SAP Concur publishes a guide to corporate travel management, covering policy development, supplier management, traveler safety and duty of care, spend visibility, and technology automation. It emphasizes the expanding strategic role of travel managers.
SAP Concur blog compares corporate cards and employee reimbursement, analyzing differences, use cases, and how to combine them. Corporate cards offer real-time visibility and compliance control, suitable for frequent travelers and high-value spending; reimbursement suits small and occasional expenses. Many businesses use both.
SAP Concur provides a business travel checklist covering pre-trip preparation, packing essentials, during-trip actions, and post-trip expense reporting. It emphasizes using company booking systems, staying compliant, submitting expenses promptly, and leveraging mobile apps and automation.
SAP Concur blog shares insights from John Lovasz, Global Concur Administrator at Crane Payment Innovations, covering mobile expense capture, using reporting data to fix policy issues, scaling across business units, and compliance benefits of automated audit rules.
SAP Concur blog shares how Stephanie Richards, T&E Administrator at Group 1001, uses Verify to automate expense audits. Previously spending 40 hours weekly manually reviewing all expense reports, Verify has freed up significant time, allowing her to focus on budgeting and forecasting.
SAP Concur blog discusses key factors in choosing a spend management solution, including business needs, value over price, employee experience, embedded AI, visibility, integration, and trust. IDC research shows Concur customers achieve 406% three-year ROI.
Expensify announced that its Q2 2026 financial results will be released after market close on August 6, 2026, followed by a conference call at 2pm PT to discuss the results.
SAP Concur published a blog post guiding finance teams on handling personal purchases made with corporate cards. It emphasizes clear policies, simple reporting, employee training, and pattern monitoring, and recommends using technology to strengthen controls.
SAP Concur article notes city managers face complex financial responsibilities, but many municipalities rely on disconnected systems and manual processes, limiting spend visibility. Modern spend management solutions integrate travel, expense, invoice, and purchasing processes, providing real-time visibility, embedded controls, and better grant oversight. This improves transparency, compliance, and audit readiness while reducing manual work.
SAP Concur published a practical guide to help finance and travel managers handle gray areas in expense policies, such as rideshare surge pricing, food delivery, airport lounge access, and more. It provides evaluation criteria and best practices to improve approval consistency and efficiency.
SAP Concur article explores how to define reasonable business meal expenses in today's economy. Due to inflation, the average dinner price in the US rose from $20 in 2010 to $40 in 2026. It suggests companies adopt guideline-based policies considering location and context rather than fixed limits.
Expensify has launched its Expensify Visa Commercial Card in the UK and select European markets including Spain, Ireland, Poland, and the Netherlands. The card offers real-time spend visibility, auto-categorization, spend controls, virtual cards, daily or monthly settlement, VAT support, and accounting integrations. Issued by Transact Payments, it supports GBP, EUR, or USD business bank accounts with no minimums, deposits, or credit checks. Users can save up to 50% on Expensify subscription.
Travel and spend management company Perk (formerly TravelPerk) has launched its model context protocol (MCP) connector to link AI assistants like Claude and ChatGPT with its workplace software. The connector allows users to access travel and spend data using natural language, reducing the hassle of searching across platforms.
SAP Concur explains how agentic AI, powered by Joule, automates travel and expense tasks. AI agents assist with booking trips, planning off-site meetings, auto-creating expense reports, analyzing receipts, and checking compliance. The article highlights agentic AI's ability to initiate and orchestrate multi-step processes, reducing manual work, and discusses new approaches to measuring AI ROI.
Payal Bhattacharya of BeOne Medicines shared at Fusion 2026 how the company automates T&E with SAP Concur. Corporate card feeds, mobile capture, and Intelligent Audit reduce administrative burden. Native integration with SAP S/4HANA automates financial postings and supports audit readiness. Direct Concur Travel contract improves compliance and experience. Future focus on AI audit rules and Joule.
At Phocuswright Europe 2026, Hands In co-founder Samuel Flynn discussed the difference between split payments and BNPL. Hands In focuses on solving insufficient funds in the travel industry and supports group split payments. Flynn predicts AI will drive decentralization of payment infrastructure.
Expensify launched consolidated travel billing, allowing companies to pay for flights, hotels, cars, and rail booked through Expensify Travel in one monthly bill, without issuing corporate cards to every traveler or relying on reimbursements. It offers centralized visibility and simplified reconciliation.
Sage Publishing fully utilized SAP Concur within three months, and after implementing Concur Request, over 80% of manual approval emails disappeared. Automated reporting and data integration improved transparency and efficiency for global teams. Future plans include adopting Joule AI tools for further automation.
SAP Concur published a blog comparing standalone expense tools, highlighting advantages of native integration with SAP ERP, including real-time data flow, embedded AI, automated expense reporting, and payment management.
Navan launched Model Context Protocol (MCP), enabling customers to connect existing AI tools and securely access travel and expense data via natural language queries. Initial deployment is read-only, with future write-access planned.
Expensify announced expanded capabilities for Concierge AI, enabling customers to configure accounts, automate expense management, and analyze spend using natural language via email, text, or in-app. New features include conversational analytics, chat-based expense management, workspace administration, cross-channel access, and autonomous workflow agents in beta.
Visa launched Visa Destinations, a travel platform for cardholders offering experiences, city guides, and travel benefits in 10 destinations: Paris, London, Dubai, Milan, Rome, Mexico City, New York City, Miami, San Francisco, and Thailand. The platform includes recommendations for dining, entertainment, culture, hospitality, wellness, shopping, and transport, with priority access to Top of the Rock and the Louvre. Visa Infinite and Signature cardholders receive additional benefits. Partners include Santander Group, Global Blue, Star Alliance, and Trip.com Group.
SAP Concur blog explains how to calculate business cash flow, emphasizing its importance for financial health. It highlights that travel and expense (T&E) directly impacts cash flow, and lack of compliance controls can lead to fraud and leakage. Spend management automation improves compliance, simplifies taxes, and enhances invoicing, thereby improving cash flow visibility.
SAP Concur blog cites IFOL report showing 77% of organizations still manually enter invoices, only 7% fully automated. AI adoption is accelerating with 19% using and 30% planning within a year. Embedded AI reduces manual work, improves efficiency, and allows finance teams to focus on strategic tasks.
Perk research shows 20% of employees regularly misrepresent expenses, and 56% have done so at least once. 31% still submit manually via email or spreadsheet, with manual processes more prone to misrepresentation. AI-generated receipts account for 8%, highest in Germany. Perk suggests expanding corporate card access, reducing friction, and implementing proactive guardrails.
SAP Concur published a blog post offering five steps for SMBs to cut employee expense costs, including moving away from spreadsheets, eliminating paper receipts, embracing AI and automation, improving visibility, and building a partner ecosystem. It cites data showing integrated solutions can reduce travel and expense costs by up to 21%.
Rebecca Kelley, Travel and Expense Analyst at Meteor Education, shares her experience with SAP Concur. The company has ~350 employees, with ~100 regular travelers. Through the integrated platform and Verify automated auditing, they saved significant time and stayed on budget for the first time in 2024 and 2025, after previously overspending by 25-30% annually.
A SAP Concur blog post highlights that manual invoice processing becomes increasingly inefficient and risky as businesses grow. Digitizing invoices and automating AP processes can reduce processing costs by up to 70%, cut handling times by 66%, improve compliance, and strengthen supplier relationships. AI-powered tools like OCR and machine learning automate data extraction and matching, while integration with ERP systems provides real-time visibility into cash flow and supports better decision-making.
Expensify, Inc. announced the final results of its modified 'Dutch auction' tender offer, accepting 6,053,023 shares of Class A common stock at $1.20 per share, for a total cost of approximately $7.26 million, representing about 6.8% of outstanding shares. The offer expired on June 10, 2026, and the company will pay with cash on hand.
A SAP Concur blog post explores how AI is transforming travel and expense (T&E) management. Traditional T&E processes rely on employees understanding policies, often leading to errors and inefficiency. AI enables proactive management by providing real-time guidance, automating classification, and identifying high-risk expenses, improving compliance, data accuracy, and efficiency.
Expensify announced preliminary results of its modified Dutch auction tender offer, expecting to repurchase 6,140,642 shares of Class A common stock at $1.20 per share, totaling approximately $7.37 million, representing about 6.9% of outstanding shares. The offer was undersubscribed against the $25 million target. CEO David Barrett stated the company is undervalued and repurchase is an attractive use of capital.
SAP Concur published a blog post offering strategies for building a cost-saving corporate travel program, covering foundational to advanced practices. The article emphasizes expanding spend visibility, simplifying compliance, uncovering hidden costs, and leveraging automation and AI, as well as strengthening supplier relationships and enforcing pre-spend compliance.
SAP Concur received the 2026 TrustRadius Top Rated Award in four categories: Expense Management, Travel Management, Spend Management, and Accounts Payable. Based on over 1,000 verified reviews, users highlight time savings, streamlined reimbursement, mobile receipt scanning, centralized booking, and ERP integrations. The award is based entirely on customer feedback, reflecting real-world performance for finance and operations teams.
Expensify announced the launch of Expensify MCP, connecting expense data to AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, and Cursor via the Model Context Protocol. Users can query expenses, approvals, and spending in natural language without CSV exports or custom scripts. The integration uses OAuth 2.1 for secure access, aiming to make Expensify accessible in AI-driven business environments.
SAP Concur's article explores AI in business travel management, noting 95% of business travelers are open to AI booking but only 7% feel comfortable. It poses 8 questions for travel managers to evaluate AI solutions, including improving travel experience, speeding approvals, personalization, guidance, simplifying complex scenarios, policy guidance, data insights, and expense audits. Data from SAP Concur's 6th Annual Global Business Travelers Research Report.
SAP Concur's article explores AI's dual role in spend management. AI can reduce administrative burden, process large data, and manage complexity, but it can also amplify existing weaknesses like inconsistent data, disconnected systems, and weak governance. The article emphasizes that AI success depends on strong foundations: connected systems, trustworthy data, and clear governance. The future of spend management requires balancing automation with human judgment.
Jesse Cox, AP and T&E Manager at Solis Mammography, shares five tips for optimizing Concur Invoice: auditing workflows, using vendor setup to reduce manual work, treating compliance configuration as a living document, using reporting to spot AP patterns, and keeping invoice policies aligned with business. Continuous refinement leads to efficiency gains and compliance.
Tara Reid, AP Specialist at Barron Lighting Group, shares how fully utilizing SAP Concur Invoice transformed their processes. By integrating with ERP and automating invoice processing, they reduced time on invoicing and expense reports by 50%, maintained a 2:1 AP headcount as volume grew, and achieved zero duplicate ERP entries.
SAP Concur's blog explains why organizations choose its travel and expense management platform over competitors like Navan, Ramp, and Coupa. It highlights proven ROI, unified T&E, strong ERP integration, and scalability. Citing IDC research, it reports annual staff-time savings of $77,600 and travel-related savings of $1.18 million, along with efficiency and compliance gains.
SAP Concur's blog discusses how AI is transforming travel management by connecting booking, expense, and approval processes. It cites that organizations using AI-powered Concur Travel and Expense report 19.2% faster travel bookings, 21% lower travel and expense costs, and 78% improvement in policy compliance.