Certify Reviews (410)

Certify allows me to quickly enter expenses and receipts and submit for approval. The simple workflow ensures that expense reports are reviewed, approved, and paid quickly.

There isn't really anything I dislike. The only thing that was a little confusing was that I had to "Archive" my expense reports. It makes sense that the recipient would have to be the one to confirm the payment was made, but perhaps there should be a message that appears when you have items that have been pending payment for more than a week. This would prompt users to go and archive them (or follow-up if they had not yet received payment).

Our prior process involved downloading and printing out an Excel spreadsheet. Getting our manager to sign the spreadsheet, then attaching all receipts and dropping it off with accounting. This process quickly stalled if the manager was not available or if no one in accounting was available to process the expense report. This led to longer reimbursement times and more follow-up needed to ensure that nothing had been "lost". With Certify, I fill out my report online (within minutes) and submit directly to my manager. Since he can review the expenses and receipts online, he can review and approve the report from anywhere. Because I am notified along the way, I always know what step my report is in and don't have to continually follow-up. Overall this is a great time saver.

As I mentioned in the title this tool is extremely user friendly. It is extremely easy to get receipts into the wallet with all the different methods of uploading available. The App is great, and helps keep the employees organized and the amount of receipts that get lost have decreased tremendously. Creating and submitting an expense report is easy with the help of Certify, which walks the user from the first receipt to the last. The approval process is very straight forward. As an Admin user, the reports are very useful and creating or making changes to users are also very easy. One of our favorite features s that it syncs with QuickBooks, which saves our Accounts Payable a ton of time inputting each expense into our accounting tool. There is so much to love about Certify!

There isn't much I can say are far as dislikes go.

We went from paper expense reports to Certify. Eliminating the paper is a huge benefit. Certify has greatly improved the process and turnaround time of expense reports. The reports we can access allow us to book an accurate accrual since we are a publically traded company that is a huge benefit.

I have used a number of travel expense systems over the years and Certify is one of the most accessible to a traveler. The tools to capture receipt images and link them to a report make tracking things very easy - and reduces the hassle of keeping track of all those paper receipts over the course of a trip. On my last trip to San Francisco I was able to capture all the images in the cab ride to the airport and not have to worry about this when I got back to the office.

When I have entered an expense manually and then later added an image I did not see a way to link the two together. Instead I ended up with 2 expenses and had to delete one. It may very well be a training issue on my end but it was not overly intuitive on how to fix this.

Would like to see multiple levels of approval. Currently we have 2 levels - one for a manager and one for the accounting team to authorize payment. In a project environment I would like to give the Project Managers the ability to review and approve project expenses. As it works today expenses could be logged & paid without the PM ever seeing them until after the fact.

Accurately capturing traveler expenses that will be billed back to customers for projects with billable travel would be the biggest business problem. Our team that goes onsite needs to make sure that all business related travel is properly recorded and assigned to the proper project.

Certify makes it easy for me to manage my expenses and make sure that I'm following all of my company's guidelines for submission. Any issues with a particular expense are clearly identified and easy to resolve. The per diem wizard is also very easy to use.

I'm not 100% fond of the mobile upload process, but that may be because I like to manage my expense reports manually. The automatic categorization and population of information based on analysis of the receipt doesn't always work perfectly, and I don't like having to go through the process of modifying that data after the fact. I'd rather just input the information correctly the first time around. That being said, I understand why the software is set up to do what it does as I'm probably the exception to the rule when it comes to being very on top of my expenses and receipt management while on the road. To that end, after scanning and sorting my receipts on my laptop once I'm home, uploading those receipts and assigning them to my manually created expense lines is very easy and straightforward.

I did not have a lot of expense reports to submit in my old jobs. But when I did have reports to submit, everything was done on paper forms. In my current job, having the ability to handle all of my expense reports digitally is a huge plus, given that I'm a home-based worker who travels quite a bit. If I had to spend time filling out paper reports, scanning them along with my receipts, then submitting via email, I would definitely be losing a lot of valuable time and I'm positive that I wouldn't get reimbursed as quickly as I do (typically the same week as my report submission). I'm glad Certify works as well as it does!

What I like best about Certify is the ease of use. When I'm on the road, I don't have to try to remember all the expenditures I've made. All I have to do is snap a picture of the receipt and email the picture to data@certify.com. As long as I indicate what the receipt is for in the subject line of the email, I don't have to remember anything. I love that I can email from my smartphone, laptop, personal email address, or work email address. If I just want to upload the receipt, I can do that from my desktop or from the app. On top of that, it interfaces directly with my corporate AMEX! It really is the best!

Honestly, there is nothing I dislike, and trust me, If I had something, I wouldn't hold back. Certify really is one of the smartest moves our Accounting department has ever made.

Don't hesitate!

Because Certify is so easy to use, it keeps me from procrastinating on my expense reports. I used to dread completing them after a business trip, but now it's almost enjoyable. (Almost!) I no longer take weeks to complete an expense report, and because all my receipts are uploaded into a nice, neat storage place, I don't have to worry about losing a receipt and not being reimbursed for the personal expense (which has happened on multiple occasions in the past!)