What's new - September 2026

Customizable role permissions for travel managers

Travel September 8, 2026

Account admins can now control whether travel managers are allowed to skip booking approvals for the people they manage — a setting that was previously fixed on for all travel managers with no way to change it. You can customize the settings for the Travel manager role, and any change takes effect immediately and applies account-wide to every travel manager. Every change is logged with the person who made the change, timestamp, and old and new value for audit purposes.

Available on Pro plan only.

DATEV exports now handle fiscal year boundaries automatically

Expense Invoice Card September 7, 2026

DATEV expense exports now work reliably across fiscal year boundaries. Perk now automatically splits cross-year export batches into one export per business year — including trip expenses — so every export succeeds without any manual intervention. This applies to all DATEV API-connected legal entities across all export paths: scheduled, automatic, and manual, including via Buchungsdatenservice.

Previously, DATEV's system would reject an entire export batch outright if it contained entries from more than one business year. Customers had to manually split the batch before export.

Book and view trips for others, now on mobile

Travel September 2, 2026

Travel managers and executive assistants can now book and view trips on behalf of other travelers directly from the Perk mobile app — a capability that was previously desktop-only. They can view who's traveling, full trip details, and itineraries for bookings made for others. Making changes or cancellations to those bookings still requires desktop. Requires iOS v5.27.1 or Android v5.29.0 or later.

Around 20% of all bookings are made for someone other than the booker. Travel managers and executive assistants who needed to book last-minute travel or review trips on the go had no way to do this from the mobile app until now.

Factur-X: machine-readable invoices for French billing entities

Travel September 1, 2026

Companies with a French billing entity can now receive Perk invoices in Factur-X format — a hybrid PDF that looks identical to the standard invoice but includes embedded structured XML data that accounting and accounts payable systems can read automatically. Admins choose Factur-X or standard PDF per billing entity from the Billing page, and invoices are automatically forwarded in the chosen format to the billing email on file.

This removes the need for AP teams to manually re-enter supplier details, amounts, and VAT line items into their ERP for every Perk invoice. France's e-invoicing mandate entered full effect on September 1, 2026. Individual Factur-X downloads are also available directly from the invoice list.

Car delivery and collection now available with Europcar