Certify: expense management software platform

The short answer

Buy Certify if you are a small or mid-sized organisation that wants conventional expense reporting done properly: receipt scanning with data autofill, unlimited cloud receipt storage, automatic report creation, automated policy enforcement, approval routing with multiple user roles, and availability in 140+ currencies and 64 languages. The 14-day trial needs no credit card, so you can test all of that before anyone quotes you.

Skip it if you need a price before you talk to sales, because the page titled Emburse Professional Pricing contains no figures of any kind. Skip it too if you need multi-entity or enterprise controls, since Emburse sells Expense Enterprise, Invoice Enterprise and Book Enterprise as separate product lines, which means outgrowing Professional is a move to different paper rather than a plan upgrade.

Where Certify fits

Certify pricing

Certify publishes no prices, and neither does the product it became. Checked on 16 October 2026, the page titled Emburse Professional Pricing says only that Emburse offers flexible pricing options for small and medium-sized organisations and invites you to get started. There are no plan names, no rates, no billing unit and no contract length anywhere on it. The one commercial fact it does publish is a risk-free 14-day free trial with no credit card needed and the ability to cancel at any time. Everything else is a question for sales, so the useful work is knowing which questions.

Four things will set the number, and the page names three of them without pricing any.

1. Organisation size, which Emburse states is the basis: flexible pricing options for small and medium-sized organisations. That tells you the quote scales with you and nothing about the unit. Ask whether you are billed per named user, per active user or per submitted expense report, because for a company where a quarter of staff file expenses twice a year those three definitions produce very different totals from the same headcount.
2. Module mix. Travel booking, accounts payable automation and ACH payments through Certify Payments are presented as available services alongside the expense product rather than inside it. Get each quoted as its own line so you can see what expense management alone costs, and so you can drop a module later without renegotiating everything.
3. Implementation support, which the pricing page lists explicitly as a variable: the level of implementation support you need is one of the things that shapes what you buy. Emburse's own rename FAQ mentions three flexible packages for implementation. Ask what the three are, what each includes, and what each costs, because none of that is published.
4. Where you sit relative to the Enterprise line. Emburse sells Expense Enterprise, Invoice Enterprise and Book Enterprise separately. If you need multi-entity consolidation or enterprise controls, the quote moves to a different product line rather than a higher tier, so ask for the Enterprise price alongside the Professional one if you are close to the boundary.

What costs extra

• Travel booking, accounts payable automation and ACH payments through Certify Payments, all named on the pricing page as available services with no price attached.
• Emburse's product add-on list names AI Audit, Analytics Pro, Travel Analytics and Travel Audit. None of them is priced.
• Implementation support beyond the base level, which the page lists as a variable shaping what you buy, with no rate attached to any level.

Implementation and commercial terms

The rows below are everything the Emburse Professional pricing page confirms as of 16 October 2026. The page contains no figures of any kind beyond the trial length, so read the absences as the agenda for your first call.

Published price

None. The pricing page carries no plan names, rates or billing unit.

Stated basis

Flexible pricing options for small and medium-sized organisations.

Free trial

A risk-free 14-day free trial, no credit card needed, cancel at any time.

Implementation fee

None published. The level of implementation support you need is listed as something to be agreed.

Product name

Sold as Emburse Professional, and listed by Emburse as Expense Professional. Formerly Certify.

Scale limits

Unlimited cloud receipt storage; available in 140+ currencies and 64 languages. No user or report caps are published.

Certifications

Emburse states Professional is ISO 27001, SOC 1 and/or SOC 2, and PCI compliance certified.

Budget this as a quote with a free head start. Use the 14-day trial first, because it costs nothing and it produces the one number the negotiation turns on: how many people actually submit expenses in a month, as opposed to how many people you employ. Then ask for the quote itemised by module, with the billing unit named in writing, the implementation package priced, and the term and any minimum stated. If the figure comes back close to a vendor that publishes rates, remember you can verify the other vendor's half of the comparison today and you cannot verify this one at all, which is itself worth a discount.

Source: the Emburse Professional pricing page, checked 16 October 2026. Confirm current prices with the vendor before you budget.

What Certify gives up

How Certify compares

The honest first cut here is which vendors will tell you a price. Fyle publishes a full per-active-user rate card, SAP Concur publishes starting per-report rates, Emburse publishes one bundle figure for one product in Australian dollars, and Emburse Professional publishes nothing at all. Every figure below comes from that vendor's own pricing page, checked on 16 October 2026, in the currency it was published in.

What to test in the Emburse Professional free trial

The trial is the strongest thing on offer here: 14 days, no credit card, cancel at any time. Because no price is published, use it to generate the facts you will negotiate with rather than to admire the interface.

1. Count your real submitters during the trial. Put every employee who might file an expense into the product, then watch how many actually do over two weeks. That count, not headcount, is the number to quote against, and it is the single most valuable thing the trial produces.
2. Push receipt scanning with data autofill on your awkward cases: a foreign-currency hotel folio, a split restaurant bill, a mileage claim and a receipt photographed badly. Availability in 140+ currencies is a strong claim and this is the cheapest moment to test it against your own documents.
3. Rebuild your real approval routing with multiple user roles, including the path that normally stalls. Automated policy enforcement and approval routing control are the core of the product, so express the policy that differs by department or seniority and see whether it survives without a workaround.
4. Connect the accounting system you run and use the standard or custom AP feed end to end. Post a batch of expenses, then check the entries in the ledger yourself rather than trusting the export screen. ERP and HMS integration is listed as included, so the question is quality rather than availability.
5. Open the commercial conversation before the trial ends, with your questions written down: the billing unit, travel booking, AP automation and ACH through Certify Payments quoted as separate lines, which of the three implementation packages applies and what it costs, the term and any minimum, and what happens to your receipt archive and approval history if you leave.

Frequently asked questions about Certify