Workday Financial Management vs. Zoho Expense

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Workday Financial Management
Score 7.8 out of 10
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Workday Financial Management is a native cloud solution built on a global foundation designed to enable accounting teams to operate with greater productivity, superior insights, and adapt to changing business needs. Its AI embedded features improve financial business processes like record to report and opportunity to cash while strengthening internal controls, and enabling consistency across global operations. Powered by an in-memory architecture and object data…N/A
Zoho Expense
Score 8.3 out of 10
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Zoho Expense is online expense reporting software, tailor-made for businesses worldwide to automate expense report creation, streamline approvals and make swift reimbursements.
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details20% discount for annual pricing.
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Community Pulse
Workday Financial ManagementZoho Expense
Considered Both Products
Workday Financial Management
Chose Workday Financial Management
We are still using Applied Epic for our end AMS system to record client and policy info for our agencies. Workday is a great add on tool we use for our consolidated financials.
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More features at a better cost.
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Workday Financial Management provides a seamless experience to access your required documents or review your pay history. Everything can be done in one place. It true is the one stop shop for digital HR hub to open up self serve to employees. Workday Financial Management has …
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Despite AirTable also being easier to use one thing that differentiates and put forth Workday Financial Management tool above is it's key features and better suited functionality for handling confidential data. The other positive note where Workday Financial Management performs …
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I have much less experience working with Salesforce finicial application. but as per my knowledge it also provides reboust features and one of the top competitor of its. Workday Financial Management need to improve more and more to sustain.
Chose Workday Financial Management
WFM is integrated with SSO, while others are not fully integrated. SAP Concur was used mostly for expense report management, while Deltek Costpoint was used for project time and cost management. Deltek was not very user-friendly, unreliable, and expensive for what it handled.
Chose Workday Financial Management
Workday is far superior to UKG. UKG felt cumbersome while being used, whereas Workday felt easy and intuitive. Workday allows for an easier flow of completing numerous everyday functions. I aim to integrate it into as many of my daily work routines as I can, reducing the time …
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Chose Workday Financial Management
Workday Financial Management absolutely blows them out of the water. Hands down is the best choice. It’s the clear winner for all teams using it. It can change your employees lives and day to day software challenges to speed up and develop reports needed across departments.
Chose Workday Financial Management
The processing power of Workday Financial Management we much better. The other systems didn't run as fast when trying to look at the financials or running any of the various reports that we would need. It also has a cleaner view when looking at the details.
Chose Workday Financial Management
The application data of users in the case of PeopleSoft is stored in its proprietary data storage, whereas Workday Financial Management connects to outside databases to create analytics reports. Therefore, this option uplifts the need to use Workday Financial Management as an …
Chose Workday Financial Management
We went from PeopleSoft to Workday because of the efficiency and ease of use. There were a lot of limitations in PeopleSoft, just in simple things like character limits on fields that did not allow us to be as detailed. Workday Financial Management/Revenue Management has very …
Chose Workday Financial Management
The costs to implement Hyperion were astronomical comparted to Workday. Furthermore, the implementation timeline was probably a third of what we would have been looking at had we gone with Hyperion. Simply put, we got somewhere in the neighborhood of 90% of what we needed for …
Chose Workday Financial Management
  • It is a simple and intuitive solution that can be customized for your specific needs.
  • It unifies HR and finance, giving you predictive analytics, real-time insights, and global visibility.
  • It offers a single version of the tool to meet the requirements of diverse companies.
Chose Workday Financial Management
Stacking up it was a faster and more inexpensive implementation. Granted it was still early in the system development years, but the results and the five years of using it speak for themselves. Cloud we wanted, comprehensive financials was a core functional requirement and …
Chose Workday Financial Management
I miss using Workday Financial Managment, and if I moved departments or took on more responsibilities with the financials I would definitely recommend it!
Zoho Expense
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Zoho Expense is on the lower end with limited features however the cost out weights all the fancy features the others have. As they charge way to much and have limited return on investment. The return on investment for the other platforms is only worth it when operating large …
Chose Zoho Expense
We selected (switched) to Zoho Expense because it had similar features at a lower price and we were able to receive a discount through our partner relationship with another software company. We have considered moving from Zoho Expense to something else recently due to …
Chose Zoho Expense
I've used Concur in the past for managing and submitting expenses. When comparing what I know about Zoho to Concur, Zoho seems to be a more simplified tool focused on simply managing expenses, inputting, tracking, submitting and getting reimbursed. Based on what I know, Zoho …
Chose Zoho Expense
I have only used Expensify before and it stacks up nicely to it. Expensify is probably a bit better, but it's also more expensive, especially if you already use other Zoho products.
Features
Workday Financial ManagementZoho Expense
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
Workday Financial Management
8.4
Ratings
16% above category average
Zoho Expense
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Pay calculation8.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Benefit plan administration8.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Direct deposit files8.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Customization
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Workday Financial Management
8.5
Ratings
11% above category average
Zoho Expense
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API for custom integration8.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Plug-ins8.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Workday Financial Management
9.0
Ratings
10% above category average
Zoho Expense
-
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Single sign-on capability9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Role-based user permissions9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Workday Financial Management
8.7
Ratings
19% above category average
Zoho Expense
-
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Dashboards8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Standard reports9.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Custom reports8.70 Ratings00 Ratings
General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
Comparison of General Ledger and Configurable Accounting features of Product A and Product B
Workday Financial Management
8.5
Ratings
10% above category average
Zoho Expense
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Accounts payable8.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Accounts receivable9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Global Financial Support8.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Primary and Secondary Ledgers8.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Journals and Reconciliations8.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Configurable Accounting8.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Standardized Processes9.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Inventory Management
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Workday Financial Management
8.7
Ratings
10% above category average
Zoho Expense
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Inventory tracking9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Automatic reordering8.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Location management8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Order Management
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Workday Financial Management
9.1
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15% above category average
Zoho Expense
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Credit card processing9.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Expense Management
Comparison of Expense Management features of Product A and Product B
Workday Financial Management
-
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Zoho Expense
7.9
Ratings
8% below category average
Employee Expense Reporting00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Corporate Card Reconciliation00 Ratings7.70 Ratings
Payment Management
Comparison of Payment Management features of Product A and Product B
Workday Financial Management
-
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Zoho Expense
7.2
Ratings
13% below category average
Customizable Approval Policies00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Financial Document Management00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Payment Status Tracking00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Payment Audit Trail00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Duplicate Bill Detection00 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Advanced OCR00 Ratings5.20 Ratings
Electronic Funds Transfer00 Ratings5.20 Ratings
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
8.9
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Likelihood to Renew
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Usability
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
Our primary model for budgeting revenue is centered on patient counts. Missed assumptions early in the year result in massive ramifications over the balance of the year. Workday formulas allowed us to write formulas to project the recovery of such shortfalls over a variable length of time, resulting in realistic projections for overcoming said shortfalls.
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Zoho Expense is wonderful when you have a distributed or remote team or workforce that needs to submit expenses reports throughout the month into a single software and approval system. Zoho Expense does make it easy to train, onboard, and use all of the end-user features for submitting and generating expense reports.
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Pros
  • We specically wanted a cloud financial management system that we could use in China and communicate reports to the headquarters organization and roll-up reporting. It performs well.
  • It was reasonably priced since we are not a for-profit company and need the Workday flexibility for finance and accounting operations. Most of our requirements are met with this one system.
  • The system worked efficiently with the additional security we built on to keep confidential. Many reports are ready off-the-shelf or easy to develop, which is a strength.
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  • The program will notify users if they have entered a duplicate charge.
  • Once the end-users understood that receipts were mandatory, attaching those receipts has become second-nature. The app makes it very easy to do so.
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Cons
  • The automatic save function isn't always active for the cloud version. I'm not sure if it is a glitch or a settings issue.
  • There are some limitations to customizations.
  • Updates don't go through properly on the system, leading to downtime issues.
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  • Banking integration should be two ways, once corporate card is paid for, it should close the line item
  • Reports should be available on demand
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Usability
Workday Financial Management is an easy to use, productive software suite that really brings all departments together and improved workplace efficiency. Before we began using the software, much info was partitioned in random places that were not clearly labeled or accessible to all shareholders. We are very pleased with Workday Financial Management.
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Ease of use for the simple basic options. I wish the there was an option for reimbursement to be marked separately. Example for all corporate credit expense reports with $0 reimbursements still have to be marked as reimbursed in order to be removed from pending reimbursement section. For the cost the features offer benefits
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Support Rating
Our support team has been awesome. They are extremely knowledgeable and have been able to guide us through all of the challenges we have faced. Workday's community online is also extremely helpful with many trainings and help topics that can be reviewed at your convenience.
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The only reason I give Zoho a 9 is because of the issue with the Chart of Accounts skewing every time I export/import. I believe this is due to the fact that I use sub-accounts and Zoho cannot differentiate. Still hoping. :)
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Alternatives Considered
The application data of users in the case of PeopleSoft is stored in its proprietary data storage, whereas Workday Financial Management connects to outside databases to create analytics reports. Therefore, this option uplifts the need to use Workday Financial Management as an interactive tool of business intelligence. The release model of Workday Financial Management is ahead of Oracle because it has a continual announcement of more functionality that is a very attractive incentive for our project management team for improving and developing the ongoing operational streams.
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Zoho Expense is on the lower end with limited features however the cost out weights all the fancy features the others have. As they charge way to much and have limited return on investment. The return on investment for the other platforms is only worth it when operating large scale operations. Zoho Expense is a great product
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Return on Investment
  • Workday has helped my employer save money over the past couple of year by tracking time of employees and how long were days looking like.
  • It has enables us to make better decisions by hiring more people instead of paying overtime to those who already work in order to have the right work/leisure balance
  • The platform has also helped us to redesign our policies after seeing when employees were clocking in and clocking out and track people who were showing up late for work
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  • It's included in our Zoho One Subscription which was cheaper than QuickBooks, and we now have so many more options at a much cheaper cost.
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