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Emburse Expense Enterprise (formerly Chrome River Expense) vs Brex: Which is a better fit?

Updated on January 26th, 2025
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Summary
Key features rated by users
Features selected based on 8,095 reviews from Expense Report users.
% Fit
Missing features
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Feature ratings
Expense Tracking
4.6
Invoice Management
NA
Receipt Management
4.3
Expense Claims
5.0
Mobile Receipt Upload
4.4
% Fit
Missing features
Not enough reviews
Feature ratings
Expense Tracking
4.5
Invoice Management
5.0
Receipt Management
4.1
Expense Claims
NA
Mobile Receipt Upload
4.6
User satisfaction
4.4
User reviews176
Ease of use
4.4
Functionality
4.3
Value for money
4.4
Customer support
4.3
4.4
User reviews136
Ease of use
4.5
Functionality
4.4
Value for money
4.5
Customer support
4.4
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Best for

Emburse Enterprise is ideal for midsize to large global organizations needing highly configurable workflows. We'll scale with you, meeting your needs at every step in your journey.

For finance leaders: make your finance team a hero, not a blocker. For controllers: create a culture of speed and financial discipline. For bookkeepers: end the month-end struggle.

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Davette C
Paralegal
4.0

Davette C.: Hi, my name is Davette. I'm a law clerk and I give Embruse Chrome River Expense four out of five stars. For more reviews like this, click below. With the Chrome River, we have the ability to upload all of our receipts, invoices, and quickly process all of our expenses back to anybody who needs them in the firm, so that can go from lawyers, to paralegals, for anything like travel, and it helps for receipts not to get lost and for them to be quickly processed. I really love the fact that it's an easy program to use. I love the fact that you can drag and drop your receipts and invoices in, and it makes things quicker instead of having to go through and try to find those things on your desktop. That's what I love best; saves me time. I guess what I dislike most about Chrome River would be if I'm trying to put something through and having to go through and getting accesses to other people's Chrome River in order to put something through, it takes up a little bit more of my time to have to get the permissions first, but totally understand why those processes are in place.

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Andrew B
Founder
5.0

Andrew B: My name's Andrew. I'm the founder of Mountain Dog Marketing. We're a small business, and I would give Brex a five star. Before Brex, we were using a hodgepodge of credit cards, QuickBooks and spreadsheets to track what we're using now with Brex. We chose Brex for a one-stop shop for a variety of our needs. Obviously credit cards, but it was a much more powerful credit card for us where we could not only use the track spending, but impose limits very easily, upload receipts and set spending limits for certain employees, have virtual cards as well as basically essentially a bank account, which pays a very high interest rate for just having a daily deposit. It was simple to get started with Brex. They have both a web browser-based version and an app. It seems to have gotten a little bit more complicated as they've added on layers but to initially get started, it was very easy to sync all of our bank accounts with either the app or the browser. If you're considering Brex, you almost have a backup plan. It's a great FinTech app for our business, but they don't take anybody. For example, I've suggested them for some of my customers who've not been able to be accepted by the platform. If you're not 100% sure you can get it, you might need to look around for other opportunities. Should you do get accepted, it's very easy to get started, to get prepared for the experience. It takes a little bit more to get used to now because there are different settings that they have now. For example, how much spending one of your users can get. But it's very straightforward right out of the box.

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Emburse Expense Enterprise (formerly Chrome River Expense)

Top Features
35/40
  • Billable & Non-Billable Hours
  • Budgeting/Forecasting
  • Customizable Templates
  • Invoice Management
  • Timesheet Management
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Accounting Integration
  • Activity Dashboard
  • API
  • Approval Process Control
  • Audit Trail
  • Automated Receipt Matching
  • Categorization/Grouping
  • Compliance Management
  • Corporate Card
  • Credit Card Management
  • Customizable Fields
  • Data Import/Export
  • Duplicate Detection
  • Electronic Payments
  • Expense Claims
  • Expense Tracking
  • Financial Analysis
  • Mileage Tracking
  • Mobile Access
  • Mobile Receipt Upload
  • Multi-Currency
  • Optical Character Recognition
  • Policy Management
  • Real-Time Notifications
  • Real-Time Updates
  • Receipt Management
  • Reimbursement Management
  • Reminders
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Secure Data Storage
  • Single Sign On
  • Spend Control
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • Workflow Management
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Emburse Expense Enterprise (formerly Chrome River Expense)

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Emburse Expense Enterprise (formerly Chrome River Expense)
Deployment
  • Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
  • Desktop - Mac
  • Desktop - Windows
  • Desktop - Linux
  • Desktop - Chromebook
  • On-Premise - Windows
  • On-Premise - Linux
  • Mobile - Android
  • Mobile - iPhone
  • Mobile - iPad
Support
  • Email/Help Desk
  • FAQs/Forum
  • Knowledge Base
  • Phone Support
  • 24/7 (Live rep)
  • Chat
Training
  • In Person
  • Live Online
  • Webinars
  • Documentation
  • Videos
Brex
Deployment
  • Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
  • Desktop - Mac
  • Desktop - Windows
  • Desktop - Linux
  • Desktop - Chromebook
  • On-Premise - Windows
  • On-Premise - Linux
  • Mobile - Android
  • Mobile - iPhone
  • Mobile - iPad
Support
  • Email/Help Desk
  • FAQs/Forum
  • Knowledge Base
  • Phone Support
  • 24/7 (Live rep)
  • Chat
Training
  • In Person
  • Live Online
  • Webinars
  • Documentation
  • Videos
Emburse Expense Enterprise (formerly Chrome River Expense)
  • By Emburse
  • Located in United States
  • Founded in 2007
Brex
  • By Brex
  • Located in United States
  • Founded in 2017
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