Clarity Connect integration
SAP Concur Infor Integration
Post approved SAP Concur expense reports and supplier invoices into Infor's ledger and payables, and keep Concur's suppliers and coding lists in step with Infor.
What moves between SAP Concur and Infor
SAP Concur is SAP's travel, expense and invoice software: employees file expenses in Concur Expense, and AP teams approve supplier bills in Concur Invoice. Infor's ERP, whether SyteLine, M3 or LN, keeps the general ledger and pays suppliers. The integration takes what Concur has approved into Infor as journal entries and payables, then reports the posting and payment results back to Concur.
SAP Concur
Where expenses and invoices are approved
- Approved expense reports
- Approved supplier invoices
- Suppliers
- Account and cost-center codes
Infor
Where the ledger and payables are kept
- General ledger entries
- Payable transactions
- Suppliers
- Payment status
SAP Concur to Infor record mapping
A typical starting map. Discovery confirms the Concur edition, the Infor ERP and the accounts involved.
| SAP Concur | Infor | Direction |
|---|---|---|
| Approved expense report | Journal entry or employee payable | Concur to Infor |
| Approved invoice (Concur Invoice) | Payable transaction | Concur to Infor |
| Supplier | Supplier | Infor to Concur |
| Account and cost-center codes | Chart of accounts and cost centers | Infor to Concur |
| Posting result | Posted document reference | Infor to Concur |
| Invoice payment confirmation | Supplier payment | Infor to Concur |
How the Concur and Infor sync works
Approved spend into Infor
SAP Concur's Financial Integration Service lists the financial documents ready to post. Connect collects them, turns expense reports into ledger entries or employee payables and approved invoices into supplier payables, and posts them to Infor, through ION's payable-transaction documents where ION is in place.
Posting results back to Concur
Once Infor accepts a document, Connect acknowledges it in Concur and sends the posting result, so Concur never offers the same report twice and the AP team can see which items failed and why.
Suppliers and codes from Infor
Infor owns the supplier master and the chart of accounts. Connect sends new and changed suppliers, account codes and cost centers to Concur on a schedule, so invoices are coded against values Infor will accept.
See Clarity Connect move an order
Watch an online order travel into the ERP and its status come back in our Clarity Connect demo, or book a live walkthrough on your own systems.
Concur's ERP interfaces, and Infor's
SAP Concur documents several ways to get approved spend into an ERP: the Financial Integration Service v4 API for Expense and Invoice in both Professional and Standard editions, the Extracts API (including the Standard Accounting Extract) for Professional Edition, and the Payment Batches API for Standard Edition. Which one fits depends on your Concur edition.
We haven't found a standard SAP Concur connector for Infor's ERPs, and Infor sells its own Infor Expense Management, so a Concur-to-Infor link is usually built. On Infor's side it uses ION business object documents, such as SyncPayableTransaction and SyncSupplierPartyMaster, or the ION API Gateway in Infor's cloud.
How Clarity Connect runs it
Clarity Connect is Clarity's integration platform. It holds a two-way connection between SAP Concur and Infor and runs each flow as its own task, such as approved invoices every hour or suppliers every night. A post that fails while Infor is unavailable is retried, and staff can re-queue it once the cause is fixed. Clarity has built more than 3,000 integrations on it; see it in our video playlist.
Discovery
A Clarity business analyst documents the data fields and workflows each system can share and which ones you need.
Tasks and mapping
Each flow becomes a Connect task, such as orders to the ERP or stock to the store, set to run in real time or on a schedule.
Testing
Orders and updates are run end to end, including the return trip of statuses back to the customer-facing system.
Live, with a dashboard
Queues and scheduled tasks show in Connect's Hangfire dashboard. A job whose target is offline is retried 10 times, every 30 minutes, and can be re-queued once the cause is fixed.
Clarity Connect is sold as a SaaS subscription at $599 a month or as a one-time license at $15,000 with no ongoing fees, and larger projects are priced to scope. See pricing.
Questions
Is this page about connecting Infor to an SAP ERP?
No. It covers SAP Concur, SAP's expense and invoice software. Clarity Connect can also link Infor to SAP's ERPs; see our SAP integration page.
Does SAP Concur have a standard Infor connector?
Not one we've found documented. Concur publishes ERP integration APIs, and Infor publishes ION documents and APIs, so the integration is built between them.
Does it handle both Concur Expense and Concur Invoice?
Yes. Expense reports become ledger entries or employee payables, and approved supplier invoices become Infor payables, with payment confirmations sent back to Concur Invoice.
How is it priced?
Clarity Connect is a $599-a-month SaaS subscription or a one-time $15,000 license with no ongoing fees; larger projects are priced to scope. See pricing.
Related resources
Connect SAP Concur and Infor
Tell us which Concur edition and which Infor ERP you run, and how approved spend should be coded. A Clarity business analyst maps it with your finance team before anything is built.
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