What's new

New features are deployed to the US on Monday, April 8. New features are deployed to Europe, Asia, and Australia on Tuesday, April 9.

• When drawing line-item fields, AP Essentials has new, intelligent methods for capturing values enclosed in parenthesis. This feature is available on a private preview basis.

• When drawing line-item description fields that span multiple rows, it is now possible to capture descriptions that are split across page breaks. This feature is available on a private preview basis.

• The interpretation of all line-item fields has been greatly improved. AP Essentials now recognizes that the number of decimal places can differ across rows for all line-item fields, including custom line-item fields. The result is increased confidence rates, which translates to an increase in automation and less manual verification. Previously, this feature only applied to line-item quantity and unit price fields.

• New purchase order document types are available for Denmark and France for accounts receivable processes. These document types are currently available on a preview basis.

• The Coupa AP integration is now generally available for all customers.

• The NetSuite integration has several new enhancements.

  • The NetSuite integration can perform preliminary registration of invoices directly after verification, before starting a workflow. This is helpful because it lets organizations reclaim VAT more quickly, without having to wait for the workflow to complete.

  • A new NetSuite bundle (version 1.33 ) is available for installation, which includes additional fields for purchase order synchronization. Be sure to update your bundle.

  • The NetSuite integration is now certified to support NetSuite version 2024.1.

• The PROCESS DIRECTOR AP integration has been improved to be more resilient against issues with poor network connectivity.

• AP Essentials Connect has been updated to version 10.6.9.7822.

New features are deployed to the US, Asia, and Australia on Monday, February 26. New features are deployed to Europe on Wednesday, February 28.

• Kofax is now Tungsten Automation. The choice to embrace Tungsten Automation as our new name reflects the growth of our company and the need for a brand that more closely aligns with our present identity and future aspirations. This transformation highlights our expanded capabilities and robust solutions, and our dedication to excellence, adaptability, and growth. It signifies our commitment to customers and partners, assuring them that we will endure as a trusted partner, offering unwavering support throughout their transformation journeys.

  To reflect this new change, the default AP Essentials branding now features the Tungsten Automation logo.

• It is now possible to determine which attachment formats are accepted when receiving documents via email input. This is helpful, for example, if you only want to process certain file types.

• When drawing line-item amount fields, you can capture partial text that is split by a slash. This feature is available on a private preview basis.

• Currency field extraction has been improved with greater confidence when processing documents from suppliers/customers that send documents in multiple currencies.

• Supplier identification improvements using master data are now generally available for all customers.

• A new document type for German purchase orders is available for accounts receivable processes. This document type is currently available on a preview basis.

• The Coupa AP integration has been improved with several new features.

  • All target system settings containing lists now use semicolons to separate list items. Previously, some settings used commas, while others used semicolons.

  • The integration can now import supplier sites by creating a supplier in AP Essentials for each supplier site in Coupa. You enable this feature in the target system settings, where you can also choose to exclude inactive supplier sites.

  • You can now specify which purchase orders and purchase order lines to import based on their statuses.

  • Coupa clients that integrate with multiple ERP systems simultaneously can now use PO prefix templates to avoid issues with PO matching.

  • When delta synchronization is enabled, and you change the email of a user in Coupa, a new user is created in AP Essentials. However, the old user remains. To periodically remove the unused users, you can perform a full synchronization using the Days between full synchronization setting.

New features are deployed to the US on Monday, January 29. New features are deployed to Europe, Asia, and Australia on Tuesday, January 30.

• When drawing line-item description fields that span multiple rows, it is now possible to specify the maximum number of rows you want to capture. Specifying the maximum number of rows improves the interpretation of description fields that span multiple rows. This feature is available on a private preview basis.

• The interpretation of line-item quantity (LIT_DeliveredQuantity, LIT_PO_OrderedQuantity) and unit price (LIT_UnitPriceAmount, LIT_PO_UnitPriceAmount) fields has been greatly improved. Previously, AP Essentials expected quantity and unit price fields to have the same number of decimal places across rows, and if they did not, the fields were marked as uncertain. For example, AP Essentials expected the line-item quantity to have the same number of decimal places on all rows. However, now AP Essentials recognizes that the number of decimal places can differ across rows for these fields. The result is increased confidence rates, which translates to an increase in automation and less manual verification.

• A new privilege is available for Office users that determines whether user interactions affect online learning during verification. The new privilege is called Update online learning and is enabled on users by default. Administrators can disable this privilege to prevent new or inexperienced users from having a detrimental effect on documents that have high identification and extraction rates.

• The NetSuite integration now supports the mapping of custom coding fields to expense records in NetSuite. This feature opens new workflow possibilities for NetSuite users. The new target system setting is called Custom expense field mapping for accounts. Note also that the Custom expense field mapping setting has been renamed to Custom expense field mapping for line items.

Looking for older news? See the archives for release notes dating back to October 25, 2011.