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title: "Setting up SAP S/4HANA Cloud for Administrators - Payhawk Help Center"
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description: "Prepare SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Public Edition for Payhawk: create the communication system and user, set up communication arrangements, and find your instance URL."
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published: 2026-08-26T11:04:20Z
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> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://payhawk.com/help/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Setting up SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Public Edition integration

Before connecting Payhawk to SAP S/4HANA® Cloud, Public Edition, you need to prepare SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Public Edition for the integration.

## Activating services

You need to activate two sets of services before connecting Payhawk to SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Public Edition.

### Activating SOAP services

To activate SOAP services:

1. Navigate to **Communication Systems** and click on **New**.
2. Enter **System ID** and **System Name** and click on **Create**.
3. In the new **Communication Systems** overview, enter the **Host Name** or **System ID**.

![Interface for creating a new communication system in SAP S/4HANA Cloud.](https://storage.googleapis.com/payhawk-cdn/Adm%3AIntegrations%3ASAP/sap_public_1.jpg)
4. Navigate to the **Users for Inbound Communication** tab.
5. Click on the plus sign (**+**) and select **New User** in the dialog that opens.
6. Enter the **User name**, **Description** and **password**.
7. Click on **Create**. In case of Client Certificate authentication:
  - Click **Upload** and choose the file you've downloaded from the Payhawk wizard.
  - For **Authentication Method**, choose **SSL Certificate**.
8. Click on **Save**.

![Table displaying authentication methods and client ID for inbound communication users.](https://storage.googleapis.com/payhawk-cdn/Adm%3AIntegrations%3ASAP/sap_public_2.png)

Then, follow the next steps:

1. Navigate to **Communication Arrangements** and click on **NEW**.
2. Create arrangements with each of these scenarios:
  - Scenarios:
    - `SAP_COM_0002`
    - `SAP_COM_0008`
    - `SAP_COM_0057`
    - `SAP_COM_0087`
    - `SAP_COM_0303`
    - `SAP_COM_0308`
    - `SAP_COM_0316`
    - `SAP_COM_0368`
    - `SAP_COM_0943`
    - `/PHWK/PAYHAWK_SCENARIO`
3. For each of these scenarios, create it and assign it to the communication system and user you just created.
4. For each of these scenarios, go to **Outbound services** and deselect all **Service Status** checkboxes.
5. Click on **Save** to activate the OData services.

![Communication arrangement settings in SAP with inbound and outbound service details displayed.](https://storage.googleapis.com/payhawk-cdn/Adm%3AIntegrations%3ASAP/sap_public_3.jpg)
6. To find your SAP instance URL, open a communication arrangement and go to Inbound Services. Copy the URL displayed there, using only the part before `/sap/` (for example, `https://your-tenant.s4hana.ondemand.com`). This is the URL to enter in the Payhawk wizard.

> [!TIP]
> After starting the setup integration wizard on Payhawk, you will download a certificate from the wizard. You then need to upload the provided certificate in SAP S/4HANA, in the **Certificate** section of the communication user.