# Emburse

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/emburse/  
**Website:** https://www.emburse.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 48

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.

## Kin Score — 43.4 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 43.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 61.6 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 34.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 23.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 39.5 |
| Access Clarity | 39.5 |

Regulatory layer — **Payments**: 35.9 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 38.9 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Paid · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: paid, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (48)

- **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...
- **Emburse Accounts API** — The Accounts API from Emburse — 4 operation(s) for accounts.
- **Emburse allocation-api-controller-v-1 API** — The allocation-api-controller-v-1 API from Emburse — 1 operation(s) for allocation-api-controller-v-1.
- **Emburse allocation-api-controller-v-2 API** — The allocation-api-controller-v-2 API from Emburse — 1 operation(s) for allocation-api-controller-v-2.
- **Emburse allocation-api-controller-v-3 API** — V3 endpoints include better support and error handling for allocation user defined attributes (UDA).
- **Emburse Allowances API** — The Allowances API from Emburse — 1 operation(s) for allowances.
- **Emburse Cards API** — The Cards API from Emburse — 3 operation(s) for cards.
- **Emburse Categories API** — The Categories API from Emburse — 2 operation(s) for categories.
- **Emburse Company API** — The Company API from Emburse — 2 operation(s) for company.
- **Emburse Departments API** — The Departments API from Emburse — 2 operation(s) for departments.
- **Emburse Entity Type API** — Entity Type Controller
- **Emburse Entity (V1) API** — V1 Entity Controller
- **Emburse Entity (V2) API** — V2 Entity Controller
- **Emburse expense-approval-controller-v1 API** — Approve, return and reassign expense reports.
- **Emburse expense-approval-controller-v2 API** — Approve, return and reassign expense reports using username or email of approver.
- **Emburse expense-controller-v1 API** — Retrieve expense report information and create draft expense reports
- **Emburse expense-controller-v3 API** — Retrieve expense reports by filter(s)
- **Emburse expense-export-controller-v1 API** — Get and post expense export information.
- **Emburse expense-export-controller-v2 API** — Get and post expense or invoice export information.
- **Emburse expense-image-api API** — Retrieve Expense Report Receipts / Images
- **Emburse expense-receipts-controller API** — Retrieve expense receipt PDF
- **Emburse expense-report-line-item-controller API** — Retrieve expense report line items
- **Emburse expense-types-controller API** — Retrieve expense type information
- **Emburse invoice-api-external-controller API** — Operations in Invoice Api
- **Emburse Labels API** — The Labels API from Emburse — 2 operation(s) for labels.
- **Emburse Locations API** — The Locations API from Emburse — 2 operation(s) for locations.
- **Emburse Members API** — The Members API from Emburse — 3 operation(s) for members.
- **Emburse Merchant Categories API** — The Merchant Categories API from Emburse — 1 operation(s) for merchant categories.
- **Emburse Oauth API** — The Oauth API from Emburse — 3 operation(s) for oauth.
- **Emburse paid-expense-controller API** — Post payments
- **Emburse person-controller-v2 API** — Person Controller v2
- **Emburse person-controller-v3 API** — Person Controller v3
- **Emburse person-controller-v4 API** — Person Web Services
- **Emburse po-api-controller API** — Operations in PO APIs
- **Emburse po-api-receipt-controller API** — Operations in PO Receipts APIs
- **Emburse pre-approval-api-controller API** — The pre-approval-api-controller API from Emburse — 9 operation(s) for pre-approval-api-controller.
- **Emburse pre-approval-api-controller-v-2 API** — The pre-approval-api-controller-v-2 API from Emburse — 3 operation(s) for pre-approval-api-controller-v-2.
- **Emburse pre-approval-api-export-controller API** — The pre-approval-api-export-controller API from Emburse — 4 operation(s) for pre-approval-api-export-controller.
- **Emburse pre-approval-import-controller API** — The pre-approval-import-controller API from Emburse — 1 operation(s) for pre-approval-import-controller.
- …and 8 more, listed in full on the page.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Emburse Agentic Access** — 213 operations · 118 acting · 77 human-in-the-loop

## Security (3)

- **Emburse Authentication** — apiKey/http · 2 schemes
- **Emburse Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Emburse Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Emburse Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Expense Management, AP Automation, Corporate Cards, Virtual Cards, Receipt Capture, Reimbursement, Invoice Processing, Finance, Fintech

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