MXP by Mobilexpense: 2024 Updates with Latest Release Notes

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Quarter 4 release notes

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Features and improvements

πŸ›„ An intuitive daily allowance module

🚧 Work in progress: This feature is still under development and will be refined based on ongoing feedback. Visual below is a preview and is subject to change before final release.

Managing daily allowances while travelling for work should be simple, clear, and hassle-free. Our latest enhancements to the daily allowance module is designed to address specific use cases in Sweden. This update was built in response to real needs from our existing customer base in Sweden, reflecting our commitment to continuously improving the experience for business travellers.

We’re making it easier than ever for employees to claim their daily allowances accurately while ensuring compliance with Swedish regulations.

What’s new?

  1. Customisable labels
    The new interface guides you smoothly through the daily allowance creation process. This ensures that all relevant details are covered. Customisable labels allow companies to adapt the module to their internal policies, making it easier for employees to complete their claims correctly.

  2. Improved deductions page
    Selecting applicable deductions is now more straightforward than ever. A clearer, more organised layout ensures that employees only select what’s necessary. The result is reduced errors and making compliance effortless.

  3. Clearer summary
    No more digging through reportsβ€”daily allowances are now displayed per segment level in a concise and easy-to-read format. This provides employees with a clear breakdown of their entitlements before submitting their claims.

Visual above is a preview and is subject to change before final release.

 

🌍 Localisation and Long-stay improvements

Travelling for an extended project requires precise, compliant allowance calculationsβ€”regardless of where you stay or how you spell the location on the app.

We’ve introduced improved detection and calculation methods to ensure that long-stay allowances align with Swedish regulatory requirements. Businesses can now stay ahead of ever-evolving regulations with ease.

In addition, input recognition are now smarter than ever. Whether a user enters β€œStockholm” or β€œEstocolmo” in MXP, they will now receive a consistent and accurate allowance calculation. This eliminates discrepancies caused by different names in different languages. This ensures clarity for employees submitting expenses.

🌱 ESG reporting to support sustainable business practices

🚧 Work in progress: This feature is still under development and will be refined based on ongoing feedback.

Sustainability is no longer a nice-to-haveβ€”it’s a growing government mandate that shapes the future of businesses. Our new ESG solution, developed in collaboration with Deloitte, allows companies to capture and report ESG data at the transaction levelβ€”ensuring finance teams can monitor and optimise their environmental impact.

What’s new?

  • Configure ESG data fields by expense category: This allows employees to to enter and edit sustainability information according to their company's sustainability policy.
  • Improved reporting mechanisms: This provides timely, accurate updates for users focused on ESG performance.

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ESG information displayed in expense creation

 

 πŸ–ŒοΈA more modern & unified look

A fresh, professional interface is key to a great user experienceβ€”which is why we’ve made significant improvements to branding and system appearance:

  • Colour customisation across user role, ensuring a visually accessible and personalised experience.
  • Streamlined design elements, creating a more modern, consistent, and intuitive look across the platform.

These updates provide a polished, cohesive experience, making navigation smoother and ensuring that every interaction with MXP feels modern and engaging.

MXP_q4_design_RNCustomised colour scheme on MXP

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Maintenance tasks

πŸ™Œ Seamless connectivity: API & integration improvements

As part of our broader mission to modernise and future-proof our platform, we’ve delivered a series of API and integration improvements designed to provide a smoother, more reliable, and more transparent experience for our partners and customers.

What’s New?

  • Smarter data synchronisation: We’ve refined and migrated our API infrastructure, ensuring master data synchronisation aligns with the latest industry standards. This means more accurate, up-to-date information with fewer discrepancies.
  • Clearer, more reliable data exchange: Enhanced error communication to support integrator guidance. This makes it easier for partners to troubleshoot issues and maintain a seamless connectionβ€”minimising downtime.
  • Stronger security for API integrations: Handling sensitive configurations just got safer. We’ve implemented enhanced security measures for API interactions, ensuring that your integrations remain protected without compromising performance.

β€’ β€’ Improved API documentation for developers: We know that clear, well-structured documentation is key to a smooth integration process. That’s why we’ve improved our API documentation, making it easier for external partners to navigate, implement, and optimise their connections with us.

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Quarter 3 release notes

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Integrations

πŸ’³ Pliant Integration - Mobilexpense cards ingestion

The Pliant integration is here! This major step forward in MXP makes it easier than ever to keep your spending under control. Users can now enjoy real-time capturing of Pliant Visa card transactions into MXP, paired with a reliable and user-friendly experience designed with mobility at its core.

This release also includes major improvements delivered over the past quarter, ensuring a smooth and reliable flow of transactions from Pliant Visa cards into MXP, all powered by a mobile-first experience.

How it works?

The integration ensures that every Pliant transaction is seamlessly ingested into MXP in real-time as purchases are made. Imagine using your Pliant card to take clients out for lunch, SpendCatcher immediately sends you a notification about the transaction. It then prompts you to snap a photo of your receipt, allowing you to manage your expense without delays or complications.

What's new in this release?

We’ve made several key improvements to the integration to enhance performance and user experience.

1. Optimised transaction handling:

  • Duplicate prevention: This means if the same transaction data is sent more than onceβ€”due to system retries, connectivity issues, or other reasonsβ€”the integration intelligently detects the duplicate and prevents it from being entered into the system. This enhancement ensures clean and accurate expense data.

2. Enhanced push notifications:

  • Migrated to the new FCM (Firebase Cloud Messaging) API, improving the reliability of notifications when transactions are ingested. For instance, notifications are now delivered more consistently, even if devices are offline or when the app is open on multiple devices.

3. Refined user experience:

  • Improved the activation page by displaying the Pliant organisation name instead of an ID, making the interface more intuitive.
  • Resolved bugs such as decimal display issues in notification texts, ensuring clearer communication with users.

The benefits

This release delivers tangible benefits to both end users and administrators, including: 

  • Real-time expense tracking with instant notifications.
  • Improved reliability of transaction ingestion and notifications.
  • Enhanced usability with intuitive displays and fewer errors.
  • Seamless cross-database integration, ensuring all entities can leverage the power of Pliant without challenges.

Why it matters?

By addressing critical bugs, improving functionality, and refining the user experience, this release reflects our commitment to providing a robust, seamless, and user-friendly expense management solution. The enhanced Pliant integration for MXP ensures that managing expenses is not only easier but also more efficient and reliable for companies and their employees.

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How the integrations looks on MXP

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Improvements

πŸ“œ APIs for Master Data synchronisation

This release focused on enhancing the Master Data Sync APIs, with improvements aimed at optimising how tasks are assigned and enhancing API response handling and performance issues to improve the reliability of the sync operations.

Key updates include:

  • Improvements to the Task Assignment API models: A bulk endpoint has been created to make it easier and faster to assign tasks at scale, saving time and reducing manual effort.
  • Improved API models performance: Sync operations now run more efficiently, ensuring faster and more reliable updates when data is synchronised.
  • Smarter updates: We’ve resolved issues with task updates to prevent unnecessary duplication when updating details like user logins or task codes.
  • Clearer error messages: When there’s an issue with task assignments, the system now provides more descriptive messages, helping users and integrators easily understand and address errors.
  • Special character support: The Sync API now fully supports special characters, ensuring smoother processing of data inputs containing unique symbols.
  • Better error handling: Validation errors are now displayed individually, making it easier to identify and fix issues when syncing user data.

 

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Quarter 2 release notes

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Web

Features

🌊 Web OCR flow improvements

After a few rounds of customer feedback, our product team identified key opportunities to improve the web OCR flow. We are excited to announce that these improvements are now being rolled out in waves to all customers with OCR in their package.

What's new? 

  • More concise user experience (less clicks and less screens to go through to save the expense).
  • Users don’t have to switch between screens to complete and save a transaction.
Before Now
User first uploaded a receipt, then viewed the OCR preview and lastly had to go back to β€˜My Transactions’. This was how they found their expense in order to fill in additional fields.
User uploads a receipt, then views the OCR preview. Straight away, the system will redirect user to fill in any additional fields.

 

The result?

A more efficient and user-friendly workflow that saves time, allowing users to focus on what really matters.

πŸ—ΊοΈ Mileage module improvements: Map view

In the Mileage module, the map image looked distorted (stretched) when the Map Proxy API was switched on. This disrupted the user experience. We have now improved the proportions of the map to solve this issue.

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New map view

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Mobile - SpendCatcher

Maintenance

🧳 .NET Migration

As of May 1, 2024, Xamarin is no longer supported or updated by Microsoft. Following Microsoft's decommissioning of Xamarin support, we made a strategic shift from Xamarin to .NET, ensuring our solutions stay cutting-edge and effective.

This transition brings several advantages:

  • Unified Development: .NET provides a single framework for building cross-platform applications, improving development efficiency and consistency.
  • Future-Proofing: .NET is the evolution of Xamarin, ensuring long-term support and access to the latest features and updates.
  • Simple migration: The migration was simple and allowed us to update the tech without investing too much effort.

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Ecosystem and integrations

πŸ‘₯ Egencia integration - Traveller profile sync

We have enhanced the Egencia integration to improve the synchronisation of traveller profiles within MXP in order to deliver a smoother approval flow.

This update allows for the synchronisation of an employee’s L1 and L2 approvers, even when the approver belongs to a different MXP entity and Egencia company. This capability ensures that companies can maintain consistent approval structures across different entities, mirroring the employee’s supervisor profiles within associated Egencia companies.

We have also added new options for system administrators. They can now manage how phone numbers are synced. This gives them more control over the data shared between MXP and Egencia.

🚣 Amex OneDDS DNS

The integration of Amex One DDS DNS has been improved to ensure that boat services, along with their details and itineraries, are displayed at the transaction level. 

Furthermore, the new integration logic has removed travellers' personal details from the transaction comments section to fully adhere to GDPR regulations.

These improvements not only enhance data visibility and accuracy but also strengthen compliance, ensuring a more secure and efficient experience for both users and organisations.

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Insights

🚘 Product guidelines for WPM implementation

To make sure that our product stays up-to-date with regulations, we have delivered guidelines on how we can support compliance with the Work-Related Personal Mobility (WPM) report regulations in the Netherlands.

These guidelines not only help our customers comply to the new regulations but also give us the time needed to develop a comprehensive plan for supporting compliance with broader CO2 emission disclosure regulations.

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Our areas of support for WPM compliance

 

 βœˆοΈ Reporting on Travel Request data

We’ve added Travel Requests which includes Flights, Accommodations, Car rental to the data model of Insights.
This means that they can now be linked to actual expenses and it will empower controllers and CFOs even more when assessing compliance for travel expenses.

Existing customers can now use Insights, previously available in MXP Analytics, to easily access all the data they need for their reports, ensuring a seamless and comprehensive reporting experience.

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List of reports view


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Quarter 1 release notes

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Web

Features

πŸ’» Menu bar for web app

The menu bar just got a fresh new look! The improvements will make navigation simpler, enjoyable and accessible for all users. This revamp will roll out gradually throughout 2024, depending on an organisation's customisations, ensuring a seamless transition to this new look.

Navigating the new MXP navigation bar

Key improvements:

  • Consistency and Intuitive Design: This redesign ensures easier interactions with main menu items, offering bigger targets and optimal spacing for a smoother user experience.

  • Sleek UI Makeover: The navigation bar has undergone a visual makeover, with accessibility at its core. Now, users can effortlessly manage expenses with a sleek, modern interface that improves both functionality and aesthetics.

  • Enhanced Accessibility: Adjusted font sizes, element sizes, colour contrasts, and spacings. Additionally, we've added keyboard commands to facilitate navigation. Every detail contributes to improved readability, making navigation a breeze for all users.

  • Deputy User Navigation: Finding deputy user features is now easier than ever! We've centralised the location of deputy user functionalities within the navigation bar, allowing users to effortlessly switch roles.

We heard you! Here are further navigation bar enhancements based on users' feedback:

  • consistent spacing and alignment,
  • optimised responsiveness to different browser window sizes,
  • added an arrow icon to the user dropdown menu for expandability indication and
  • included visual cues for unread messages in the MXP mailbox. 

We hope these improvements bring users an even more intuitive and seamless navigation experience, making their expense management much more pleasant.

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Mobile - SpendCatcher

Features

πŸ“¬ OCR for SpendCatcher email

Innovation never stops! We want to further automate the expense creation flow, so logically we have included OCR (Optical character recognition) to SpendCatcher Email.

  • SpendCatcher Email: a customised email address where users can send their receipt to, and have their receipt automatically available on the app.

Users can now scan their forwarded receipts instead of manually creating the expense. This means lesser errors and more effortless expense creation. 

πŸ“‚ Invoice number input

We now allow users to input an invoice number when the selected attachment type is an invoice. What's more? You have the flexibility to make it mandatory or optional, suiting your organisations' specific needs.

  • Available on both web and mobile

Gain better visibility into your expenses with the inclusion of invoice numbers, which allows for easier tracking and reconciliation!


Product improvements

πŸ’° Deputy approver cannot approve their own expense

Compliance is important! Deputies will not be able to approve their own expenses in the case they act as deputies of their own approvers (e.g their superiors, CFO, HR etc.).

This helps to maintain integrity and transparency in the approval process, and ensure organisations are upholding compliance standards and best practices.

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Ecosystem and integrations

πŸ—’οΈ Ingestion of Delivery Notes: AMEX OneDDS and others

We’ve improved our parsing and ingestion capabilities for TMC's delivery notes, especially to support the latest delivery note format from American Express GBT: Amex OneDDS. These improvements provide better visibility into travel expenditures and ensure accurate data representation, empowering our clients to reconcile travel expenses, make informed decisions and optimise their expense management processes.

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Ingested Amex OneDDS delivery note line in MXP

Key improvements:

  • Improved Ingestion Process: This process integrates data from AMEX GBT and CWT TMCs into MXP. This reduces manual intervention, enabling users and reconciliation offers to access up-to-date travel expenditure information effortlessly.
  • Enhanced Data Parsing: The algorithms will extract information more accurately from AMEX OneDDS DNs. This ensures consistency and reliability in the ingestion of data, including the travel date format.
  • Correct Amount Reflection: The Mobilexpense system will accurately reflect the amounts associated with AMEX OneDDS Delivery Notes. This ensures that financial data aligns with the original documentation, providing an accurate expense records.


Further improvements:

  • configuration changes to support reconciliation with Diners Invoices,
  • resolution of category mapping issues for AMEX OneDDS and
  • enhancement of the transaction details page to populate PNR and City fields from Delivery Notes data. 

πŸ’ͺ Egencia integration

We improved our Egencia integration to simplify the synchronisation and communication with Egencia. The updates include a more advanced User Sync API payload to ensure seamless transfers of rail preferences, and dynamic validation responses in the Validation SPI service, to provide better information disclosure when bookers are on the Egencia checkout page completing a booking.

What does this mean for users of Egencia? You can expect smoother workflows and fewer manual interventions! Employers will also have better visibility and can ensure compliance across your organisation's travel management processes.

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Insights

πŸ•°οΈ Report history

To foster transparency and accountability in any organisation, the β€˜Report History’ provides a chronological record of submission, approval, and control actions taken on reports. It details the date, time, and user responsible for each action, ultimately serving as an audit trail.

This will help users to remain compliant and maintain data integrity within the organisation!

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πŸ”¦ Data IDs

Zoom through records faster than ever before! The data catalog now includes database IDs used to identify transactions and customers conveniently within our UI. Users can instantly reference/retrieve these IDs, which facilitates data traceability and ensures accurate record-keeping.

πŸ”’ Info fields for all tables

No more stress when you need to find specific information like the organisational structure at the cost centre level or the details of employee profiles! Easily identify and filter data within reports by leveraging the numeric and character-based info fields.

Users can now dive into tailored reports and get information that is relevant to their company. Time to gain deeper insights and context, and make informed decisions.

✍️ Accounting rule GL accounts

With your feedback driving our improvements, we have now included local and foreign GL account details for custom categories in the data catalog.

Need to categorise expenses for a multinational project or reconcile accounts across different regions? No problem! Financial tracking, accurate categorisation, and comprehensive reporting within the system is now a breeze.

local foreign GL

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