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Travel

One report for the whole trip.

The Travel Reimbursement tool now covers every kind of approved business-travel cost in one place — the miles you drive, the nights you stay, and the meal per diem that comes with them — and routes each part to the right approver automatically. A guided course is now available in the Training Center if you'd like a quick tour.

Travel used to mean a mileage report here, a lodging receipt over email, and a separate note about meals. Now it’s one report. Add your trips, your overnight stays, and your meal per diem to a single monthly report, submit once, and the tool sends each piece to the person who approves it — no chasing, no spreadsheets.

Log every business mile

Pick your start and destination and the tool calculates the distance address-to-address and applies the current IRS rate. Saved routes turn your regular drives into one-click adds, and the daily mileage reduction is applied for you — just add a clear business purpose for each trip.

Add lodging for overnight trips

Record an overnight stay right on the report — provider, dates, and amounts — and attach the itemized folio when you paid on a personal card. Get your business unit head’s preapproval before you travel, and you’re set.

Staying at a company-managed property? You don’t need to file a lodging expense — just record the approved overnight so your meal per diem is counted.

Meal per diem — no receipts

The meal per diem is a flat allowance for each approved overnight stay, so there are no meal receipts to keep. Turn it on for a stay and the tool adds a per-diem night for you automatically.

Each part routes to the right approver

Reports approve section by section. Your mileage goes to your manager; lodging and meal per diem go to your business unit head. You’re notified as each section clears, and anything sent back comes with a specific reason so you can fix just that part and resubmit.

Then it flows to accounting

Once every section is approved, the report feeds the accounting export automatically and is paid through payroll based on the pay period it was approved in — no separate hand-off.

New: a guided course in the Training Center

Want a walkthrough? A short, role-aware Travel Reimbursement course is now available in the Training Center — it covers the policy and the tool, shows each person just what applies to them, and takes about fifteen minutes.