API Release Notes, January 2024

New This Month

Vendor v3 Decommissioned as of January 11, 2024

Due to Export Control and Sanctions Compliance regulations, we have decommissioned the Vendors v3 API. This is done in accordance to the SAP Concur API Lifecycle & Deprecation Policy, as this is required by law.

Now Available: Ready for Integration Event

Authorized consumers of the Financial Integration Service v4 API can subscribe to a new event that will notify them when a financial posting document is ready and available for import. This new event is available through the Event Subscription Service v4 by subscribing to the topic public.concur.financialintegration.

Planned Change: Updates to Hotel Service v2

In February we will make a couple of updates to Hotel Service v4 that will remove existing elements from the section relating to gender and name prefixes. The changes are detailed below:

  • <Customer Gender=> element will be removed
  • element will be removed

Exact location below:

<Profiles>
  <ProfileInfo>
    <Profile>
        <Customer  Gender= “Female”   BirthDate=”1987-05012”>
            <Person Name Language=”de”>
                 <NamePrefix>MRS>/NamePrefix>

Ongoing

Planned Change: New Client SSL Certificate and Public Key for ESS webhook.api.concursolutions.com

In an effort to ensure the ongoing security of our products and services, ESS will be issuing a new webhook.api.concursolutions.com SSL certificate and public key.

Any customer who has pinned previous certificate will need to update to the new certificate. If the pinned certificate is not updated prior, your organization and users will experience disruption to SAP Concur products and services. Customers who have not pinned the certificate do not need to take any action as the new certificate is updated automatically. Most customers do not pin the certificate.

Please note that public key is changing as well. Applications that using digital signature validation will be affected and need to adopt new public key.

New certificate and public key will be published on the SAP Concur Developer Center.

NOTE: As an enhancement to our Security and Compliance program, certificate will be updated at least once a year.

Deprecations and Decommissions

APIs are being deprecated or decommissioned in accordance with the SAP Concur API Lifecycle & Deprecation Policy.

Date API Details
07/2023 Decommission of Password Provisioning via File Import The decommission of password provisioning via file import will occur on October 1st, 2023.
07/2023 Decommissioning of Password Provisioning Beginning August 2nd, 2023, password provisioning for user accounts will not be supported.
07/2023 Decommission of User v1 Password Endpoint The decommission of the User v1 password endpoint will occur on July 28th, 2023.
06/2023 Deprecation of Launch External URL Callout v1 The Launch External URL V1 API is deprecated as of June 16th, 2023. Decommission will follow.
01/2023 Move from the Travel Request External Validation Callout v1 to the Event Subscription Service (ESS) This callout was designed to work with the Concur Request v1 API that is in the process of being decommissioned. Users are strongly recommended to move to the Event Subscription Services (ESS) in order to subscribe to the Request events.
12/2022 Decommission of Existing Concur Request APIs (v1.0, v3.0, v3.1) The decommission of the v1.0, v3.0, and v3.1 APIs is planned to conclude soon. Users that have not yet migrated to the Concur Request v4 APIs are strongly encouraged to make the required developments.
11/2022 Deprecation of User v1 Effective November 10th, 2022, the User v1 API has been deprecated. This has been replaced by User Provisioning Service v4. Decommission has been extended and will conclude on May 31st, 2024.
11/2022 Deprecation of User v3 Effective November 10th, 2022, the User v1 API has been deprecated. This has been replaced by User Provisioning Service v4. Decommission has been extended and will conclude on May 31st, 2024.
10/2022 Deprecation of Cash Advance v4 Effective October 1st, 2022, the Cash Advance v4 API is deprecated. This has been replaced by the release of Cash Advance v4.1. Decommission will follow on October 2, 2023.
10/2022 Deprecation of Hotel Service v2 Effective October 14th, 2022, the Hotel Service v2 API is deprecated. This has been replaced by the release of Hotel Service v4. Decommission will follow on October 16, 2023.
04/2021 Bulk User v3.1 API We have deprecated the Bulk User v3.1 API for the US and EMEA data centers. This API is replaced by Identity v4. Decommission will follow. Bulk User v3.1 will remain available for China data centers.
01/2021 List v3 API Effective April 16, 2021, we have deprecated the List v3 API. This API is replaced by the List v4 API. List v3 is planned to be retired in a future release.
01/2021 List Item v3 API Effective April 16, 2021, we have deprecated the List Item v3 API. This API is replaced by the List Item v4 API. List Item v3 is planned to be retired in a future release. Please migrate to the List Item v4 API as soon as possible.
06/2020 Travel Profile Notification v1 API We are deprecating the Travel Profile Notification v1 APIs due to low usage.
01/2020 List v1 API We will be retiring the List v1 API in a future release. This API is replaced by the List v4 API.

Planned Changes

Date API Planned Change
11/2023 Expense Report v1.1 We will be adding a new request query parameter includeInactive={Y/N} to return both active and inactive delegators for a particular delegate. If this parameter is not present the API will return only active delegators (no change from current behavior).
10/2023 Workflow v4 An upcoming documentation update will add a Workflow v4 page under the existing Expense v4 category. This page will be populated with existing expense workflow APIs, such as the Approve or Send Back a Report API, which historically has been a section on the Reports v4 page.
09/2023 Travel Profile API 2.0 All partners and customers currently using Travel Profile API 2.0 will need to prepare their systems to support two new Gender values: Unknown and Unspecified. The support for those new values is planned to be released in Q1 2024.
06/2023 Payroll Integration Available Without Integration with Concur Solutions (ICS) Payroll fields will be available through the Financial Integration Service (FIS) API. This allows users of the FIS API (partner apps or customers with custom integrations) to also use the API for payroll integration.
05/2023 Get Cost Objects Request v4 API This endpoint will allow external callers to view a Request’s approver related cost objects within a cost object approval workflow.
04/2023 Get Cost Object for Approver v4 API Externalizing this endpoint allows external callers to view a report’s approver related cost objects within a cost object approval workflow.
04/2023 Approve Report, Send Back Report, and Recall Report v4 APIs These APIs will replace the expense report workflow action v1.1 API. These v4 expense report workflow APIs are functionally similar to their v1 Post an Expense Report Workflow Action counterparts but will be available as separate actions. 

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