Emburse Nexonia vs. Harpoon

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Emburse Nexonia
Score 7.0 out of 10
N/A
Nexonia, by Emburse, is a tool designed to streamline employee expense reporting. It is designed to increase visibility into spendings and make the expense tracking, approval, and reporting process paperless. Nexonia was part of a merger with Certify in 2017 and is now part of the larger company formed from it and Chrome River, Emburse.N/A
Harpoon
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Harpoon is a web-hosted accounting and finance app that helps freelancers and consultants set and meet their financial goals. In addition, Harpoon provides useful tools to help users collect revenue and manage finances. Features include time tracking, invoicing, expense tracking, project scheduling and more.  The vendor’s value proposition is that their solution that helps users boost their freelancing career.
$19
per month
Pricing
Emburse NexoniaHarpoon
Editions & Modules
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Single User - Unlimited Everything
$19
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Emburse NexoniaHarpoon
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
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Expense Management
Comparison of Expense Management features of Product A and Product B
Emburse Nexonia
9.3
Ratings
8% above category average
Harpoon
-
Ratings
Employee Expense Reporting9.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Corporate Card Reconciliation9.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Payment Management
Comparison of Payment Management features of Product A and Product B
Emburse Nexonia
9.0
Ratings
9% above category average
Harpoon
-
Ratings
Customizable Approval Policies9.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Financial Document Management10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Payment Status Tracking9.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Payment Audit Trail9.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Duplicate Bill Detection9.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Advanced OCR9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Electronic Funds Transfer6.10 Ratings00 Ratings
User Ratings
Emburse NexoniaHarpoon
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(0 ratings)
9.0
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Support Rating
6.6
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Emburse NexoniaHarpoon
Likelihood to Recommend
Well suited for businesses where the billing goes based on time and expenses. Easy tracking and integration helps to solve the accounting entry flow in the accounting system. Less appropriate where there is only fixed fee billing and time tracking metrics are not much required.
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If you're freelancing or running a small marketing agency, I'll steer you strongly towards Harpoon. It's such a terrific fit for this business type. It provides easy invoice management so if that's all you care about, use Harpoon this way. If you want a tool that will guide you towards success, Harpoon helps you do this when launching your account. Know what you want to earn, what it takes to get there, and how you're doing along the way. What financial software for freelancers provides simple project tools? Harpoon.
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Pros
  • The integration with NetSuite is well executed.
  • The system is intuitive for both users and approvers.
  • Ability to feed credit card data into the system is super helpful.
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  • Makes Sending Invoices & Collecting Payment Easy, for Freelancers
  • Tracking Financial Goals (Monthly & Annual) & Projecting Future Results
  • Provides Insights On AR, Earned Income, Top Clients, and other helpful but highly relevant data points.
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Cons
  • The design interface isn't intuitive or attractive. Because I use it irregularly (less than once a month), I spend a lot of wasted time trying to remember how to use it.
  • If you have complicated submissions, it's challenging to figure out how to submit it correctly. I have to break each submission down into individual charges, although there's supposed to be a way to use a "split" feature or other features that would allow you to add multiple receipts to 1 day. After a year, I still haven't figured out how to use anything beyond one receipt = 1 submission.
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  • Sometimes expense reporting bring up duplicate transactions, which may be more of a fault of the API that connects my account, which is Plaid
  • Would be nice if in the future, they can offer ACH as one of the payment options for invoices
  • There are some redundancies that pop up when setting time frames for client work and the projects attached to them. If they aren't aligned, it can cause inaccurate reporting. If it just sent it once and it took care of both functions, it would be easier
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Support Rating
I was not talking directly with the customer support. My understanding was that, there was some maintenance on the platform but it was never inconvenient for employee or during pick time when employee would put their expenses in the tool. To that extent, I think the support for Nexonia is correct
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The few times I've needed help or had questions about the platform, the founder got back to me. And fairly fast. The extra effort resonated well with me
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Alternatives Considered
It captures receipts through the mobile app and is more convenient Easy to code time sheets and User-friendly and It will sync with Intacct and BILL for payments it greatly Improves suppliers and partner relationships it si very much Cost management it has good Product functionality and performance it helped in Overall cost reductions for small firms
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These others accounting/invoicing platforms did a great job with the invoicing and bookkeeping, but at the time I used them, none of them had any goalsetting features. I also found the metrics dashboards a bit underwhelming.
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Return on Investment
  • Nexonia Expenses has provided a positive impact on ROI because it saves time for employees who are submitting expenses for reimbursement.
  • Nexonia Expenses provides a positive impact on ROI because it saves time for employees who are issuing and managing POs.
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  • By providing a nice all-in-one platform for managing clients, related projects, invoicing and bookkeeping, it saved me from having to work with multiple platforms.
  • Saved me from wasting any further time trying to research competitors and trying out other software
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ScreenShots

Emburse Nexonia Screenshots

Screenshot of Nexonia Mobile App

Harpoon Screenshots

Screenshot of Harpoon's Dashboard showcases over a dozen crucial metrics to help you understand the health of your business. Enjoy the big picture view of your freelancing finances.Screenshot of Every business has expenses and Harpoon is the perfect place to track them. Assign expenses to your projects and easily add those expenses to invoices for reimbursement.Screenshot of You'll appreciate how simple it is to create invoices, and your clients will appreciate the one-click ease of making payments online. Harpoon's invoices are clean and beautiful, a perfect complement to the professional services and products you provide.Screenshot of All of a project's invoices, expenses, and recorded hours are grouped and organized in one convenient place ready for you to take action, or simply there for historical reference. Handy!Screenshot of Harpoon gives you powerful tools to track and organize your time. Simple one-click timers combined with flexible reporting puts you in total control of your business's tracked time.