Invoice

Possible to Hide URL Field From Purchase Request Item Form

Clients now have the ability to hide the URL field on the Purchase Request Item form in cases where the user is not using that field.

Matched Receipts With Quantities Now Extractable

When a payment request line item matches one or more receipts, clients might need to know how many items on the receipt(s) that were matched by the payment request line items. With this release, the matched quantity of the receipt will be available for extraction.

Purchase Order Email Subject Can Now Be Customised

Clients will now be able to customise the Subject field of the purchase order email that is sent out to suppliers. The default subject will still be the same as previously. Tax Code Field Is Now a List With Predefined Options With this release, clients will be able to predefine tax codes for all VAT tax codes. This update will simplify entry of VAT tax codes for the end user and, at the same time, provide consistency when working with VAT tax codes for payment requests and within Tax Authority.

Did You Know That Attendees Is Now Available for Invoice?

Users are now able to work with attendees in Invoice.

Administration

File Transfer Security Update

During the month of October 2016, Concur Operations will apply a routine security update to our File Transfer infrastructure (SecureTransport). This is part of our ongoing commitment to securing our customers’ data and meeting the audited security requirements of the "Concur Trust Platform". As part of this update, only TLS v1.1 and TLS v1.2 will be supported for FTP/S (FTP-SSL) and HTTPS protocols. New ciphers will be in place for EMEA (st-eu.concursolutions.com) on 8 Oct, and US migration (st.concursolutions.com) on 22 Oct. The expected time of each modification is 10 AM Eastern time.

For more information on TLS and cipher support, refer to the File Transfer User Guide (English only).

Concur has created a SecureTransport staging environment that US and EMEA customers can test against. The URL is st-staging.concursolutions.com. The testing is for connectivity only. It’s possible to upload files in this environment, however the files will not be processed. Protocols available in SecureTransport staging environment are: HTTPS, SSH (SCP, SFTP) and FTP/S.

**Coming Soon** Support for TLS v 1.0 Encryption Protocol to End March of 2017

Concur announces an End of Support (March 2017) 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. Note that, since less than 1% of Concur users are logging in to Concur Solutions using browsers or phones limited to version 1.0, a very small number of users are affected by this support discontinuation.

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: Concur is taking this step after careful consideration of both the client’s security and ease of upgrade to the newer, more secure 1.1 and 1.2 versions of TLS. This end of life plan for TLS v 1.0 ensures our clients are communicating with Concur services in a safe and secure manner using TLS v. 1.1 and newer.

More Information: Additional information about this change for TLS support will be included in upcoming release notes included in monthly service releases.