What's New: Payables Agent Update (2025 release wave 2)

Overview

The video presents the payables agent, which handles vendor invoice processing from a monitored email address. It reads PDF invoices, proposes a draft with line items and deferrals, and shows its reasoning. A human must review the AI-generated content and confirm before a purchase invoice is created.

It also covers setup, which needs little configuration and no mapping of items or accounts. The roadmap includes better vendor matching, purchase order matching, e-invoices, fraud detection, approvals, optional autonomous posting and general availability with possible language and geographic restrictions.

Key points

• The payables agent is in preview in four countries: United States, United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.
• The agent monitors a configured email address for PDF invoice attachments. You can expose the address to vendors or use it only for internal forwarding.
• All agent output is AI-generated and needs human review. A human must confirm before the final purchase invoice is created.
• Vendors the agent creates are set with Blocked = all. The user must unblock them before processing continues, which respects due diligence and approval processes.
• Setup is minimal, with no mapping of items or accounts. Optional parameters can adjust the processing workflow and matching algorithms.
• Planned but not yet implemented: better vendor matching, two-way and three-way purchase order matching, e-invoices, fraud detection, approvals from anywhere, and optional autonomous posting.
• General availability is intended to be worldwide, but language and geographic restrictions may remain and timing is to be announced.

Features

Quotes

• 0:20 “accounts payables is the backbone of quality financial data. What does that mean? Well, it means that if you make a mistake in your”
• 1:38 “right now the payables agent is in preview and we call it the first line of defense against the poor quality data and accounts”
• 1:52 “the agent is in preview in four countries United States, United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand and it has a lot of great functionality”
• 4:32 “all of this content has been AI generated. So a human needs to review as there can be errors.”
• 6:42 “the blocked field on the vendor will be set to all. And that’s because we want to respect any due diligence or processes you”
• 7:31 “there is not much setup uh required. The idea was that the agent will be a one uh oneclick stop for configuration.”
• 10:12 “we want to make the agent available to as many customers as possible. That means worldwide availability what we call general availability of the”
• 11:18 “the vision of the agent is that it’s all you need to handle your vendor invoice processing from start to finish. Basically we want”

Disclaimers in the video

• 1:38 preview: the payables agent is in preview
• 1:52 preview: the agent is in preview in four countries United States, United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand
• 4:32 preview: all of this content has been AI generated. So a human needs to review as there can be errors.
• 10:25 subject-to-change: There might still be some language and geographical restrictions even if we go general availability
• 10:40 coming-later: we want to improve the matching of vendors
• 11:32 coming-later: we want to be able to source any invoice whether it’s an electronic invoice like the e invoices
• 11:46 coming-later: we want to help with identifying fraudulent invoices in different anti-fraud scenarios
• 13:39 coming-later: we also want to handle approvals basically we want you to be able to approve an invoice from from anywhere

Presenters (as heard): Saurin, Hos Antonio, Jose.