Emburse Tallie
Expense management software
Travel & expense software
Accounting & finance software
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What is Emburse Tallie
Emburse Tallie is a cloud-based expense management application used to capture receipts, create expense reports, and route expenses through configurable approval workflows. It is typically used by small to mid-sized organizations that want employees to submit expenses from mobile or web while finance teams enforce policy and export data to accounting systems. Tallie supports automated receipt capture and categorization, mileage tracking, and integrations for reimbursement and general ledger posting. It is part of the Emburse product portfolio and is often deployed alongside other finance and payments tools.
Configurable policy and approvals
Tallie supports configurable expense policies, approval routing, and role-based controls to standardize how expenses are submitted and reviewed. Finance teams can set rules for categories, limits, and required fields to reduce back-and-forth with employees. Approval workflows help create an auditable trail for who reviewed and approved each expense. This aligns with common requirements in travel and expense programs where policy enforcement is a primary need.
Mobile receipt capture workflow
The product includes mobile and web capture for receipts and expense creation, which helps employees submit expenses closer to the time of purchase. Receipt imaging and data extraction reduce manual entry for common fields such as merchant, date, and amount. This can improve completeness of documentation for audits and reduce time spent assembling reports. The workflow is designed for frequent, employee-submitted out-of-pocket expenses.
Accounting and payroll integrations
Tallie provides integrations intended to move approved expenses into downstream systems for reimbursement and accounting. This supports common finance workflows such as exporting to general ledger accounts, cost centers, and projects. Integration options reduce manual re-keying and help maintain consistent coding across systems. For organizations with established accounting stacks, this can simplify month-end reconciliation of employee expenses.
Not a full spend suite
Tallie focuses on employee expense reporting rather than end-to-end spend management across procurement, invoicing, and supplier payments. Organizations looking for a single platform that covers purchasing workflows, AP automation, and broader spend analytics may need additional tools. This can increase integration and administration effort across multiple systems. The product is best evaluated as part of a broader finance operations architecture.
Card and travel depth varies
Capabilities for corporate card management and travel booking are not the primary focus of Tallie compared with platforms built around card issuance or travel inventory. Companies that want tightly coupled card controls, real-time authorization rules, and travel booking in the same workflow may find gaps depending on their requirements. Some use cases may require pairing Tallie with separate card and travel solutions. Fit depends on how centralized the organization wants travel and card controls to be.
Reporting may require exports
Standard reporting covers common expense and policy metrics, but advanced analytics and cross-system spend visibility may require exporting data to BI tools or accounting reports. Organizations with complex dimensional reporting (multiple entities, projects, and allocations) may need careful configuration and ongoing governance. This can add effort for finance teams during implementation and month-end. Buyers should validate reporting needs with sample datasets and required dimensions.
Plan & Pricing
| Plan | Price | Key features & notes |
|---|---|---|
| Basic Accounting | Not listed on official site (contact Emburse/Tallie) | Entry-tier functionality in Tallie's tiered pricing. Vendor documentation lists Basic Accounting as a named tier but does not publish a public price. Integrations: QuickBooks, Xero, basic expense/reporting features. Source: Emburse product & Tallie help docs. |
| Cash Control | Not listed on official site (contact Emburse/Tallie) | Mid-tier functionality oriented toward card programs and tighter controls. Tallie help documentation includes an illustrative example that shows a Cash Control plan with a $160 monthly base rate (example only) — vendor does not publish a definitive public price. |
| Cloud ERP | Not listed on official site (contact Emburse/Tallie) | Tier designed for integrations with ERP systems (NetSuite, Sage Intacct). No public price listed. |
| Practice Management | Not listed on official site (contact Emburse/Tallie) | Tier targeted at practice-management integrations. No public price listed. |
| Legacy (Usage-based) | Not listed on official site (contact Emburse/Tallie) | Tallie formerly supported a usage-based (legacy) pricing model. Vendor help docs include an example showing a $90 monthly minimum + $18 per active user as an illustrative calculation (example only). Current accounts may be on legacy or tiered models; contact vendor for exact pricing. |
Notes:
- Official vendor pages (Emburse product page and Tallie Help Center) describe Tallie’s pricing models and tiers but do not provide a single public pricing table with firm per-plan prices. Several numeric values appear only as examples in help documentation and are not presented as guaranteed public prices. (See sources listed after submission.)
Seller details
Emburse, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA, USA
2015
Private
https://www.emburse.com/
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