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Emburse Tallie

Score6.2 out of 10

32 Reviews and Ratings

What is Emburse Tallie?

Tallie is an expense reporting tool that integrates with other billing or accounting platforms (e.g. bill.com, Quickbooks, etc.) to present an expense management solution. It was supported by Certify since the 2017 merger with that company and Nexonia under the new company Certify Travel and Expense, and is now from Emburse, the company formed from the merger of Certify and Chrome River Technologies in March 2019.

Categories & Use Cases

Top Performing Features

  • Electronic Funds Transfer

    Funds can be transferred via EFT as opposed to paper checks.

    Category average: 8.2

  • Corporate Card Reconciliation

    Allows companies to reconcile employee expenses with company card statements.

    Category average: 8.2

  • Employee Expense Reporting

    Allows companies to track employee expenses to make cost-effective decisions.

    Category average: 8.4

Areas for Improvement

  • Payment Audit Trail

    Allows admin users visibility into the entire payment process, from receiving the expense claim or invoice to the payee receiving payment.

    Category average: 8.4

  • Duplicate Bill Detection

    Detects duplicate invoices or expense reports to prevent double payments.

    Category average: 7.8

  • Advanced OCR

    Automatically imports information from invoices, receipts, expense reports, and other scanned documents into the platform.

    Category average: 7.8

A great expense report & reimbursement tool.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

My organization used Tallie for spending & expense management, specifically corporate credit cards and employee reimbursements. Tallie is excellent if you don't need travel management, have an existing corporate credit card, or want the option to choose.

Pros

  • Corporate Credit Cards.
  • Employee reimbursement.
  • Low cost.
  • Scalable
  • Sage Intacct integration.

Cons

  • Purchase order matching.
  • Ecosystem approach - Emburse has multiple products, meaning multiple apps, but you're only paying for what you need.
  • AP automation - see other Emburse apps.
  • Emburse product catalogue is confusing with a lot of similar apps.

Return on Investment

  • Low cost.
  • scalable
  • process improvement.
  • compliance
  • faster reporting.
  • paperless

Usability

Other Software Used

Sage Intacct, SAP Concur, BILL

Helping Users Made Easy

Pros

  • Functional App for users to upload receipts and provide details of the charge
  • Masquerading abilities for admin users to drop in as a user
  • Overview dashboard to keep up to date on where transactions are in the process

Cons

  • Credit Card connections with providers could use some work to either aid in keeping connections running properly or making it easy for Admin to reset the connections that have paused.
  • A good feature add would be the ability to transfer imported charges to another account. You currently can transfer receipts to another account, but for smaller credit card companies that come in as one card but actually are from multiple cardholders, it'd be easier to be able to send charges to the actual card holder's account.

Return on Investment

  • Quality documentation of transactions, approvals, and receipts.
  • Easy setup to implement internal controls.

Alternatives Considered

Expensify

Other Software Used

Sage Intacct, Expensify, QuickBooks Online

Back to traveling means back to expense reimbursement

Pros

  • Allow capture of receipt image.
  • Email receipts too.
  • Paperless reimbursement.

Cons

  • Project code interface timing, but that's likely more on our end. My codes aren't always available right away.
  • The merchant isn't always recognized on the email you forward.

Return on Investment

  • Finance is happy as expenses have receipts.
  • Managers are happy as expenses have documentation.
  • Staff is happy as reimbursement occurs quicker.

Other Software Used

NetSuite CRM, Higher Logic Community

Mileage reporting made easy!!!

Pros

  • Easy address input
  • Calculates mileage for you
  • Organizes it in an easy to read manner

Cons

  • Sometimes(not often) the mileage shows up differently for trips to the same location I have done before.

Return on Investment

  • None for me

Tallie Ho! It's a software review

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Primarily used for corporate credit card reporting and receipts management. Links to bill.com for export to accounting and payment of personal expenses.

Pros

  • Easy end user experience
  • Imports from bank credit card system
  • Analytics reporting helps stay on top of users

Cons

  • Search functions need much improvement; i.e. vendor search for transactions.
  • Impossible to import transactions for dates prior to card being added to system. There's no going back.
  • Needs better recognition of expense categories. Sees airlines and Chick-Fil-A as Dues and Subscriptions (?)

Return on Investment

  • It frees up my time by allowing people to self-report in a common platform rather than sending paper expense reports.
  • It's several thousand dollars cheaper than Concur and other high-end products.
  • It works. It's not easy to get multiple cloud systems to properly integrate and this one seems to get it done.

Alternatives Considered

SAP Concur