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BC 2026 release wave 2unofficial launch event map, by waldo

Features › Expense Agent

Travel requests

announced · 3 min in 2 videos · dev relevance low · no what's new item of its own, but documented in the product docs (checked 2026-10-02)

Travel requests

Employees request permission to spend with budget, dates and justification, and the company sees expected expenses. On approval an expense report per trip follows and receipts are assigned to it.

Area: Expense Agent. Status: announced. Developer relevance: low. Airtime: 3 min across 2 videos, demoed.

Status evidence

  • 7:39 in "What's new in Expense Agent: Overview": "it will come gradually from October to December"

Where they talk about it

Quotes

  • 0:30 "Because it's entirely optional. It's just a feature you can use or not." - States that travel requests are opt-in, so existing expense setups are not forced to change.
  • 0:41 "it also serves as documentation of who authorized a certain spend." - Gives the audit purpose of the feature.
  • 1:01 "The employee creates a travel request, the manager approves, the employee spends money, the employee comes back, creates" - Outlines the end-to-end process the feature supports.
  • 1:14 "The exact same thing will be available in the expense agent web app and in the expense agent" - Says the feature will also come to the web app and phone app.
  • 1:30 "It's just not ready at this point when we're recording these videos." - Limits the current scope: the web and phone apps are not ready yet.

Caveats mentioned

  • Entirely optional feature
  • Demo is in the Business Central client only
  • A separate session covers travel requests
  • Described as brand new functionality

Documented features match

  • No documented item matched. Travel requests not documented
  • Product documentation: Manage travel requests, checked 2026-10-02. Travel requests help organizations review planned travel before employees incur expenses. A request records the purpose, travelers, dates, estimated costs, and travel policy acknowledgment. Note: Prerelease/production-ready preview, version 29. Travel requests are not available in the Expense Agent web or mobile experience in v29. The 2026 wave 1 release plan 'Manage travel requisitions with Expense Agent' is an earlier wave.

Docs checked on 2026-10-02: the match is against Microsoft's what's new pages for the wave as they were on that date. Microsoft keeps filling the documentation, so "no documented item" can go stale.

Tags: expense, travel-request, approvals, ux, travel

Generated by pipeline step 06. Source: YouTube auto-captions of the launch event videos, see the deep links. Not official.