SAP Concur Travel Free Trial, TripLink and Demo

SAP Concur no longer runs a free trial. The old Concur Expense trial pages, concur.com/free-trial and concur.com/forms/free-trial, now redirect to the custom demo request form, so there is no free trial of Concur Travel, Concur TripLink, Concur Invoice or Concur Expense to sign up for. What SAP offers instead is three kinds of demo: an ungated self-guided product tour of about five minutes, recorded on-demand demos of 20 to 30 minutes behind a short form, and a custom live demo with a product expert. If you came here for a Concur Travel trial, the self-guided Travel and Expense tour is the closest thing you can open today without talking to anyone.

That changes the evaluation more than it sounds. With the trial gone, nobody outside a signed customer gets a Concur environment to click around in, so the demo has to do the work a sandbox used to do. Everything below was checked on concur.com and developer.concur.com from a US connection, including where each old trial and demo link now lands.

What SAP Concur offers instead of a free trial

One source of confusion is SAP's own demo page. Its FAQ still describes a 15 day Concur Expense free trial with no credit card, but there is no working link to it anywhere on the page, and every trial URL we tried forwarded to the demo form. Treat that FAQ line as leftover copy. If a colleague remembers signing up for a Concur trial, they are remembering a program that has since been folded into the demo funnel.

The custom demo form is shorter than most enterprise forms. It asks for first and last name, phone number, business email, company name, country (defaulting to the USA) and an optional comment. It does not ask for company size, job title or which product you want, so put that in the comment box: headcount, number of monthly expense reports, whether you need Travel, and which accounting system the export has to feed. That note decides which product expert calls you back.

Is there a free trial of Concur Travel?

No, and there never was one. Concur Travel has always been evaluated through a demo, and with the Expense trial gone, the whole suite now works that way. You can watch the ungated Concur Travel product demo video or step through the self-guided Travel and Expense tour, which walks a trip from request through booking, the trip itself and the expense report that follows. To see Concur Travel against your own policy, you request a custom demo.

There is a reason Concur Travel was never trialable. 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 a search box and nothing else. That is also why Concur Travel sits on the Premium tier with custom pricing rather than on the published per report tiers.

The practical consequence for a buyer is that Concur Travel cannot be evaluated the way ordinary software is. You are evaluating a proposal and a demo, so the questions have to do the work a trial would have done: ask the product expert to show a Concur Travel booking with your actual policy loaded, ask what Concur does when a traveler picks an out-of-policy fare, and ask for a reference customer at your headcount rather than a logo wall.

Is there a SAP Concur TripLink free trial?

No. Concur TripLink is not a product you can sign up for on your own, so there is no TripLink trial in the sense the search implies. TripLink is an add-on your company buys inside its SAP Concur contract. It captures bookings employees make directly with airlines, hotels, car rental firms and ride services, then pulls those itineraries and receipts into Concur so that off-tool travel still shows up in reporting and expense. Because it only does anything once it is connected to a live Concur Travel and Expense site and to supplier feeds, SAP demonstrates it rather than trialing it. The TripLink demo video on concur.com is ungated and shows what a traveler sees when a direct booking is pulled into Concur.

The one thing close to a free TripLink perk is on the employee side, not the buyer side. Companies that have purchased Concur TripLink can give their travelers TripIt Pro at no charge, and TripIt publishes a page explaining how to check whether your employer qualifies. TripIt is owned by Concur, which is why the two connect. If you are pricing that app yourself, the TripIt Pro cost page shows what the $49 subscription buys and where the free tier already covers it. If TripLink came up because you want to see what travelers are booking without forcing every trip through a corporate tool, the honest answer is that the capture layer is bought, not trialed, and the vendors you can actually test yourself are listed next.

How do I get a SAP Concur demo?

Get a SAP Concur demo in one of three ways, from fastest to most useful. Open the self-guided tour on concur.com for Travel and Expense or for Invoice, which needs no form and takes about five minutes. Register for an on-demand demo if you want a 20 to 30 minute recorded walkthrough of one product. Or fill in the custom demo request form, and a product expert will walk you through the product against your own requirements.

1. Start with the self-guided tour. It answers the question most people actually have, which is what the screens look like to a traveler, an approver and a finance admin, without a sales call.
2. Watch the on-demand demo for the product you would buy. The Expense walkthrough is 20 minutes and the Invoice one is 30. You will need to register, and the viewing link is sent by email.
3. Request the custom demo when you have a shortlist. Use the comment box for headcount, report volume, entities, currencies and your accounting system. Ask for pricing on the same call, because Concur has no online checkout and every "Buy now" button leads to a contact form.

Is there a SAP Concur demo account or demo system?

No public one. SAP Concur does not hand out a demo account or a demo system to prospective buyers, and developers cannot sign up for a free sandbox either. The Concur developer center lists three routes to a sandbox, all behind a contract: app partners need a signed partner agreement, customers need to buy the Client Web Services SKU, and travel management companies and resellers contact SAP. Only once that contract is in place is a Professional or Standard Edition sandbox assigned.

Existing customers on Professional Edition can request a Production Sandbox Environment through a support ticket, or test with "Test User" profiles inside their own site. So if a search for "concur demo account" brought you here and you are not yet a customer, the self-guided tour is the closest you can get. If you are a customer, the sandbox is a support request, not a signup.

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 each vendor's own pricing page.

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 no self-serve product at all now that the trial is gone, and publishes only starting prices per report, 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.

That split runs right through the category, and it maps onto how each vendor gets paid rather than onto how good the product is. The full picture, including which platforms run a real trial and which replaced it with a permanently free tier, is on our page comparing corporate travel software free trials and demos.

If your shortlist is genuinely between Concur and one of the free tiers, the free tier will win the hands-on test and may still lose the decision. Concur's advantage shows up in things no trial could 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?

SAP Concur now publishes starting prices on its pricing page. Base starts at $7 per expense report with unlimited users and is aimed at smaller businesses with basic expense reporting. Plus starts at $11 per report and adds ExpenseIt receipt capture, a user support desk and reporting. Premium is custom priced and is the tier that includes Concur Travel. SAP adds that the price varies with your monthly commitment and that the more you buy on the contract, the less you pay per report. There is still no checkout: the "Buy now" buttons open a sales contact form that asks for employee count and job title.

Per report billing is a genuinely different unit from the per user pricing every competitor uses, and it changes who Concur is cheap for. It 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 test during an expense software trial

Concur will not give you a trial, but Zoho Expense (14 days), Expensify and Ramp Plus (30 days each) will, and the same test applies to a Concur custom demo if you ask the product expert to run it live. 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 request a Concur demo 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 sales cycle for 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, request the custom demo and bring your hardest case: a multi-currency report, a split cost center, and your real accounting export. The capability question gets answered in that demo and in the reference calls.

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. A business travel planner such as TripAgent.ai writes the day-by-day itinerary and estimates the return flight, the stay and each day against the budget you set, for $49 a month, and you can run it once in the demo at the top of this page without a form. 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?

No, not any more. The Concur Expense free trial has been discontinued and its old URLs redirect to the custom demo request form. SAP Concur now offers an ungated self-guided product tour, recorded on-demand demos behind a short form, and a custom live demo with a product expert instead.

Is there a free trial for Concur Travel?

No. Concur Travel has never had a trial, because a booking tool needs live inventory and negotiated content behind it before it does anything useful. You can watch the ungated Concur Travel demo video, step through the self-guided Travel and Expense tour, or request a custom demo to see it with your own policy.

Is there a SAP Concur demo account?

No public demo account exists. Prospective buyers get tours and demos, not logins. Developer sandboxes are assigned only after a partner agreement, a Client Web Services purchase or a reseller contract, and existing Professional Edition customers can request a Production Sandbox Environment through a support ticket.

How long is a SAP Concur demo?

SAP gives three lengths: about 5 minutes for a self-guided product tour, about 30 minutes for an on-demand product demo (the Expense one runs 20), and a variable length for a customized live demo, depending on your requirements.

Do you need a business email for a Concur demo?

The custom demo form asks for a business email, and the old trial flow rejected personal addresses. Use your company address and put your headcount, report volume and accounting system in the comment box, since the form itself does not ask for them.

How much does SAP Concur cost?

SAP Concur Base starts at $7 per expense report with unlimited users, Plus starts at $11 per report, and Premium, which includes Concur Travel, is custom priced. Prices fall as your contracted volume rises, and there is no online checkout, so every purchase goes through sales.

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.