To create travel authorizations, including making online reservations with your travel booking provider, and travel profiles, use Ariba Travel & Expense.

With a few exceptions, the process for creating expense reports in Ariba mForm is the same as in the network instance of Ariba Travel & Expense.

When using Ariba mForm, these features are not available:

• Editing multiple line items at the same time (mass edit).
• Capturing Value Added Tax (VAT) on an expense item.
• Adding per diem expense items.
• Viewing approval flow for the expense report.
• Editing travel authorizations that are linked the the expense report (you can only view travel authorizations in Ariba mForm).
• Currency and exchange rate conversion. System currency exchange rates are not downloaded to Ariba mForm. Users can enter foreign currency expenses in the local currency and specify transaction exchange rates while working in Ariba mForm; however, the currency won’t be converted until the expense report is uploaded to Ariba Travel & Expense. For example, a user whose default currency is USD can enter an amount in GBP. The expense report total will be incorrect in Ariba mForm because the GBP amount won’t be recalculated to the USD equivalent. Once, however, the expense report is uploaded to Ariba Travel & Expense, the amount is recalculated using the system or user-specified exchange rate.

Once you upload an expense report created and saved in Ariba mForm to Ariba Travel & Expense, you can continue working on it before submitting it for approval. At this time, you can perform a mass edit on multiple line items, add VAT-related and per diem expense items, view the approval flow for the expense report, and edit travel authorizations that are linked to the expense report.