Concur Invoice Standard Edition Administration Help

December 2017 Expense Standard Edition Admin Summary

Last Update: 9 December 2017

Accessibility

Global Navigation Bar

This is a non-visual change to the blue global navigation bar found within concursolutions.com. Following WCAG 2.0, the standards for this navigation bar was incorrectly applied. This change impacts screen reader users.

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: The information given to the screen reader user is improved. By having the correct role, correct instructions are now appropriately given to the screen reader user.

Missing Keyboard Navigation

This is a non-visual change to keyboard navigation of the SectionExpandable component (a.k.a. widget) within concursolutions.com. An example of the widget shown below. Actual content and appearance will vary per use. Following WCAG 2.0, the standards for keyboard navigation, the issue identified showing difficulty in keyboard navigation was correctly applied. This change impacts screen reader users.

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: The information given to the screen reader user is improved. By having the correct role, correct instructions are now appropriately given to the screen reader user.

Concur Pay

2018 Bank Holidays

The 2018 list of bank holidays will be available after the first of the year.

The bank holiday list is available via hyperlinks from the funding account setup Help topics.

Expense Pay – Global Enhanced Display of Onboarding Forms

When creating a new funding account, or editing a funding account that has a payment-processing partner onboarding application in progress, the fields now display on two tabs rather than in one window. The fields have not changed, only where they display has changed.

The new tabs are named Account Information and Partner Onboarding Application. The Account Information tab contains fields for data required by Concur. The Partner Onboarding Application tab contains fields for data required by the payment-processing partner.

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: Admins can tell the difference between the fields for data required by Concur and the fields for data required by the payment-processing partner. In addition, this change reduces the amount of scrolling that was previously required to view all of the fields.

Product Settings

Name Changes for Spend Categories

In this release, four spend category names were changed for easier selection and naming consistency.

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: This enhancement makes it easier for clients to select the relevant spend category.

USB IC Card Readers – Japan

No Longer Supported

The USB IC Card reader solution for capturing Japanese IC Card travel information in Expense utilised a reader connected to a single computer. Because Microsoft deprecated the ActiveX technology leveraged by this solution, Concur is ending support for the solution.

Important dates:
  • On 1 August 2017, Concur discontinued support for this solution.

  • After 31 December 2017, the solution is being retired and will no longer work in Concur.

As a replacement, Concur's current solution uses a Network IC Card Reader, which our Japanese clients are already deploying. The Network IC Card Reader has the benefit of allowing multiple users to import transactions at a central location.

For the Network IC Card Reader release note, refer to the March 2017 version of this topic.

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: This retirement keeps Concur users aligned with current technology.

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 Changes** New One-Year Filter

The Available Expenses list on the Manage Expense page will soon no longer display expenses older than one year.

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: This new feature automatically filters expenses with transaction dates older than one year and only displays expenses added within the past 12 months, to provide an easier end-user experience. This change is consistent with behaviour in the Available Receipts sections (where unused receipts older than one year are hidden) and will result in improved performance by reducing the volume of old, unnecessary data.

**Planned Changes** New SAP Concur Logo

With the January release, the SAP Concur logo will appear in all Concur products.

**Planned Changes** Check for Missing Account Code Later in Workflow

Employees will be able to save, submit and approve an expense claim even if one or more account codes are missing for expenses in the claim.

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 claim 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 Setup.

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: Employees are no longer prevented from completing their expense claims when an account code is missing in the expense type configuration. Account codes are now populated at a single, consistent point in the workflow.

**Planned Changes** Support for Plain Text FTP to End on 15th May, 2018

Concur 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".

For more information, refer to the Plain Text FTP Retirement FAQ.

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: Transfer of data to and from Concur using plain text FTP after the End of Support date will result in a failure of incoming connections. Clients using plain text FTP must utilise one of the approved secured methods to continue transferring data as outlined in the File Transfer User Guide. This change is required on the client side, and Concur is available to support these efforts.

**Planned Changes** Category List Will Display Spend Category Suggestions

The Category list on the Expense Types page (Expense > Expense Types) in Product Settings will show spend category suggestions at the top of the list.

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: This update simplifies the spend category selection process for expense types.

Client Notifications

Concur Non-Affiliated Subprocessors

The list of non-affiliated subprocessors is available here: Concur Non-Affiliated Subprocessors (English Only)

Monthly Browser Certifications

Monthly browser certifications, both current and planned, are available with the other Concur monthly release notes, accessible from What's New - Standard Edition