Emburse Enterprise

Emburse Enterprise (formerly Chrome River) is a travel and expense management platform for expense reports, invoices, pre-approvals, purchase orders, and the supporting person, allocation, entity, and vendor master data. Nexla connects to the Emburse Enterprise REST API to ingest these records for finance reporting and reconciliation, and to push person, allocation, entity, vendor, and paid-expense updates back into the platform.

Power end-to-end data operations for your Emburse Enterprise API with Nexla. Our bi-directional Emburse Enterprise connector is purpose-built for Emburse Enterprise, making it simple to ingest data, sync it across systems, and deliver it anywhere — all with no coding required. Nexla turns API-sourced data into ready-to-use, reusable data products and makes it easy to send data to Emburse Enterprise or any other destination. With comprehensive monitoring, lineage tracking, and access controls, Nexla keeps your Emburse Enterprise workflows fast, secure, and fully governed.

Features

Type: API

SourceDestination

• Seamless API Integration: Connect to any endpoint as source or destination without coding, with automatic data product creation
• Visual Composition & Chaining: Build complex integrations using visual templates, chain API calls, and compose workflows with data validation and filtering
• API Proxy: Expose curated slices of your data securely with a secure and customizable API proxy that validates and transforms data on the fly
• Request optimization with intelligent batching, retry, and caching to minimize API calls and costs

Prerequisites

Before creating an Emburse Enterprise credential, you need an API Key, your Customer Code, and a Chain ID. Every request to the Emburse Enterprise REST API is authenticated with three headers: x-api-key, customer-code, and chain-id.

1. Confirm that your organization has been granted access to the API Key Management admin screen. Access to this screen is controlled through Access Permissions and must be enabled by Emburse for your account.

2. Sign in to Emburse Enterprise as an administrator and open the API Key Management admin screen to generate an API Key. API keys are environment-specific — a key generated in Production will not work in a QA/UAT environment, and vice versa, so generate the key in the environment you intend to connect to.

3. Obtain your Customer Code from your Emburse implementation team. The Customer Code is combined with the API Key to authorize REST API requests.

4. Prepare a Chain ID, a GUID sent on each request for traceability. You can use a fixed GUID or generate a new one per run.

For API specifications and endpoint reference, see the Emburse Enterprise REST API Specifications and the REST API Integrations Overview in the Emburse Enterprise Help Center.

Authenticate

Credentials required

Field	Required	Secret	Description
API Key	Yes	Yes	API Key generated from the API Key Management admin screen in Emburse Enterprise.
Customer Code	Yes	No	Your Emburse Enterprise Customer Code provided by your Implementation team.
Chain ID	Yes	No	Unique GUID per request for traceability. Recommended to use a fixed GUID or generate one per run.

Create a credential in Nexla

1. After selecting the data source/destination type, click the Add Credential tile to open the Add New Credential overlay.

2. Enter a name for the credential in the Credential Name field and a short, meaningful description in the Credential Description field.

3. Enter the API Key you generated from the API Key Management admin screen in the API Key field. This value is sent in the x-api-key header on every request and must be kept confidential.

4. Enter your Customer Code in the Customer Code field, and a Chain ID GUID in the Chain ID field. These are sent in the customer-code and chain-id headers, respectively.

5. Click the Save button at the bottom of the overlay. The newly added credential will now appear in a tile on the Authenticate screen during data source/destination creation.

Use as a data source

To create a new data flow, navigate to the Integrate section, and click the New Data Flow button. Select the Emburse Enterprise connector tile, then select the credential that will be used to connect to the Emburse Enterprise instance, and click Next; or, create a new Emburse Enterprise credential for use in this flow.

Endpoint templates

Nexla provides pre-built templates that can be used to rapidly configure data sources to ingest data from common Emburse Enterprise endpoints. Select the endpoint from which this source will fetch data from the Endpoint pulldown menu. Available endpoint templates are listed in the expandable boxes below.

[Rest API] List Persons

Retrieve all person (employee) records from Emburse Enterprise. Supports filtering by update date.

• Use the optional Page Size parameter to control how many records are returned per page, and the optional Updated Since parameter to fetch only persons updated after a given ISO 8601 date. Nexla follows the response page token automatically to retrieve all pages.

[Rest API] Get Person

Retrieve a single person record from Emburse Enterprise by their unique person ID.

• Provide the required Person Unique ID parameter identifying the person record to retrieve.

[Rest API] List Allocations

Retrieve all allocation records (cost codes, matters, projects) from Emburse Enterprise.

• Use the optional Page Size parameter to control how many records are returned per page. Nexla follows the response page token automatically to retrieve all pages.

[Rest API] Search Allocations

Search allocation records by name, number, or client code in Emburse Enterprise.

• Provide the optional Search Term to match allocations by name, number, or client code, and the optional Page Size parameter to limit the number of results returned.

[Rest API] List Entities

Retrieve entity records such as cost centers, departments, and companies from Emburse Enterprise.

• Use the optional Entity Type Code parameter to filter by a specific entity type (for example, DEPT, CC, or CO), and the optional Page Size parameter to control how many records are returned per page. Nexla follows the response page token automatically to retrieve all pages.

[Rest API] List Entity Types

Retrieve all entity type definitions from Emburse Enterprise such as Cost Centers and Departments.

• This endpoint takes no parameters and returns the full list of configured entity type definitions.

[Rest API] List Exported Expense Reports

Retrieve exported expense reports from Emburse Enterprise. Filter by export date range (max 32 days).

• Provide the required Start Date and End Date parameters in ISO 8601 format to define the export date range, which is limited to 32 days. Use the optional Page Size parameter to control how many records are returned per page.

[Rest API] List Expense Reports

Retrieve expense reports from Emburse Enterprise filtered by status and submitted date range.

• Use the optional Report Status parameter to filter by approval status (Draft, Submitted, Approved, Exported, or Rejected), and the optional Start Date, End Date, and Page Size parameters to scope the submitted date range and page size.

[Rest API] List Paid Expenses

Retrieve paid expense records from Emburse Enterprise for ERP reimbursement reconciliation.

• Provide the required Start Date and End Date parameters in ISO 8601 format to scope the paid expense date range. Use the optional Page Size parameter to control how many records are returned per page.

[Rest API] List Invoices

Retrieve AP invoices from Emburse Enterprise filtered by status and date range.

• Use the optional Invoice Status parameter to filter by status (Submitted, Approved, Exported, Paid, or Rejected), and the optional Start Date, End Date, and Page Size parameters to scope the date range and page size.

[Rest API] Get Invoice

Retrieve a single AP invoice from Emburse Enterprise by invoice ID.

• Provide the required Invoice ID parameter identifying the invoice to retrieve.

[Rest API] List Pre-Approvals

Retrieve pre-approval (spend authorization) records from Emburse Enterprise filtered by status.

• Use the optional Pre-Approval Status parameter to filter by status (Submitted, Approved, Rejected, or Closed), and the optional Page Size parameter to control how many records are returned per page.

[Rest API] List Purchase Orders

Retrieve purchase order records from Emburse Enterprise for procurement and AP reconciliation.

• Use the optional PO Status parameter to filter by status (Open, Closed, or Cancelled), and the optional Page Size parameter to control how many records are returned per page.

[Rest API] List Vendors

Retrieve vendor and supplier master records from Emburse Enterprise for AP invoice matching.

• Use the optional Page Size parameter to control how many records are returned per page. Nexla follows the response page token automatically to retrieve all pages.

[Rest API] List Contacts

Retrieve contact records from Emburse Enterprise for vendor and supplier management.

• Use the optional Page Size parameter to control how many records are returned per page. Nexla follows the response page token automatically to retrieve all pages.

[Rest API] Get Expense Receipt Images

Retrieve receipt image PDFs for an exported expense report for AI receipt parsing and audit.

• Provide the required Report ID parameter identifying the expense report whose receipt images should be retrieved.

[Rest API] Get Invoice Images

Retrieve invoice image PDFs from Emburse Enterprise for AI-based OCR and invoice processing.

• Provide the required Invoice ID parameter, and optionally set Include PDF Report to control whether the full PDF report is returned alongside the invoice image.

Once the selected endpoint template has been configured, click the Test button to the right of the endpoint selection menu to retrieve a sample of the data that will be fetched. Sample data will be displayed in the Endpoint Test Result panel on the right, allowing you to verify that the source is configured correctly before saving.

Manual configuration

Emburse Enterprise data sources can also be manually configured to ingest data from any valid Emburse Enterprise REST API endpoint, including endpoints not covered by the pre-built templates, chained API calls, or custom request parameters. Select the Advanced tab at the top of the configuration screen, and follow the instructions in Connect to Any API to configure the API method, endpoint URL, date/time and lookup macros, path to data, metadata, and request headers.

Once all of the relevant settings have been configured, click the Create button in the upper right corner of the screen to save and create the new Emburse Enterprise data source. Nexla will now begin ingesting data from the configured endpoint and will organize any data that it finds into one or more Nexsets.

Use as a destination

Click the + icon on the Nexset that will be sent to the Emburse Enterprise destination, and select the Send to Destination option from the menu. Select the Emburse Enterprise connector from the list of available destination connectors, then select the credential that will be used to connect to the Emburse Enterprise instance, and click Next; or, create a new Emburse Enterprise credential for use in this flow.

Endpoint templates

Nexla provides pre-built templates that can be used to rapidly configure destinations to send data to common Emburse Enterprise endpoints. Select the endpoint to which data will be sent from the Endpoint pulldown menu. Then, click on the template in the list below to expand it, and follow the instructions to configure additional endpoint settings.

[Rest API] Upsert Person

Create or update person records in Emburse Enterprise via batch. Supports up to 25 records per request.

• Each record from your Nexset is sent as JSON in the request body to create or update person records. Batches are limited to 25 records per request.

[Rest API] Upsert Allocations

Create or update allocation records in Emburse Enterprise. Supports up to 25 records per request.

• Each record from your Nexset is sent as JSON in the request body to create or update allocation records. Batches are limited to 25 records per request.

[Rest API] Upsert Entities

Create or update entity records in Emburse Enterprise. Supports up to 25 records per request.

• Each record from your Nexset is sent as JSON in the request body to create or update entity records. Batches are limited to 25 records per request.

[Rest API] Submit Paid Expense

Post payment confirmation for an expense report back to Emburse Enterprise after ERP processing.

• Each record from your Nexset is sent as JSON in the request body to confirm payment of a processed expense report back to Emburse Enterprise.

[Rest API] Upsert Vendor

Create or update a vendor or supplier record in Emburse Enterprise.

• Each record from your Nexset is sent as JSON in the request body to create or update a vendor or supplier record.

Manual configuration

Emburse Enterprise destinations can also be manually configured to send data to any valid Emburse Enterprise REST API endpoint. Select the Advanced tab at the top of the configuration screen, and follow the instructions in Connect to Any API to configure the API method, data format, endpoint URL, request headers, attribute exclusions, record batching, and response webhooks.

Save & activate

Once all endpoint settings have been configured, click the Done button in the upper right corner of the screen to save and create the destination. To send the data to the configured Emburse Enterprise endpoint, open the destination resource menu, and select Activate.

The Nexset data will not be sent to the Emburse Enterprise endpoint until the destination is activated. Destinations can be activated immediately or at a later time, providing full control over data movement.