Setting Up Your Concur Expense Profile

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to set up your expense profile with key settings and features that will simplify the expense process

Overview of Key Concur Expense Settings and Features

You can simplify the hardest part of submitting expense reports (expense claims). When it comes to receipts, it may feel like the Wild West. But SAP Concur has some key features that decrease errors and collect all your receipts in one place, ultimately getting you reimbursed faster. Before submitting your expenses, take advantage of the key Concur Expense profile settings and productivity features below that help simplify the expense process and shorten your path to reimbursement.

The following SAP Concur profile settings help you automate the expense capture and reconciliation process.

Image describing 3 key Concur Expense settings that help you automate the expense process. Expense Assistant automates the expense reporting process by creating reports for you and adding calendar-based or trip-based expenses to the reports. E-Receipts lets you forward receipt e-mails to receipts@concur.com to make them available in Concur Expense. Concur App Center lets you simplify business travel and expensing by connecting you to participating vendors who send your digital receipts directly into SAP Concur to add to your expense report.

  • Expense Assistant: automates the expense report process by creating reports for you and adding calendar- or trip-based expenses to the reports.
  • E-Receipts: lets you forward receipt e-mails to make them available in Concur Expense.
  • Concur App Center lets you simplify business travel and expensing by connecting you to participating vendors who send your digital receipts directly into SAP Concur to add to your expense report.

The following Concur Expense profile settings help you maximize productivity.

Image describing 2 key Concur Expense profile settings:Direct Deposit into your bank account for cash advances and reimbursement of your out-of-pocket travel and expense transactions. Expense Delegates are users granted permission to act on your behalf to create, edit, submit, or approve expense reports for you.

  • Direct deposit: allows you to receive cash advances and reimbursements for out-of-pocket travel faster.
  • Expense Delegates: users granted permission to act on behalf of another user to perform certain tasks such as creating, editing, submitting, or approving expense reports for you.

The subsequent lessons walk you through how to set up each of these features step by step.

Note

Confirm your organization’s participation in the preceding programs, preferred booking methods, and policy before booking travel. Your organization may not have purchased or enabled all the products and features discussed in this lesson.

Updating Your Concur Expense Profile

Key expense profile settings such as personal and company information, credit cards, direct deposit bank information, Expense Assistant, e-Receipts, and Expense Delegates can help you make the most of Concur Expense. Now, let's learn a little about each of the key expense profile features.

  1. Select Play to start the preceding video. TIP: You can turn on closed captions and change the audio speed here in the embedded player control bar.
  2. Open the step-by-step guide: Updating Your Expense Profile Tip Sheet.
  3. Sign into https://www.ConcurSolutions.com and follow the Tip Sheet steps to update your expense profile on SAP Concur. You can toggle between the Tip Sheet and SAP Concur or view them side-by-side while you perform the tasks.

    (Having trouble signing in? Review Unit 1, Lesson 1 of this learning journey or this SAP Concur Community article: Why can't I sign into the SAP Concur tool?.)

Note

Your organization may not have purchased or enabled all the products and features discussed in this lesson.

SAP Concur Mobile App

This task can be performed on the web version (the instructions in this lesson) or on the SAP Concur mobile app for Android and iPhone. See the following links to reference the SAP Concur mobile app user resources.

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SAP Concur Mobile App User ResourcesSAP Concur Mobile App User Resources - AndroidSAP Concur Mobile App User Resources - iPhone

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