Emburse Spend Release Notes - March 2026

This release introduces Emburse Assurance, a new AI-powered capability that helps your organization identify and address potential compliance risks earlier in the expense lifecycle. It also includes improvements to performance, card management, and account security, along with bug fixes that improve reliability across expense, card, and mobile workflows.

Highlights

  • Emburse Assurance (Add-On): Identify potential expense risks earlier with AI-powered checks across mobile, submission, and approval workflows
  • Proactive mobile alerts: Catch receipt issues at the time of capture to reduce rework and delays
  • Improve card transaction reliability: Ensure transactions sync correctly and workflows complete successfully
  • Faster expense performance: Load expense and vendor data faster for large organizations
  • Improve alternate email experience: Provide clearer messaging and better visibility when managing alternate email addresses

Upcoming Changes

CARDS

Plan for Change: Transition to Emburse Mastercard Small Business Card

Emburse is transitioning from legacy Emburse card programs to the Emburse Mastercard Small Business Card. This change is required to ensure uninterrupted card usage and continued network support.

Customers must complete the required steps outlined in the help center to finalize the transition. If action is not taken, card usage may be disrupted once the current network is no longer supported.

Who is affected: Customers with Emburse Card programs.

What action is required: Replace each existing card that you want to continue using with an Emburse Mastercard Small Business Card. See Transition Emburse Cards to Emburse Mastercard Small Business Card for instructions.

Deadline: May 1, 2026.

Why this change is happening: To maintain network compatibility and ensure continued card acceptance.

Features

EXPENSE

Emburse Assurance (Add-On)

Emburse Assurance introduces AI-powered checks that help your organization identify potential compliance risks across the expense lifecycle. Unlike traditional policy rules, Emburse Assurance detects patterns such as missing itemization, unusual spend, or suspicious receipts.

Emburse Assurance runs at multiple points in the workflow:

  • During mobile receipt capture with proactive alerts
  • At submission with a Potential Issues to Review modal
  • After submission with a warning displayed to approvers

This helps users correct issues earlier and enables approvers to focus on higher-risk submissions.

Emburse Assurance is not enabled by default. To enable Emburse Assurance, submit a demo request or contact your Emburse Spend representative.

See Emburse Assurance Overview for Emburse Spend for more details.

Improvements

EXPENSE

Improve Expense Loading Performance

Previously, some customers experienced slower load times when working with expenses, especially in environments with large datasets.

Performance has been improved to provide faster and more consistent loading when viewing and managing expenses.

This reduces delays and improves overall responsiveness for users.

ACCOUNT

Improve Alternate Email Error Messages

Previously, users saw a generic error when they tried to add an alternate email address that already existed in the system.

The alternate email flow now displays a clearer message when an email address is already in use and sends a notification to the primary account email when an alternate email is added successfully.

This improves clarity and visibility for users when managing alternate email addresses.

CARD PAYMENTS

Improve Card Transaction Data Reliability

Card transaction processing is now more resilient. Previously, failures in upstream processing could result in incomplete transaction data and require manual follow-up.

The system now more reliably processes and recovers transaction data, including settlement details when applicable. This reduces the risk of missing records and minimizes manual intervention.

MOBILE APP

Align Mobile Receipt Flow With Web Experience

Updates the mobile receipt capture and submission flow to better match the web experience.

Bug Fixes

CARDS

Assign Cards More Reliably

Admins could not assign unassigned cards to cardholders from Team Cards or the Card Programs management flow. This issue has been fixed, so admins can assign cards as expected.

Export Card Transaction PDFs Successfully

Some admins could not export card transactions with receipts to PDF because the export did not complete. This issue has been fixed, so PDF exports complete successfully.

EXPENSE

Allow Manager Approvers to Select Trips

Manager approvers could not select available trips when editing an expense. This issue has been fixed so approvers can map trips as expected.

MOBILE APP

Fix Mileage Validation Error Due to Decimal Rounding 

Resolves an issue where mileage calculations could fail validation due to rounding.

Fix iOS Policy Violations Review Screen Display

Resolves display issues on the Policy Violations review screen.

Fix PDF Receipt Viewing Issue on iOS Devices

Resolves an issue where PDF receipts could not be opened on iOS devices.

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