Services overview

Tungsten AP Essentials provides a number of automated services:

• Analytics - provides reports that contain detailed information about document status, document volumes, performance statistics and more.
• Classification - automatically routes invoices to the correct customer.
• Email input - lets users send email invoices to the system.
• Extraction - interprets information on the invoices.
• Image upload - allows users to upload images to the system using a secure connection.
• E-Invoice Connect - simplifies invoice processing by connecting you to hundreds of thousands of companies that are already connected and exchanging e- invoices.
• Master data - determines user-interaction with master data when verifying invoices.
• Notifications - informs users of various events via email. For example, an email notification can be sent when Tungsten AP Essentials receives a batch or when a batch is rejected.
• Process control - automates various elements of production, such as automatically processing new documents upon arrival.
• Purchase order - enables the sharing of purchase-order information between Tungsten AP Essentials and the target system.
• Self-service - This service has been replaced by new settings. Previously, this service provided privileges that let customer administrators manage extraction and target-system service settings. Now the privileges are available to customer administrators without the need of this extra service.
• Separation - provides an interface to separate invoices in a batch quickly and easily.
• Storage - provides long-term archiving of invoice images and data.
• Target system - sends the invoices and interpreted data to a target system.
• Validation - automated functions that help ensure the correctness of the invoice data.
• Verification - lets users easily verify invoices in their web browser.
• Workflow - lets users perform accounts-payable and workflow activities.

You can choose to perform some services yourself or have them done for you by a Tungsten Automation partner. When services are performed on your behalf by a partner, we call them managed services.

Services can be enabled on multiple levels, and each child node in the administration tree-view inherits its services from its parent. For example, if you disable a service for an account, that service will not be available for any of the accounts of that account.