At a glance
SAP Concur has long been the enterprise standard for travel and expense, with booking, expense reporting and invoice in one suite. Its configuration goes very deep, and so does the implementation project it takes to use that depth.
Best for
Mid-market finance teams that want missing receipts dealt with in weeks, and want the people who own the expense policy to run it without a systems integrator.
Where it's stronger
Best for
Choose SAP Concur if you run managed travel, have complex global policy across many entities, and have the internal resources to configure and maintain it.
Where it's stronger
Every comparison on this site names what the other product does better. If we couldn't think of anything, we didn't publish the page.
Side by side
These are structural differences, not plan checkboxes. Capabilities change, so check the vendor's own documentation before deciding on any single row.
How long before it is actually working
Booking managed business travel
If you run managed travel, this row decides it, and we don't compete here.
Receipts issued by the merchant
How far policy can be configured
Corporate and virtual cards
Who administers it day to day
None of this needs a big-bang cutover. Most teams run both tools for one cycle and compare capture rates before switching anyone off.
If managed travel booking is in scope, Smartbills won't replace Concur. Better to know on day one than three months in.
Start with one entity or department, keep Concur running and compare capture rates over a full expense cycle.
One chart-of-accounts mapping is reused for each entity as you roll out. No repeating the work country by country.
Move one entity at a time. If something goes wrong in one country, the rest keeps going.
FAQ
What people ask us before they sign up.
Keep comparing
The products people evaluate alongside SAP Concur.
Travel booking first, expenses second. This comparison is about the everyday spend that isn't a trip.
Read the comparisonThe expense report app most finance teams already know, set against Smartbills on where each receipt comes from before anyone files it.
Read the comparisonA corporate card program with spend management built around it. The comparison turns on what a card feed can and can't tell you.
Read the comparisonEach product works on its own, and when you run two, the same record carries from the receipt to the ledger entry.
Capture receipts, categorize expenses and check policy compliance as expenses are submitted.
Accounts payable automation that reads each supplier invoice, codes it and matches it to the purchase order before anyone is asked to approve payment.
Digital receipt software that turns every sale at your POS into an itemized electronic receipt, hosted online and delivered by app, SMS, email or API.
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