December 2017 Invoice Professional Edition Admin Summary
Last Update: 9 December 2017
Spend Categories
Spend Category Recommendation Label and Separator
The Spend Category feature that was released in the November release has now been enhanced by labels to make it easier for clients to select the relevant spend category to use.
Business Purpose/Client Benefit: This enhancement makes it easier for clients to select the relevant spend category by providing recommendations of which spend category to use for a specific expense type.
Name Changes of Four Spend Categories
In this release, four spend categories have changed names for easier selection and naming consistency.
Business Purpose/Client Benefit: These enhancements make it easier for clients to select the relevant spend category.
Invoice
View Approvers Earlier in Cost Object Approval Workflow
Previously, payment requests pending cost object approval did not show the approver’s name and approval status until the payment request was submitted. With this release, users will be able to view the list of approvers after they save the payment request.
Business Purpose/Client Benefit: This enhancement gives clients more information about who is in the approval workflow before they submit an invoice.
Easier Access to View Cost Object Approval Workflow
With this release, clients will be able to have quicker access to the Cost Object Approval workflow when working with invoices that request cost object approvals.
Business Purpose/Client Benefit: This enhancement lets clients view a cost object approval workflow without having to open the actual invoice.
Check Boxes Added for Multiple Payment Request Line Item Edits
In recent releases, Invoice enabled clients to edit multiple custom fields and expense types. With this release, Invoice has added check boxes next to the custom fields and Expense Type list to give clients more flexibility in selecting which custom fields and expense types to bulk edit.
Business Purpose/Client Benefit: This enhancement makes it easier for users to perform bulk updates to their payment requests.
Purchase Requests and Purchase Orders
Requested by Field Now Updated When Changes Are Made in User Profile
Previously the Requested by field displayed a static text with last name and first name for Concur-created purchase orders from an approved purchase request. Therefore, this field could become out-of-date if the profile name changed, since the record was linked to a user profile. With this release, Concur now displays the name with the current name from the related user profile by using the related Employee ID as is done in purchase requests, and not by using a static field with the name when the purchase order is created.
Business Purpose/Client Benefit: This enhancement improves consistency and accuracy in the display of the Requested by field and requestor name across for purchase requests and purchase orders.
Invoice Pay
Payment Initiation Date Will Be Used As Check Date
For check payments, the Issue Date and/or Funding/Issue Date fields that appear on the Payment Demand List (Failed Payments, Monitor Payments), Request ID (Payment Request) and Payment Request List for Payment Demand pages will now be printed on the check paid to suppliers. This is useful for clients who can now see when the check was printed.
In addition, the check date will appear in the Payment Initiation Date field of the Payment Confirmation Extract.
Business Purpose/Client Benefit: This enhancement gives clients more visibility by helping them track when their suppliers will receive payment.
Request ID Added to Payment Request Confirmation Import
Clients who perform integration of Concur Invoice Pay with partners can now use the new Request ID field for importing invoice payment confirmations into Concur.
Business Purpose/Client Benefit: This enhancement makes it easier for clients to process records of invoice payment confirmations from external partners when they do not have a Request Key field that they can use.
2018 Bank Holidays
The 2018 list of bank holidays will be available after the first of the year.
Accessibility
Missing Keyboard Navigation
This is a non-visual change to keyboard navigation of the SectionExpandable component (a.k.a. widget) within concursolutions.com. 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.
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.
Global Navigation Bar
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.
Languages
Support for New Languages
With this release, Concur has added support for the following languages:
Bulgarian
(Български)
Croatian
(Hrvatski)
Romanian
(Română)
Slovak
(Slovenčina)
Turkish
(Türkçe)
Business Purpose/Client Benefit: This change allows more Concur users to experience Concur in their native text.
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** Support for Plain Text FTP to End 15 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".
**Planned Change** New SAP Concur Logo
With the January release, the SAP Concur logo will appear in all Concur products.
The new logo will be displayed in the upper-left corner of each page.
Both the SAP and Concur logos appear in the footer.
For instances where a TMC has rebranded in the footer, in addition to the TMC logo, the SAP logo will appear.
Client Notifications
Concur Non-Affiliated SubprocessorsThe list of non-affiliated subprocessors is available here: Concur Non-Affiliated Subprocessors (English Only)
Monthly Browser CertificationsMonthly browser certifications, both current and planned, are available with the other Concur monthly release notes, accessible from What's New - Professional Edition