The SAP Concur Platform is an integrated travel, expense, and invoice management system that offers the following features:

• Simplifies and automates everyday business processes.
• Provides total visibility and greater control over expenses.
• Serves as a digital, integrated solution for businesses to send unlimited invoices and manage expenses efficiently.
• Offers configurable workflows.
• Integrates with external applications.
• Provides data analytics and reporting capabilities.
• Streamlines the invoicing process.
• Simplifies the acceptance of payments from clients and vendors.

SAP Concur Platform, through its automation of travel, expense, and invoice management operations, provides a comprehensive solution for effective financial management within businesses. The subsequent sections will illuminate the capabilities of the SAP Concur Platform and its transformative potential for your business processes.

Expense management refers to monitoring and controlling the expenditure of goods or services utilized to operate a business, including tracking personal expenses incurred by employees at their own expense. SAP Concur’s automated processes and tools provide an efficient way to track, manage, and control expenses, streamlining expense management and reducing the risk of late fees with automatic payment reminders.

For example, Paymo supports integration with third-party gateways like Stripe, Authorize.net, or PayPal, and enables the creation of recurring invoices for regular clients. SAP Concur aids businesses in optimizing their billing process for enhanced efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Utilizing SAP Concur Platform enables businesses to effectively reduce expenses, limit spending, and track revenue.

SAP Concur’s invoice automation features facilitate invoice processing and approvals, including the ability to create recurring invoices for clients with regular billing cycles. With invoice automation, businesses can generate professional invoices, invoice templates, receipts, quotes, estimates, purchase orders, credit notes, and more, making it a comprehensive solution for a wide range of needs. Additionally, users can schedule automatic payment reminders to ensure timely payments.

Online invoices can be paid using a variety of methods that accept payments, including creating invoices with recurring payments options such as:

• Credit card
• Apple Pay
• Google Pay
• ACH bank transfer.
• Cash App Pay
• After pay Additionally, businesses can send invoices to their customers to request payment.

Everyone can choose the most suitable payment option for them. Moreover, Square Invoices, with its unlimited invoicing feature, enables businesses to request, accept, and record any type of payment method, including online payments, making it a versatile invoicing solution.

With SAP Concur’s invoice automation features, businesses can save time, streamline processes, and improve cash flow.

SAP Concur’s Travel Management module offers an integrated approach to managing business travel, expense management, and invoice processing, providing a seamless end-to-end travel and expense management experience. It enables users to set travel preferences, add frequent flyer numbers, and assign delegates to book trips on their behalf, thus further streamlining the booking process.

SAP Concur offers a unified system for travel and expense management, providing businesses with the following benefits:

• Monitoring and controlling travel expenses
• Reinforcing policies and preventing fraud
• Maintaining global policy compliance
• Enhancing adoption of spend policies
• Accessing expertise in travel and expense analytics to analyze data and identify excessive spending sources

By utilizing SAP Concur, businesses can ensure efficient travel management.

SAP Concur Platform offers a suite of powerful features to help businesses better manage their expenses, invoices, and travel plans. With customizable workflows, integration with external applications, and data analytics and reporting functionalities, the platform makes it easy to tailor processes according to specific business needs.

This section will shed light on these key features, concentrating on their potential to enhance your business operations and provide insightful data for decision-making.

SAP Concur’s customizable workflows enable businesses to:

• Create and modify expense management processes according to their specific requirements
• Increase visibility and control over travel and expense spending
• Reduce manual processes
• Ensure policy compliance

SAP Concur offers features like smart categorization of expenses, digital receipt management, and customizable workflows tailored to specific business needs, empowering businesses to design and implement time and resource-saving, efficient expense management processes.

Seamless integration with third-party applications is a major advantage of the SAP Concur Platform. Through its open platform, partners can develop applications and services that integrate with and expand SAP Concur solutions, enabling businesses to automate processes, synchronize data, and streamline spend management.

Some commonly integrated applications include:

• Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Oracle NetSuite
• Sage Intacct
• Various ERP systems

This integration eliminates manual data entry across multiple systems, reduces delays in exporting data, and simplifies spend management, making it an invaluable tool for businesses of all sizes.

SAP Concur’s data analytics and reporting tools enable businesses to generate customizable reports and dashboards for gaining insights and making better business decisions. With SAP Concur Analytics, users can access robust dashboards, tailored reports, and sophisticated business intelligence tools to track trends and acquire useful spend data insights.

Businesses can use SAP Concur’s data analytics to analyze consumer, sales, and expense data, develop future plans, campaigns, and internal processes, and optimize business travel. By leveraging data analytics, businesses can gain insights and make informed decisions to drive business success.

Using SAP Concur Platform offers numerous advantages for businesses, including time and cost savings, improved compliance and control, and an enhanced employee experience. By automating expense, invoice, and travel management processes, businesses can save time and money while also improving efficiency and accuracy.

In the following subsections, we’ll delve deeper into these benefits and explore how SAP Concur Platform can transform your business processes, leading to a more efficient and productive organization.

SAP Concur Platform’s automation features help businesses save both time and money by streamlining expense, invoice, and travel management processes. For example, SMBs have reported saving around $39,000 annually by automating expense and invoice processes with SAP Concur.

By using SAP Concur Platform, businesses can:

• Reduce errors
• Take advantage of tax benefits
• Increase productivity
• Optimize cash management

These advantages can help businesses cut costs and save valuable time, freeing up resources to focus on more strategic activities.

SAP Concur’s policy enforcement and audit capabilities help businesses improve compliance and control over their expenses and invoices. By automating expense reporting and employee reimbursements, SAP Concur streamlines the process for employees to adhere to spending policies while providing management with tools to increase compliance and control spending.

SAP Concur’s audit services and tools also provide guidance on improving compliance, reducing fraud risk, and decreasing spend. Utilizing SAP Concur Platform allows businesses to enhance control over their expenses and ensure adherence to company policies.

SAP Concur offers the following benefits to improve the employee experience:

• User-friendly interface
• Mobile app for capturing and submitting expenses, tracking spending, and managing travel plans
• Ability to book and manage trips on the go

These features enhance the overall experience and satisfaction with the platform.

Studies have shown that investing in the right tools, such as SAP Concur, can improve employee experience and contribute to a more productive work environment. By streamlining everyday processes and offering a convenient way to manage expenses, SAP Concur Platform helps boost employee satisfaction and productivity.

To maximize the potential of SAP Concur Platform fully, businesses should consider the following tips and best practices:

1. Regularly review and update expense policies to ensure they align with company goals and industry standards.
2. Train employees on the proper use of SAP Concur and its features to ensure they are utilizing the platform effectively.
3. Monitor and analyze expense data regularly to identify trends, potential issues, and opportunities for savings.
4. Collaborate with experts, such as FirstCall Consulting’s Concur Team, to optimize your SAP Concur implementation and usage.

Following these guidelines enables businesses to maximize the benefits of SAP Concur Platform and fully utilize its powerful features and capabilities.

FirstCall Consulting’s Concur Team offers specialized knowledge in strategy and implementation for expense, travel, invoice, and payments related to SAP Concur implementations. They provide proactive suggestions to maximize the investment in SAP Concur and help businesses optimize their platform usage.

The process of collaborating with FirstCall Consulting’s Concur team on a SAP Concur project includes the following steps:

1. Initial consultation
2. Project scoping
3. Planning and timeline
4. Configuration and customization
5. Integration
6. Testing and training
7. Go-live and support

By working with FirstCall Consulting’s Concur team, businesses can ensure a successful SAP Concur implementation and make the most of the platform’s capabilities.

The SAP Concur Platform offers a powerful solution for businesses looking to streamline their expense, invoice, and travel management processes. With its robust features and capabilities, businesses can save time and money, improve compliance and control, and enhance employee experience.

Leveraging SAP Concur Platform can help businesses fully realize the potential of their expense, invoice, and travel management processes, resulting in a more efficient and productive organization. Don’t overlook this opportunity to revolutionize your business with this comprehensive solution.