EMBURSE VS. Concur
Travel and expense management with the flexibility and control you need
Concur is a traditional expense management provider. Emburse helps you drive compliance through convenience with easy-to-use tools, automated workflows, and deep travel and expense insights. Discover opportunities for policy optimization and corporate travel savings with travel supplier contract audit and rate analysis.
Great companies trust Emburse to make their travel and expense processes easier
Emburse
Emburse is an innovative travel and spend management platform with support for travel management, expense reporting, and accounts payable management.
- Configurable policy, workflow, and approval routing
- Travel management, booking, and rate re-shopping
- Contract audit and rate analysis with support for NDC
- Issue physical and virtual cards with controls and limits
- User-friendly analytics and reporting platform
Concur
Concur offers a number of expense and travel management products including a booking and expense reporting tool.
- Expense reporting and travel booking tool
- Cost object approval routing
- Up to 40 custom fields
- Query based reporting and analytics platform
See why companies prefer Emburse solutions
Automated expense management
Expense creation is easy with automation for receipt capture, data extraction, and transaction matching. Powerful compliance and workflow rules ensure coding is correct and everyone has the visibility they need.
Corporate travel ecosystem
Control costs and increase traveler satisfaction with an integrated corporate travel experience. Cost savings of integrated expense management with travel re-shopping, contract audit, and supplier grading can deliver organization's up to 20% cost reduction.
Actionable insights and data
Access your travel and expense data in an interactive, user-friendly platform. Drill down to find insights, discover patterns, and drive strategic decision making and change. Derive program insights from contract audit, discover where terms are not met, and explore the impact of potential policy changes.
Why Emburse?
Emburse makes travel and expense easy for everyone
100%
of customers who previously used Concur rated Emburse's built-in business rules engine as better than Concur's
93%
of previous Concur customers rated Emburse's approval workflow configurability as better than Concur
94%
of customers who previously used Concur rated Emburse's ease of use as better when compared to Concur's
94%
of customers who previously used Concur rated Emburse's support and training as better when compared to Concur's
Recognized by
Belfor achieved 67% faster reimbursements and significant time savings
Belfor users struggled with Concur Expense’s difficult to navigate interface, lengthy reimbursement time, and lack of user-friendly mobile features. Seeking a better expense management experience, Belfor switched to Emburse.
Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP automated and cut invoice processing time by 90%
Hinshaw & Culbertson found their Concur expense management solution was limited in capabilities, and addressing their complex rules and required billing needs. Seeking a better solution for their expense and invoice management, Hinshaw switched to Emburse.
Solutions
Solutions
Delight your end-users and administrators with a suite of innovative, fully integrated expense and travel management, AP automation, and payment solutions.
Manage expenses
Enforcing policies, streamline reimbursements and reduce administrative work for everyone.
Automate accounts payable
Manage the full process of requesting, receiving, and invoicing goods and services.
Streamline Payments
Lower your operating costs and manage cash flow by automating the payment process.
Drive Insights
Make informed, data-driven business decisions to improve your financial health.
Ensure Compliance
Ensure policy compliance with technology-assisted human audit verification.
Manage Travel
Give travelers and managers the tools they need while avoiding vendor lock-in.
Easy implementation
Onboarding and rollout made easy
Implementing your new solutions shouldn’t be overwhelming. Emburse offers dedicated customer support to assist with implementation, training, and ongoing support.
Security & Compliance
Secure solutions that stay compliant, always.
We use a multi-layered approach to protect that key information, constantly monitoring and improving our applications, systems, and processes to meet the growing demands and challenges of a market-leading SaaS application.
SOC 2 Type II
ISO 27001
PCI-DSS
Emburse vs. Concur FAQs
Emburse provides organizations with deeply configurable travel and expense management tools that help organizations enforce policy and increase compliance. With granular rules building that can be applied before submission or in the approval routing process, Emburse helps you ensure every transaction is coded properly and given all proper approvals before arriving in the accounting office.
We offer deep integrations with the best travel management companies in the industry. Travel booking data automatically flows into our platform, creating a cohesive experience for your travelers.
Our business rules engine is built with granularity in mind. Depending on the user role, expense category, allocation, or project, you can choose to apply highly specialized rules that are tailored to your policy and processes. Emburse treats every line item separately, which gives you greatest control possible when it comes to organizational spend.
Yes! This is a major benefit for many organizations. When organizations must adhere to a limited volume of reports, it can restrict processes and result in unexpected overages. With a user based model, you have freedom to implement expense reporting processes that match your businesses cycles and process without worrying about creating too many reports.
Concur only provides pricing based volume of reports your organization will need.
Emburse integrates with all major corporate card providers. This means that we can bring in a feed of the transactions your cardholders make, route them into their accounts, and match those to the receipts they capture and upload.
Of course, not every employee will be given a permanent corporate card. For these employees you can issue Emburse Cards. Embuse Cards provide you a flexible way to give employees spending power with advanced controls like limits, availability dates, and other rules. This can help reduce out of pocket spend and reimbursement burdens while increasing control and visibility.
Emburse Analytics is a powerful platform to that lets you visualize and explore organizational spending trends. Built for business users, you can drill into KPI-dashboards, create purpose-specific custom reports, and discover opportunities for policy optimization, contract negotiation, or other savings opportunities.
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