What's New: E-Invoicing (2023 release wave 2)

Overview

The session explains the context of continuous transaction control and e-invoicing, then compares two-corner, three-corner and four-corner communication models. It presents the E-Document Core app as a shared foundation, with interfaces for creating and importing documents, endpoint integration, background jobs, field mapping, error handling, logging and retention policies. Local flavors and partner extensions are built on top.

A demo shows E-Document Service, Workflow and Document Sending Profile setup, sending a sales invoice with status tracking and logs, and receiving documents through a background job into purchase invoices. It also shows error handling for item references and an import to journal lines. The roadmap covers an e-document global service app and a third-party access points app, both announced, and localizations that depend on country enforcement dates, with Denmark and Belgium first.

Key points

• The first release focuses on invoicing. Other document types are to follow, and the presenters expect at least two more releases of new features.
• E-Document Core is a global extension used by W1 and the localizations. It will not fit 100% of file formats and requirements at first, so local flavors are added on top.
• Setup in the demo uses an E-Document Service, an E-Document Workflow and a Document Sending Profile. Workflows can send to multiple services.
• Status tracking shows service-level status, logs, mapping details and communication logs. Manual actions allow send, recreate, cancel and get approval after errors.
• Receiving works through a background job that creates purchase invoices, mapping items by item reference. It only creates new documents and cannot update existing purchase orders. Updating existing orders is planned as the first feature improvement.
• If an item is not found, you can map text to an account instead. You can also import to journal lines, which needs a manual mapping of the sender to an account.
• A third-party access points app built on E-Document Core is announced for the end of the year; Microsoft apps aim to cover at least 80% of required features. Denmark and Belgium localizations come first, and the roadmap may change with government enforcement dates.

Features

AL objects mentioned

As heard in the captions. A name that matches one object page by exact type and name links to it; the others stay as named.

• other “E-Document Service” at 18:31
• other “E-Document Workflow” at 20:18
• other “Document Sending Profile” at 21:16
• other “Posted Sales Invoice page” at 22:17
• other “E-Document page” at 22:17
• other “E-Document Service Status” at 22:57
• other “E-Document Logs” at 23:17
• other “Communication Logs” at 24:04
• other “document service” at 26:26
• other “job queue” at 27:00
• other “item reference” at 28:05
• other “map text to account” at 29:33
• other “GL account” at 29:53
• other “GL entry” at 31:30

Quotes

• 1:04 “CTC new acronym and relatively new term and it stands for continuous transaction control as a this term is used to describe mandator real”
• 1:54 “the name of our model from evoice into e documents in the first release we will be focused on a invoicing on”
• 2:54 “solution was create one core electronic invoicing or electronic document system as a global app for all countries it will not be 100%”
• 3:54 “this road map is maybe not 100% accurate as governments are changing their enforcement date all the time it was accurate in one moment”
• 5:36 “only 6% of 187 participants say that they do not need it they do not need electronic invoice in the bus Center”
• 12:25 “the biggest part of our e doent core app is an extension and this is a global extension for all countries it will be”
• 13:06 “these apps made by Microsoft should provide minimum 80% of required features maybe even more but minimum 80%”
• 13:24 “Microsoft will provide specific local ations um in some countries it can be only file format but sometimes it can be in service integration”
• 15:06 “BS Central B Cent handle what is required by default what is required to deliver invoicing and other documents to receive to exchange messages”
• 16:50 “we did the heavy lifting we package all of that in E doent core application and that’s a framework to speed up your productivity”
• 17:10 “all you need to do basically we package the we created interface for creating and importing documents and for integrating with an endpoint to”
• 22:37 “the electronic document status is set to process this gives you a real-time View at where the document is in the in the pipeline”
• 25:29 “we give you the option to use manual actions as you can see here we can actually send the document we can recreate the”
• 27:34 “we didn’t get any error so we already created a purchase invoice out of the document”
• 32:25 “from purchase side you can import um uh your electronic documents to purchase inv voice and purchase order but only if you want to”
• 32:36 “you can uh you can import to journal as well”
• 32:56 “this is configurable you can configure really on a really good level and you can extend if you need for your local markets”
• 33:16 “we don’t want to finish in one releasee electronic document because this is complex story and we will continue in next minimum two releases”
• 33:37 “we are preparing this third party access points app it will be already until the end of this year as a new app on”
• 33:57 “updating existing purchase order that means in a case you already have created purchase order and now you will get purchase invoice for just”
• 34:17 “Denmark and Belgium will come first but all other countries depends on a enforcement dates on a local markets”

Disclaimers in the video

• 3:54 subject-to-change: this road map is maybe not 100% accurate as governments are changing their enforcement date all the time
• 12:45 coming-later: we will soon provide additional e doent global app ready to connect with a third party services
• 13:24 subject-to-change: eventually maybe even new tables and Fields if necessary it depends from requirement local requirements
• 32:25 not-in-this-release: from purchase side you can import um uh your electronic documents to purchase inv voice and purchase order but only if you want to create new purchase order not to update existing one
• 33:16 coming-later: we will continue in next minimum two releases to deliver uh new features
• 33:37 coming-later: third party access points app it will be already until the end of this year as a new app
• 33:57 coming-later: updating existing purchase order that means in a case you already have created purchase order and now you will get purchase invoice for just part of this purchase order and to map it this is something what we are planning to deliver as a first

Presenters (as heard): Vladimir Magnus, Magnus, Vladimir, Alexander.