Administration

Payment Manager Checkbox Renamed

Concur has renamed the check box, Use for company card import only, to Exclude from employees' Payment Type list (applies only to imported card transactions).

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: This change helps client admins better understand the existing functionality of this setting.

Application Programming Interface (API)

Fetch List Callout Version 1.2 Now Available

Concur has updated the Fetch List Callout to v1.2. The new version simplifies the list item fetch process, from two separate calls to a single call. The single call now provides all the information required to save the selected list item.

You can find the documentation for Fetch List Callout version 1.2 on the developer portal: https://developer.concur.com.

Reminder: Support Ending for Deprecated APIs

As described in the Feb 2016 release notes, the effective date for the deprecation of the following Concur APIs was 19 May, 2016. In two weeks, as of 19 November, 2016, the APIs will be retired, and Concur will not address any new issues concerning them.

The Concur Platform deprecation policy is available here: https://developer.concur.com/tools-support/reference/deprecation-policy.html (English only)

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: This update removes outdated or unused APIs and API functions. Additional information is available on the Concur Developer Portal: https://developer.concur.com (English only).

Expense

**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.

Japan

Japan Public Transportation (JPT)

With this release, the Japan Public Transportation (JPT) feature will now alert the user whenever they attempt to add a route following the allocation of an existing route. In this scenario, the employee adds one or more routes, allocates them and then attempts to add another route. The system detects this, and displays an error message notification that the existing allocation(s) will be removed from the expense claim.

This change aligns the JPT feature with the behaviour of Expense whenever an additional entry is added to an already allocated claim. Under these conditions, the system always alerts the user and prevent the addition of another entry (or route).

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: This enhancement makes the Japan Public Transportation feature complement the behaviour of other features within Expense and prevents the user from attempting to create an erroneous claim.

JPT Jorudan Maintenance

The Japan Public Transportation (JPT) database of stations and lines received routine maintenance changes such as additions, name changes and removals.

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: Lists in Expense continue to reflect JPT's current stations and lines.