What's new in Perk - September 2026

Hotel descriptions now show in your language

Travel September 14, 2026

Hotel descriptions on the Stays Hotel Details page now display in the traveler's configured Perk language — French, German, Italian, and Spanish — where a translation is available from the hotel. Previously, descriptions always appeared in English regardless of the traveler's language preference, a recurring frustration for non-English-speaking customers across EMEA. The fix applies to all accounts.

Approve trip changes from the Perk mobile app

Travel September 14, 2026

Approvers now receive a push notification and an in-app alert when a trip modification request is waiting for their review — a request type that previously only triggered email and web notifications. Tapping the notification opens a review screen in the app where you can approve or decline with a single tap; the traveler is notified right away and the modification is handled immediately.

With around 1,000 trip modification requests needing approval each month, and approval waits averaging up to 30 hours, slow responses can leave travelers watching fares climb or seats sell out. Around 25% of approvals happen on a phone and 30% of approvers are already active in the mobile app — getting requests there means faster decisions without anyone needing to switch to a desktop.

Corporate card markup rates updated

Card September 8, 2026

Corporate card markup rates at checkout have been updated to more accurately reflect the actual cost of accepting different card types. Rates are now calculated from four factors — which Perk entity your company signed with, the card network (Visa, Mastercard, Amex, and others), the country where the card was issued, and whether it's a credit, debit, or prepaid card. Debit and prepaid cards are now priced accurately rather than falling back to a generic default rate, and no rate exceeds 3%. There's no change for companies signed with Perk's US entity (still 0%) or for travelers paying with personal cards (still 0%, in line with EU regulations).

New languages now available in Perk

Travel Expense Invoice Card Events September 11, 2026

Perk is now available in Polish, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, European Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Danish, Swedish, Czech, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Romanian, Greek, and Ukrainian. Set your preferred display language from your user preferences — the setting applies across all screens in both the web app and mobile app.

Reimbursements now export to NetSuite

Expense September 11, 2026

Reimbursed expenses now export cleanly to Oracle NetSuite, removing a gap that previously blocked NetSuite-connected companies from using Perk's reimbursement feature. When a reimbursed expense is exported, Perk automatically creates an Expense Report and a Bill Payment in NetSuite — the Bill Payment marks the report as Paid in Full, eliminating any risk of a duplicate payment to the employee. If a Bill Payment fails due to a configuration issue, Perk retries automatically up to three times before flagging it for manual review. A status field on the Expense Report shows exactly where the process stands so finance teams aren't left guessing.

Available to customers running NetSuite connector version 1.7.0 or later, with the Reimbursement setting enabled per legal entity.

Mark supplier invoices as exported

Invoice September 11, 2026

Admins and finance teams can now mark supplier invoices as exported at any point once they reach Ready for export status — not only while an export is actively running. If invoices were already successfully imported into your finance system through another route, you can update their status in Perk yourself without raising a support ticket or waiting for an engineering fix. Error messages on bulk export actions now also identify which specific invoices failed and show the real reason, rather than returning a generic failure message.

Export Log statuses are now more accurate

Expense Invoice September 10, 2026

The export log now gives you a reliable signal. When a trip report or attachment export has nothing to generate — for example, an all-mileage expense batch with no receipts to bundle, or an expense with no associated trip data — the status reflects that correctly. A Failed status now means exactly what it should: something needs your attention.

Previously, those cases also showed as Failed — the same status as a genuine error — making it impossible to tell at a glance whether an export needed action or had simply produced nothing to bundle.

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition: custom field mapping and multi-language cost centers

Expense Invoice Card September 8, 2026

The SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition connector now supports custom field mapping and cost center imports in local languages. You can map additional Perk fields — such as a travel invoice number or a card's last four digits — to any SAP standard or custom header and line-item fields for expense and card-transaction exports. Cost Center Names and Descriptions can now also be imported in the language of your choice, configured per Company Code, so your finance team sees cost center data that matches their local naming rather than a default English import.

Custom field mapping: map Perk fields to SAP standard header and line-item fields, or to custom SAP fields (those prefixed with YY1_), via the new Custom Header Information Properties and Custom Line Item Information Properties settings.
Multi-language cost centers: configure the import language per Company Code and legal entity so cost center data arrives ready to use, without translation steps on your side.

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.

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