Emburse Spend (formerly Abacus)
Emburse Spend (formerly Abacus)
About Emburse Spend (formerly Abacus)
Control spending before it happens, manage corporate card programs, instantly create AMEX virtual cards or Emburse Cards, reimburse employees, and pay vendors - all from the industry’s most flexible expense management platform.
Say goodbye to spreadsheets and old-fashioned expense reports. Gather critical information and submit expenses instantly. Save your team countless hours with custom auto-submission and auto-approval policies.
Control spending before it happens. Create physical and virtual cards with proactive controls built-in for enhanced payment security, visibility, and compliance.
Save time, effort, and sanity with self-enforcing expense policies. Quickly create expense submission rules, automated approval routing, and auto-approval policies that finance teams and users alike will love.
More integrations, less headaches. Emburse Spend offers direct accounting integrations with the industry’s leading ERPs, such as Quickbooks, Netsuite, Sage Intacct, and Xero. Don’t see yours? With our easy-to-configure automated export builder, integrate with virtually any accounting software.
Key benefits of Emburse Spend (formerly Abacus)
Real-time expense management - Ditch the old-fashioned expense report and time-consuming spreadsheets. Employees easily capture receipts and submit expenses at the point of purchase, reducing errors and missing information. Admins and managers can review and approve expenses without waiting for an expense report, speeding up month-end close.
Virtual card creation - Control spending before it happens. Request and issue virtual corporate cards with built-in controls such as allowed merchant categories, transaction limits, budgets, auto-expiration, and more.
End-to-end integrations - With a robust library of direct integrations and an automated export builder, your team’s integration needs are covered with Emburse Spend.
Automation that scales - create intelligent expense submission, request routing, and auto-approval rules that remove busy-work burden, allowing your team to focus on high-value tasks.
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- Industry: Internet
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Monthly for 6-12 months
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Overall rating
- Ease of Use
- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Effortless expense tracking and management
Reviewed on 15/05/2018
Pros
Having come from a huge tech company that had their own proprietary software to submit and reimburse expenses, Abacus is a breath of fresh air. It's unbelievably easy to use and both their website and their mobile app are clean, intuitive and get out of my way.
I don't feel like I'm jumping through hoops or need to go through a bunch of red tape to get expenses reimbursed, and it helps me keep track of when my expenses are approved and reimbursements are being distributed.
It's amazing being able to just take a photo of a receipt right from the app and upload it immediately. Don't need to hold onto receipts or gather scans in another app.
Seriously, this software is so simple. Every company should use it.
Cons
I've had the mobile app crash a few times or just become unresponsive, but this is so inconsistent that I don't really think I've ever been inconvenienced by it.
- Industry: Real Estate
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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- Ease of Use
- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Great Expense Management System
Reviewed on 30/11/2023
We really love Abacus as our choice of product and do not intend on changing anytime soon.
We really love Abacus as our choice of product and do not intend on changing anytime soon.
Pros
I really love how easy Abacus is to use. I love that receipts auto attach and that you can create specific rules per person or department. It has streamlined our processes and ease of expense management.
Cons
The only feature that I miss from our previous expense management is the ability to add multiple pictures to one charge. Our employees loved that feature and it is more time consuming to make it into a pdf to upload.
- Industry: Law Practice
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Value for Money
- Ease of Use
- Customer Support
- Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10
Bad product
Reviewed on 24/04/2020
This has been the worst business decision we have made. We were looking for a case management...
This has been the worst business decision we have made. We were looking for a case management software to streamline increase efficiency. The sales promises about this were simply not true and the free training is a joke. It is so basic that it served no purpose.
Pros
The support team is very responsive. The product may be great but once you purchase it they want more money to deliver the product rather than deliver the product.
Cons
The product is difficult to use, and simply does not offer the features that are available in quick books.
It is a huge step backwards and requires an amazing amount of time to deal with glitches. It frustrates rather than enhance outlook. The product is outrageously priced for what we are able to do.
I was assured it was the right product for my small firm but I don't think so.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Ease of Use
- Customer Support
- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Expenses Simplified
Reviewed on 23/09/2020
Overall, I would recommend this over other expensing tools. It is modern, they have mobile...
Overall, I would recommend this over other expensing tools. It is modern, they have mobile capabilities, and the support was excellent when needed.
Pros
Abacus is easy to set up and use. The UI is intuitive, and it is self-explanatory to use. I really like that you can send email receipts to the abacus alias, and it parses out the expense for you. They have a mobile app that I use often, and I rarely have issues with the tool.
Cons
Sometimes the receipt scanning can take a long time, and you will go in and edit it manually. I don't like that it takes a long time to get email receipts into abacus.
- Industry: Hospital & Health Care
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Ease of Use
- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Very Easy to Use for Employees
Reviewed on 02/11/2018
Pros
I appreciate how easy Abacus makes it for me to submit expenses and how clear the process is. You can quickly see what expenses are pending, what has been approved, and what still need to be approved.
Cons
I wish there was a way to remove categories that are irrelevant to you or your team. I.e. if you are on the accounts team, you should be able to hid the sales categories to make it easier to categorize the expense.
Emburse Spend (formerly Abacus) FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Emburse Spend (formerly Abacus).Q. What type of pricing plans does Emburse Spend (formerly Abacus) offer?
Emburse Spend (formerly Abacus) offers the following pricing plans:
- Free Trial: Not Available
Emburse Spend is available for FREE.
Q. Who are the typical users of Emburse Spend (formerly Abacus)?
Emburse Spend (formerly Abacus) has the following typical customers:
11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Emburse Spend (formerly Abacus) support?
Emburse Spend (formerly Abacus) supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does Emburse Spend (formerly Abacus) support mobile devices?
Emburse Spend (formerly Abacus) supports the following devices:
Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile)
Q. What other apps does Emburse Spend (formerly Abacus) integrate with?
Emburse Spend (formerly Abacus) integrates with the following applications:
NetSuite, QuickBooks Online, Sage Intacct, Slack, Xero
Q. What level of support does Emburse Spend (formerly Abacus) offer?
Emburse Spend (formerly Abacus) offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base
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