Coupa vs. Emburse Tallie

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Coupa
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
Coupa’s cloud-native Business Spend Management (BSM) platform provides end-to-end processes that helps drive collaboration across for every business leader from supply chain, procurement, finance, treasury, compliance, and IT and supply chain leaders to help their companies to get the visibility and control they need to spend smarter, mitigate risk, and improve resilience. A unified platform approach frees up IT from complex integrations to help leaders deliver on these goals.
$499
per year
Emburse Tallie
Score 6.0 out of 10
N/A
Tallie is an expense reporting tool that integrates with other billing or accounting platforms (e.g. bill.com, Quickbooks, etc.) to present an expense management solution. It was supported by Certify since the 2017 merger with that company and Nexonia under the new company Certify Travel and Expense, and is now from Emburse, the company formed from the merger of Certify and Chrome River Technologies in March 2019.N/A
Pricing
CoupaEmburse Tallie
Editions & Modules
Premium Support
$499+
per year
Verified
$549
per year
Advanced
$4800
per year
Registered
Free
No answers on this topic
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CoupaEmburse Tallie
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
CoupaEmburse Tallie
Features
CoupaEmburse Tallie
Expense Management
Comparison of Expense Management features of Product A and Product B
Coupa
-
Ratings
Emburse Tallie
9.5
Ratings
10% above category average
Employee Expense Reporting00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Corporate Card Reconciliation00 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Payment Management
Comparison of Payment Management features of Product A and Product B
Coupa
-
Ratings
Emburse Tallie
8.3
Ratings
1% above category average
Customizable Approval Policies00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Financial Document Management00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Payment Status Tracking00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Payment Audit Trail00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Duplicate Bill Detection00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Advanced OCR00 Ratings6.90 Ratings
Electronic Funds Transfer00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
CoupaEmburse Tallie
Small Businesses
MIP Fund Accounting
MIP Fund Accounting
Score 8.7 out of 10
Dext
Dext
Score 9.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Precoro
Precoro
Score 2.8 out of 10
Precoro
Precoro
Score 2.8 out of 10
Enterprises
SAP S/4HANA Cloud
SAP S/4HANA Cloud
Score 8.6 out of 10
Emburse Chrome River
Emburse Chrome River
Score 9.2 out of 10
All AlternativesView all alternativesView all alternatives
User Ratings
CoupaEmburse Tallie
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(0 ratings)
8.2
(0 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.7
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
CoupaEmburse Tallie
Likelihood to Recommend
Suitable: Simple indirect procurement. Low cost; short cycle implementation. Less Suitable: Complex procurement scenario requiring serious vendor collaboration. End-to-end integration. Direct Material Procurement, especially when planning, quality inspection, and other miscellaneous activities are involved, requires handling various special statuses and updates to meet industry- or country-specific requirements.
Read full review
Tallie is well suited for those that utilize Bill.com or another of its compatible integrations. Small businesses to medium-sized corporations can (fairly quickly) leverage Tallie. Tallie would be less appropriate for organizations that already lean heavily on Salesforce, NetSuite, or Workday -- Concur or Expensify might be more suitable options.
Read full review
Pros
  • A consistent format is helpful because if you learn the tool once, then you should be set for long term success.
  • Straightforward with some of the fields (not all), but for some pieces of work. It is easy enough due to the direct nature of the tool.
Read full review
  • Very intuitive - liked how it was convenient to use when uploading receipts and liked how it would attempt to figure out what was on it so it could pre populate the required fields.
  • The ability to add multiple categories and subcategories for where your purchase falls in the organization was super helpful when keeping organized.
  • Mobile app to upload receipts on the fly has helped increase the amount of folks remembering to submit their receipts.
Read full review
Cons
  • With one particular customer I have had about 40 emails to be accepted as a vendor. With other customers before Coupa became horrendous I had no problems. As an existing Coupa user why do I have to create a new profile?
  • I have been accepted as a user 3 times then a day later Coupa wants the same form filled again and again.
  • Help is only on a chat line. You cannot speak to anyone and in my opinion they are not helpful. Their suggstions have gotten me nowhere. They refer me to talk with my customer to straighten out the problem. My cusotmer doesn't have a clue.
  • I'm considering not to accept purchase orders that require invoicing through Coupa.
Read full review
  • Tallie suggests it is able to read receipts and place them into the correct category, but I find myself updating these sections each time I upload a receipt. The system should be updated to read multiple receipts.
  • Tallie sometimes rejects photos if they are not specific enough. This can be frustrating since it is sometimes difficult to upload receipts quickly while on the road. However, this rejection is not a common occurrence.
  • More often then not, Tallie's emails go to my junk folder. Tallie should work on their spam count for Outlook.
Read full review
Likelihood to Renew
I love using coupa but i'm not the decision maker in this regard.
Read full review
No answers on this topic
Usability
-Could be easy or hard to use depending on corporate policies and compliance. At times, errors and cryptical message associated with them could drive users mad.
Read full review
Certainly not as robust as bigger products/names on the market, but the features/solution it offers do extremely well, with a good mobile app experience and a nice, clean interface. It helped our organization (7 locations) go paperless, which rapidly improved our expense capture and timeliness in reporting and also gave our staff a better, user-friendly expense report and reimbursement process.
Read full review
Support Rating
-Support is generally speaking OK (not great). The user community is quite active, and the response time is acceptable. I would certainly hope there's more user-generated content (like in SAP, Oracle, and Linux, etc.), but I suppose Coupa is still not large enough, and the incentives are not yet there.
Read full review
As a user of Tallie, I have never needed any support to use it. It is simple, logical and needs no training to use. As a company, I don't think we need any ongoing support but I believe the setup process, which they guided us through a year ago went well.
Read full review
In-Person Training
The employee that trained me was not particularly interesting in teaching me but they were not a Coupa employee.
Read full review
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Coupa fits within our desire to have best of breed systems delivering value to our organization. We generally work with true cloud providers that are available anytime, anywhere for our mobile workforce. We are pleased that Coupa is in our lineup of service solutions.
Read full review
Both Tallie and Expensify are quality products that help with credit card management. Setting up an account, if you are only managing one company either product is equally qualified, however, if you are managing multiple companies, I find Tallie is easier for the set up and management of companies. In Tallie companies are treated as separate products, when you log on you select which company you are working in and while in that company you don't have access to another, whereas in Expensify companies can be intermingled. This could have is benefits, but from an outsourcing point of view it can make set up and management of clients harder. With assisting users, in Tallie as long as a user has the right permissions and access to a company, they can access any user's account in order to process charges, or assist users by masquerading as them. In Expensify, users have to give admin access to their accounts through their co-pilot access, this isn't an issue if users aren't likely to need help or help from more than one admin person, but as your client list and users grow, this type of access can be challenging or overwhelming.
Read full review
Return on Investment
  • The Sourcing Module has returned our investment 23 times on an annualized basis.
  • We're now SOX compliant and as a public company, that's keeping us compliant with our corporate charter.
  • Having one central invoicing location has reduced our AP calls significantly. Our suppliers now have visibility into where their invoice is in the payment cycle. We also have a much higher invoice-to-pay cycle.
Read full review
  • It frees up my time by allowing people to self-report in a common platform rather than sending paper expense reports.
  • It's several thousand dollars cheaper than Concur and other high-end products.
  • It works. It's not easy to get multiple cloud systems to properly integrate and this one seems to get it done.
Read full review
ScreenShots

Coupa Screenshots

Screenshot of Transform your company’s supply chain planning from running one-off projects to a consistent and repeatable process.Screenshot of Efficiently capture data for apples-to-apples comparisons of suppliers across business requirements, risk factors, ESG, and costs to find the best solution.Screenshot of Understand supplier relationships, ensure that the right mitigation is in place, and onboard suppliers. Use trusted data services, Community.ai, and performance feedback to spot risk and optimize relationships over time.Screenshot of Bring the results of sourcing events and risk vetting together to quickly formalize agreements without costly omissions or delays.Screenshot of Give users an easy experience for all types of goods, services, and contingent worker needs while bubbling up ESG and other favored suppliers. Streamline budget checks and approvals simple emails to get move spend pre-approved, on-contract, and under control.Screenshot of Give suppliers a variety of options for submitting e-invoices — all without fees and in compliance with VAT and global regulations. Boost supplier adoption of e-invoicing by giving visibility into status of invoice approval and digital payments.