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Quick Tip: What’s in Business Central Update 28.4

Update 28.4 for Business Central 2026 Release Wave 1 was released on August 3, 2026, bringing three new features to general availability or preview: Payables Agent known senders to skip redundant email classification, payments integration with the electronic document framework, and Peppol preview on purchase drafts. The update is mostly hotfixes across platform, application, and country-specific areas.

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Steven Renders · 2026-08-10 · 444 words · about 2 min

"Payables Agent known senders, general availability. Skips redundant classification for vendor emails already seen."
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Key points

  • Three new features available: Payables Agent known senders (GA), payments with electronic document framework (GA), and Peppol preview on purchase draft page (public preview)
  • Platform hotfixes address six issues including a silent client crash during CopyFilters and implicit app dependency binding problems
  • Over 100 application hotfixes cover critical issues like aged receivables reports ignoring period settings, double counting in inventory valuation, and incorrect depreciation calculations
  • Field Service integration now respects Dataverse Convert to Customer Asset setting; Copilot and agent data may process in different Azure geographies
  • Azure OpenAI privacy notice approval required before using Expense Agent; Belgium has three localization-specific fixes

Quotes

  • “Payables Agent known senders, general availability. Skips redundant classification for vendor emails already seen.” (Shows how AI agents reduce manual work by remembering previously classified vendor emails, improving efficiency in accounts payable.)
  • “Payment related documents now flow through the same pipeline as invoices and credit memos.” (Demonstrates standardization of payment processing using the electronic document framework, simplifying the document handling architecture.)
  • “Some environments on version 28.0 or later may process Copilot and agent requests in a different Azure geography.” (Critical awareness for multi-region deployments, as Copilot data may no longer stay in the same Azure region by default.)

Context

  • Features: Payables Agent known senders, Payments with electronic document framework, Peppol preview on purchase draft page, Field Service integration, Copilot and agent data movement, Expense Agent
  • Versions: 28.4, 2026 Release Wave 1, 28.0

Source: think about IT - Steven Renders, community blog. Summary, key points and quotes are derived (CONTENT-NOTICE.md); read the original for the full text.