Item: Emburse Tallie
Rating: 7
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Primarily used for corporate credit card reporting and receipts management. Links to bill.com for export to accounting and payment of personal expenses.

Pros and Cons

Easy end user experience
Imports from bank credit card system
Analytics reporting helps stay on top of users

Search functions need much improvement; i.e. vendor search for transactions.
Impossible to import transactions for dates prior to card being added to system. There's no going back.
Needs better recognition of expense categories. Sees airlines and Chick-Fil-A as Dues and Subscriptions (?)

Return on Investment

It frees up my time by allowing people to self-report in a common platform rather than sending paper expense reports.
It's several thousand dollars cheaper than Concur and other high-end products.
It works. It's not easy to get multiple cloud systems to properly integrate and this one seems to get it done.

Tallie is a lower cost system than Concur. It doesn't come with all the bells and whistles that you'll find in Concur; Concur is intended to be a payment platform where all bills/expenses can be run.

That said, implementation and per-transaction costs in Concur are an absolute budget killer for a smaller organization, so we solved our immediate problem - corporate card reconciliation.

Key Insights

Do you think Emburse Tallie delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Emburse Tallie's feature set?

Yes

Did Emburse Tallie live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Emburse Tallie go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Emburse Tallie again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

Works fine for expense management with link to another system for payment. Doesn't function like Concur where it's all self-contained, but also doesn't cost nearly as much to implement or maintain. Imports work well as long as everything has been set up properly ahead of time. It is particularly ill-suited for searching for vendor detail, etc. For example, I can't search for how much I've spent with Southwest Airlines.

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Overall Satisfaction with Emburse Tallie