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Help streamline your American Express spending with Emburse Spend
Instantly request and issue American Express® virtual Cards helping your team track, control and optimize spending on Emburse Spend.
American Express virtual Card spending
Help simplify American Express virtual Card spending with Emburse Spend
We know that managing expenses can be a difficult and time-consuming process that only gets more complicated as your company grows. That’s why American Express and Emburse Spend have come together to integrate American Express virtual Cards into the Emburse Spend platform, to help American Express Business and Corporate Card Members better manage their expenses. Once enrolled¹, you can centralize your expense management by issuing American Express virtual Cards pre-set with payment parameters to help you stay within your budget and consolidating ad hoc out-of-pocket expenses on a single platform.
Enrollment Required and Fees apply.
¹ Card enrollment required for eligible American Express Business and Corporate Cards. Separate enrollment with each of Emburse and American Express is required to utilize combined product offering. To pay a supplier using an eligible American Express Business or Corporate Card within the Emburse platform, the supplier must be an American Express accepting merchant and agree to accept American Express virtual Card payments. Additional upgrades, features, and payment methods may require separate activation with Emburse, and fees may apply as determined by Emburse. Please contact your Emburse representative to learn more.
² Compatible accounting software includes Netsuite, Quickbooks Desktop and Online, Xero, and Intacct.
Benefits
Benefits of using American Express and Emburse Spend together
Emburse Spend streamlines the process for managing your team’s spending, such as recurring spending and one-off vendor payments, so you can improve expense management, streamline spending strategically, and gain strategic insights.
- Capture receipt images and code expenses at the time of purchase
- See company spending as it happens with real-time submission, review and approval
- Stay ahead of time-consuming, high-volume Card transactions by automating spending policy
- Sync with your compatible accounting software² for automatic reconciliation
² Compatible accounting software includes Netsuite, Quickbooks Desktop and Online, Xero, and Intacct.
Use insights gained from a holistic view of your spending to help you make more strategic expense management decisions
- Gain insights to help optimize spending by pre-allocating budgets for recurring and ad hoc purchase
- Reinforce company policy at the point of purchase
Increased control and agility
Clients can approve American Express virtual Card spending in Emburse Spend before it happens and reinforce company policy at the point of purchase.
Automatically enforce a daily, weekly, or monthly spending limit, as well as restrictions on the dates an American Express virtual Card can be used. Set policies to prompt the employee to add a receipt and required expense details immediately after a purchase is made.
Track virtual Card spending for individuals, teams, and projects from one dashboard.
Set and adjust American Express virtual Card limits, activate and deactivate virtual Cards, and approve or deny expenses with the click of a button.