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

Updated on January 19th, 2025
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Summary
Key features rated by users
Features selected based on 2,726 reviews from Accounts Payable users.
% Fit
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Accounting
4.8
Third-Party Integrations
5.0
Financial Management
NA
Invoice Management
NA
Invoice Processing
NA
% Fit
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Feature ratings
Accounting
4.8
Third-Party Integrations
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Financial Management
NA
Invoice Management
4.0
Invoice Processing
4.0
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 reviews236
Ease of use
4.5
Functionality
4.2
Value for money
4.2
Customer support
4.0
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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.

Ideal for small businesses and accountants, Plooto is the fastest way to manage business payments - saving you hours on your accounts payable and receivable processes like credit card payments.

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pros & cons
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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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Colette H
Owner, Director, Piano Teacher
5.0

Colette: Hi, my name's Colette. I am owner and director of Calgary Piano Expressions. That is a mobile piano studio here in the city of Calgary, and my rating for Plooto is five out of five. We considered using bank-based pre-authorized debit systems for our customers. We also considered using Wave, which would have allowed us some bank transfers, some credit card use, but ultimately we chose to go with Plooto. We chose Plooto because it gave us the most flexibility for editing payments, even those part of a pre-authorized debit agreement. And since the families who are part of our studio are so busy, lots of them have multiple children, we needed a program that would make it hands-off for the customer. And so once the family sets up their information, everything else we take care of and the customer doesn't have to do anything else. We really enjoy using Plooto. It was quite easy to get the program set up. When we started, there was a little bit of a delay getting payments to our employees just because the first time you ever send money to someone, it takes a few more days, but then after that, even one month later, now the payments were taking only one day to get to the employee. So that's pretty fast. And we really liked that feature about Plooto. It was quite easy to set up in the beginning, so we would send a link to each customer to input their financial information, and then after the setup process was done, sometimes it takes a reminder or two to the family to put their information in, but once it's done, it's done, and then it's easy to use from that point forward. My recommendation is do it. My children's preschool, my children's activities, sometimes they're still asking for monthly E-transfers from customers, and I just see this as being so admin heavy. They must have to chase people to get payments every month, but with Plooto it's very automatic. The only time I need to put some work in is in the case of an NSF, or if someone has changed their credit card information and they need to update it. That's the only time when I really need to go in and do some legwork. With how our business is run, I do have to set up the customer's payments manually every spring for the coming school year, but outside of that, it's very easy to use.

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1099 Preparation
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Accounting
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Emburse Expense Enterprise (formerly Chrome River Expense)

Top Features
26/44
  • 1099 Preparation
  • Billing & Invoicing
  • Cash Management
  • Check Writing
  • Document Management
  • Duplicate Payment Alert
  • Electronic Funds Transfer
  • Financial Management
  • General Ledger
  • Inventory Management
  • Invoice Management
  • Invoice Processing
  • Online Banking
  • Purchase Order Reconciliation
  • Recurring Payments
  • Self Service Portal
  • Status Tracking
  • Supplier Management
  • Accounting
  • ACH Payment Processing
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Aging Tracking
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • API
  • Approval Process Control
  • Audit Trail
  • Bank Reconciliation
  • Compliance Management
  • Customizable Reports
  • Data Import/Export
  • Electronic Payments
  • ERP integration
  • Expense Tracking
  • Financial Analysis
  • Fraud Detection
  • Mobile Access
  • Multi-Currency
  • Process/Workflow Automation
  • Real-Time Data
  • Receipt Management
  • Reporting/Analytics
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • Vendor Management
  • Workflow Management
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Plooto

25/44
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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
Plooto
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
Plooto
  • By Plooto
  • Located in Canada
  • Founded in 2014
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