The Quick Expense API can be used to create an expense with basic information such as date, amount, and expense type, with or without a receipt image. This expense can be added to an expense report within Concur Expense, allowing the user to provide additional details such as attendees, itemizations etc.

Limitations: This API is only available to partners who have been granted access by SAP Concur. Access to this documentation does not provide access to the API. This API is not available in Implementation environments.

Prior Versions

  • Quick Expense v1 (Deprecated) documentation is available here
  • Quick Expense v3 (Deprecated) documentation is available here

Products and Editions

  • Concur Expense Professional Edition
  • Concur Expense Standard Edition

Scope Usage

Required Scopes:

Name Description Endpoint
quickexpense.writeonly Write quick expense. POST
user.read Get User Information, necessary for userID. POST
receipts.writeonly Required if e-Bunsho is enabled Write quick expense. POST

Optional Scope:

Name Description Endpoint
CONFIG Get Expense Configuration information, necessary for expenseTypeId. POST

Dependencies

SAP Concur clients must purchase Concur Expense in order to use this API. This API requires the User v3.1 API which is currently only available to approved early access partners. Please contact your SAP Concur representative for more information.

The partner may use the following SAP Concur APIs to get optional information:

Japan Market: If the partner is using this API to provide the e-Bunsho digital timestamp for the receipt, the partner should confirm that the client has e-Bunsho activated in SAP Concur.

Access Token Usage

This API supports both company level and user level access tokens.

Create a Quick Expense

Creates a quick expense without an image.

Scopes

quickexpense.writeonly - Refer to Scope Usage for full details.

Request

URI

Template
https://{datacenterURI}/quickexpense/v4/users/{userID}/context/{contextType}/quickexpenses
Parameters
Name Type Format Description
userID string - Required The unique identifier of the SAP Concur user. Use User Profile v1.0 to retrieve the userID.
contextType string - Required The access level of the SAP Concur user, which determines the form fields they can view/modify. Supported value: TRAVELER.

Headers

Payload

Response

Status Codes

Headers

Payload

Example

Request

curl -X POST \
  https://us.api.concursolutions.com/quickexpense/v4/users/184dd31a-f48a-4103-879f-c8d45456c7cd/context/TRAVELER/quickexpenses \
  -H 'Accept: application/json' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer {access_token}' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'concur-correlationid: quick-expense-test' \
  -d '{
  "comment": "Offsite team lunch.",
  "expenseTypeId": "BUSML",
  "entryDetails": "test-entry",
  "location": {
    "city": "Bellevue",
    "countryCode": "US",
    "countrySubDivisionCode": "US-WA",
    "id": "",
    "name": ""
  },
  "paymentTypeId": "CASHX",
  "transactionAmount": {
    "currencyCode": "USD",
    "value": 88.05
  },
  "transactionDate": "2019-02-04"
}'

Response

201 Created

{
    "quickExpenseIdUri": "https://seapr1qes.concurasp.com/quickexpense/v4/users/184dd31a-f48a-4103-879f-c8d45456c7cd/context/TRAVELER/quickexpenses/E018795D2B09094FBF223E209E921B88"
}

Create a Quick Expense with an Image

Creates a quick expense with an image.

Scopes

quickexpense.writeonly - Refer to Scope Usage for full details. receipts.writeonly - Refer to Scope Usage for full details.

Request

URI

Template
https://{datacenterURI}/quickexpense/v4/users/{userID}/context/{contextType}/quickexpenses/image
Parameters
Name Type Format Description
userID string - Required The unique identifier of the SAP Concur user. Use User Profile v1.0 to retrieve the userID.
contextType string - Required The access level of the SAP Concur user, which determines the form fields they can view/modify. Supported values: TRAVELER.
fileContent file - Required The quick expense image. Maximum size 5 MBs. Supported image types are: PNG, GIF, PDF, TIFF, JPEG

Headers

Payload

Response

Status Codes

Headers

Payload

Example

Request

curl -X POST \
  https://us.api.concursolutions.com/quickexpense/v4/users/184dd31a-f48a-4103-879f-c8d45456c7cd/context/TRAVELER/quickexpenses/image \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer {access_token}' \
  -H 'Content-Type: multipart/form-data' \
  -H 'concur-correlationid: quick-expense-with-image' \
  -H 'content-type: multipart/form-data' \
  -F fileContent=@/Users/i845500/Pictures/Snip20180410_1.png \
  -F 'quickExpenseRequest={
  "comment": "Offsite team lunch.",
  "expenseTypeId": "BUSML",
  "entryDetails": "test-entry",
  "location": {
    "city": "Bellevue",
    "countryCode": "US",
    "countrySubDivisionCode": "US-WA",
    "id": "",
    "name": ""
  },
  "paymentTypeId": "CASHX",
  "transactionAmount": {
    "currencyCode": "USD",
    "value": 88.05
  },
  "transactionDate": "2019-02-04"
}'

Response

201 Created

{
    "quickExpenseIdUri": "https://seapr1qes.concurasp.com/quickexpense/v4/users/184dd31a-f48a-4103-879f-c8d45456c7cd/context/TRAVELER/quickexpenses/A0D1CE97B4692B4F8E29BEA53B250E36"
}

Schema

Quick Expense Request

Name Type Format Description
comment string - This is a comment attached to the quick expense.
entryDetails string - The quick expense entry details.
expenseTypeId string - Required This is the expense type id of quick expense. Use Expense Group Configurations v3.0 to retrieve the supported expense types. Supported values for a null value are: UNDEF, NULL. NULL can only be used on a POST operation and will be converted to UNDEF.
location - Location The location where the quick expense occurred.
paymentTypeId string - This is the payment type id of quick expense. Supported values: CASHX, CPAID, PENDC.
transactionAmount - Amount Required The amount of the quick expense.
transactionDate string YYYY-MM-DD Required This is the transaction date of the quick expense.
vendor string - The name of the vendor.

Location

Name Type Format Description
city string - The location city.
countryCode string - The location country ISO 3166-1 code.
countrySubDivisionCode string - The location country sub division ISO 3166-2 code.
id string - The unique identifier of the location. Use Locations v3.0 to retrieve the location id.
name string - The location name.

Amount

Name Type Format Description
currencyCode string - Required The 3-letter ISO 4217 currency code.
value number - Required The amount value.

Quick Expense Response

Name Type Format Description
quickExpenseIdUri string - The quick expense created resource url.

Error

Name Type Format Description
errorId string - The unique identifier of the error.
errorMessage string - Required Message associated with the error.
httpStatus string - The HTTP status associated with the error.
path string - The path to the resource.
timestamp string - The timestamp for the error.
validationErrors array validationErrors An array of validation errors.

Validation Errors

Name Type Format Description
message string - The validation error message.
source string - The source of the validation error.