Concur Invoice

Beginning 20 January 2022, the Concur Invoice system began blocking the payment facilitation of submitted invoices originating from countries that fail to adhere to SAP's policy for conducting business with embargoed countries. SAP policy prohibits the use of all SAP products and services in, from, or in support of, any business activities in locations where SAP products and services are not available.

This list includes Cuba (CU), Iran (IR), North Korea (KP), Syria (SY) and Crimea Region/Sevastopol. In practice, each invoice on submission is analysed for country code and rejected, with an error message stating why, where an embargoed country is identified.

Business Purpose/Client Benefit: This feature ensures clients follow local, national and international laws governing embargoed countries, and are systematically protected to the best ability from malicious actors and actions when working with SAP Concur products.

Invoice Capture

With this release, Concur Invoice supports the new Comprobante Fiscal Digital por Internet (CFDi) version 4.0 format provided by Mexican tax authorities. Regulations in Mexico require that a CFDi document in XML format be attached to every submitted invoice.

With the availability of the new CFDi format, Capture Processing users reporting to Mexican tax authorities and submitting invoices with CFDi attachments will be in compliance with current Mexican tax regulations.

Business Purpose/Client Benefit: This update supports Capture Processing users reporting to Mexican tax authorities who need their invoice and attached CFDi tax document submitted as a single payment request in Concur Invoice.

Invoice Pay

With this release, Invoice Provider ACH is now available to all direct clients. Currently, USD ACH payments by Bambora/Worldwide as the payment provider are supported for this feature.

BACKGROUND

To better serve clients, Invoice Provider ACH is replacing the Classic Invoice Pay ACH feature as part of a transition of Invoice Pay to a payment provider solution for invoice payments. With the Invoice Provider ACH feature, fund transfers for ACH payments are handled by a third-party company (payment provider) instead of SAP Concur.

As of end of year 2021, only direct clients who purchased Invoice before 21 June 2021 were eligible to gain an Accepted status and use the Invoice Provider ACH feature to process ACH payments. Classic Invoice Pay ACH users were able to process batch payments up to 15 November 2021, after which new invoice payment processing was discontinued.

For more information on the retirement of the Invoice Pay ACH feature, refer to the Invoice Pay Solutions FAQ (English Only).

Business Purpose/Client Benefit: To better serve clients, Invoice Provider ACH is now available to all direct Invoice clients.

Classic Pay services for the Invoice Pay ACH feature were shut down on 1 December 2021. The Add Funding Account button on the Funding Accounts page used to create a new Classic Invoice Pay ACH funding account is being removed.

Business Purpose/Client Benefit: This change is part of the decommissioning of the Classic Invoice Pay ACH feature.

File Transfer Updates

This feature is now documented in the Shared Changes Release Notes (English Only).

For more information, refer to Shared Planned Changes Moving to New Shared Changes Release Notes in this document.

This feature is now documented in the Shared Changes Release Notes (English Only).

For more information, refer to Shared Planned Changes Moving to New Shared Changes Release Notes in this document.

Miscellaneous

This feature is now documented in the Shared Changes Release Notes (English Only).

For more information, refer to Shared Planned Changes Moving to New Shared Changes Release Notes in this document.

SAP Fiori Themes

This feature is now documented in the Shared Changes Release Notes (English Only).

For more information, refer to Shared Planned Changes Moving to New Shared Changes Release Notes in this document.

SAP Concur User Assistance

Beginning with the January 2022 draft release notes, shared (SAP Concur cross-product) changes, shared planned changes and changes to SAP Concur core technologies are published in a new document, Shared Changes Release Notes. This document replaces the current Shared Planned Changes Release Notes.

Shared and core technology features and changes include, but are not limited to:

• Security-related changes—for example, annual security certificate renewals, changes to support for security ciphers, changes in support for security protocols and changes to username and password requirements.

• UI design changes that impact all products—for example, changes to the functionality or appearance of the SAP Concur home page, the addition or removal of links from the site header or footer, changes to the user profile page and theme changes that impact the overall look and feel of the SAP Concur site.

• Sign-in process changes – for example, the addition or removal of sign-in features, URL changes, domain-name changes and changes to verified email.

• Changes to production or test environments.

• Changes that impact site-wide settings, changes to global settings and changes to pages for configuring site-wide or global settings – for example, changes to the User Administration page, changes to Product Settings for Standard Edition and the introduction of new administration tools.

PREVIOUS PROCESS

SAP Concur User Assistance published the Shared Planned Changes Release Notes in coordination with each monthly release. This document included shared and core features and changes that SAP Concur plans to implement in the future. When those changes were officially released, the release or implementation of the change was distributed and documented in the product-specific release notes – for example, the Concur Expense, Concur Invoice, Concur Request or Concur Travel release notes.

NEW PROCESS

Beginning in January 2022, the implementation of shared and core features and changes to existing shared and core features are now documented in the new Shared Changes Release Notes. This applies both when the features and changes are planned changes and when they are officially released. The shared/core release notes will no longer be distributed to product-specific release notes.

Changes that are specific to one product and that impact that product's functionality or UI for admins or for end users will continue to be documented in that product's release notes.

Business Purpose/Client Benefit: This change reduces duplication of information, ensures that the product-specific release notes contain product-specific information, and provides a single source for SAP Concur shared changes and changes to core technologies.

Test Entities | Production Sandbox Environment

Some SAP Concur users use Production Sandbox Environment (PSE) entities to set up, test and train on new configurations prior to deploying them to their live production entity. SAP Concur plans to migrate PSEs as part of our move to Amazon Web Services (AWS).

For more information, refer to the SAP Concur Cloud Platform Strategy FAQ (English only).

When PSEs are migrated, the supplier audit trail associated with suppliere in Supplier Manager, will not be migrated. The audit trail will be rebuilt as changes are made to supplier information after migration.

Business Purpose/Client Benefit: Once in AWS, PSEs will benefit from the same stability, monitoring capabilities and level of performance as production entities.

This feature is now documented in the Shared Changes Release Notes (English Only).

For more information, refer to Shared Planned Changes Moving to New Shared Changes Release Notes in this document.

There are currently no planned changes