# SpringAhead Software Pricing, Alternatives & More 2026 | Capterra

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 SpringAhead Software Review 2026: Features, Integrations, Pros & Cons

Last updated on March 13, 2026

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SpringAhead

## What is SpringAhead?

Emburse SpringAhead is a cloud-based solution that helps manage online time tracking, expense reporting, and client invoicing. Get back to the real work of your business. Gain control over your time & materials billing with online time tracking, expense reporting, and client invoicing from SpringAhead, which handles bill and pay rate variations automatically.

## What is SpringAhead used for?

[Time and Expense](https://www.capterra.com/time-and-expense-software/)[Time Tracking](https://www.capterra.com/time-tracking-software/)[Reporting](https://www.capterra.com/reporting-software/)

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Featured

Overall rating

Based on 30 user reviews

Reviews sentiment

Positive

77%

Neutral

10%

Negative

13%

Starting price

$125

Other, Per Month

Free trial  
not available

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## Compare with a popular alternative

Capterra selects software alternatives based on relevant features, verified user reviews and user interactions. Placement may be influenced by client status.

### SpringAhead

4.1 (30)

VS.

[4.6 (162)](https://www.capterra.com/p/235606/TPS-Cloud-Axis/reviews/)

Starting Price

$125

Other, Per Month

Starting Price

$15

Per User, Per Month

Free Trial

Free Version

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

Ease Of Use

4.2 (30)

Ease Of Use

4.5 (162)

Value For Money

3.7 (22)

Value For Money

4.6 (151)

Customer Service

3.7 (23)

Customer Service

4.9 (154)

## SpringAhead alternatives

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Starting price

$10.00

Per User, Per Month

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

User Rating

89%

of reviewers

rated it above 4 stars

[4.3 (1,831)](https://www.capterra.com/p/86714/WebPay/reviews/)

Starting price

Contact vendor for pricing

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

User Rating

87%

of reviewers

rated it above 4 stars

[4.4 (1,234)](https://www.capterra.com/p/130949/Paycom/reviews/)

Starting price

Contact vendor for pricing

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

User Rating

87%

of reviewers

rated it above 4 stars

[4.5 (860)](https://www.capterra.com/p/169455/Zoho-Projects/reviews/)

Starting price

$4.00

Per User, Per Month

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

User Rating

92%

of reviewers

rated it above 4 stars

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## Features

Features with the highest number of reviews are displayed first. Those that have no reviews appear next, sorted alphabetically.

Time Tracking

4.5 (6)

133.33% of 6 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

Measure and track time including hours worked and paid time off (PTO)

Expense Tracking

4.7 (3)

100.00% of 3 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

Monitor and record expenses such as purchases or charges incurred

Project Tracking

3.3 (3)

100.00% of 3 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

Monitor the progress of projects from start to finish

Activity Tracking

3.5 (2)

50.00% of 2 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

Track and document all activities across devices, networks, and other systems

Approval Workflow

5.0 (2)

150.00% of 2 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

Route documents and other data through one or more stakeholders for review and approval

Billing & Invoicing

4.0 (2)

50.00% of 2 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

Create, manage, and send invoices or bills to customers

SpringAhead 25 features

Integrate with a third-party accounting system

Track and document all activities across devices, networks, and other systems

Generate one-off reports that meet information requirements

Manage the process of evaluating documents or requests submitted for approval

Route documents and other data through one or more stakeholders for review and approval

Track billable hours and/or non-billable expenses for work performed

Create, manage, and send invoices or bills to customers

Graphical representation of data

Monitor and record expenses such as purchases or charges incurred

Create invoices from scratch or have recurring invoices

Store and view prior invoices for each account/client

Access the system via a mobile application

Manage and handle various international currencies

Create, send, and view electronic invoices

Track employee and task times using internet connection

Manage employee salary processes, data, taxes, and records administration efficiently

Monitor the progress of projects from start to finish

Upload, track, and submit receipts in a central database

Manage compensation for out-of-pocket expenses incurred by an employee, client or another party

Set allowances and ensure employees don't spend more than the allotted amounts

Log and record hours worked and costs spent to assist in billing and invoicing

Measure and track time including hours worked and paid time off (PTO)

Track time worked per client

Track time worked per project

Create, design and manage workflows for repetitive tasks

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Features

3.9 (28)

3.9

Based on 28 reviews

## Pricing

Value for money

3.7 (22)

[View pricing plan details](https://www.capterra.com/p/85050/SpringAhead/pricing/)

Basic

$125.00

Other,Per Month

It includes:

-   Accounting
-   Bill Pay and/or Placements Software Integration
-   Mobile App Access
-   Unlimited Administrators
-   Unlimited Approvers
-   Unlimited Invoices
-   Unlimited Managers

Additional Time licenses

$25.00

Other,Per Month

Additional Expense License

$7.50

Other,Per Month

Value for money

3.7 (22)

3.7

Based on 22 reviews

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## Support, customer service and training options

Customer Service

3.7 (23)

Support

-   Email/Help Desk
-   FAQs/Forum
-   Knowledge Base
-   Phone Support
-   24/7 (Live rep)
-   Chat

Training

-   In Person
-   Live Online
-   Webinars
-   Documentation
-   Videos

Deployment

-   Web
-   Android
-   iPhone/iPad

Typical users

-   Freelancers
-   Small businesses
-   Mid size businesses
-   Enterprises

Customer Service

3.7 (23)

3.7

Based on 23 reviews

## User reviews

Overall rating

4.1

Based on 30 reviews

Filter by rating

5(15)

4(8)

3(3)

2(4)

1(0)

Mentioned topic

Sorted by most recent

DG

Dmitry G.

President

Retail

### "There are a number of better options"

2.0

Overall Rating

2.0

2.0

Ease of Use

2.0

2.0

Features

2.0

2.0

Customer Service

2.0

2.0

Likelihood to Recommend

1/10

November 6, 2025

Was difficult to cancel - cancellation options well hidden, require 2-3 forms to fill out, they got an extra month of payment out of us this way

Pros

It was originally set up for Quickbooks integration. Web based, fairly easy to learn. Was a good option 10 years ago

Cons

No new development visible over 5+ years. Same old, but Emburse had simply raised the price. Milking

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RL

Renee L.

HR

Computer & Network Security

### "Decent tool for the price"

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

4.0

Ease of Use

4.0

4.0

Features

3.0

3.0

Customer Service

3.0

3.0

Likelihood to Recommend

6/10

April 9, 2025

Mostly ok experience, however we found a superior option that integrated more features we needed.

Pros

Pretty good functionality for the price.

Cons

Does not have a lot of features that other platforms do. Running reports leaves a lot to be desired.

Review source

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EW

Elizabeth W.

Director

Government Relations

### "Spring ahead(sort-of)"

3.0

Overall Rating

3.0

3.0

Ease of Use

4.0

4.0

Features

3.0

3.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

1/10

March 3, 2025

Pros

Fine as timekeeping but has no way to calculate budgets

Cons

Not a lot of ability to customize anything

Review source

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EF

Elizabeth F.

Director of Operations

Management Consulting

### "Great software for timekeeping"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

4.0

4.0

Customer Service

4.0

4.0

Likelihood to Recommend

9/10

August 10, 2022

All good except the sync with Quickbooks

Pros

Easy to deploy and use by all users. It works well.

Cons

synchronization with Quickbooks is difficult. We had this software set up with an older version of Quickbooks but when we switch to the online Quickbooks version, the syn did not happen.

Review source

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HK

habeeb k.

SAP BASIS & HANA CONSULTANT - LEAD

Information Technology and Services

### "Emburse SpringAhead Review"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

June 29, 2022

Awesome tool to main our attendance.

Pros

Good choice to main attendance accurately. And it is very user friendly.

Cons

It is highly recommended to use for their corporate companies.

Review source

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LH

Liana H.

program officer

Non-Profit Organization Management

### "Comprehensive and easily managed time recording for billing"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

4.0

4.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

June 24, 2022

I have to submit weekly timesheets for a project and billing, and this one is one of the rare time tracking softwares, that doesnt take too much time or effort to submit. Other softwares I have used are more sophisticated and time consuming. With SpringAhead it takes me max 3 min to fill in the time. Another nice future is also, that overtime is tracked separately, given that 8 hours is the regular timeline to work, so you can see how many hours OT you have.

Pros

SpringAhead is extremely easy to understand, use and navigate. It also makes approvals are smooth, so the reporting and time keeping makes it easy for supervisors review and approval.

Cons

The only downside is that once submitted and it's still under pending review, you can't make changes to your timesheet. Though sometimes, if not approved yet, I would prefer to have the ability to make adjustments.

Switched from

[BambooHR](https://www.capterra.com/p/110968/BambooHR/)

Time consuming

Review source

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SL

Sharon L.

Secretary/Treasurer

Telecommunications

### "Completely Satisfied!"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

March 24, 2022

time and expense reporting works seamlessly. Project tracking as well.

Pros

We use it for time and expense reporting as well as project tracking.

Cons

There are no complaints about the system--it works very well for us.

Review source

Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

CT

Chi T.

Accountant

Environmental Services

### "Accountant"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

March 17, 2022

Pros

Timesheet, Expenses, Approval are used in everyday activities. Springahead is rarely in down time. The sync data to Quickbooks is very fast and accurate.

Cons

So far, I don't have any problem about this software.

Reasons for choosing SpringAhead

It's friendly use and affordable price for a small business.

Review source

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JJ

Judith J.

President

Management Consulting

### "SpringAhead Review"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

4.0

4.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

4.0

4.0

Likelihood to Recommend

9/10

February 11, 2022

Pros

The ability to provide detailed data on projects. The exportation of time cards into QuickBooks software.

Cons

Limited information on dealing with problems.

Review source

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Denise W.

Business Owner

Financial Services

### "Good luck trying to cancel"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

1.0

1.0

Likelihood to Recommend

0/10

November 2, 2021

11 years fine (easy enough to use) last several months NIGHTMARE

Pros

This software worked fine for 11 years, until they jacked up the price to more than double

Cons

No warning; jacked up the price, I found MUCH more reasonable software to do the same thing. Springahead has ZERO customer service, and I cannot get them to stop charging me, even though I canceled months ago. I DO NOT RECOMMEND THEM for total lack of customer support.

Review source

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[View all Reviews](https://www.capterra.com/p/85050/SpringAhead/reviews/)

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