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Automatic match, approval, and booking of contract related invoices
New optional feature for Next® Invoices customers and a valuable add-on to Next® Contracts.
This feature is highly relevant for every company receiving a high number of invoices, where prices, terms and conditions are already agreed upon through a contract - e.g. leases on cars, printers, office or facility leases, energy fees, telephony services, licensing agreements, etc. If invoices are received repeatedly on the same amount, and booked to the same account, it can now be processed automatically - with no need for personal involvement. Even for those deliveries where approval and coding can not be done fully automated, the link to the underlying contracts provides valuable assistance to the invoice approver. And builds valuable documentation for the contract owner.
Invoices are automatically matched to the related contract.
If deviations occur on the received invoice amount, billing frequency, or payment terms, it will automatically be routed to the owner of the contract, to be reviewed and handled correctly. Once the invoice amount or terms have been approved manually, the invoice continues its process route for coding and booking. The usual four-eyes principle may still be applied to the approval process.
Once matched, all invoices relating to a contract will also be automatically listed as "Related documents" under the contract detail information in Next®.
All contracts come to an end. Before the contact expires, the owner of the contract receives a notification, which makes it possible to renegotiate the contract or terminate it in due time. At the same time the contract owner can also define, activate or stop the automatic approval thresholds and payment frequencies for future invoices related to the contract.
Automatic contract expiry notification with Next® Contracts.
For the techie ones
For contracts:
- Register invoicing related metadata from all contracts - incl. payment terms/rules
- Link between a contract and all related invoices, vouchers, credit notes, reminders, correspondence, etc.
- through Smart Folders
- through Related Documents
- through Search Forms
- View/export of invoice related information for any contract - e.g. overview of billings per contract
For invoices:
- Link between an invoice and the related contract(s)
- Setting payment terms/rules for all contract related invoicing
- Build a catalogue with contract metadata
- Provide accounting suggestions based on invoice and contract metadata
- Contract based invoice workflow
Identification of invoices related to a contract is done using Next® Decision Engine and Contract Match Policies.
The most simple policy is: Contract number as Your reference. It verifies that the vendor is correct and that word Contract and a valid Contract Id is present in Your Reference extracted from the Purchase Invoice.
Must more specific and complex rules are also possible. Monthly office rent for Weimann Strasse 261, looking for the text 'Office rent', and 'Weimann Strasse 261', inside all invoices from Mimut Properties.
The business log
All automatic match and approval are logged in the business log.
System Matched invoice with Contract Id DK....
Future enhancements
In a future release of Next®, we will introduce a new product Next® Requisition with a similar link to Next® Invoices and functionality automatically approve, code, and book purchase invoices covered by a Purchase Requisition.
Additional information
Please refer to the online product guide for additional information on this feature, once it is released.
Commercial terms and conditions
This functionality is available as a separate feature for several Next® products.
The functionality comes with a software license fee.
And any consultancy assistance will be invoiced.
Disclaimer
Despite our best efforts, we may be forced to change both content and expected delivery of future product updates without notice.
This feature awaits commercial approval
Details
Title:
Automatic match, approval, and booking of contract related invoices
Type:
New optional feature
Status:
Suggestion
Expected release:
Release not allocated yet
Affected products:
Next® Contracts
Next® Invoices
Audience:
Business users
Classification:
Public
Responsible product manager:
Jørn Christensen
Updated:
22.11.2022
By:
Kim Hellum