Emburse

Supergood | Emburse API

Alex Klarfeld

Alex Klarfeld

— 5 min read

Programmatically access Emburse’s expense, corporate card, and AP data—expenses, reports, receipts, card transactions, invoices—and approval workflows via a stable REST API. Supergood builds and operates production-grade, unofficial Emburse integrations so your team can automate expense capture, reconciliation, and exports without heavy custom engineering.

Emburse is software that helps companies manage employee spend: capturing receipts, enforcing policy, approving expense reports, reconciling corporate cards, reimbursing employees, and automating AP. With an unofficial API, you can create expenses from receipts, fetch and match card transactions, submit and approve reports, pull invoice data, and export everything cleanly to your ERP.

If you’re a tech company integrating Emburse, you can pull normalized employee, expense, and card feed data; push new expenses from OCR or mobile capture; trigger report submissions and approvals; sync coding dimensions (cost centers, projects, GL accounts); and export approved spend for accounting and analytics. You can also drive card reconciliation, automate reimbursements, and surface policy feedback in your own UI—reducing manual work for finance and operations.

What is Emburse?

Emburse provides spend management and travel & expense (T&E) solutions used by finance teams across SMB and enterprise. Product families include Emburse Certify, Emburse Chrome River, Emburse Nexonia, Tallie, Abacus, and Emburse Cards. Core capabilities span expense capture, policy enforcement, approvals, reimbursements, corporate card management, invoice processing, and ERP sync.

Common data entities:

  • Employees and roles (approvers, delegates, admins)
  • Expenses and itemizations (meals, mileage, per diems, taxes)
  • Expense reports (statuses, approval chains, reimbursements)
  • Corporate card transactions (auth/posted, MCC, merchant normalization)
  • Receipts and attachments (images, PDFs, OCR data)
  • Vendors, invoices, and AP payments
  • Accounting dimensions (GL accounts, cost centers, departments, projects)
  • Policies, rules, and exceptions (out-of-policy flags, justifications)

The Emburse Integration Challenge

Teams rely on Emburse daily, but turning portal-centric workflows into automated pipelines is challenging:

  • Multiple product lines and schemas: Chrome River, Certify, Nexonia, Tallie, and Abacus differ in data models and API capabilities
  • API access and entitlements: Features and endpoints can be gated by add-ons, editions, and workspace-level permissions
  • SSO/MFA hurdles: Okta/Azure AD, MFA, and network controls complicate headless automation
  • Attachments and exports: Receipt files, invoice PDFs, and bulk data exports often require asynchronous jobs and brittle scraping
  • Card matching and policy context: Reconciling card feeds to expenses while preserving policy flags, tax breakdowns, and custom fields is non-trivial
  • ERP synchronization: Mapping Emburse dimensions to NetSuite/QuickBooks/Dynamics with consistent GL detail and currency handling

How Supergood Creates Emburse APIs

Supergood reverse-engineers authenticated browser flows and network interactions to deliver a resilient API endpoint layer for your Emburse workflows.

  • Handles username/password, SSO/OAuth, and MFA (SMS, email, TOTP) securely
  • Maintains session continuity with automated refresh and change detection
  • Normalizes responses so you can integrate once and rely on consistent objects across product families
  • Streams attachments (receipts, invoices) with signed URLs and retries
  • Preserves policy context (flags, justifications, audit notes) in normalized objects
  • Aligns with customer entitlements and licensing constraints to ensure compliant access

Use Cases

Expense Capture and Reconciliation

  • Create expenses from OCR or mobile uploads
  • Auto-match corporate card transactions and detect duplicates
  • Enforce policy with real-time flags and required justifications

Card Program Automation

  • Pull posted/auth transactions for Emburse Cards and issuer feeds
  • Monitor spend by MCC, merchant, and budgets
  • Identify unmatched transactions and prompt receipt capture

Invoice and AP Sync

  • Retrieve vendor invoices and approval status
  • Export approved payables to ERP with tax and dimension coding
  • Attach invoice PDFs and line-level backup for audit

Financial Reporting and ERP Sync

  • Export approved reports with GL splits and multi-currency detail
  • Keep dimensions (cost centers, projects, departments) in sync
  • Feed data warehouses with normalized spend data

Available Endpoints

Authentication

POST /auth/sessions: Establish a session using credentials. Supergood manages MFA (SMS, email, TOTP) and SSO/OAuth when enabled. Returns a short-lived auth token maintained by the platform.

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.supergood.ai/integrations/<integration_id>/auth/sessions \
  --header 'Authorization: Basic <Base64 encoded token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{
    "username": "[email protected]",
    "password": "<password>",
    "mfa": { "type": "totp", "code": "123456" },
    "ssoProvider": "okta"
  }'

Example response

{
  "authToken": "eyJhbGciOi...",
  "expiresIn": 3600,
  "user": {
    "id": "u_5c18e9",
    "name": "AP Analyst",
    "entitlements": ["expenses", "reports", "cards", "invoices"]
  }
}

POST /auth/sessions/refresh: Refresh an existing token to keep sessions uninterrupted.

Expenses

POST /expenses: Create or upsert an expense item, optionally linking to a card transaction and receipt.

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.supergood.ai/integrations/<integration_id>/expenses \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <authToken>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{
    "employeeId": "emp_1029",
    "expenseDate": "2026-01-18",
    "amount": { "value": 84.67, "currency": "USD" },
    "merchant": { "name": "Lyft", "mcc": "4121" },
    "description": "Client meeting ride",
    "categoryCode": "TRAVEL_TAXI",
    "costCenterId": "cc_12",
    "projectCode": "PRJ-4477",
    "cardTransactionId": "cardtx_9a2b3c",
    "receiptId": "rcpt_7723",
    "tax": { "rate": 0.0, "amount": 0.0 },
    "policy": { "allowOutOfPolicy": false },
    "referenceId": "ext-exp-88311"
  }'

Example response

{
  "expenseId": "exp_45b8a2",
  "status": "draft",
  "createdAt": "2026-01-19T15:21:09Z",
  "policyFlags": [],
  "referenceId": "ext-exp-88311"
}

Expense Reports

POST /reports: Create a report and optionally submit it for approval with included expenses.

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.supergood.ai/integrations/<integration_id>/reports \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <authToken>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{
    "employeeId": "emp_1029",
    "title": "January Client Travel",
    "purpose": "Client onsite in NYC",
    "period": { "start": "2026-01-01", "end": "2026-01-31" },
    "expenseIds": ["exp_45b8a2", "exp_47cd91"],
    "submit": true,
    "approverId": "emp_mgr_88",
    "referenceId": "ext-rpt-22941"
  }'

Example response

{
  "reportId": "rpt_7012f5",
  "status": "submitted",
  "total": { "value": 312.14, "currency": "USD" },
  "createdAt": "2026-01-19T15:22:39Z",
  "referenceId": "ext-rpt-22941"
}

Card Transactions

GET /card-transactions: Retrieve normalized corporate card transactions with filters for reconciliation.

curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://api.supergood.ai/integrations/<integration_id>/card-transactions?postedDateFrom=2026-01-01&postedDateTo=2026-01-19&status=unmatched&limit=100' \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <authToken>'

Example response

{
  "items": [
    {
      "cardTransactionId": "cardtx_9a2b3c",
      "cardId": "card_1138",
      "merchant": { "name": "Lyft", "mcc": "4121" },
      "postedAmount": { "value": 84.67, "currency": "USD" },
      "authAmount": { "value": 84.67, "currency": "USD" },
      "countryCode": "US",
      "postedAt": "2026-01-18T22:10:03Z",
      "status": "unmatched",
      "matchedExpenseId": null,
      "receiptMatched": false
    },
    {
      "cardTransactionId": "cardtx_9a2b3d",
      "cardId": "card_1138",
      "merchant": { "name": "Marriott", "mcc": "7011" },
      "postedAmount": { "value": 227.47, "currency": "USD" },
      "authAmount": { "value": 225.00, "currency": "USD" },
      "countryCode": "US",
      "postedAt": "2026-01-17T04:03:55Z",
      "status": "matched",
      "matchedExpenseId": "exp_47cd91",
      "receiptMatched": true
    }
  ],
  "nextCursor": null
}

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Technical Specifications

  • Authentication: Username/password with MFA (SMS, email, TOTP) and SSO/OAuth where enabled; supports service accounts or customer-managed credentials
  • Response format: JSON with consistent resource schemas and pagination across Emburse product families
  • Rate limits: Tuned for enterprise throughput while honoring licensing and usage controls
  • Session management: Automatic reauth and cookie/session rotation with health checks
  • Data freshness: Near real-time retrieval of expenses, reports, card transactions, and invoices
  • Security: Encrypted transport, scoped tokens, and audit logging; respects Emburse entitlements
  • Webhooks: Optional asynchronous delivery for report approvals, reimbursement updates, and card feed arrivals

Performance Characteristics

  • Latency: Sub-second responses for list/detail queries under normal load
  • Throughput: Designed for high-volume expense ingestion, reconciliation, and export pipelines
  • Reliability: Retry logic, backoff, and idempotency keys minimize duplicate actions
  • Adaptation: Continuous monitoring for UI/API changes with rapid adapter updates

Getting Started

  1. Schedule Integration Assessment

Book a 30-minute session to confirm your product mix, licensing, and authentication model.

  1. Supergood Builds and Validates Your API

We deliver a hardened Emburse adapter tailored to your workflows and entitlements.

  1. Deploy with Monitoring

Go live with continuous monitoring and automatic adjustments as Emburse evolves.

Schedule Integration Call →

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Which Emburse products can this integration cover?

Supergood supports workflows across Emburse Chrome River, Certify, Nexonia, Tallie, Abacus, and Emburse Cards, subject to your licensing and entitlements. We scope coverage during integration assessment.

Q: How are MFA and SSO handled for automation?

We support username/password + MFA (SMS, email, TOTP) and can operate behind SSO/OAuth (e.g., Okta, Azure AD) when enabled. Sessions are refreshed automatically with secure challenge handling.

Q: Can you match receipts and corporate card transactions automatically?

Yes. We ingest card feeds and receipts, perform normalization, and expose matching hints. You can auto-create expenses linked to card transactions and surface policy flags and required justifications.

Q: How do you handle custom fields and ERP exports?

We normalize cost centers, departments, projects, GL accounts, and taxes into consistent objects. We can generate ERP-ready exports (e.g., NetSuite, QuickBooks, Dynamics) with line-level splits and multi-currency detail.

Q: What about data exports and file retrieval?

We support bulk exports for reporting, and provide signed URLs for receipts/invoices. Long-running export jobs can be delivered asynchronously via webhooks or polling endpoints.

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