Emburse Enterprise customers love how effortlessly our expense management system fits into the way they work. They might be in the office booking their next trip, taking an Uber to a client meeting, having dinner with a customer, checking out of a hotel, or at the airport gas station topping off the rental car. Whatever the situation, they need a way to get the receipt into their expense report without the hassle.
It’s all done automatically in Emburse Enterprise. Our image processing, OCR (optical character recognition) and email handling technology mean that by simply taking a picture of a receipt on a mobile phone or forwarding an email, our users can get all of a transaction's data into their expense report - without having to type a single thing.
Forget laying out all the receipts – Emburse Enterprise just delivered expense reports that practically write themselves.
Snap & send
Simply take a photo of a receipt using any mobile device and share with Emburse Enterprise via email. Users can quickly and easily Snap & Send emails with an image file attached to Chrome River, from which our email automation will create expense transactions, extract and categorize the data with OCR and have any associated images attached as receipts. The service also provides the ability for users to override the OCR data for the amount and currency by entering a value in the email subject or adding a message into the email body, which will be applied to the expense transaction’s description. With this feature, users can write the entire expense report on their smartphone, attaching receipts as they happen.
Forward & forget
Share electronic receipts from vendors to Emburse Enterprise via email, scan, or even fax. Users can very easily forward their emailed receipts (airfare, hotels, internet, Amazon, etc.) to the standard Emburse Enterprise expense email address and our expense report software creates expense transactions for these, creating an image of the email body as an attached receipt. Users can also enter a specific amount and currency into the email subject to override any parsing logic if desired (another wonderful feature).
Direct upload
Many Emburse Enterprise users like to create and submit their expenses as soon as they’re incurred. Whatever device they’re using, this is a piece of cake with our HTML5-enabled web application. With Emburse Enterprise open on a mobile phone or tablet, users creating an expense item are prompted to attach an image of the receipt. This will then offer the option to either snap an image on the device’s camera directly into Emburse Enterprise, or upload a previously captured receipt image. As with our Snap & Send option, Emburse Enterprise’s powerful image processing and OCR capabilities will read and extract all relevant transaction data in seconds, so there’s no need to manually enter any receipt information before creating and submitting the expense.
Direct Uber and Lyft integration
Thanks to technology partnerships with both Uber and Lyft, Emburse Enterprise users can have ride information automatically sent from their Uber and Lyft accounts direct to their expense reports when they ride on their Uber and Lyft Business Profiles. After selecting Emburse Enterprise as their expense management provider on their Business Profile, Uber and Lyft will automatically send details of all rides taken on their Business Profile, complete with the receipt image and map, to Emburse Enterprise, at the same time users receive a copy of their receipt by email.
Hotel Folio itemization
Simply email your hotel bill to Emburse Enterprise and our hotel folio itemization feature, Emburse Enterprise automatically creates separate expense line items for items such as room, tax, parking, meals and room service. The solution works with any hotel’s bill–from individual boutique hotels to major international chains. Folio data is automatically extracted, categorized, and populated directly into the expense reporting system. This feature enables travelers to turn what can often be a time-consuming task into something that can be done effortlessly.
Receipt OCR
Emburse Enterprise’s Receipt Parsing Service uses OCR as its core engine before applying intelligent language matching algorithms, business rules, customized receipt cropping and data analysis for precise data extraction, that saves hours of manual work.
Emburse Enterprise's receipt parsing supports Latin character languages and Mandarin (in beta). The table below gives details of our level of optimization for each country.
Receipt parsing capabilities are divided into optimized and supported countries, based on the number of fields our receipt parsing system can support. Fields essential to fill up an expense report and to automatically merge credit card and receipt transactions (amount, date, currency and expense category) are categorized as supported groups.
For certain geographies the list of fields that are intelligently parsed by our receipt parsing system goes beyond the supported list (hence the name optimized countries).
Supported and optimized fields:
Supported and optimized countries:
New languages are added to the list of supported and optimized groups on a quarterly basis.