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Invoice Automate - Release Notes 2024
Invoice Automate - Release Notes 2024
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Get ready for some exciting updates! We're thrilled to introduce our latest features that will make your experience even better.

Dive in to see what's new and start exploring!


Release Notes (Invoice Automate) | December 2024

✨ Empower Invoicing with Owner as Payer Feature

Simplify your invoicing process with the ability to designate property owners as payers for specific invoices. This intuitive update allows you to set the owner as a payer through a convenient checkbox, with an option to make it the default setting for future invoices. Add custom notes for personalised communication, which are seamlessly included in the email sent to the owner upon invoice approval. Every action is logged in the activity timeline for accurate tracking. Available exclusively for Property Tree-integrated users, this feature enhances flexibility and streamlines property management workflows.

✨ Streamline Invoice Tracking with 'Owner as Payer' Enhancements

Transform your invoicing workflow with the enhanced 'Owner as Payer' feature in Invoice Automate. Easily designate property owners as payers for specific invoices using a clear checkbox and track their responsibility with the new "Owner as Payer" tag, visible on individual invoices and in bulk reviews. Gain complete transparency with detailed activity logs, accessible under the "View History" section, documenting notifications sent to owners. Perfect for streamlining creditor-based financial management, this feature ensures clarity and efficiency in managing owner-related invoices.



Release Notes (Invoice Automate) | November 2024

✨ Streamlined Invoice Management with Custom Reminders and Smart Automation

Experience streamlined invoice management with Invoice Automate's latest features designed to reduce manual tasks and improve accuracy.
Property Manager users can now create and customise reminder notifications tailored to your organisation’s needs, ensuring prompt attention to invoices approaching due dates or requiring approvals. Additionally, enhanced automation rules let you automate approvals based on set criteria such as invoice amount, creditor, and more, while new management tools provide the ability to reorder, activate, and deactivate rules with ease. These updates also bring a comprehensive “View History” for full transparency, alongside a focused dashboard section displaying urgent items.

Learn more to see how these updates can optimise your invoice workflows and reduce manual intervention, keeping your team aligned and tasks on track.


Release Notes (Invoice Automate) | October 2024

✨ Automatic Invoice Instalment Detection

Easily manage recurring payments with our new feature that automatically scans invoices containing instalments and populates the "Add Invoice Instalment" section. The system identifies instalments and provides clear visibility of details like due dates, amounts, and reminders. Stay organised with scheduled payments displayed directly in the invoice, simplifying financial management and ensuring you never miss an instalment.

✨ Improved Handling for Recurring Invoices

Managing recurring invoices is now even easier with our latest updates to Invoice Automate. When the system identifies a matching original invoice for an instalment, it is seamlessly moved to the ‘Needs to be Approved’ section with a clear tag. If a matching invoice isn’t found 7 days prior to the instalment's due date, the system automatically shifts it to the ‘Overdue’ basket. This enhancement ensures you can address issues swiftly and avoid delayed payments, improving the efficiency of managing recurring invoices.


Release Notes (Invoice Automate) | September 2024

✨ Enhanced Owner Invoice Descriptions: Precision with New Merge Fields

Add more detail and enhance your invoice descriptions with new merge fields for owner invoices! You can now include 'previous read,' 'current read,' and 'consumption amount' fields in owner invoices, just like for tenants. This feature ensures even greater precision and detail in your billing, helping you to maintain consistency and clarity across all your invoicing needs. Say goodbye to discrepancies and hello to streamlined accuracy!

✨ Seamless Tenancy Invoice Sync for Effortless Management

Take tenancy invoice management to the next level! Now, when you add or update tenancy invoice descriptions within Invoice Automate, they will automatically sync and display directly in Palace’s On-Charge Tenancy section and Invoice data section. This feature ensures that all tenancy-related invoice details are managed efficiently and accurately, giving you a seamless and streamlined workflow for managing tenancy invoices. Stay organised and keep all your tenancy information in one place, effortlessly!

✨ Stay Organised with New Instalment Automation

Keeping on top of instalment payments has never been easier! Our new invoice functionality now seamlessly tracks instalments across each quarter – July, October, January, and April – ensuring accurate financial management throughout the year. With this integration, you can now capture and review instalments in just a few clicks. Say goodbye to manual tracking and hello to stress free instalment management.


✨ Step into the Future of Property Management with 360 AI!

Revolutionise how you manage and inspect properties with our game-changing 360° AI feature! Now live at Inspection Manager! This powerful tool brings virtual tours and 360° images right into your inspection reports, making property evaluations smarter and more efficient than ever.

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Release Notes (Invoice Automate) | August 2024

✨ Seamless Payment Management: Advanced ListSure Integration in Invoice Automate

We’re excited to announce that ListSure is now integrated into Invoice Automate.

ListSure provides your landlords with a better way to pay their regular and unexpected bills. With ListSure, property owners can access funds for their bills now and spread the repayments over 12 months.

To enable this integration for your agency, please contact us at sales@proptechlabs.com. Our team is here to help you set up ListSure for Payments, ensuring a seamless experience for you and your landlords.

Click on the image below to discover more about this powerful integration.

✨ Simplify Payments: New Due Date Setting for Palace

Palace users in Invoice Automate can now enable a new setting that allows the approved date of an invoice to be automatically assigned as its due date. This adjustment simplifies invoice management by overriding any pre-existing due dates from the document, ensuring timely payments and mitigating late or interest fees. Easily activated in the "General Settings" section, this feature offers a more efficient process to keep your financial operations smooth and stress-free. Enjoy greater control and peace of mind with this streamlined update!

✨ Take Control: Edit Creditor Reminder Dates

Enhance your invoice automation process with the new ability to edit the "Reminder will be received on" date when setting automated email reminders for creditors. Fine-tune reminder dates to suit your needs and preferences, ensuring better scheduling and smoother workflow management. This feature is accessible via any invoice basket (except recurring), allowing you to align reminders perfectly with your specific timeline. Set reminders effortlessly and enjoy enhanced control over your invoice management with this powerful update!


Release Notes (Invoice Automate) | July 2024

Redact Parts of PDF (Owner Details)

Introducing the "Redact Parts of PDF" feature, allowing users to automatically redact sensitive owner details from tenancy invoices. This function is managed through a new setting under 'Creditor Settings' named 'Enable redacted tenancy invoice'. Once enabled, IA users can define sample invoices by creditor to specify which sections require redaction, ensuring tenant privacy.

This feature:

  • Displays the 'Enable redacted tenancy invoice' setting under 'Creditor Settings' for IA users.

  • Allows IA users to upload, edit, and delete sample redacted invoices per creditor and invoice type.

  • Automatically redacts tenancy invoice details based on predefined samples during invoice creation.

  • Syncs redacted tenancy invoices seamlessly with the trust accounting system.

This optional add-on feature costs $100 per month plus GST, activated through the Add-on screen. The system provides messages and tooltips to guide users through enabling, editing, and disabling this feature effectively.

Custom GST Tag for Insurance Invoices

Introducing a new system parameter to capture biller codes for accurate GST identification in insurance invoices. This enhancement allows the system to scan GST values during processes like invoice reviews, bulk handling, email, or direct uploads. Superadmins can define biller codes to ensure precise GST identification, streamlining the approval process for IA users. In cases where biller codes are undefined, existing calculations will apply. This feature greatly enhances efficiency and accuracy in managing GST for insurance invoices, ensuring seamless operations and compliance.

✨ Invoice Date Stamp in "Invoices with Issues"

We've added a new feature to the "Invoices with Issues" section: now, when uploading an invoice, the system will display a date stamp indicating when the invoice was scanned. This enhancement provides users with clear visibility of the scan date for invoices that require attention, ensuring easy reference and efficient resolution of issues.

Invoice Automate for Palace Owner Water Tag

Introducing new functionality in the Palace system for handling water charging preferences:

  • Automatically generates tenancy invoices for relevant water charges when property owner water charges are disabled.

  • Displays a 'Water Usage Charge Enabled' tag on water invoice details and bulk review sections for clarity.

  • Owner invoices will reflect a zero amount for water charges, ensuring accurate tenant billing.

This enhancement streamlines water charging processes, providing clear visibility and accurate billing for all parties involved.

Efficiency Boost: Improved management for your bounced invoices

Introducing our new Bounce Back email feature to streamline your invoice processing. This enhancement ensures prompt notification and return of any failed invoice submissions, along with clear guidelines for correction and resubmission. This setting has been made mandatory for users with the ‘Enable Emailing Inbox’ setting turned on to ensure nothing gets missed. This feature will further enhance efficiency and ensures error-free invoice management.

Invoice Summary Report Enhancement

We've enhanced the Invoice Summary Report with a new "Created Date" column in the insights section, offering clear visibility into the upload dates of each invoice. When exporting this report as a ".csv" file, the "Created Date" column is included, facilitating easy tracking of invoice upload dates. Users can efficiently filter the "Created Date" column within the filter drawer for streamlined data analysis.

Extended Filter Options

The "Created Date" column now appears under every filter type in the downloaded ".csv" file, including "Approved", "Deleted", "Filed", and "OnDashboard". This comprehensive view across various invoice statuses ensures more precise data handling and reporting capabilities.

✨ Streamlined Tenant Billing: Invoice Automate for Palace Auto-Populated Invoices

We've enhanced Invoice Automate for Palace with automatic selection and population of tenant invoices using the Palace API. This update streamlines the billing process by integrating technical adjustments to the API, frontend modifications, and improvements to the invoice processor function. Enjoy seamless integration for efficient tenant billing.


Release Notes (Invoice Automate) | May 2024

✨ Introducing 360 Inspections and AI

We're excited to announce that our cutting-edge 360-degree inspections and virtual tour creation, powered by AI, will be launching soon. Available on iOS and Android devices. Get on our waiting list now to be among the first to transform your property management with this innovative feature!

✨ Introducing Enhanced Email Attachment Handling: Streamline Your Workflow

Our latest update empowers you to manage image file attachments received via email with ease. By enabling a simple setting, you can now display image attachments directly on the Invoice Automate dashboard. This means you can review, approve, or delete images right from the dashboard, just like you would with any other invoice format. This new feature streamlines your invoice processing, making it faster and more efficient than ever before. Upgrade your workflow and experience the difference today!

✨ Improved Invoice Handling for Deactivated Tenants: Smooth Sailing Ahead

Property managers can now manually create invoices for properties marked as vacant due to tenant deactivation without encountering any errors. This improvement ensures seamless invoice processing and better support for tenancies with special status requirements. Say goodbye to hassle and enjoy a smoother, more efficient workflow!

✨ Enhanced Invoice Approval Workflow: Simplify and Streamline

Now, you can select property managers from the entire agency list when sending invoices for approval, ensuring your invoices always reach the right person. Plus, notes added to invoices will be visible in the 'invoices pending for property manager’s approval' section, providing clarity and full traceability. For added convenience, our new 'View Previous Notes' feature, marked with an eye icon, allows you to easily access all historical notes related to an invoice with a single click. This update is designed to simplify the approval process and enhance communication across your teams, making your workflow more efficient than ever.


Release Notes (Invoice Automate) | April 2024

✨ Simplify Invoice Management with New Allocate Held Funds Feature

Prepare to streamline your invoice processes! Our latest release empowers you to effortlessly allocate tenancy held funds during invoice creation. Bid farewell to manual adjustments and embrace a seamless, automated experience. Fiscal responsibility meets functionality with our ingenious "Allocate Held Funds" feature, bringing precision and convenience to your financial workflows.

✨ Revolutionise Invoice Approval with Job Linking Enhancement

Our invoice approval process just got a turbo boost! Say goodbye to manual tracking and hello to seamless operations with our new double feature. Now, you can link invoices directly to core PT maintenance jobs and Bricks + Agent work orders. Experience streamlined efficiency at your fingertips—try it now and lead the way in property management innovation!

✨ Streamlined Fee Management for Effortless Invoice Review

Introducing our latest feature for transparent fee management during invoice processing! Tailor your invoice management with editable fee details, ensuring control and clarity. No more surprises—just seamless integration and a smarter workflow. Get ready for a clearer, more efficient billing system today!

✨ Boosted Efficiency: Automatic Duplicate Invoice Detection

Experience heightened efficiency with our enhanced invoice upload feature, now equipped to automatically detect and flag duplicate invoices within a single batch upload. Say goodbye to errors and delays, and hello to smoother processing.

✨ Optimise Water Meter Management with PT Integration

Elevate your real estate management experience with our latest integration! Seamlessly sync water meter numbers and effortlessly monitor consumption. Say farewell to manual data entry and welcome automatic updates and insights. Simplify invoicing, minimise errors, and streamline your property operations with our enhanced water meter management update. Dive into efficiency and let our seamless PT synchronisation do the heavy lifting for you!

✨ Refined Water Invoice Recognition: Improved Accuracy in Identifying Meter Numbers

We're excited to unveil enhancements to our 'Water Invoices' model, now finely tuned to accurately identify and capture 'Water meter' numbers from scanned water and SA water invoices. Say goodbye to errors and streamline your invoicing process with greater precision than ever before.

✨ Updated Invoice Reminders: Targeting the Right Property Manager

We're pleased to announce an improvement in our invoice reminder system. Now, reminders are directed to the assigned Property Manager (PM) rather than the PM who approved the invoice. This ensures that crucial notifications reach the appropriate individual, preventing oversight and facilitating prompt follow-up on pending invoices.

✨ Streamlined GST Handling for Tenancy Invoices

Experience enhanced efficiency with our latest Invoice Automate feature tailored for property management users. Now, when an owner is GST-registered in the PT system, a distinct 'Owner Registered for GST' tag will prominently appear within the Owner Details and Bulk Review sections. This simplifies identification and calculation of the applicable GST amount for Tenancy Invoices. Moreover, the invoicing system seamlessly incorporates the Owner GST amount into the Tenancy Invoice, ensuring all GST-related calculations update automatically for a hassle-free experience. Managing GST for registered owners has never been smoother.

✨ Invoice Summary Report Upgrade: Enhanced Tracking and Flexibility

We've upgraded the Invoice Summary Report in the insights section to include the "Created Date" column when exporting to a CSV file. This enhancement offers users clearer visibility into the upload date for each invoice, enhancing tracking and organisation of invoice processing activities. What's more, the "Created Date" is now accessible under every filter type, like "Approved," "Deleted," "Filed," and "OnDashboard," enabling more precise and flexible data management within the report.


Release Notes (Invoice Automate) | March 2024

Enhance Your Financial Flexibility: New Edit and Delete Features for Creditor Reminders!

Exciting news for our valued customers! We're thrilled to introduce a new feature that's all about giving you more control and flexibility: the ability to edit and delete creditor reminders for invoices.

Now, when you set up a reminder for an invoice, not only will the system immediately display the created reminder for your review, but it will also ensure that the reminder is sent out to the Property Manager on the designated date. And for that extra layer of convenience, you have the freedom to tweak or completely remove any reminders you've set up.

Stay on top of your finances with ease and adapt to any changes with just a few clicks. We're here to make managing your reminders simpler and more efficient than ever!

✨ Navigate Invoice Challenges with Ease: Introducing Our Enhanced Filter Feature!

We're thrilled to introduce a brilliant new feature to help streamline your invoice management: our enhanced filter option in the invoice issues section!

Now, you can effortlessly sort through invoice issues with our "Filter issues by:" dropdown. Options include:

  • All

  • Failed to scan the invoice

  • Page count exceeded

  • BPAY Reference not attached to the property

  • Creditor EFT reference not attached to the property

  • Unknown invoice, please select the property address

Plus, we'll remember your last filter choice to make things even smoother. Dive into a more efficient way to handle your invoices today!

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✨ Simplify Your Invoicing: Quick Tenant Selection for Effortless Tenancy Invoice Creation!

  • Exciting improvement alert! 🌟 When you're ready to whip up a new Tenancy Invoice, simply hit '+ Create Tenancy Invoice' and a dropdown list of Tenants linked to the property will appear. Just choose a Tenant, and you're on your way to creating the Tenancy invoice with all their details. It's as easy as pie – making your invoicing process smoother than ever!

✨ Revolutionise Creditor Communication: Customise Email Templates with Ease!

  • We're thrilled to announce a handy enhancement to Creditor Settings! 🌟 Now, tailoring reminder email templates for individual creditors or specific creditor types is as easy as. Simply activate the "Customise single creditor reminder email template" or "Customise creditor type reminder email template" toggle. Then, craft your perfect email template using predefined fields and save it. Here's how:

    1. Navigate to the Invoice Automate System.

    2. Head over to Creditor Settings.

    3. Turn on the toggle to start automatically sending reminder emails to creditors.

    4. For a specific creditor, enable "Customise single creditor reminder email template."

    5. For creditor types, switch on "Customise creditor type reminder email template."

    6. Select from predefined fields to create your template and hit save.

    Customise your communication effortlessly and keep your creditors in the loop with just a few clicks!

✨ Streamlining Bulk Invoice Reviews: Ensuring Accuracy with Enhanced Address Requirements!

  • We're delighted to introduce an enhancement that's set to improve your experience in the Bulk Review section! 🌟 This update focuses on ensuring every invoice is properly addressed before completion. Here's the gist:

    When you attempt to file invoices in bulk using the "File Only" button, and any of these invoices lack a property address, the system will now promptly display an error message. This message reads: "Incomplete Invoice Details - The system has processed invoices with property addresses, but those without property addresses were not completed. Please include a property address in the invoice details to proceed with the completion."

    This means, during a bulk review, if you hit the "File Only" button for a mix of invoices — some with and some without property addresses — the system will smoothly process those with property addresses and halt those without.

    This improvement ensures your invoicing process is more streamlined and error-free, helping you to manage your invoices more effectively.

✨ Enhanced Invoice Finalisation: 'File Only' Option Now Smarter with Mandatory Property Address!

We're excited to roll out an improvement that streamlines the process of completing invoices with the "File Only" option! 🌟 Now, if you try to finalise an invoice without a property address using the "File Only" option, you'll get an error message prompting you to add a property first. Once a property address is added, you can successfully complete the invoice. Here's a quick guide:

  1. Head to the Invoice List.

  2. Pick an invoice that lacks a property address.

  3. Jump over to the Property Details section and pop in the relevant property address.

  4. Click "More" and then select the "File Only" option.

This update ensures a smoother, error-free process, helping you manage invoices more efficiently!

✨Seamless Invoice Management: New Update Enhances Workflow for NZ Property Tree Users!

Exciting news for our New Zealand users! 🌟 We've just rolled out a fantastic update for Invoice Processing and Approval, tailored for those using Property Tree. Now, viewing your uploaded invoices is a breeze. Plus, once approved, they'll sync effortlessly with the Property Tree system, ensuring a smooth and seamless process. Get ready for a more streamlined workflow, designed to make your life easier!


Release Notes (Invoice Automate) | January 2024

✨Introducing "Omit vacated tenants from tenant invoices"

  • With this release, you can now choose to enable or disable the vacated tenants appearing in the tenant invoices creation screen.

    • Navigation Path: Invoice Automate App → Settings → General Settings → “Omit Vacated Tenant from tenant invoice charges”

  • If there are no tenants for any particular property, you cannot create any tenancy invoices

✨Timely display of installment invoices in recurring basket

  • With this release, the Installment invoices that you create will only be displayed inside the recurring basket precisely 30 days before the due date of each specific installment invoice cleaning things up and making it easier for you to see what is coming up.

✨ Displaying the editable fields in the recurring basket

  • With this enhancement, you can now see editable fields for the Due Date and Amount directly in the recurring invoice(s) basket.

  • Also, you can now edit the Description field in the Property Details section.

✨ Controls added to identify & restrict corrupted documents or 0kb invoice attachments in the Attachment drawer

  • If you try to upload documents or invoices with zero file size, you'll see an error message. This helps you spot those problematic files with a special tag in the Attachment drawer.

  • Once you delete these troublesome files, the Save button becomes active, and you won't see any error messages in the Attachment drawer anymore.

✨ Enhancement to display the last selected sorting option for each section

  • If you change this sorting option, the system will remember and use that preference the next time, when you visit the same category/section. This way, you can have your preferred view saved and won't have to change it every time.

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