January 2018 Invoice Standard Edition Admin Summary
Last Update: 13 January 2018
Product Settings
Option to Hide Self-Education ? Icon
Administrators can now temporarily hide the question mark (?) icon used to access the self-education pane on the Product Settings pages and other pages where the self-education pane is available.
Business Purpose/Client Benefit: This enhancement provides additional flexibility for managing the visibility of the self-education pane.
SAP Concur Logo
New SAP Concur LogoIn January, on the release date or shortly after, the SAP Concur logo will appear in all Concur products.
The new logo appears in the upper-left corner of each page.
Planned Changes
The items in this section are targeted for future releases. Concur reserves the right to postpone implementation of – or completely remove – any enhancement/change mentioned here.
**Planned Change** New Budget Feature in Early Adopter ProgrammeThis feature is available to Early Adopter clients only. Budget will be a phased release starting in March with availability to all clients targeted in Q2.
The Budget feature enables clients to set up all components of a budget; a fiscal year to determine the budget period, budget tracking fields to track spending on a cost centre (profit centre) level, budget categories to group expense types for budget purposes and budgets, which are the actual annual budgets, and Budget Items, which define the budget including fiscal year, budget owner, budget name and description.
This feature makes budgets visible, actionable and real-time for approvers and budget owners, leading to high-quality spending decisions for Invoice (payment requests and purchase requests).
In addition, the Budget feature is available for the Concur mobile app for Invoice and is part of the Early Adopter Programme. Please note that the release for the Concur mobile app occurs seven to ten days after the regular release.
Business Purpose/Client Benefit: This feature makes budgets visible, actionable and real-time for approvers and budget owners, leading to high-quality spending decisions for Invoice (payment requests and purchase requests) clients.
**Planned Change** Support for Plain Text FTP to End on 15 May 2018Concur is announcing the End of Support for plain text FTP as a means to transfer data to and from Concur.
Plain text FTP is not a secured protocol and has inherent security vulnerabilities. On 15th May, 2018, Concur Operations will apply a security update to our File Transfer infrastructure, restricting the use of plain text FTP as a part of our ongoing commitment to securing our customers’ data and meeting the audited security requirements of the "Concur Trust Platform".
**Planned Change** Tax Codes Soon AvailableAlready existing for Invoice Professional clients, tax codes will soon be available for Invoice Standard clients. Depending on the country pack selected, the tax codes will be customised per the client’s locale. A new Taxation setting will be available where clients can add, modify and delete tax codes that are used on payment requests.
Business Purpose/Client Benefit: This enhancement makes it easier for clients to work with VAT.
**Planned Change** Check for Missing Account Code Later in WorkflowEmployees will be able to save, submit and approve a payment request even if one or more account codes are missing for expenses in the payment request.
Currently, whenever an expense is saved, the system validates that an account code has been provided for the related expense type and adds that account code to the expense (a process not visible through the UI). If there is no account code associated with the expense, the expense cannot be saved.
With this update, the payment request can be submitted and approved. However, the system will block the expense data from being extracted or posted to your financial system until your Concur company administrator provides an account code mapping for the expense type in Product Settings.
Business Purpose/Client Benefit: Employees are no longer prevented from completing their payment requests when an account code is missing in the expense type configuration. Account codes are now populated at a single, consistent point in the workflow.
Client Notifications
Concur Non-Affiliated SubprocessorsThe list of non-affiliated subprocessors is available here: Concur Non-Affiliated Subprocessors (English Only)
Monthly Browser CertificationsThe Concur Release Notes – Monthly Browser Certifications document lists current and planned browser certifications. The document is available with the other Concur monthly release notes.
