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Emburse

Emburse is an expense management and accounts payable automation platform serving over 4 million finance leaders and business travelers worldwide. The company offers REST APIs across its product lines including Emburse Professional (formerly Certify), Emburse Spend (formerly Abacus), and Emburse Enterprise (Chrome River), enabling integrations for expense reports, corporate card management, invoice processing, receipt capture, and reimbursement workflows. The Virtual Cards API provides OAuth2-secured endpoints for creating and managing virtual and physical cards, transactions, members, and accounting data. Emburse Enterprise exposes Swagger-documented APIs for Expense, Invoice, Person, PreApproval, Purchase Order, Vendor, and Allocation resources. API access for the Spend product is available to Partners and customers on the Plus plan or higher.

4 APIs 0 Features
Expense ManagementAP AutomationCorporate CardsVirtual CardsReceipt CaptureReimbursementInvoice ProcessingFinanceFinTech

APIs

Emburse Virtual Cards API

REST API for managing virtual and physical corporate cards, transactions, members, accounts, and accounting categories. Uses OAuth2 token-based authentication and supports idemp...

Emburse Enterprise REST APIs

Swagger-documented REST APIs for Emburse Enterprise (Chrome River) covering Allocation, Entity, Expense, Exported Reports, Paid Expense, Expense Image, Invoice, Person, PreAppro...

Emburse Professional API

REST API for Emburse Professional (formerly Certify) supporting push/pull of users, departments, categories, expense reports, expense lines, receipt data, and invoices. Base URL...

Emburse Spend API

Modern REST API for Emburse Spend (formerly Abacus) using OAuth 2.0 authentication and JSON for expense and card management. Available to Partners and customers on the Plus plan...

Pricing Plans

Emburse Plans Pricing

7 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits

Emburse Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps

Emburse Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies

Emburse Context

21 classes · 15 properties

JSON-LD

Example Payloads

Emburse Account Example

13 fields

EXAMPLE

Emburse Card Example

22 fields

EXAMPLE

Emburse Member Example

11 fields

EXAMPLE

Emburse Transaction Example

28 fields

EXAMPLE

Resources

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Website
Website
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Documentation
Documentation
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GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization
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LinkedIn
LinkedIn
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X
X
📰
Blog
Blog
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Plans
Plans
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RateLimits
RateLimits
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FinOps
FinOps
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Vocabulary
Vocabulary
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JSONLDContext
JSONLDContext

Sources

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created: 2026-06-12
modified: 2026-06-12
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description: 'Emburse is an expense management and accounts payable automation platform serving over 4 million finance leaders
  and business travelers worldwide. The company offers REST APIs across its product lines including Emburse Professional (formerly
  Certify), Emburse Spend (formerly Abacus), and Emburse Enterprise (Chrome River), enabling integrations for expense reports,
  corporate card management, invoice processing, receipt capture, and reimbursement workflows. The Virtual Cards API provides
  OAuth2-secured endpoints for creating and managing virtual and physical cards, transactions, members, and accounting data.
  Emburse Enterprise exposes Swagger-documented APIs for Expense, Invoice, Person, PreApproval, Purchase Order, Vendor, and
  Allocation resources. API access for the Spend product is available to Partners and customers on the Plus plan or higher.

  '
tags:
- Expense Management
- AP Automation
- Corporate Cards
- Virtual Cards
- Receipt Capture
- Reimbursement
- Invoice Processing
- Finance
- FinTech
apis:
- name: Emburse Virtual Cards API
  description: 'REST API for managing virtual and physical corporate cards, transactions, members, accounts, and accounting
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    '
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- name: Emburse Enterprise REST APIs
  description: 'Swagger-documented REST APIs for Emburse Enterprise (Chrome River) covering Allocation, Entity, Expense, Exported
    Reports, Paid Expense, Expense Image, Invoice, Person, PreApproval, Purchase Order, Vendor, and Contacts resources for
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    '
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  - Invoice
  - AP Automation
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  - type: OpenAPI
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  - type: OpenAPI
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  - type: OpenAPI
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  - type: OpenAPI
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- name: Emburse Professional API
  description: 'REST API for Emburse Professional (formerly Certify) supporting push/pull of users, departments, categories,
    expense reports, expense lines, receipt data, and invoices. Base URL is https://api.certify.com/v1/.

    '
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://help.certify.com/hc/en-us/articles/15460725432077-API-Overview
  baseURL: https://api.certify.com/v1/
  tags:
  - Expense Reports
  - Receipts
  - Invoices
  - Professional
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://pro.emburse.app/APIDoc.aspx
- name: Emburse Spend API
  description: 'Modern REST API for Emburse Spend (formerly Abacus) using OAuth 2.0 authentication and JSON for expense and
    card management. Available to Partners and customers on the Plus plan or higher.

    '
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://help.spend.emburse.com/hc/en-us/articles/4424782291341-Emburse-Spend-API
  baseURL: https://api.emburse.com/
  tags:
  - Spend Management
  - Expense
  - Cards
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://help.spend.emburse.com/hc/en-us/articles/4424782291341-Emburse-Spend-API
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  url: https://www.emburse.com/blog
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- type: FinOps
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maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com