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Phyto Nex AI

Phyto Nex AI for SAP Concur

Audit every Concur Expense report at the line-item level the moment it reaches the processor queue, using a read-only App Center connection.

SAP Concur connector

Expense platform
SAP Concur logoPN
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 company-level grant via the SAP Concur App Center
Sync
Event-driven on report submission, plus a 15-minute reconciliation sweep
Setup time
About 15 minutes
Plans
Included on every plan

How Phyto Nex AI works with SAP Concur

SAP Concur already enforces header-level limits through audit rules, but those rules evaluate the amount and expense type an employee typed, not what is printed on the receipt. A $612.47 entry coded as Hotel passes a $650 nightly cap even when the attached Marriott folio shows $86.40 of minibar and a $38 in-room movie. Phyto Nex AI pulls the receipt image for every entry through the Receipts v4 API, reads the folio line by line, and compares what was charged with what was claimed.

The connection is authorized once by a Concur administrator from the App Center listing. Concur issues a company-level refresh token to Phyto Nex AI; no individual user credentials are stored, and the grant can be revoked from Concur's connected apps page at any time. Because the scopes are read-only, Phyto Nex AI cannot approve, reject, or edit a report inside Concur. Findings appear in the Phyto Nex AI AP queue and, optionally, as a comment your processor sees when the report lands in their queue.

Concur environments are rarely uniform. Phyto Nex AI reads policy groups per entity, so the US sales policy and the UK services policy are evaluated against their own limits and currencies. Itemizations created in Concur (for example, splitting a hotel bill into lodging, room tax and breakfast) are respected; Phyto Nex AI only flags itemizations that disagree with the folio, such as a breakfast line that is actually room service with two cocktails.

Company card transactions imported from the card feed are matched against out-of-pocket entries across every report in the trailing 120 days. That is how a $3,200 fare paid on the corporate Amex and resubmitted as a personal reimbursement two weeks later gets caught before the payment batch runs.

Connect SAP Concur in about 15 minutes

  1. 1

    Connect

    In Phyto Nex AI, open Settings, then Connections, and choose SAP Concur.

  2. 2

    Approve read-only access

    Sign in as a SAP Concur admin and approve the scopes below (OAuth 2.0 company-level grant via the SAP Concur App Center).

  3. 3

    Backfill

    Phyto Nex AI imports the trailing 90 days so your first findings cover last quarter.

  4. 4

    Pick policies

    Choose which entities to audit and which rule set applies to each.

Event architecture

Every event from SAP Concur is verified, de-duplicated by idempotency key and audited before it reaches the AP queue.

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SAP Concur events

  • Report submitted

    Queue the report for OCR and the 40+ rule pass within 90 seconds

  • Report approved by manager

    Re-check entries edited during manager review

  • Report sent back

    Pause open pushback drafts so AP is never double-messaging

  • Report reached processor

    Attach the Phyto Nex AI verdict for the Concur processor

Ingest

  • Signature or token verified
  • Idempotency key de-duplicates retries
  • Normalized into the shared ledger
  • Receipt fetched and queued for OCR

Audit and AP queue

  • Line-item OCR
  • 40+ policy rules
  • Duplicate and split checks
  • Draft queued for AP approval

Permissions requested

Exactly what Phyto Nex AI asks SAP Concur for, and why. Nothing else is requested.

Scope or permissionWhy Phyto Nex AI needs it
expense.report.readRead report headers, entries, itemizations and attendee lists
receipts.readDownload receipt images and e-receipts attached to each entry
identity.user.core.readMap submitters to department, cost center and manager
company.readRead expense policy groups and currency settings

SAP Concur questions

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Both editions work. Professional exposes Event Subscription Service events, so audits start within 90 seconds of submission. On Standard, Phyto Nex AI falls back to a 15-minute poll of recently submitted reports, which still completes before most processor queues are worked.

No. The scopes are read-only and Phyto Nex AI never edits workflow, audit rules, or report status in Concur. Your processor keeps final authority. Phyto Nex AI adds a verdict and a drafted employee message that AP approves before anything is sent.

Concur add-ons are licensed separately through SAP and operate inside Concur. Phyto Nex AI reads Concur alongside Ramp, Brex, or Expensify feeds, so it can catch a duplicate submitted in two different systems, and it drafts Slack or Teams pushbacks that cite your handbook clause.

Connect SAP Concur and see what slipped past managers this month.

Connect Phyto Nex AI to your expense tool in 15 minutes and see what slipped past managers this month.

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