Travel and Expenses

Enhanced spend authorization process for employees with multiple positions

Beginning March 11, a new functionality enables you to link spend authorizations with specific positions for workers who hold multiple positions. During the March Feature Release, Workday will enhance routing for expense transactions, now enabling you to associate spend authorizations with specific positions when workers hold multiple positions. Spend authorizations will be routed for approval […]

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Issue Resolved: Number of card transactions still not importing into Workday

Known Issue: Procurement Card transactions and Central Travel Account card transactions were previously not migrating into Workday from JPMorgan’s PaymentNet. After an initial resolution, it was discovered that some transactions were still affected by this issue. These transactions have now been imported into Workday. Estimated Time to Resolution: Resolved. Details: Beginning Nov. 11, 2022, new card transactions were not migrating from PaymentNet into […]

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Known Issue: Number of card transactions still not importing into Workday

Known Issue: Procurement Card transactions and Central Travel Account card transactions were previously not migrating into Workday from JPMorgan’s PaymentNet. After an initial resolution, it was discovered that some transactions are still affected by this issue. Estimated Time to Resolution: Unknown. Details: Beginning Nov. 11, 2022, new card transactions were not migrating from PaymentNet into Workday. An issue with renewing […]

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Issue Resolved: Card transactions not importing into Workday

Known Issue: Procurement Card transactions and Central Travel Account card transactions were previously not migrating into Workday from JPMorgan’s PaymentNet. Estimated Time to Resolution: Resolved. Details: Beginning Nov. 11, 2022, new card transactions were not migrating from PaymentNet into Workday. An issue with renewing a necessary security key prevented card transactions from being imported successfully, effecting both Procurement Card transactions […]

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Requesting non-travel cash advances

To ensure correct reporting on 1099 tax forms, it is important that stipends and non-travel cash advances be correctly processed in Workday. When requesting cash advances for the purpose of distributing stipends, or for any purpose other than travel costs, employees should use the non-travel cash advance process, and ensure that advances are cleared using […]

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Make sure your primary address is correct in Workday

All WSU staff, faculty, and student employees are asked to verify and update their home (primary) address in Workday by Thursday, November 3 to avoid issues with payroll and state income tax deductions.   Additionally, employees who updated their personal information prior to Monday, October 31, are encouraged to verify and resubmit any changes in […]

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Update to Expense Report routing

Beginning September 12, Workday delivers the ability to route Expense Reports based on employee positions. When completing an Expense Report for an employee with multiple positions, a new field is available allowing the process initiator to select which position travel relates to. Once a position is indicated, the Expense Report will route to the manager […]

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New receipt scanning feature in Workday Mobile

An upcoming receipt scanning feature in Workday Mobile will make the process of adding receipts to expense reports quicker and easier. Beginning September 10, WSU employees will use a new OCR, or Optical Character Recognition tool, to photograph or upload legible images of receipts to Workday using the mobile app. This new technology scans the […]

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Changes in Workday to support 11-hour travel rule

This month, we implemented a new Workday enhancement to ensure compliance with the IRS 11-hour travel rule, which impacts reimbursements for meals during non-overnight, single-day travel. Employees who are in travel status for fewer than 11 hours during a single-day trip will not receive reimbursement for meals. Reimbursements for employees travelling over 11 hours are […]

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Change in processing for taxable travel expenses

Beginning with the June Workday monthly update, the departmental expenses associated with taxable travel (see BPPM section 95.20) will be charged to the active Costing Allocation assigned to the employee’s primary position. In the past, departmental tax expenses were charged to the worktags where the travel was originally charged. This change is being implemented simplify the process, and to prevent […]

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