Purchase Requests and Purchase Orders

Concur released the new Central Receiving role in the June release. With this release, Concur has now changed the name of this permission role from Central Receiving to Central Receiver to align with the Central Receiver role name in Invoice Standard.

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: This enhancement provides clients with name consistency between the Invoice Professional and Invoice Standard products.

Approval managers, purchase requestors and purchase request processors will now be able to view the audit trail for line item and distribution changes of the purchase request.

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: This enhancement provides clients with more efficient audit trail tracking should they need to refer back to the audit trail for questions or auditability reasons.

With this release, clients will now be able to customise the following three email notifications for purchase requests:

• Purchase Request Pending Notification
• Purchase Request Sent Back Notification
• Purchase Request Status Change Notification

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: These enhancements ensure that clients can receive customisable email notifications that are targeted for their specific needs.

Previously, when a client transmitted a purchase order to multiple supplier contact addresses, suppliers would receive an email only seeing themselves as recipients. With this release, suppliers will see all other contacts who received the email by looking at the To line of the email.

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: This enhancement helps prevent multiple supplier contacts from fulfilling the same purchase order by letting them see the other contacts on the email.

Invoice

Clients will now be able to search on unassigned requests by using the new search functionality available on the All Unassigned Requests page. The search options are the same as the ones on the Unsubmitted Requests page.

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: This feature provides clients with a quicker way to search for specific types of unassigned payment requests.

Recently, Concur stated that the accessibility feature will no longer be optional and that the feature will be defaulted to ON for all Concur sites.

This change has been delayed. Additional detail will be provided in the August release notes.

Capture Processing

With this release, the languages available for selection in the Additional OCR Language list will now include Chinese alongside the current English and Japanese languages. Adding this language lets the admin elect to include Chinese as part of the OCR scanning process performed by Capture Processing.

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: This enhancement adds an additional language to the OCR language option available when configuring a supplier email alias or uploading a batch of invoices.

Supported Configurations

UPDATE: Please note these dates:

• EU datacentre: Completed on Tuesday, 4 April 2017
• US datacentre: Completed on 12 July 2017

Several months ago, Concur announced an End of Support cycle for version 1.0 of the TLS encryption protocol, continuing support for the more secure 1.1 and 1.2 versions of TLS. As background, the TLS protocol allows secure back and forth communications between a phone or computer and a cloud-based service.

This process has spanned several months and is now complete.

Planned Changes

Concur is now aiming to release the enhanced fiscal calendar for Analysis/Intelligence in August. A fiscal calendar allows organisations to define their accounting periods independent of the standard calendar year. Many organisations define their own calendars to model their financial reporting to reflect seasons in their business, to compare results with direct competitors and to avoid the busy year-end season in January.

The new fiscal calendar is available under Reporting Configuration, which is accessed via Administration > Expense or Administration > Invoice.

The Quick Tips section of the Concur Solutions home page (concursolutions.com) is planned to be removed in the August service release.

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: This update simplifies the look-and-feel of the home page, making it easier to view and access the information on the page.

Support for Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) version 10 browsers under Concur products will end on 18 August 2017. Concur strongly advises clients using IE v.10 to update to the latest IE browser version before that date, or to install and work with another supported browser.

Users still using IE v.10 will see a banner.

Client Notifications

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

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