Clarity Connect integration
SAP Concur Oracle Integration
Post approved SAP Concur expenses and invoices into Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, and send posting and payment status back so employees see when they've been paid.
What moves between SAP Concur and Oracle
Concur has been part of SAP since late 2014, and its expense and invoice products now carry the SAP Concur name. This page covers the most common Oracle target in the searches that reach it: Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP.
Approved expense reports leave SAP Concur as accounting data. In Oracle that means journals for the general ledger and, where reimbursements are paid through Payables, invoices to pay employees; Concur Invoice adds supplier invoices for Payables. Once Oracle has posted and paid, the result goes back to Concur so the report shows it.
SAP Concur
Where expenses and invoices are approved
- Approved expense reports
- Concur Invoice documents
- Cash advances
- User profiles
Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP
Where the spend is accounted for and paid
- General Ledger journals
- Payables invoices
- Payments
- Employees
SAP Concur to Oracle Fusion record mapping
A typical starting map. Discovery sets the account segments, ledger and business unit each Concur expense type posts to.
| SAP Concur | Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP | Direction |
|---|---|---|
| Approved expense report | Journal (Import Journals) | Concur to Oracle |
| Amount owed to the employee | Payables invoice | Concur to Oracle |
| Concur Invoice document | Payables invoice | Concur to Oracle |
| Posting confirmation | Posting result | Oracle to Concur |
| Payment confirmation (expense) | Payment made | Oracle to Concur |
| User profile | Employee | Oracle to Concur |
How the sync works
Two ways to get approved spend out of SAP Concur
The long-standing route is the Standard Accounting Extract (SAE), a file of approved expense data delivered by SFTP or fetched through the Extracts API. The newer one is the Financial Integration Service API, where an outside system reads expense and invoice documents ready for posting, acknowledges them, and reports the posting result back to SAP Concur.
Journals and invoices into Oracle Fusion
Fusion takes new journals through its Import Journals process, loaded from a File-Based Data Import file through the ERP Integration Service; its Journal Batches REST resource views and updates journals but doesn't create them. Payables invoices can go in through the Invoices REST resource or the Import Payables Invoices process.
Posting and payment status back to Concur
After Oracle posts a document, Connect sends a posting confirmation to SAP Concur. When the reimbursement is paid, a payment confirmation moves the expense report from Sent for Payment to Payment Confirmed. SAP Concur supports payment confirmations for expense reports today and lists invoices and cash advances for a future release.
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.
Licensing and the alternatives
SAP Concur offers the Financial Integration Service for Concur Expense and Concur Invoice, Professional and Standard editions, in North America and EMEA; Standard edition customers set it up through their SAP Concur representative, and reading the documentation doesn't grant API access. New users and changes can be sent to Concur through its User Provisioning Service.
Oracle sells its own expense module, Oracle Fusion Cloud Expenses, and its own integration platform, Oracle Integration, which includes an SAP Concur Adapter. SAP Concur's integrations page names NetSuite but no other Oracle product, so a Fusion connection is built rather than switched on. On E-Business Suite, the same SAE or Financial Integration Service data goes into EBS's own interfaces instead.
How Clarity Connect runs it
Clarity Connect is Clarity's integration platform. Between SAP Concur and Oracle Fusion it runs each flow as its own task: approved documents pulled on a schedule, journals and invoices loaded into Oracle, and confirmations sent back to Concur. If Oracle is unavailable when a job runs, the job waits in a retry queue rather than being lost. Clarity has built more than 3,000 integrations on Connect; demos are 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
Does SAP Concur have a built-in Oracle Fusion connector?
Not one SAP Concur publishes: its integrations page names NetSuite among Oracle products. Oracle's own Oracle Integration platform has an SAP Concur Adapter, and Clarity Connect is another way to build the link.
Should we use the SAE file or the Financial Integration Service?
The SAE file suits a daily batch load. The Financial Integration Service adds acknowledgements and posting confirmations, so Concur knows what Oracle accepted; SAP Concur offers it for Expense and Invoice, Professional and Standard editions, in North America and EMEA.
Can Concur show employees that they've been paid?
Yes, for expense reports. A payment confirmation from Oracle moves the report to Payment Confirmed. SAP Concur lists the same for invoices as a future release.
What does Clarity Connect cost?
$599 a month as SaaS 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 Oracle
Tell us which SAP Concur products you use and how expenses are posted and paid in Oracle today. We map the account segments and approvals with your finance team during discovery, before building.
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