Texas A&M University and the Texas A&M University System are implementing a new travel and expense tool. Chrome River by Emburse will replace Concur beginning in January of 2025 with an anticipated full implementation by May 2025.
The new product will be more intuitive and less labor intensive. Learn more about the benefits of Chrome River.
Overview and Feedback Sessions
We have designed a series of one-hour sessions to acquaint you with the new application.
Traveler/Cardholder Expense Management Review
Upcoming Sessions
- To be announced
https://tamu.zoom.us/j/93822755271
Previously Recorded Sessions
- Oct. 8, 2024
- Oct. 15, 2024
- Oct. 22, 2024
Delegate/Business Administrator Review
Upcoming Sessions
- To be announced
https://tamu.zoom.us/j/92864037547
Previously Recorded Sessions
- Oct. 10, 2024
- Oct. 17, 2024
- Oct. 24, 2024
Travel Booking Review
Upcoming Sessions
- Oct. 31, 2024, 9-10 a.m.
- Nov. 7, 2024, 9-10 a.m.
https://tamu.zoom.us/j/97155529039
Business Process Learning Series – Chrome River Review
Upcoming Sessions
- Nov. 20, 2024, 1:30-3:30 p.m.
https://tamu.zoom.us/j/98389272647?pwd=Sm9oNk1Idi81UU80Z3EyN3BwK2pIZz09
Previously Recorded Sessions
Frequently Asked Questions
This is similar to Travel Request in Concur and is only used for travel reports. This allows the traveler or delegate to request approval from their department head or designee.
Pre-Approval allows the department to encumber funds (reserve or put a hold on funds in FAMIS) on the account that will pay for travel. This is optional. There is a field on the pre-approval header that can be selected to bypass the need to encumber the funds. It defaults to “Yes” as it is a best practice to encumber funds for the travel.
Most fields on the Pre-Approval will copy down to the Expense Report at the time the Pre-Approval is added to the Expense Report. This reduces the data entry needed to create an expense report.
Travel – this expense report type is used for any travel related expenses charged to the One Card.
Non-Travel – this expense report type is used for all other expenses (not related to travel) charged to the One Card.
A single card that replaces the travel and payment cards.
- Cardholders that currently only have a travel card will receive the One Card, but will be limited to the current travel card merchant category codes on their existing cards. The current credit limit will carry over to the new One Card.
- Cardholders that have a payment card will receive the One Card, but will have the merchant category codes currently assigned to the payment card. The current credit limit will carry over to the new One Card.
- For those who currently have both cards the One Card will have both merchant category groupings assigned to their card. The credit limit of both cards will be combined for the One Card.
One Cards will be distributed at the time of go live for the College/Division or System Member. The cards will be distributed to the cardholder during the training sessions at go live. After the training the card can be activated and will be available for use. Transactions from the One Card will populate in the cardholder’s eWallet in Chrome River.
Our existing payment and travel cards will continue to be active for use until mid to late April 2025. These transactions will continue to appear in Concur. All transactions must be assigned, submitted and approved in Concur by the end of May.
May 31, 2025
All transactions must be assigned, submitted and approved in Concur by this date.
After this date we will have a view-only licenses so users can pull expense report images for reconciliation or audit.
Eventually there will be a repository available to search and pull expense report images outside of Concur. This may be done in Laserfiche.
Delegates can submit on behalf of the traveler/cardholder on both Pre-Approval and Expense Reports.
Full delegate permissions are available in the Chrome River mobile application.
Departments may designate up to four individuals to automatically be assigned as delegates to all employees in that department. This will be maintained on the department screens in Canopy/FAMIS. As we get closer to go live departments will be asked to provide the delegates for their department and will be updated prior to go live.
Coming Soon
Resources
Watch video resources created by the Chrome River parent company Emburse.
Important Dates
- August through October 2024 – Communication, Design and Configuration
- October 2024 – Overview and Feedback Sessions
- October and November 2024 – Configuration, Design and Integrations
- November and December 2024 – Acceptance Testing
- January 2025 – Pilot Go Live
- January through May 2025 - Phased Implementation (details coming soon)