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3212278 - Two Business Transactions Created for Expense Report

Symptom

  • You upload an expense report from Concur into SAP Business ByDesign.
  • You notice two business transactions for the same expense report.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to the General Ledger work center.
  2. Go to the Concur view and then to the Expense Reports subview.
  3. Select Expense Report ABC (ABC is the expense report ID).
  4. Click View and select Business Transaction.

There are two business transactions. 

Cause

  • In the expense report expense items are created with different payment types (for example, "journalPayee": "CBCP" (Company billed / Company paid as well as "journalPayee": "EMPL" (employee paid/ Out of pocket expenses) in the same expense report.
  • A business transaction is created for each of the type of expense.

You can verify the payment types as follows:

Download the JSON File for the expense report and in the file, filter for journalPayee: You will notice that the field is filled differently for one or more expense items.

Resolution

This is standard system behaviour

See Also

 KBA: 3024616  Concur Expense Report Created a Journal Entry With Different Amount From Total Expenses

Keywords

Expense report, Concur, Business transaction , KBA , AP-ERM-ER , Expense Report , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions