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Emburse Spend (formerly Abacus)

Real-time expense management without expense reports

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Emburse Spend (formerly Abacus) - 2025 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

What is 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.

Benefits of using 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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Emburse Spend (formerly Abacus)'s key features

Most critical features, based on insights from Emburse Spend (formerly Abacus) users:

Expense Tracking

5.0

(2)

Multi-Currency

5.0

(2)

Project Accounting

5.0

(1)

All Emburse Spend (formerly Abacus) features

Features rating:

4.1

(46)

Access Controls/Permissions

(0)

Accounting

(0)

Accounting Integration

(0)

Accounts Payable

(0)

Accounts Receivable

(0)

Activity Dashboard

(0)

Activity Tracking

(0)

Ad hoc Reporting

(0)

Alerts/Notifications

(0)

API

(0)

Approval Process Control

(0)

Approval Workflow

(0)

Audit Trail

(0)

Automated Receipt Matching

(0)

Bank Reconciliation

(0)

Billing & Invoicing

(0)

Budget Control

(0)

Budgeting/Forecasting

(0)

Cash Flow Management

(0)

Categorization/Grouping

(0)

Compliance Management

(0)

Configurable Workflow

(0)

Corporate Card

(0)

Credit Card Management

(0)

Customizable Branding

(0)

Customizable Fields

(0)

Customizable Reports

(0)

Customizable Templates

(0)

Dashboard

(0)

Data Import/Export

(0)

Data Visualization

(0)

Electronic Payments

(0)

ERP integration

(0)

Expense Claims

(0)

Financial Analysis

(0)

Financial Consolidation & Close Management

(0)

Financial Management

(0)

Financial Reporting

(0)

General Ledger

(0)

Mileage Tracking

(0)

Mobile Access

(0)

Mobile Receipt Upload

(0)

Optical Character Recognition

(0)

Policy Management

(0)

Prepaid Cards

(0)

Real-Time Analytics

(0)

Real-Time Data

(0)

Real-Time Monitoring

(0)

Real-Time Notifications

(0)

Real-Time Reporting

(0)

Real-Time Updates

(0)

Receipt Management

(0)

Reimbursement Management

(0)

Reminders

(0)

Reporting & Statistics

(0)

Reporting/Analytics

(0)

Rules-Based Workflow

(0)

Scheduled/Automated Reports

(0)

Search/Filter

(0)

Secure Data Storage

(0)

Single Sign On

(0)

Spend Analysis

(0)

Spend Control

(0)

Third-Party Integrations

(0)

Transaction History

(0)

Vendor Management

(0)

Visual Analytics

(0)

Workflow Management

(0)

Emburse Spend (formerly Abacus) alternatives

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Ease of Use

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Value for Money

4.0

Customer Support

4.3

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4.4

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Ease of Use

4.4

Features

4.2

Value for Money

4.3

Customer Support

4.5

Emburse Expense Professional (formerly Certify Expense)

4.7

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Free trial

Free version

Ease of Use

4.6

Features

4.6

Value for Money

4.6

Customer Support

4.6

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4.2

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Free trial

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Ease of Use

3.9

Features

4.2

Value for Money

3.8

Customer Support

3.8

Emburse Spend (formerly Abacus) integrations (5)

Top integrations

Emburse Spend (formerly Abacus) support options

Typical customers

Freelancers

Small businesses

Mid size businesses

Large enterprises

Platforms supported

Web

Android

iPhone/iPad

Support options

Email/Help Desk

FAQs/Forum

Knowledge Base

Training options

Webinars

Documentation

Videos

Live Online

Emburse Spend (formerly Abacus) reviews

Overall rating

4.4

Positive reviews

Rating breakdown

Value for money
Ease of use
Features
Customer support
Likelihood to recommend8.45/10

Rating distribution

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.”

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“The Tech support is very good and very willing to help if you have any kind of issues.”

James M.

Legal Assistant

“A total time-saver for everyone involved. The customer service has been outstanding, helping answer our questions every step of the way.”

Scott F.

Sr. Director of Operations

Cons

“So many features are not working properly or missing. If you are a cafe or restaurant this system may work for you.”

Tammy F.

Owner

“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.”

G. Keenan S.

Product Education Lead

“The app struggles with things it claims to do and has some "advanced" things it apparently cannot do.”

Verified reviewer

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Emburse Spend (formerly Abacus) FAQs

Q. Who are the typical users of Emburse Spend (formerly Abacus)?

Emburse Spend (formerly Abacus) has the following typical customers:
Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business, Non Profit, Public Administrations, Small Business

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