for growing companies and large organizations. The system on the backend is customizable making it easy for my team to use it. At larger companies, I can see that this solution is perfect for many enterprise accounts that need a diverse and scalable solution for their organization.

Works well for us—we're a global operation and many employees travel a lot. They like the system and the flexibility it offers.

Certify is perfect for fast-paced expense tracking. You can expense purchases while sitting in the airport waiting for your next flight or while at dinner while conversing with coworkers. It is extremely easy to use and takes little effort to understand.

Certify is well suited for situations when employees must compile monthly expense reports that need to be submitted to at least one person to approve them. It is also well suited for someone who has a lot of receipts, but doesn't want to carry around the paper copy. Certify makes it easy to snap a photo and then get rid of the receipt.

It is very easy to use and to get users trained and up to speed. I have used other software packages and Certify is very competitive in the market place. It is very easy to classify expenses, which is something I need to do regularly because I make purchases for all departments in the company.

Certify is excellent as a platform. It allows for integrations with common systems like Amtrav and can be used for more than simple expense reporting. It is excellent for the small to medium business market and handles most things very well.
Beware if integrations break as it is difficult to get support on the platform itself.

The ease of adding receipts with photos through the mobile app is helpful in many ways! It lets you add as you go, and no more holding on to lots of paper receipts since it’s all stored digitally.

It was frustrating to submit an expense report for review but then not be able to access it again for reference, either as an employee or mid-tier reviewer.

In a smaller organization setting, or for people that are NOT road warriors like myself that have multiple receipts each day, it would probably be better suited. When you have many many receipts to document each month, going through each to ensure accuracy takes quite a long time and is burdensome.

The flexibility of using mobile and desktop platforms, as well as the ability to upload receipts and invoices from different sources in a variety of methods. So far, it has been suitable for us for its intended purpose, as well as an alternative method of inter-company control. So far I can't think of a thing that the system hasn't been suited for, except the cost-benefit of the add on services of invoices and travel not making financial sense to us.

It fits our organization very well. As stated before we were on the Excel spreadsheet method which did not translate into usable data in our accounting software. All of our employees find it easy to use and the accounting team is able to dive into data for both current and prior reports when questions arise. This has been a great company addition. Happy with our selection!

Very easy to use. Support is great! Allows for an approval process for all money spent on company credit cards.

Certify works well for organizations where the same group of employees incurs expenses on a regular basis. It would not be best for situations where various employees incur expenses on a less consistent basis, due to the effort involved in setting up accounts for those employees and training them on the process.

Very well suited if you want to charge to a job/project because you can add fields to work with your accounting system.

Much better than the Excel spreadsheet we were using prior