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Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify Expense) Overview

What is Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify Expense)?

Emburse brings together some of the world’s most powerful and trusted spend optimization solutions. As part of our product portfolio, Emburse Professional carries a promise to humanize work while delivering expense, accounts payable, and business travel solutions for growing organizations. Emburse Expense Professional simplifies expense management by replacing manual tasks with time-saving automation and greater spend control and visibility while providing great administrative and end-user support. With Emburse Professional's automated expense report creation, integrated spend request and card issuing workflow, embedded audit capabilities, and mobile receipt capture, expense reporting has never been so easy. Employees, managers, and accountants can create, submit, and approve expense reports, check the status of expense reports, and access reports on demand. Emburse Professional offers a broad range of integrations, seamless travel booking, on-demand support for all users, and much more.

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Product Description

Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify Expense) is a cloud-based travel and expense report management solution for companies of all sizes.

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Automatically create expense reports for employees and make reimbursements effortless for your finance team. Streamline your expense management effortlessly, minimize manual tasks, ensure compliance, and experience the time-saving benefits of expense optimization.


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Seller
Emburse
Company Website
Year Founded
2015
HQ Location
Los Angeles, California
Twitter
@emburse
1,129 Twitter followers
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815 employees on LinkedIn®
Description

Emburse makes expense management simple. Our expense, travel management, accounts payable, and payments solutions are trusted by more than 1
million professionals, including CFOs and finance teams, travel managers, and business travelers. More than
0,000 organizations in 1
0 countries, from Global
000 corporations and small-medium businesses, to public sector agencies and nonprofits, count on us to manage expenses with ease, providing user-friendly tools and personalized support. Our AI-based automation and mobile-first product approach eliminate manual, time-consuming expense submissions, approval and reconciliation. We deliver efficiency and time savings, increase financial visibility, enhance spend control and compliance, and improve the business travel experience. This empowers our customers and their teams to focus on what matters most in their personal and professional lives.


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Anna C.
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Anna C.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Department Level Budgeting is a Breeze"
Team members can submit their reports to not only their immediate managers for approval, but it can be submitted up to another level of managers. I...
Alex S.
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Alex S.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Using Certify - Quick & Easy"
Support provided by the vendor at implementation was excellent. Users were able to use the application immediately and are further supported by sho...
Vaibhav P.
VP
Vaibhav P.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Very good reimbursement certificate"
This application helps to reimburse the things in an efficient way and more accurately. Like the application a lot as it is very easy to use and n...
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Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify Expense) Demo - Emburse Certify Homepage
A launch point for your spend requests, reports, My Certify Wallet, receipts & invoices, and expense report schedule.
Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify Expense) Demo - Emburse Certify: Report Executive
Empower timely data entry across the company with ReportExecutive™. This industry-leading innovation automatically creates expense reports for every employee on a schedule that you set. End users will love the automation and you’ll love the compliance and control.
Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify Expense) Demo - Emburse Certify Expense Approval
Emburse Certify instantly flags out-of-policy expense reports and automatically enforces compliance with built-in policy controls.
Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify Expense) Demo - Emburse Certify: My Certify Wallet
Merge receipt and transaction data in the My Certify Wallet.
Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify Expense) Demo - Emburse Analytics
Gain the insights you need to forecast, manage cash flow, and predict spend with Emburse Analytics. Utilize dashboard reporting to improve decision-making, spot trends, and uncover gaps, while benefiting from the drill-down flexibility to delve into details quickly. Easily share dashboards and re...
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Alex S.
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President &amp; CFO
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Review source: Seller invite
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What do you like best about Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify Expense)?

Support provided by the vendor at implementation was excellent. Users were able to use the application immediately and are further supported by short and practical training tutorials. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify Expense)?

Being a Canadian company the VAT/GST tax functionality in the software was not as practical. However workarounds were implemented to ensure success with the use of the software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify Expense) solving and how is that benefiting you?

The workflow functionality of the application allows for the timely submission and review of expense reports. The bottleneck that used to exist in this area was eliminated and resulting in more accurate and timely reporting. In addtion, employees were receiving more timely reimbursement for out-of-pocket expenses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

RK
CEO
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: G2 invite on behalf of seller
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What do you like best about Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify Expense)?

It is so hard to use, I Cabot think of anything.

Sync of credit card and receipt data from phone, email and credit card feed I thought was working.... But then they dropped the credit card feed feature and failed to notify me while they kept charging me fees. I had to find out by contacting the help desk!

They claim to process invoices but there is no way to differentiate them from receipts! This system is a complete nightmare for my accounting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify Expense)?

The credit card feed is constantly comin unconnected, rendering the service useless. They claim to process invoices but there is no way to differentiate them from receipts! This system is a complete nightmare for my accounting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify Expense) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Expense report approval is automated. *IF* the credit card data is syncing, it makes it easier. If it is not, it gives notice to users that anything is wrong -and simply disconnects the credit card feed! THis is a huge problem.and it turns out that they disable the feature with no notice to users. This is unacceptable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aaron P.
AP
Site Controller and Finance Manager
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: G2 invite on behalf of seller
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What do you like best about Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify Expense)?

Certify helped us achieve our efficiency and internal control improvement goals. It's user-friendly and users love how fast you can submit expenses reports on the go. We have been able to report fraudulent activity by linking our corporate cards with Certify and getting a prompt message from the system. Finance reporting has also been improved by linking Certify reports with Power BI. Implementation was also quick and clean! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify Expense)?

I would say reponse time from Customer Support could be better but it's not really a hurdle. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify Expense) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Having a lot of employees travelling all over the world, they were always facing delays in expense report submission because we had a manual process. Acconting was also late in booking and reimbursing so none was happy. After implementing Certify this issue was solved completely and it was a win-win for everyone. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vaibhav P.
VP
Business Finance Consultant
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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Review source: G2 invite
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What do you like best about Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify Expense)?

This application helps to reimburse the things in an efficient way and more accurately. Like the application a lot as it is very easy to use and not like other complex applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify Expense)?

The software sometimes get stuck while using or doing multiple task on it. Also, they must add some more features such as auto verying claims and other things to make it more effective. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify Expense) solving and how is that benefiting you?

The application helps me to get the things in sorted way and get the claims identified and resolved in effective and accurate way. It is very easy to understand the software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness
AH
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: G2 invite on behalf of seller
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What do you like best about Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify Expense)?

Its fast, simple to use. handles 98% of all requirements for entering an expense.

The app does a good job of recognizing receipts and filling in amounts for you such as receipts from gas stations, restaurants, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify Expense)?

Sometimes it doesn't recognize the total of a restaurant receipt where a tip and total are hand written.

on the approval side, it marks certain keywords with a caution symbol. For example, if it sees the word "Green" (for golfing) or "gift card" on a receipt it will flag it. the problem is that a "green salad" will also get flagged. 90% of all receipts have a survey at the bottom that says "complete our survey for a chance to win a gift card", so any receipt from Wendy's or Home Depot will be flagged. an uber receipt with a map in it of the tampa airport will be flagged because "world of beer" is on the google map.

the only one that is confusing is that some businesses don't close out credit card transactions until the next day. so if you check out of a hotel on a Friday, the receipt may be marked on Saturday in the credit card bill from American Express. You have to match date of receipt to date of credit card, which means you have to change the correct receipt date to the following date or you cannot reconcile it. This also means that 2 dinners could end up on the same day (if one gets closed on CC on following day) which will flag for going over the daily meal limit - even though one meal was on day before.

i approve about 10-15 expense reports per week and do 2-3 month for myself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify Expense) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Allows employees to enter receipts for travel expenses, tools, and classes they take. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: In-app
What do you like best about Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify Expense)?

I upload receipts as I get them and it automatically starts an expense report for me at the beginning of the week. All I have to do is open it and check to make sure everything is there and hit submit. Very simple and saves a lot of time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify Expense)?

I don't use all of the functions within certify. For what I use it for it works great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify Expense) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Being able to upload receipts and have the report auto generate saves a lot of time and also keeps me from saving receipts all week. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AN
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: In-app
What do you like best about Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify Expense)?

I like that you can make a file folder of expense reports that can be submitted together as one. That is a very useful feature and helpful so that you can come back to it as needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify Expense)?

Sometimes it is confusing to the user as it would be easy to accidentally submit the report without adding all time needed to be added. The submit button should be more clearly labelled. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify Expense) solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is allowing me to be reimbersed for mileage expenses throughout the month. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Food & Beverages
UF
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: In-app
What do you like best about Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify Expense)?

Simple to save reciepts and log expenses as I go via mobile device. I like that you can generate a report quickly, and submit for approval. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify Expense)?

The map it is not always accurate. When submitting a report for approval, it would be nice to have the ability to pull it back, even after a week of it sitting in the queue. My manager had to reject a report for me instead of me pulling it back and editing it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify Expense) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Ease of keeping track of expenses, and eliminating need for emailing myself or scanning receipts from a printer to myself, and then uploading them to Emburse Certify. Big time saver. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amanda K.
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VP of Program Operations and Execution
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: G2 invite on behalf of seller
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What do you like best about Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify Expense)?

If you are uploading receipts before the report is made it is super easy to complete and turn in on time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify Expense)?

Sending receipts through email does not always compute - our phsical address is 3550 on our email and there have been a few occurrences when the software reads the email as the transaction amount is $3550. I am not the only one that that has happened to Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify Expense) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Amount of time it used to take to fill out and approve expense reports - much faster now Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Medical Practice
UM
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: G2 invite on behalf of seller
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What do you like best about Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify Expense)?

Certify expense is user freindly and I recieve my updates quickly for travel. I have had no problems with reimbursements to my account so far this year Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify Expense)?

I cannot think of any downsides. There have been no issues for me or my staff submitting or receiveing payments. I have educated my staff on how to recieve payment and have no complaints Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify Expense) solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use Emburse Certify a few tims a week for our Clinic and can now look back at our office expenses to negotiate terms with our vendors for better bricing based on increase use of products as we continue to expand or services. This has allowed me to negotiate with facts and figures to support our increased expenses with our vendors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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