SAP Concur Free Trial and Demo: What You Get

SAP Concur offers a free trial of Concur Expense only. It runs 15 days, needs no credit card, and starts once SAP has set the site up against your business email domain, so it is not an instant self-serve signup. There is no free trial of Concur Travel and no free trial of Concur Invoice. If you came here searching for a Concur Travel trial, that is the answer, and the rest of this piece is about what to do instead.

That distinction matters more than it sounds. Travel and Expense are separate products inside SAP Concur, sold and configured separately, and the one you can try for free is the one most buyers are least uncertain about. Everything below was read off SAP Concur's own published material in August 2026.

What the SAP Concur free trial actually includes

The setup step is the one that surprises people. A 15 day window sounds generous until you realize the clock starts when the environment is ready and the useful part of an expense trial (loading real card transactions, running a report through an approval path, checking whether the accounting export matches your chart of accounts) takes most of it. Book the internal time before you request the trial, not after.

The other thing worth knowing: a trial account is a clean configuration. It will not tell you what your implementation looks like with your policy, your cost centers and your ERP, because none of that is in it. What it tells you is whether the interface is tolerable to the people who will file reports every month, which is genuinely useful and is not nothing.

Is there a free trial of Concur Travel?

No. SAP Concur publishes a free trial for Concur Expense and a demo path for everything else, including Travel. To evaluate Concur Travel you request a custom demo and a product expert walks you through it, which means a sales conversation before you see the product working with your own data.

There is a reason for this that is worth understanding rather than resenting. A travel booking tool has to be connected to content (air, hotel and car inventory, negotiated rates, your agency of record) before it does anything meaningful. A sandbox with no inventory behind it would show you a search box and nothing else. Expense has no equivalent dependency, which is why it is the product that can be trialed.

The practical consequence for a buyer is that Concur Travel cannot be evaluated the way you would evaluate ordinary software. You are evaluating a proposal and a demo, so the questions have to do the work the trial would have done: ask to see a booking flow with your actual policy applied, ask what happens when a traveler books outside policy, and ask for a reference customer at your headcount rather than a logo wall.

Which corporate travel and expense tools you can actually try yourself

This is the comparison that matters if self-serve evaluation is what you want. Some vendors in this category let you sign up and use the product today. Others require a call first. Here is where each one sits, with prices read at source in August 2026.

Read the middle column as a proxy for something else: how the vendor expects to sell. Navan, Zoho, Expensify, Brex, Ramp and Perk all have a self-serve motion, which usually means faster implementation and thinner hand-holding. Concur has neither a self-serve travel product nor a published price, which is consistent with a company whose center of gravity is large, multi-entity, multi-country deployments where a rate card would be meaningless anyway.

If your shortlist is genuinely between Concur and one of the free tiers, the free tier will win the trial and may still lose the decision. Concur's advantage shows up in things a 15 day trial cannot surface: multi-currency, multi-entity structures, VAT reclaim, and ERP integrations that already exist rather than needing to be built.

How much does SAP Concur cost after the trial?

SAP Concur publishes no list price, no implementation fee, no minimum term and no contract length. The figure that circulates is approximately $7 per expense report, which is a genuinely different unit from the per user pricing every competitor uses, and it changes who Concur is cheap for.

Per report billing rewards companies where few people file often and punishes the reverse. At half a report per person a month, $7 per report is about $3.50 per user a month, which beats every per user competitor on this page. At four reports a month it is $28 per user, which loses to all of them. Before you compare a Concur quote to anything, count the reports your team actually filed last year and divide by twelve.

The full arithmetic, including how per report pricing converts to a per seat budget, is worked through in how much SAP Concur costs. If you are trying to turn any of these vendor prices into a number your CFO approves, the conversion from per user list price to a real budget line is on travel management software cost per employee, which works the same 500 person company through all four charging models.

What to do during a 15 day expense trial

Most trials get wasted on the wrong test. People spend the two weeks confirming that the receipt scanner works, which it does, at every vendor. The things that actually differ between products are further down.

Load a full month of real card transactions rather than a handful of sample receipts. Volume is where matching logic either holds up or does not, and ten receipts will never show you that. If your card provider gives you a direct feed, connect it. If it does not and you are working from statements, you will need the transactions in a structured format first, and getting a bank file into a form your accounting system will accept is its own small project. Teams still running QuickBooks through a manual import usually end up needing to turn a card CSV into a QBO file before any of this reconciles cleanly, and it is better to discover that during a trial than during a migration.

Then run one report through the full approval path with a real approver who is not you. Route it to someone who has never seen the tool and watch what they do without instructions. Approver experience is the single biggest driver of whether an expense rollout works, and it is the part every buying committee tests last.

Finally, export. Pull the accounting export and open it against your chart of accounts. If the export needs manual repair every month, that cost is real and permanent and no amount of front-end polish offsets it. Ask specifically what happens with multi-currency and with split cost centers, because those are where exports usually break.

Should you trial Concur at all?

If you are under about 200 employees, in one country, on one entity, probably not first. Start with the free tiers, because Navan is $0 for travel below 300 employees and Zoho Expense is $0 up to three users, and a fortnight spent in a product you can actually keep is worth more than a fortnight in one you will need a quote for. If those fail on something specific, you will then know exactly what to ask Concur to prove.

If you are multi-entity, multi-country, need VAT reclaim, or have an ERP integration that Concur already supports and the alternatives would have to build, trial Concur and treat the 15 days as a user experience test rather than a capability test. The capability question gets answered in the demo and the reference calls, not in the sandbox.

And if what you actually need is not expense management at all but a way to plan and price a trip before anyone commits to it, that is a different tool entirely. Comparable options are set out on Concur competitors, and the switching case is on the Concur alternative page.

Frequently asked questions

Does SAP Concur have a free trial?

Yes, for Concur Expense. It runs 15 days, requires no credit card, and is provisioned by SAP against your business email domain. Concur Travel and Concur Invoice have no free trial; both are evaluated through a custom demo with a product expert instead.

Is there a free trial for Concur Travel?

No. SAP Concur offers a demo request path for Concur Travel rather than a trial, because a booking tool needs live inventory and negotiated content connected behind it before it does anything useful. To evaluate it you request a custom demo and ask to see a booking flow with your own policy applied.

How long is the SAP Concur free trial?

15 days. The clock starts once SAP has set your site up against your business domain, not when you submit the form, so allow for a gap between requesting and using it. Plan the internal time first, because loading real card data and running a report through a full approval path takes most of the window.

Do you need a credit card for the Concur free trial?

No. SAP Concur states that no credit card information is required for the Concur Expense free trial. You do need a business email domain, since the trial site is provisioned against it, so a personal email address will not work.

What can you do in a Concur Expense trial?

Capture receipts, submit expense reports, add users, test configuration options, connect existing systems and load your own financial data. What it will not show you is your real implementation, because your policy, cost centers and ERP connections are not in a trial environment.

Which travel and expense tools have a genuine free plan?

Navan is free for business travel up to 300 employees and free for the first five monthly expensing users. Zoho Expense is free up to three users. Brex Essentials and Ramp's base tier are $0 subject to eligibility, and Perk has a $0 tier that charges a 5 percent booking fee instead of a subscription.