Business Matters

As travel has picked back up, the PCard office has been seeing some issues with the Corporate Travel Card (CTA) being used to hold hotel rooms booked through Concur.

Now that travel has opened back up and faculty/staff are traveling domestically and internationally we wanted to remind everyone that meals are reimbursed by per diem and are not allowed to be charged to a university credit card (except when hosting an allowable business meal).

As a state public university in Ohio, the University is required to complete competitive bids for goods and services that exceed $50,000 with a single vendor within a single fiscal year. We also must bid multi-year agreements that have a combined total of $50,000 or more.

New Search functionality and delivery tracking features

Accounts Payable would like to remind all PO Owners to have notifications set in BobcatBUY to send an alert when an invoice is in their approval queue.

International travel arrangements are now fully available to book in Concur without going through a travel agent. Any previous COVID restrictions on booking travel in Concur have been lifted.

Effective July 1, 2022, you will no longer see booking or agent fees from Christopherson Business Travel (CBT) in Concur. Executive leadership approved for these fees to be paid centrally moving forward. This applies to domestic and international travel as well as individual or group travel that is business related.

Recently the PCard refund online site, Transact Payments, was updated to a new user interface. The update changed the look and feel of the site and made it mobile friendly. A new quick reference guide has been created to guide users through the updated site.

The PCard office has been returning several reports to individuals due to the improper use of function “00” within Concur. This function cannot be used on any general ledger accounting string with an object code that starts with “7xxxxx”.