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May 21 - Tags

· One min read
Sebastian Danson

You can now create custom tags and apply them to invoices to organize, filter, and communicate state in the inbox.

Tags are a flexible way to categorize invoices beyond the standard workflow statuses. Use them to signal an intentional hold, flag invoices for follow-up, distinguish pay app formats like AIA 702/703, or group anything else that matters to your team.

Tags on Invoices in the inbox

Managing Tags

Admins can create and manage tags from the Configuration Settings. Add a tag, rename it inline, or remove it when it's no longer needed. Changes apply across the account so the same tag set is available to every reviewer.

Managing Tags in Settings

Applying Tags

Apply tags from either the inbox or the invoice view. One or more tags can be applied to an invoice.

Editing Tags from the inbox

Filtering and Sorting

Filter or sort the Tags column to focus on specific tags, and pair it with saved views to build dedicated worklists.

May 19 - Delivery Tickets

· 3 min read
Sebastian Danson

You can now upload delivery tickets into Agave and link them to the invoices they correspond to.

Delivery tickets, packing slips, and proof-of-delivery documents can now be uploaded the same way you upload invoices. Agave AI automatically identifies them and routes them to a dedicated Delivery Tickets tab in the Inbox.

Delivery Tickets Tab

Automatic Matching

Agave links a delivery ticket to an invoice when they share a contract, vendor, and project, or have closely-matching line items and dates.

From the invoice view, linked tickets appear under Related Documents. To verify what was ordered, delivered, and being billed, open Compare Documents from the Actions menu.

Related Documents and Compare Documents

This opens the invoice, delivery ticket, and matched purchase order side-by-side, so you can review line items, quantities, and totals at a glance without flipping between documents.

Compare Documents View

Manual Matching

If a ticket can't be auto-matched, you can link it to any invoice manually. From the Actions menu, choose Select Delivery Ticket to pick from existing tickets, or Upload Attachment to add a new one directly to the invoice.

Actions Menu

Select Delivery Ticket opens a searchable dialog with previews of each candidate, with the most likely matches surfaced at the top based on project and vendor, so you can confirm the right ticket before assigning it. Already-matched tickets can be swapped out the same way.

Select Delivery Ticket Dialog

You can also reclassify documents. Convert an uploaded invoice into a delivery ticket (or vice versa) when something was filed under the wrong type.

Invoices without an assigned delivery ticket will display a warning in the notifications panel so reviewers know to follow up before approving.

No Delivery Ticket Warning

Discrepancy Warnings

If the linked delivery tickets don't agree with the invoice, whether on quantities, amounts, or line item totals, Agave will surface a warning before sync, catching over-billings, short shipments, and pricing mismatches before they reach the ERP.

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Delivery tickets are optional per account. If you don't want them in your workflow, the feature can be turned off and incoming tickets are auto-archived.

Apr 17 - Importing Invoices Sent as Links

· One min read
Jack Younger

You can now view and open invoice links sent to your AP email directly in Agave.

Agave now displays invoice links sent to your AP inbox directly in your "Draft" inbox in Agave, with a "Link" icon instead of the typical AP invoice preview:

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You can whitelist the domains that you typically receive invoice links from (e.g. intuit.com) from your configuration settings page

Linked Invoices

From the invoice pop-out you can click on the link to the invoice, download the invoice, and upload back into the Agave tool. Linked Invoices

Linked Invoices

Upon upload Agave will process the invoice like normal at it will show up in your inbox in "Draft" status.

Apr 07 - Email Thread Visibility

· One min read
Ben Vandenbosch

You can now view email threads directly in Agave while reviewing invoices without opening your email client.

Agave now displays email thread history in the "Email Thread" flyout from the invoice view: Related Emails

This view shows all inbound emails from the email thread, including the sender, subject, and body: Related Emails

You can also view which attachments and invoices were received in each message: Related Emails

Mar 30 - Related Documents

· One min read
Ben Vandenbosch

Make more informed approval decisions with improved visibility for related documents

Agave now displays all attachments from the email thread in the "Related Documents" flyout from the invoice view: Related Documents

This view shows all attachments from the same document and email thread and denotes whether they are an invoice: Related Documents

Your reviewers can then inspect the additional documents (e.g. a waiver) for further details by clicking on them: Related Documents

Mar 15 - Bulk Document Export

· One min read
Ben Vandenbosch

Agave now allows streamlined bulk export of all attachments by project or time period

With the Export tool, you can quickly save your file backups when closing out jobs/financial periods.

Navigate to the Export tab in the sidebar:

Exports

Here, you can select a specific project or date range across all projects: Exports

Click Next for a preview list of all gathered invoice packages: Exports

After reviewing the list, you can download the full export package. Note: this includes both the invoices and their related files.

Mar 03 - Commitment Billing History

· One min read
Ben Vandenbosch

Prevent surprise cost overruns with overbilling warnings and visibility into previous Purchase Order/Subcontract invoices.

Contract Billing History

To make more informed approval decisions when reviewing invoices against POs and Subcontracts, you can now view commitment billing history directly in Agave.

Open the Contract Flyout using the eyeball icon next to the Contract field: Contract Flyout Icon

We've introduced a new Contract Billing summary that shows billings thus far, and total amount billed inclusive of the current invoice: Contract Flyout Icon

These previous invoices are pulled directly from your accounting system (with the status noted), so you have full financial clarity on the contract.

Overbilling Warnings

Agave will also highlight an overbilling of the current contract amount during review to help prevent cost overruns: Overbilling Warning

This is also displayed on the Contract Flyout page: Contract Flyout Icon

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This is available now for Foundation users and will roll out to other accounting systems in coming weeks.

Feb 28 - Field Level Permissions for Reviewers

· One min read
Ben Vandenbosch

You can now control which fields Reviewers are able to edit when reviewing invoices.

To better control approval workflows, you can now limit which fields your Reviewers can edit on invoices. Example use cases:

  1. Prevent Reviewers from Reassigning Invoices to Other Projects - For more tightly controlled job costing, this prevents users from costing invoices to other projects.

  2. Restrict GL Account Edits to Accounting Users - For fields (e.g. GL Accounts) that only accounting users should toggle, you can prevent other reviewers from updating them.

Navigate to the Settings Page and click the Field-level Permissions tab to configure these permissions: Filed-Level Permissions Settings

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AP Admins can always edit all fields on an invoice. This only impacts users who are not set up as AP Administrators.

Users with restricted access can still see (but not modify) these fields from the invoice view. In the below example, Project is not editable by the reviewer: Filed-Level Permissions Example

Feb 19 - Exclude Vendors and Projects from Automatching

· One min read
Ben Vandenbosch

You can now designate specific Vendors and Projects that Agave AI will not automatch when coding your invoices.

Previously Agave AI could overmatch particular Projects or Vendors in certain edge cases. Examples:

  1. Overhead or other Projects located at your office, sharing an address with the "Bill to" address on invoices
  2. Vendors with the same name as your company (e.g. if you write subcontracts to yourself)
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Disabling automatching for a Project or Vendor will stop Agave from using it for automatching, but you can still select it manually.

To exclude a project from automatching, navigate to Settings > Project Settings > Exclude from automatic matching:

Project Automatch Exclusion

To exclude a vendor from automatching, navigate to Settings > Vendor Settings > Exclude from automatic matching: Project Automatch Exclusion

A few additional notes:

  • This setting only applies on a go-forward basis for newly processed invoices
  • It's not permnanent. You can enable/disable at any point as you see fit

Feb 18 - Agave AI Now Displays Field Matching Logic

· One min read
Ben Vandenbosch

Agave AI now explains how fields were matched and highlights them on the document.

To see how a field was coded, hover over the information icon next to the field:

Project Matching Explanation

This will also highlight the relevant area of the invoice document: Project Matching Explanation

We will continue adding support for additional fields and smarter matching in the coming weeks.