Glossary
Definitions of key terms used in Certify for Business Central and in this documentation.
Certify / Emburse Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Certify | The expense management system, now part of Emburse and also marketed as Emburse Professional. The same product is referred to as Certify, Emburse Certify, or Emburse Professional. |
| Emburse Professional | The current Emburse branding for Certify. Distinct from Emburse Enterprise, Spend, Cards, and Invoice. |
| Expense Report | A container for multiple expense lines submitted together by an employee. |
| Expense Line | An individual expense transaction (date, amount, category, merchant, etc.). |
| Expense Category | A user-facing expense type in Certify (Meals, Hotel, Airfare, etc.) that maps to a G/L account. |
| Expense Type | The Certify classification of a category (Cash Expense, Mileage, Lodging, Meals, Rentals, Travel, Per-Diem, Hourly, Invoice). |
| GLD | General Ledger Dimension — a custom accounting field in Certify carried on expense lines. Has a label, a value/code, and a name. |
| EmployeeID | The Certify identifier for the employee, used as the Business Central employee/vendor account number on reimbursement lines. |
| API Key / API Secret | Credentials used to authenticate to the Certify API (x-api-key and x-api-secret headers). |
| Converted Amount | An amount Certify has already converted to another currency, optionally used instead of converting in Business Central. |
Business Central Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| General Journal | The journal where the app creates lines for review and posting. |
| Journal Template / Batch | The template and batch that hold the generated journal lines; the batch's number series supplies the document number. |
| G/L Account | A general ledger account; expense categories map to these. |
| Dimension / Dimension Value | Business Central's analytical coding; Certify GLDs and departments map to these. |
| Balance Account | The balancing account on a journal line (G/L account or bank account). |
| Document No. | The number assigned to all journal lines generated from one expense report. |
| External Document No. | Set to the Certify expense report name on generated lines. |
| Tax Area Code | The tax area applied to lines that carry tax. |
App-Specific Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Expense Balance Account | The setup balancing account for expense lines not paid on a mapped corporate card. |
| Reimburse Balance Account | The setup balancing account for reimbursement lines. |
| Fallback G/L Account | The account used when a category has no valid G/L mapping. |
| Department Dimension | The Business Central dimension the Certify department maps to. |
| Report Status | Internal status of an expense report: Waiting (not generated) or Settled (journal generated). |
| Aggregate Employee Payment | Setting that combines all reimbursable amounts on a report into one reimbursement line. |
| Reimbursable | An expense paid personally by the employee, owed back to them. |
| Company-Paid | An expense paid by the company (e.g., corporate card), not reimbursed to the employee. |