Emburse Cards
About Emburse Cards
Emburse Cards allows you to create plastic and virtual credit cards with built-in spending rules. Restrict spending based on budget, date, time, location, etc. You can granularly track individual spending without having to track everyone down. The cloud-based platform allows users, both employees and their employers, to see exactly how much money has been spent by recording all transactions within the app in a timely and accurate manner.
Emburse Cards allows users to set daily, monthly and fixed project limits that cannot be exceeded by employees. The built-in expense reconciliation system captures receipts and categorizes transactions as soon as the transaction happens. Employees can add the receipt on-the-go by taking a picture using any internet-enabled mobile device. Emburse Cards will automatically locate receipts in the user’s inbox, meaning no action is needed to reconcile the payment.
In order to create seamless workflows, Emburse Cards integrates with major third party accounting platforms such as Xero, Quickbooks, Intact and Netsuite which makes reporting and expense reconciliation automatic. The platform also empowers accountants to split expenses into various transactions with different cost categories.
Key benefits of Emburse Cards
• Offers a secure way to share and enforce budgets across various employees and enables individual accountability on spending.
• The Emburse Cards platform can recognize when a transaction is out of policy and give the employee the opportunity to repay the amount from personal funds.
• Emburse Cards automatically scans users’ Google inbox to look for the corresponding receipt for a transaction.
• Allows the user to set restrictions such as date, time, merchant, place and budgets to control spending.
• Users can automatically categorize recurring transactions and even detect the type of merchant.
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- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Everyone has a card!
Reviewed on 2019/08/17
Pretty good, some issues in the part with reissuing cards (always a pain to ship a couple of dozen...
Pretty good, some issues in the part with reissuing cards (always a pain to ship a couple of dozen around the world again) but just happened once so far.
Pros
We have implemented Emburse for all our remote team (aka everyone) that works with us. Each person gets a card shipped with budgets to spend on perks ($500 in Convert's case) and that makes everything run smooth. Then we run almost all budgets through the virtual cards making it easier to decentralize spending on anything. Decentralize is the way to go for us since we run on Holacracy and are all remote.
Cons
Feel it's still missing a direct connection with Xero that could be a big plus. A way to ship a card directly to anywhere in the world (now only US) would save us a logistical step.
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BrexReasons for Switching to Emburse Cards
The chip works at more locations in the world then the Brex technology allowing our team to use it at more locations.- Industry: E-Learning
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Emburse dramatically simplified expenses. My team loves it!
Reviewed on 2019/08/14
Pros
Emburse makes it incredibly easy to issue expense cards to new employees and ensure that everyone reports back on all the key things you need to close your books. It took an annoying process of internal nagging to get the books closed, to a streamlined automated text message each time someone purchased. It’s amazing.
Cons
There is nothing significant that I dislike about the product. One quirk is that you’re using pre-paid cards rather than true credit cards, so you have to keep re-upping your balance. But this is automated so it’s not a big deal.
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BrexReasons for Switching to Emburse Cards
Much more complete in it’s ability to map our internal workflow to the system. Also, Emburse support was far superior and responsive.- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 2.0 /10
Servers Down Constantly Lead to Failures in Purchases
Reviewed on 2019/08/14
It's a free program, you get what you pay for.
It's a free program, you get what you pay for.
Pros
It's become a little more user friendly with drop down menus that you can search in and the ability to add additional attachments.
Cons
The website has been so slow as of late. It takes a few minutes for it to boot up and for me to be able to search for a transaction. It is so inconvenient. The servers have also had issues lately that cause recurring purchases to fail and cause serious issues with our vendors.
Response from Emburse
Hi Sarah,
We are sorry to hear about your experience. We were recently performing some server cleanup which is why the transaction page was slow but have since finished.
And as of last month, we added a new fix for managing any failed purchases! You shouldn't see anymore going forward.
Just wanted to add that we aren't a free platform, but because of our relationship with Housecall Pro, we decided to waive the monthly fee a long time ago.
If you have any questions or if there's anything we can do for you to make Emburse a better fit for you, please reach out and we'll make it happen!
Regards,
Chris
- Industry: Entertainment
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
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Reviewed on 2019/09/19
The Emburse journey has been excellent the whole way through and customer support has stood out as...
The Emburse journey has been excellent the whole way through and customer support has stood out as a major strength the entire way. From development support during integration to operational support once you are live, the team at Emburse has always been fast to respond and incredibly informative and helpful. Can't say enough about their support.
Pros
The ability to leverage both an easy to administer Dashboard along with a rich set of APIs fit our use case perfectly. It allowed us to quickly launch and integrate our integration while making use of the Dashboard to augment any intermediate needs we had while developing our software.
Cons
We are eagerly awaiting consumer spending support through Emburse.
- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Love the debit feature
Reviewed on 2019/08/13
We are very pleased with Emburse. The support has been responsive -- although we have not needed...
We are very pleased with Emburse. The support has been responsive -- although we have not needed much support because everything works well and is easy to understand.
We have very intention of utilizing Emburse as often as we can. We are a marketing and branding company with specialty in the spirits industry and in field marketing. Our usage is based on Client programs that we create and execute.
Pros
Easy to use.
Because of the replenishment feature, we can always keep a set amount of available funds for our non-employee marketing reps.
No concerns about excessive numbers of conventional corporate credit cards being used.
Reconciliation is easy with the month end statement.
Cons
I really do not have any cons to share.
Our Account Manager and Field Director are both very happy with Emburse. Our Account Manager was the one pushing for Emburse and I think it was and is a good decision.
Emburse Cards FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Emburse Cards.Q. What type of pricing plans does Emburse Cards offer?
Emburse Cards offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: US$0.00
- Free Trial: Available
Starter: $50/month for up to 10 employees. Business: $7/user/month for 10-100 employees. Enterprise: contact Emburse for more information on enterprise pricing. API pricing: $0.25/new card with a $500/month minimum fee.
Q. Who are the typical users of Emburse Cards?
Emburse Cards has the following typical customers:
2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Emburse Cards support?
Emburse Cards supports the following languages:
English, Italian
Q. Does Emburse Cards support mobile devices?
Emburse Cards supports the following devices:
Q. What other apps does Emburse Cards integrate with?
Emburse Cards integrates with the following applications:
NetSuite, Okta, QuickBooks Online Advanced, Sage Intacct, Slack, Xero
Q. What level of support does Emburse Cards offer?
Emburse Cards offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Chat
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