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Give your financial processes a passing grade with Emburse
Give your financial processes a passing grade with Emburse
Save time and money on your institution’s expense and invoice workflows.
Emburse's expense solutions
Open platform for integration of travel and card program data
Emburse enables the flexibility to choose the Travel Management Company and travel technology platform that provides the right options for your institution and have that data flow seamlessly. Our flexibility extends to the ability to integrate all of your card programs in one place, whether it’s a travel card, a p-card, a one card, you now have a single solution for attaching the back up and routing for approval.
Travel and expense management for athletics, group travel, and other university functionalities
Emburse offers a way to manage your institutions end to end travel and expense reporting needs via Chrome River as well as our other Emburse platform solutions. In addition, the ability to handle non travel, departmental spend as well as linking your p-cards as well as other card programs, provides a way to capture all expenses in one place. Automated compliance, audit and approval routing take the burden off of your travel and finance teams to manually audit every expense. Our intuitive Analytics platform allows institutions to quickly and easily see where and how they are spending and make changes to optimize how they are managing funds.
Funding sources
Emburse functionalities include the ability to split expenses among multiple cost centers and/or grants, as well as automated expense allocation that pre-populate the correct account choices, without the need to memorize account or fund codes. Also comes with the ability to utilize extensive per diem functionality, along with handling myriad custom configurations. As well as conditional compliance and approval routing rules depending on the funding source.
Budget control
Emburse allows trip pre-approval allows visibility into expenses before they happen. Budgets can be encumbered based on pre-authorized amounts and then liquidated once the actual expenses are incurred. Business rules can automatically check remaining budgets during both the pre-authorization and expense reporting processes
“”We saved over 40,000 hours per fiscal year that we used to spend processing expense reports and p-card transactions. The paper we saved annually equates to about 8,100 pounds, so I guess you could say we got rid of the elephant in the room!
Lorrie Black
University of New Mexico
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Features that help higher education innovate
Handling complex expense and invoice processes shouldn’t reduce your ability to support your institution’s growth. Let our solutions help you adapt to any change with greater visibility and control.
Pre-approve every expense
Take control of spending before it happens with pre-approvals and custom budgets.
Work from anywhere
Mobile-first technology lets your team work on campus or around the globe.
Tie spend to funding
Connect and split any transaction to specific funding centers or grants for effortless reporting.
Enhance compliance
Smart controls ensure compliance with company policies and government regulations.
Simplify workflows
Eliminate the busy work around routing expenses and invoices for approval.
Actionable analytics
Make insightful, strategic business decisions based on precise data instead of intuition.
Elevate travel
Improve the booking experience for teams, professors, and external ‘guest travelers’
Intuitive usability
Approachable, award-winning product designs drive widespread user adoption
What our clients have to say
“Our Emburse expense solution makes submitting expense reports not only easy, but fun; and it allows us to reimburse travelers more than twice as fast!
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Isaac Salameh
at Centennial College of Applied Arts and Technology
“Emburse helped us take our expense solution and make it do things unique to a higher education environment. This level of customization on top of the easy-to-use interface has been well received across the university.
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Carrie Meyer
at University of Minnesota
“We wanted to streamline our spend management and expense auditing processes within one central platform. Emburse Audit made this possible by seamlessly integrating with our existing Emburse expense solution.
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Regina Beatty
at Accounts Payable
“The solution has brought a new level of accountability and audit that was not possible before with manual processing. We are able to track noncompliance of purchasing rules and have eliminated the possibility of fraud to such a low amount that it has won the approval of the state travel auditors.
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Marie Frank
at University of Louisiana at Lafayette
“We are so happy to stop wasting paper. Our employees like to be able to take a picture and go. Creating and processing pre-approvals and expense reports is so much easier and more efficient.
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Daffie Garris
at Randolph Community College
You may already be familiar with Ellucian as the largest enterprise resource planning (ERP) provider to universities and colleges. But did you know that Emburse powers Ellucian’s travel and expense functionality? And because our solution is delivered as Software as a Service, you can be assured that Emburse won’t place an undue burden on your institution’s IT department.
Ethos Connected
Ellucian Ethos is the higher education framework connecting people, processes and applications across the institution to power coordinated programs designed for student success. Ethos is built upon an open data model that unifies data, APIs and integrations that connect a community of applications and analytics and workflow which enable universities to make informed and coordinated decisions. Together, Emburse and Ellucian enable institutions to gain insights from data for improved decision-making.
Automate the entire travel expense pre-approval, submission, approval, reimbursement process
Submit expenses and receipts from any mobile device for faster reimbursement
See spending trends with analytics and reporting dashboards
“”Emburse helped us take the product and make it do things unique to a higher education environment. This level of customization on top of the easy-to-use interface have been well-received as we dump our beloved (and inefficient/irksome) paper processes.
Carrie Meyer
University of Minnesota
Why Emburse?
Integrated, end-to-end travel and expense management platform that enables you to
- Flexible & configurable to support your current T&E needs with the ability to grow with you in the future.
- Proactively designed to drive adoption and policy adherence.
- Policy and routing rules directly embedded into the software guide employees to adhere to policy while traveling or in the office.
- Today’s data insights drive tomorrow’s opportunities by empowering business users to make data-driven decisions and uncover savings across all spend.
Emburse add-ons
Innovate even more
Analytics
Drive insights and turn data into smart dashboards and reports
Pay
Simple, efficient, transparent ways to send money: B2B payments, corporate cards, and global reimbursements
Audit
Detect fraud and ensure compliance with technology-assited human audit
B2B Payments
Simplify the entire accounts payable automation process from remittance to reconciliation
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Regardless of your challenges, we have tailored solutions to help. Let our friendly experts be your guide.