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This newsletter focuses on balancing risk and benefit considerations in determining the appropriate purchasing method.

The Purchasing Card (PCard) is a university-issued, university-liability credit card created to offer an expedient way of purchasing items that are needed right away or, like food or other small dollar occasional business purchases, are not available through Amazon Business or SmartMart Catalog...

Topics include: Booking Channels and Hotel and Car Rental policy updates for 2022, Exemptions to the Stanford Travel booking policy, Top Travel resources on Fingate, New virtual Office Hours and Information Sessions and Stanford Travel promotions, Travel Resources.

This third issue of the newsletter focuses on governance, roles and responsibilities with examples of the concepts applied to PCard and donor gift stewardship.

The Client Satisfaction Survey is an ongoing conversation with the Stanford community to learn about their experiences with the financial tools, systems and services that FMS provides and uses that feedback to inform strategic initiatives and continuous improvements.

Summer 2021 topics include: Travel Policy exclusions and guidance, new Digital Payments visitor travel reimbursements, Egencia savings finger feature, car rental policy update, ERS enhancements to airline fields, StudentUniverse profile creation

Financial Management Services (FMS) continually monitors the financial ecosystem for opportunities to reduce risk and support excellence in financial stewardship. As part of this effort, FMS conducted an assessment in May 2020 of Purchasing Card (PCard), Travel Card (TCard) and Advance transactions...

This second issue of the newsletter focuses on best practices in purchasing goods and services and processing donor gifts.

Fingate's user-centered redesign improved the website's functionality and received positive feedback

SmartMart, a purchasing method within iProcurement, will launch a new user interface (UI) in mid-April 2021. The new UI will result in a better shopping experience with enhanced SmartMart pages, expanded search results, and streamlined shopping cart and checkout process. Below are the highlighted... New SmartMart User Interface (UI) in mid-April 2021