# What's the top Expense Management Software that simplifies approvals and accelerates reimbursement cycles from submission?

<p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">Hi G2, what's the top pick in <a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/categories/expense-management">expense management</a> for simplifying approvals and speeding up reimbursement from the moment something's submitted? Navan reviewers say digital submission and automatic routing beat the old spreadsheet-and-email method by a wide margin, with one calling reimbursement tracking "extremely efficient" after switching. SAP Concur reviewers credit OCR capture for the same effect, since data populates the report instantly. Rippling Finance reviewers go further, since reimbursement lands on the next payroll cycle rather than a separate disbursement step, and Paylocity reviewers say tying approvals to the employee record keeps things moving even when roles change mid-cycle.</p><ul>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/navan-formerly-tripactions/reviews"><strong>Navan</strong></a> (4.7 stars, 9,297 reviews) automates the review-to-reimbursement chain, though a few reviewers flag inconsistent support.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/sap-concur/reviews"><strong>SAP Concur</strong></a> (4.0 stars, 7,184 reviews) speeds up the front end with OCR, but a small mistake often means resubmitting the whole report.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/rippling-finance/reviews"><strong>Rippling Finance</strong></a> (4.7 stars, 1,913 reviews) folds reimbursement into payroll, removing a separate wait entirely.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/paylocity/reviews"><strong>Paylocity</strong></a> (4.4 stars, 6,157 reviews) keeps routing current as org structure shifts.</li>
</ul><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">Is tying reimbursement to payroll actually faster, or does it just move the wait to a fixed date? Has anyone compared real turnaround times rather than going by star ratings alone?</p>

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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);&quot;&gt;Having looked across the Expense Management reviews on G2, tying reimbursement to payroll makes the timing predictable, not necessarily fast, since it caps the wait at the next run but also floors it there. Someone who submits right after payroll closes waits the whole cycle.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);&quot;&gt;The bottleneck most teams actually feel is the approval step, not the disbursement rail, so a platform that auto-routes and nudges approvers beats one with a faster payout but a slow manager queue. Turnaround is the metric that matters here, and it lives between submission and approval, which star ratings never capture. If you have data, is your lag mostly employees waiting on an approver, or approved expenses waiting on a payout date?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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