Experience phase 2 enhancements for Expense mobile app

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Users by admins, makers, or analysts - Dec 9, 2025

Business value

Enhance the Expense Management mobile app to improve usability, policy compliance, and workflow consistency across platforms. When you align mobile functionality with the finance and operations environment, you get a more intuitive and policy-aware experience that helps reduce errors, improve data quality, and enable faster decision-making. The redesigned workflow, enhanced validations, and better visibility for approvers help streamline expense reporting on the go, increase employee productivity, and strengthen organizational control over expense policies.

Feature details

As part of our investment in improving the mobile experience, we're introducing enhancements to the Expense Management mobile app. These enhancements come from user feedback. These updates bring feature parity with the finance and operations environment. They address usability gaps and align with policy configurations. This release includes the following improvements:

  • Change the design to create an expense report and then add expense line items: The current workflow lets you directly add expense line items. This enhancement restructures the workflow to require you to create an expense report first. After you create the report, you can add expense line items.

  • Enable expense report header justification in the mobile app: This enhancement enables mobile app users to enter a justification based on the configured category and policy rules.

  • Prevent selection of a parent activity when Block Parent Activity Selection is set to Do not allow: The mobile app currently lets you select a parent activity even when you set the Block Parent Activity Selection parameter to Do not allow in the finance and operations environment. With this enhancement, the mobile app respects the configuration you set in finance and operations apps.

  • Purpose field is too short in the approvers screen to read full report description: This enhancement updates the design so approvers can view the entire purpose field and read the description before giving approval.

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Dynamics 365 expense management mobile app overview (docs)