Concur Frequently Asked Questions
Concur's Travel and Expense Management solution is a robust solution supporting travel and procurement card activities at the University of Kentucky. The solution is part of the Our Path Forward initiative, designed to help UK chart its own path to a brighter future for students and the Commonwealth.
Concur Expense will replace the current travel expense system (TRIP) and provide a better user-experience, flexible workflow solutions and mobile support. The new system will also replace the current travel and procard reconciliation processes and provide an enhanced user experience, improved workflows, and standardized business procedures.
You can read more in the UKnow article announcing the launch of Concur Travel and Expense Management.
You can begin using the new solution on September 8, 2020. For any new travel requests/expense reports, or procard expense reports (for transactions posting September 8, 2020 or after), please use the new solution. Procard transactions posting prior to September 8, 2020 should be completed through Enterprise Services (pre-launch) processes.
Yes! The implementation of Concur Travel and Expense Management adds on to our already implemented Concur Travel Booking Tool for a full-suite solution in travel and expense management. You can access all Concur tools available at the University of Kentucky through Employee Self-Service of the myUK Portal.
Welcome back! As a current Concur Travel booking tool user, you’ll still experience the same booking experience with Travel Request and Expense Management. We encourage you to check your User Profile Settings to review any changes as your profile will now match your official UK Human Resources profile. You’ll now have access to the full-suite solution including travel request and travel/non-travel expense management.
Users must access Concur through Employee Self Service of the myUK Portal. Users will see a new link to “Concur Travel and Expense Management” under Employee Self Service. Access will no longer be available through concursolutions.com starting September 8, 2020.
Once you have access to the new implementation of Concur Travel and Expense Management, we strongly encourage you to complete all travel expense reports in Concur. If you typically complete a single (or few) travel expense reports for day trips throughout the month, we encourage you to complete those in Concur.
A decommission date for SAP TRIP travel expense reports is under discussion.
If questions arise while utilizing the Concur Travel and Expense Management application, contact concurexpense@uky.edu with any procard or expense questions. Please continue to contact AAA’s help desk at 877-463-0543 for assistance with the Concur Travel booking tool.
Profiles for new employees are automatically added to Concur when the employee is added to HR and has an active work assignment.
Please mark COVID-19 purchases by using the “Additional Information” field located on the Details tab of the Expense Type form. Do not add any additional text other than “COVID-19”.
There are three main training methods for Concur: On-Demand Training Videos and Quick Reference Guides are available for the Travel and Expense Management solution, while Virtual Training is available only for the Online Booking Tool. Each option is outlined below.
On-Demand Videos related to Concur processes and procedures have been uploaded to myUK Learning and can be viewed at any time. To access these videos, login to myUK and go to the Employee Self Service tab. Select myUK Learning and search for the “Concur” videos. The On-Demand videos include demos such as creating a general travel request, travel expense report, procard expense report, and the approver process.
Quick Reference Guides for various Concur processes can be found here.
Virtual training is also available for the Concur Travel Online Booking Tool which can be found through the myUK Learning solution referenced above.
Reporting is provided, in partnership with Institutional Research, Analytics & Decision Support, through Tableau. Please visit here to access available analytics. Tableau access is granted based on departmental approval.
Procard transactions are no longer parked against a default cost object when using Concur. In the new solution, transactions are loaded to the card holder’s profile where they are allocated to the appropriate expense type and posted to the cost object when the Expense Report is submitted by the final approver.
Either sign-in method can be used. If using the concursolutions.com link from the email, utilize your linkblue credentials (linkblueID@uky.edu) to logon and the prompt to “Sign in with SSO”. You will be directed to the UK linkblue sign-in page. Once you sign in, your Concur homepage will appear.
The University of Kentucky Company Code for the Concur Mobile App is 7KCHJ. Instructions for how to set-up the mobile app are available on the Quick Reference Guides for Concur Travel and Expense Management site.
General Expense reports can be submitted with an unlimited amount of transactions, and generally submitted once per month. However, when deemed necessary by the department, multiple reports for a single cardholder may be submitted in one given month. It is expected that departments continue to be mindful of potential additional costs incurred by the University when processing multiple reports in a month. To continue to operate as good financial stewards, reasonable discretion should be exercised when choosing to do so. All procurement card transactions associated with a General Expenditure report should be allocated and fully posted into SAP by the 15th day of the following month.
Travel Expense reports must be submitted for each overnight trip. Day trips (mileage only) must be submitted monthly. All travel expense reports must be submitted by the traveler within 60 days from the last day of travel.
Please consult your supervisor/department on requirements for use of Travel Request. Use of Travel Request is highly encouraged, but not required at this time.
There is not currently a limit on the number of transactions allowed on a single report.
The request or expense report will enter the workflow and be submitted to your supervisor for review. See the Quick Reference Guide for Concur Workflow and Report Tracking to learning more about the workflow and review of your report timeline.
While in the expense report in Concur, the user or approver can review the G/Ls assigned for the expense type in the UK-Detailed Report or Report-Detailed with Summary Data. See the Quick Reference Guide - Concur Printed Expense Reports for more information.
No. Only the report creator can modify the expense type. If an expense type needs to be changed, the report will need to be returned.
Please review the Quick Reference Gide – Which Policy Should Be Used to learn more about Concur Policies for creating expense reports.
Yes, the default cost object can be changed by the user or their delegate under profile settings, Expense Settings, Expense Information. Note that if the employee’s default cost object tied to their employee ID in Human Resources changes, the default cost object in Concur will also be updated.
The only acceptable file formats for attachments in Concur are .png, .jpg, .jpeg, .pdf, .tif, or .tiff. Word or Excel documents will now need to be converted to a .pdf format before attaching to an expense or report in Concur.
Concur has a limit of 5MB per file.
Delegates can be assigned at any stage of the workflow process in Concur. Delegates act in the capacity of the individual for whom they have been named as a delegate.
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For cardholders: Delegates can create expense reports, upload receipts, and update profile settings. Note: The cardholder will need to review and submit their own expense reports to begin the workflow process.
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For approvers: Delegates can review, approve, reject, or forward expense reports.
See the Quick Reference Guide for more information.
No, only the report owner can submit the report, however delegates can prepare the report up to the point of pre-submission.
In this new implementation, procurement cards will roll up or connect to the profile of the procard holder. The cardholders will need to add you as a delegate so you can add card transactions to expense reports for allocation (editing).
The goal is to complete processing of all eligible reports within 7 business days of receipt.
No. When documenting business purposes for research grants, specific grant aim and location of experiment are not required. Please use common sense and good judgment when documenting business purposes. For the most part, when purchasing supplies and materials for research grants, a general business purpose such as for research is sufficient unless there is something unusual about the purchase (for example, the purchase of dog food – we would need more than for research as an explanation if a federal auditor were to pull the transaction, and the justification will be needed).