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About Emburse Cards
Emburse Cards is a cloud-based corporate card solution, which helps businesses issue virtual and physical credit/debit cards, set spending rules and adjust budgets and policies in real-time. Features include role-based permissions, mobile data capture, approval workflows, automatic expense categorization, analytics and reporting.
The application enables accountants to recognize out-of-policy transactions and permit employees to pay back or reimburse amount from personal fund. Employees can send purchase requests along with the required amount and reason, letting administrators track user's purchase activity and assign a budget accordingly. The solution automatically detects fraudulent purchases and deactivate stolen or missing cards. Additionally, supervisors can send email notifications to members for pending tasks and enforce restrictions on expenses.
Emburse Cards offers integration with various third-party applications such as QuickBooks, Netsuite, Intacct, Okta and more. It is available on monthly subscriptions and per user basis and support is provided via email, phone and documentation.
Emburse Cards pricing
Emburse Cards does not have a free version but does offer a free trial. Emburse Cards paid version starts at USD 0.00.
Starting Price:
USD 0.00
Free Version:
No
Free trial:
Yes
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Emburse Cards Reviews
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Dennis
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Review Source
5
Reviewed on 17/08/2019
Everyone has a card!
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.
Alternatives Considered
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.
Keith
- Industry: E-Learning
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Review Source
5
Reviewed on 14/08/2019
Emburse dramatically simplified expenses. My team loves it!
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.
Alternatives Considered
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.
Sarah
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Review Source
3
Reviewed on 14/08/2019
Servers Down Constantly Lead to Failures in Purchases
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
Replied 19/08/2019
Aaron
- Industry: Entertainment
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Review Source
4
Reviewed on 19/09/2019
Emburse Review
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.
Bhakti
- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Review Source
5
Reviewed on 13/08/2019
Love the debit feature
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.
