Emburse Spend Release Notes - October 2026

This release introduces the Emburse Xero Connector and tax support for Australian and Nexonia customers. It also adds a new Assurance Check, Invalid Tax Receipt Assurance Check, for organizations that use the Emburse Assurance add-on. Team Cards and receipt capture are faster, and the release includes fixes for expenses, approvals, recurring spend, and the mobile app.

Highlights

• Invalid Tax Receipt Assurance Check: Detects if a receipt is missing details required for tax requirements (e.g. VAT reclaim) when your organization uses the Emburse Assurance add-on.
• Emburse Xero Connector: Sync Emburse Spend with Xero when your organization is a Nexonia migrated, RSM, or Australian customer.
• Tax support: Capture tax on expenses and sync it through your Emburse Connector when your organization is an Australian customer or migrated from Nexonia.

Plan for Change

MOBILE APP

Mobile Redesign Phased Rollout

The new Emburse Spend mobile look rolls out in phases throughout November. A limited set of Spend customers receives the new look on November 3, 2026. All customers are expected to have access by the end of November.

See Tour the Refreshed Emburse Spend Mobile App.

Features

ASSURANCE

Invalid Tax Receipt Assurance Check

Emburse Assurance adds an Invalid Tax Receipt Assurance Check for organizations that use the Emburse Assurance add-on. The check detects if a receipt is missing details required for tax requirements (e.g. VAT reclaim).

See Emburse Assurance Overview for Emburse Spend.

INTEGRATIONS

Emburse Xero Connector

The Emburse Xero Connector is available for Nexonia-migrated, RSM, and Australian customers. The connector syncs your Emburse Spend accounting data with Xero.

Deployment schedule: Available to Nexonia, RSM, and Australian customers.

Improvements

INTERNATIONAL

Tax Support for Australian and Nexonia Customers

Tax support is now available for all Australian customers and for customers who migrated from Nexonia. You can capture tax on expenses and sync that tax through your Emburse Connector.

• The Emburse NetSuite Connector syncs multiple tax types.
• The Emburse Intacct Connector syncs multiple tax types.
• The Emburse QuickBooks Online Connector syncs one tax type. QuickBooks Online pre-groups tax, so Emburse Spend sends a single tax type.

See Tax Support, Get Started with the Emburse NetSuite Connector, Get Started with the Emburse Intacct Connector, and Get Started with the Emburse QuickBooks Online Connector.

CARDS

Faster Team Cards Loading

Companies with many cards and card programs can open and move through Team Cards faster.

See Manage Your Emburse Cards Program on the Team Cards Page.

EXPENSES

Faster Receipt Capture

Receipt OCR is faster on the web and in the Emburse Spend mobile app.

Bug Fixes

EXPENSES

Expense Denied Notifications

When an expense was denied, Emburse Spend did not send the denial notification. Denial notifications are sent again to the people who receive them.

Team-Filtered Expense Sub-Items

If your access to an expense sub-item came from team filtering, you could not submit the transaction. You can submit that transaction now.

Assigned Expense Field Values

Assigned expense field values did not display when you edited an expense. Those values now display while you edit the expense.

See Using Expense Fields in Emburse Spend.

Open Invoices in Vendor Details

In the vendor details drawer, Open invoices could display an error instead of the invoices. Open invoices now opens the invoice list.

TRANSACTIONS

Posted Date Column Sorting

The Posted Date column on transactions sorted in the wrong order. The column now sorts by the posted date.

APPROVALS

Approval Routing After a Field Change

After you changed a field that controls approval routing, the expense could remain with the previous approver. Approval routing now follows the updated field.

See How To Use Expense Approval Routing.

ADMIN

Recurring Spend Filters and Suggestions

On Recurring Spend, filtering, sorting, and suggestions could ignore the criteria you selected. Those controls now use the criteria you select.

See Manage Recurring Spend.

MOBILE APP

Rule Warning on iOS

On iOS 3.0.0, the app could close when a rule warning displayed while you sent an expense. The app now displays the rule warning without closing.

First-Install Configuration on iOS

On a first install of iOS 3.0.0, the app could fail to load the configuration it uses for app updates and region selection. The app now loads that configuration during the first install.

Card Number on Android

On Android, a card in your card program could display 0000 instead of the card number. The card number now displays.

Expense-Tag Values on iOS

On iOS, expense-tag values could be missing on Pending Submission and on the unexpensed card detail. Those values now display in both places.

Denied Expense Amount on Mobile

After you updated a denied expense on the iOS or Android app, the amount could revert to the earlier value. The updated amount is now saved.