Feel the matrix.. I spent 8 hours on my first expenses so far, plus an hour from an accountant and it's still not ready for submission. I can accept that IT bods are smart but can't communicate, but I am baffled why my company wants to waste time like this (if I need more than a basic tutorial, you failed in your software: we are talking about a receipt, a date, a number and a reason).

SCAM This system is designed to waste your time and cause problems which they then get to charge extra to address. This is basically a SCAM that's sold to management as a turnkey system. FFS do NOT use this service if you can possibly avoid it.

Utter misery every single time you have… Utter misery every single time you have to use it. Leads to circling of reports back and forth for eternity over inane details, huge interruptions in work responsibilities, out-of-pocket expenses, interrogation and denial of basic work supplies, and disproportion so that rote work expenses (ink for a printer, lights, insurance) become more time consuming than the core responsibilities these expenses are for. Absolute nightmare. The shadow work of a system like this is a kind of sanctioned theft from employees. Avoid at all costs. Every time I have to use it this system ruins my work flow and my day.

Wish i could give SAP Concur zero… Wish i could give SAP Concur zero stars. This has been nothing but a disaster since we went live 3 months ago. All I receive are complaints from the end users and the administrators. It has created MORE work for everyone. We are actually considering going back to paper forms. Seriously, it is that bad. Don't even ask about the surprise billing!

SAP Concur is wildly unintuitive… SAP Concur is a wildly unintuitive system. We work with multiple payment platforms, on a monthly basis. SAP Concur is hands down the worst one we use. It has roughly 3 extra steps more than any other platform and has the least useful refencing structure for payments. The automated feedback it does give is deeply unhelpful. The processing of any invoice seems to be on a hair-trigger to be stopped by any number of the steps in authorisation. When it is stopped, getting the process restarted is extremely difficult, with the messaging system seemingly completely ignored. The only presumption I can make is that the company using SAP Concur is using the incorrect system for the requirement. If it is the correct system, it is woefully poor and either the source company or SAP Concur should be doing something about this, it is making both look horribly bad.