With the January (9.87) Mobile release, mobile users whose SAP Concur deployment is on the China Data Centre now have the ability to capture and upload fapiao into Concur Expense via the SAP Concur Fapiao Capture mini app within the WeChat™ app. The SAP Concur Fapiao Capture mini app provides the ability to capture and upload a fapiao to an expense according to Chinese regulatory or government authorities.

A fapiao is a legal receipt required for business transactions, employee reimbursement and VAT deduction. A fapiao is issued by the State Taxation Administration of the People's Republic of China, but provided by the merchant.

The Fapiao Receipt Integration feature includes:

• Offering a fapiao solution in compliance with State Taxation Administration of the People's Republic of China and as provided by the merchant

• Providing reimbursement and VAT reporting process efficiency, reducing time to perform these tasks

• Capturing of VAT fapiao and non-VAT fapiao documents via the SAP Concur Fapiao Capture mini app embedded in the WeChat™ mobile app

• Supported fapiao and documents include:

  • General VAT fapiao in paper form

  • Special VAT fapiao in paper form

  • General VAT fapiao in electronic form as stored in WeChat™ Wallet

  • Official China Rail tickets

  • Official airline tickets issued by China Aviation

  • Official taxi fapiao

• Uploading of fapiao and documents to Concur Expense:

  • For VAT fapiao, a validation is performed against State Taxation Administration of the People's Republic of China prior to the fapiao upload

  • For VAT fapiao, a duplication check is performed prior to the fapiao upload

  • Additional documents, such as itemised receipts, can also be uploaded with each fapiao submission

• Improving efficiency when capturing and merging multiple documents into one e-receipt transaction

For more information on regulations on capturing a fapioa, refer to the State Taxation Administration of the People's Republic of China (English only).

Unsupported fapiao or documents for the initial feature release include:

• Electronic VAT fapiao in OFD format, including both general and special VAT

• Fixed amount fapiao

• Vehicle sales fapiao

• Freight Special fapiao

• Traffic fee fapiao

• Second hand vehicle fapiao

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: This feature provides mobile users with a paperless receipt option that adheres to requirements and regulations for China for paper into electronic tax receipt processing and compliance. For more information, refer to the SAP Concur Fabiao Capture Mobile App User Guide (English only).

With the January (9.87) Mobile release, SAP Concur solutions will reduce maintaining mobile app access and security for the current version and previous 6 versions (total of 7 versions) to the current version and 2 previous versions (total of three versions). This means that a user will be signed out automatically if they haven't updated the SAP Concur mobile app over the course of 3 updates (typically 3 months) and is using the fourth most recent version.

For example, users with the 9.84 version of the mobile app on their mobile devices - after the January (9.87) Mobile release - will automatically be logged out of the app. Once users have updated the mobile app on their mobile devices to version 9.85 or higher of the app, they will be able to sign back into the SAP Concur mobile app.

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: The update to this policy provides greater resources for innovations and improves overall security.

With this release, Concur Request users can now create multi-leg trips within the air and rail segments of a travel request in the SAP Concur mobile app.

Additionally, Concur Request users can now view and create cash advances in the mobile app.

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: This update provides Concur Request users with a more streamlined experience while creating a travel request within the mobile app.

These changes are part of the SAP Concur solutions’ continued commitment to maintaining secure authentication.

With the November release, SAP Concur solutions retired the automatic sign-in setting in the SAP Concur mobile app. This change coincided with the redesign of the mobile sign-in page.

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: The retirement of this feature better supports secure authentication by removing the less secure automatic sign-in setting.

The Mobile Sign In page has been redesigned and improved. The enhancements improve the user experience, improve security and simplify configuration. These changes also assist customers who use more than one Identity Provider (like OKTA or Azure) for Single Sign-On (SSO).

Users see the new sign-in pages and have an option to switch back to the old sign-in page design. The option to switch between the old and new page designs will no longer be available beginning with the March (9.89) release.

These changes are part of the SAP Concur solutions’ continued commitment to maintaining secure authentication.

With the November (9.86) Mobile release, SAP Concur solutions retired the Mobile PIN sign-in option in the SAP Concur mobile app.

This change coincided with the redesign of the mobile sign-in page which was implemented with the November release.

Users can switch back to the old sign-in page design and can use the Mobile PIN sign-in option on that page. The option to switch between the old and new page designs will no longer be available beginning with the March (9.89) release.

With the retirement of the mobile PIN sign-in option, users can continue to sign into the mobile app through the following methods:

• Single Sign-On (SSO)

  • Mobile SSO

  • SAP Concur SAML v2 SSO (SAML v2)

• Username and password

• Verified email address and password

For companies that have Single Sign-On (SSO) enabled for the web version of SAP Concur solutions, we recommend that they enable SSO on the SAP Concur mobile app, ideally migrating to SAML v2.

For information about migrating to SAML v2, refer to the SSO Service: Overview Guide (English Only) and the Shared: SSO Management Setup Guide (English Only).

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: The retirement of this feature better supports secure authentication by removing the less secure PIN option, simplifies the way users sign into the SAP Concur mobile app and makes the mobile sign-in experience more consistent with the web sign-in experience.

With the August (9.83) Mobile release, SAP Concur mobile app users gained access to the new report entry experience within the mobile app. The new user interface is available exclusively in "preview mode" in implementation environments.

Once SAP has received and addressed customer feedback, a migration of this experience - from implementation environments to production environments - will be scheduled. In the meantime, customers can escalate any detected issues to SAP Concur support.

ENABLE / DISABLE EXPERIENCE

This new experience can be enabled / disabled via a toggle on the Additional Features screen in the mobile settings. The toggle is titled Report Entry Experience for the Android mobile devices or New Expense Report for iOS mobile devices.

NEW EXPENSE DETAILS SCREEN EXPERIENCE

The new expense details screen will not appear if the user adds the following expense entries to an expense report:

• Personal Car Mileage, Company Car Mileage, Japan Public Transport expense types

• Expenses created via itineraries

(SPAIN) RECEIPT DIGITISATION ANDROID USERS

With the January (9.87) Mobile release, Spain Receipt Digitisation Android users will have access to the new UI in their production environments. This experience can be disabled anytime in the Mobile app settings.

To enable / disable the new report entry experience, refer to the Enable / Disable Experience section of this release note.

iOS

With the January (9.87) Mobile release, iOS mobile users can now preview their receipts from the Expense screen. Additionally, users now have access to the newly redesigned menu - with allocation, attendee and itemisation options - on the Expense screen.

IMPORTANT: SAP is delaying the release of Mobile Parity, originally targeted for 31 March, due to an issue discovered in later rounds of validation. This issue specifically impacts the addition of a Direct Connect Hotel to an existing Air booking, which fails processing in TMC's back office procedures. Engineering teams are currently engaged.

On 31 March, 2020, SAP Concur mobile app users will have the ability to shop, book and cancel content from Hotel Service V2.

User / Customer Benefit: Travellers expect to be able to book travel on any device. After 31 March, travellers will be able to search, book and cancel Hotel Service V2-sourced hotels from within the SAP Concur mobile app.

Targeted for the February (9.88) Mobile release, the calendar in the new Travel Allowance experience will be updated in the SAP Concur mobile app.

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: This change will make the Travel Allowance calendar more accessible.

Targeted for the February (9.88) Mobile release, we will be simplifying the manual mileage expense creation for Drive users within the mobile app. Drive users who have the Variable Rates configuration enabled and who wish to create a manual Mileage expense will no longer see the Vehicle and Passengers fields on the Mileage screen. Additionally, these fields are not available to mileage expenses created automatically by Drive since the same configurations apply.

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: This update provides Drive users with a more streamlined experience while creating a manual mileage expense in the mobile app.

Targeted for the February (9.88) Mobile release, we will be updating the expense report user interface (UI) for e-Bunsho users within the SAP Concur mobile app.

In addition to a more modern, usable and stable user interface, e-Bunsho users will now have access to features that are available only in the new UI, including:

• Delete Report (all Timestamped Receipts are Retained in the Expense List/Receipt Store)

• Recall Claim

• Cost Object Approval

• Sort and Filter Options When Approving Company Bill Statements

• Missing Receipt Declaration/Affidavit

• Support for Launching an External URL

• Metrics in Cognos Reports

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: This update addresses the unique needs of e-Bunsho users, provides them with improved usability and stability and introduces new features.