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Release Date: August 28, 2018

General Functionality

Desktop Browser
  • More intuitive user interface and workflow
  • Row level action is now supported on both Mobile and Desktop, including Delete, Print, and Edit.

Mobile

  • New user interface with improved speed and workflow
  • Intuitive right and left swipe actions are now available for row-level action
Administration Module
  • Improved speed and workflow
  • Admin module opens by default in a new browser tab, allowing you to continue working in the regular time and/or expense modules.
Home Page

Additional shortcuts and external links streamline your work processes and improve the user experience.

Security

  • Support for Dual Factor Authentication at the user level.
  • Support for user level authentication type (such as SAML, DB Login, DB SSO, and Dual Factor) are now assignable by an admin for individual users. 

DATABASICS Expense

Validation 

Administrators can provide new validation warning levels to provide increased usability. For example, in version 6, reports could be flagged with these levels:

  • Validation Error
  • Validation Warning
  • Passed

In version 7, validation flags now contain 5 levels:

  • Validation Error: This is a hard stop, preventing the user from submitting the expense report.
  • High Warning: This level helps managers and administrators to set two types of warnings. This can be set for auto-approval and auditing.
  • Warning: This level allows auto-approval, but provides a message describing the warning to the user.
  • Information Only:  This level flags the expense report with information only, providing an opportunity to provide a reminder or notification to the user from the approver. This option also allows for auto-approval.
  • Passed.
Receipt EXPRESS
  • Workflow has been improved and always brings the user back to the main expense reports area to complete their other charges (such as per diem, mileage, credit card transactions).
  • Multiple receipts can be selected and then processed in a row.
  • Receipts can now be searched by title or file name.
  • Credit card transactions are automatically searched after the receipt has been digitally read using OCR. Then, the receipt is matched against imported credit card transactions, giving the user the option to confirm the match.
Credit Card EXPRESS
  • Improved workflow. If users begin a report using Credit Card EXPRESS, they are brought back to the main expense reports area to complete other charges, such as per diems and mileage.
  • Multiple credit card transactions can be selected.
Expense Entry
  • Ability to search for a specific transaction across multiple reports.
Other Improvements
  • Personal Field: Personal Field can now be automatically hidden for employee reimbursable charges based on expense type or payment type. 
  • Decimal display:  Currency rates and amounts are now controlled by the number of decimals enabled at the currency level. The available options are 0 or 2 decimals.  For example, the Japanese Yen currency does not use decimals while Canadian dollars use has 2 decimals. This is configurable at the admin level.
  • Users, approvers, and proxies can access an opened expense report that has been opened by another user for a while.
Mobile Picture

Pictures of receipts can be cropped, modified, rotated or, re-sized on the mobile version. 

Credit Card Transactions
  • Unassigned expense types can be automatically assigned to industrial codes based on the last applied expense type to a specific charge.
  • In addition to email reminders for unapplied credit card transactions, reminders can also be sent regarding transactions that have been applied to reports that have been rejected, or are on hold. 

DATABASICS Time

Validation

In version 7, validation flags now contain 5 levels:

  • Validation Error: This is a hard stop, preventing the user from submitting the timesheet.
  • High Warning: This level helps managers and administrators to set two types of warnings. This can be set for auto-approval and auditing.
  • Warning: This level allows auto-approval, but provides a message describing the warning to the user.
  • Information Only:  This level flags the timesheet with information only, providing an opportunity to provide a reminder or notification to the user from the approver. This option also allows for auto-approval.
  • Passed.
Time Off Request
  • A new section provides a calendar to display time off.
  • Users can request time off across multiple timesheets in one step.
  • Managers can view leave balances by timesheet during approval.
  • Users can see their PTO balance from the timesheet list.
  • Additional accrual methods have been added to accommodate a wide variety of accrual types.
Other Improvements
  • A new bar appears showing the percentage of total hours submitted out of the possible total of standard working hours.
  • Users can access an opened timesheet that has been sent to their approvers.
  • The grid inside the timesheet can now be adjusted in real-time in the desktop version.
  • Users, approvers, and proxies can access an opened timesheet that has been opened by another user for a while.



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DATABASICS' Version 7 can be used on any device!

DATABASICS Receipt EXPRESS allows you to crop, rotate, or re-size pictures of your receipts.

Credit Card EXPRESS allows you to process several transactions at once by clicking on the check mark beside the transaction.

Use the new Calendar module to manage PTO and view leave balances and accruals.

You can now search for individual transactions or expense reports using the Filter icon under My Expense.