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Release notes edition 3.7.9

Release date: Monday 20 July 2026
Version: v3

Here's the latest summary of what's new and improved in Zudello, as well as what we resolved in the latest release.

In this release:

  • More powerful contract management
  • Cleaner supplier matching and inbox controls
  • Images on suppliers, customers, and items
  • Approval, allocation, and filtering improvements and more

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New and improved

Contracts

Contracts let you store and manage your supplier and customer agreements in Zudello, with automatic extraction to pull key details straight from your documents. We've expanded what you can do with contracts, from reminders through to pricing.

Contract reminders

  • You can now set up reminders on a contract, so key dates like renewals and expiries are never missed.
  • Renewal and expiry reminder types automatically use the relevant contract date, while custom reminders let you choose the date yourself.
  • Set each reminder to trigger a chosen number of days, weeks, or months before or after the date, and assign it to specific users or to a person recorded on the contract.

Setting up reminders on a contract

Contract lines and contract value

  • Zudello now stores individual pricing lines on a contract and calculates a total contract value, converted to your local currency where needed.

Pricing without a catalogue match

  • Contract pricing rows now appear even when there's no matching catalogue item.
  • A single stock code column lets you pick an existing item, create a new catalogue item, or keep the value as free text, the same way you would on transaction lines.

Contract pricing with the stock code editor

Data permissions for contract records

  • Dimension-based data permissions now extend to contract pricing, thresholds, and lines, so you can control access to these records the same way you do elsewhere.

Approvals

Zudello's delegation of authority routes documents through the right approvers based on rules you define. We've made two improvements to give you more control over how approval steps are built.

Keep duplicate approvers on a step

  • A new Remove duplicate approvers option (turned on by default) controls what happens when the same person is required more than once on a step.
  • Turn it off to keep the full required approver count, so a step is no longer dropped when the same approver appears more than once.

The Remove duplicate approvers option on an approval step

Blank dimensions match any value

  • A new setting lets a blank dimension cell in a delegation of authority dataset be treated as matching any value.
  • This means a single rule can cover every option for that dimension, rather than needing a separate row for each one. Blank cells show a muted "any" in the preview.

Blank dimensions treated as any value in a delegation of authority dataset

Supplier matching and inbox rules

When documents arrive by email, Zudello matches them to the right supplier automatically. We've given you more control over how that matching works.

Ignore senders for supplier matching

  • A new Inbox Rules tab in Settings lets you maintain a list of email addresses and domains to exclude from supplier matching.
  • This stops shared or generic senders from being matched to the wrong supplier.

The Inbox Rules exclusion list in Settings

Screen unknown senders

  • You can now maintain an allowlist of trusted senders, and Zudello records how trusted an incoming document's sender is, so you can spot documents that arrived from an unrecognised sender.

Tell apart suppliers with the same name

  • The supplier match dropdown on a transaction now shows the supplier code in front of the name, so suppliers that share a name can be told apart at a glance.

Supplier code shown in the supplier match dropdown

Images on suppliers, customers, and items

  • You can now add images to your supplier, customer, and item records.
  • Upload a single image or a gallery of several, drag to reorder them, and choose which one is the cover.
  • Images appear on list rows, in picker dropdowns, and in the document viewer, and open full screen when you click them.

A supplier image shown on the matched-supplier card in the document viewer

Allocations and matching

Zudello matches related documents, such as an invoice to a purchase order, so you can track what's been received, billed, and paid. We've tightened up manual allocation.

One-to-one document allocation

  • A new setting restricts a document to a single allocation, guarding against a document being matched more than once.
  • When it's turned on, the match buttons are disabled for a document that's already allocated, with a tooltip naming the document it's matched to.

The one-to-one document allocation setting

Cleaner match list

  • Documents that are already fully allocated are now hidden from the Match with… list, so you only see documents that are still available to match.

Corporate cards

The Corporate Cards module manages the full lifecycle of company card expenses, from capture through to reconciliation and payment. We've made reconciliation safer and more flexible.

  • Payment reconciliations can now be matched to employees.
  • Reverting a reconciled expense now shows a confirmation warning first, because the revert removes the expense from all its payments and resets its status. The warning explains that other expenses on the same payment aren't affected.

Confirmation warning before reverting a reconciled expense

Filters

We've made the filter dropdowns across the platform faster and easier to work with.

  • Filter dropdowns now load only the values actually in use for what you're looking at, and search the full set on the server as you type.
  • Inactive records are hidden by default behind a Hide inactive toggle.
  • The assignee filter now has a pinned Unassigned option, so you can quickly find documents that haven't been assigned to anyone.

The pinned Unassigned option in the assignee filter

Currencies

  • Singapore Dollar (SGD) and Hong Kong Dollar (HKD) are now fully selectable currencies.
  • Documents priced in SGD or HKD convert to your local currency across transactions, budgets, and approvals.

Document splitting

Zudello can split a single file that contains several documents into separate records during extraction. We've improved how splitting works.

  • Splitting is now more accurate, so documents from the same supplier are separated correctly and unusual single documents are no longer split by mistake.
  • The original email is now linked to each split document, and Zudello enriches each one so it's ready to work with straight away.

Other improvements

  • For the End of Month and End of Next Month payment terms, the unit field is now clearly marked as not applicable, so it's obvious the value isn't used in the calculation.

Resolutions

We're constantly working to refine Zudello's functionality and address any issues as soon as possible. As part of this release, we've made the following resolutions:

  • We've fixed an issue where PDF text could be missing for some users on Windows using Chrome or Edge.
  • We've fixed an issue where downloaded Excel files were missing their file extension.
  • We've fixed date fields that displayed or accepted dates as yyyy-mm-dd instead of dd/mm/yyyy.
  • We've fixed an issue where a dataset section filter couldn't resolve the Customer column, even though it worked for Supplier.
  • We've fixed the Next and Previous buttons at the bottom of the form response viewer, which weren't navigating between responses.
  • We've fixed deep links into the inbox so they open the correct document.
  • We've fixed an issue where bulk admin actions failed for newly created users with an "organisation user not found" error.
  • We've fixed inline table editors so your changes are saved when you click away from the cell.
  • We've fixed the compact location and subsidiary selectors so they stay usable after the window is resized.
  • We've fixed an issue where opening a document directly by its link could fail to load its settings.
  • We've fixed an issue that prevented approved claims from being exported.
  • We've fixed dataset grid cells that could visually bleed into the next column.
  • We've fixed an issue where custom form fields with dataset options could be hidden by mistake.

Have an idea?

Do you have an idea for a new feature or how we can improve our current features? Let us know at support@zudello.com.

Your ideas and feedback are an important part of our product planning process to make Zudello better for everyone.

Release notes edition 3.7.8

Release date: Monday 8 June 2026
Version: v3

Here's the latest summary of what's new and improved in Zudello, as well as what we resolved in the latest release.

In this release:

  • Smarter approval routing for expenses
  • Improved address validation and matching
  • Smoother supplier and customer contact management
  • Flexible datasets and more

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New and improved

Approval routing for expenses

Zudello's approval workflows route expense claims and reimbursement requests through the right people before payment is made. We've improved how approvals are routed when expenses are raised on behalf of someone else.

Approvals now follow the employee, not the submitter

  • When an expense or claim is raised on behalf of another employee, the approval now routes through that employee's manager, not the submitter's.
  • This ensures approvals always reach the right people, regardless of who created the record.

Suppliers and customer contacts

Zudello's CRM module gives you a central place to manage your suppliers, customers, and the people associated with them. We've made it easier to navigate and manage the connections between companies and individual contacts.

  • You can now open a linked person's record directly from a supplier or customer's people grid to view and edit their details without leaving the page.

  • A new reverse table on the person record shows all the suppliers and customers that person is linked to, with options to add, edit, unlink, or open each one.

  • When adding a company to a People record, you can now explicitly select whether you're adding a supplier or a customer, so the search only returns the right type of record.

Contracts

Contracts let you store and manage your supplier and customer agreements in Zudello, with automatic extraction to pull key details directly from your documents. We've expanded what Zudello can do with contracts, making them easier to code, enrich, and control.

Document coding for contracts

  • You can now use document coding rules and the Apply trained rules action on contract documents, the same way you do for other document types.
  • Zudello automatically resolves the linked contact for contracts, checking for a set supplier or customer, and defaulting to the supplier if both are available.
  • Contract-writable fields are now available in the target field drop-down when configuring coding rules.

Data permissions for contracts

  • Contracts are now available in the data permissions picker, so you can control access to contract records using the same dimension-based permissions you use for other models.

Currencies and FX

Zudello converts foreign currency amounts into your base currency so that transactions, budgets, and approvals always reflect accurate local totals. We've expanded the range of currencies supported by our hourly exchange rate updates.

  • Singapore Dollar (SGD) and Hong Kong Dollar (HKD) are now included in Zudello's hourly exchange rate updates.
  • Documents priced in SGD or HKD will now convert to your local currency across transactions, budgets, and approvals.

Improved address validation and matching

Zudello validates and normalises addresses on your supplier, customer, and transaction records to keep your data clean and consistent. We've made significant improvements to how addresses are validated and matched across the platform.

  • Address validation now uses Google's Address Validation API, which provides more accurate normalisation and assigns a unique place ID to each address on save.

  • Delivery and billing addresses on transactions are now matched by place ID rather than by geographic distance, making matching faster and more reliable.
  • Validation errors are now shown per address, so you can see exactly which address needs attention.

  • Places Autocomplete can be turned on for contact address forms, making it faster to enter and validate addresses.

Datasets

Datasets let you store and manage structured data within Zudello, such as approval limits or custom dimensions used for coding documents. We've added two improvements to make datasets more powerful and easier to configure.

Embed datasets as editable tables in resource cards

  • You can now embed a filtered, editable dataset directly as a section inside a resource or transaction card.
  • The dataset acts as the source of truth for that data, avoiding the performance issues and stale data that can come from storing large amounts of information directly on a record.

Ignore dimension dependencies when configuring datasets

  • A new setting lets you ignore dimension dependency filters when configuring datasets and delegation of authority settings.
  • This prevents valid values from being incorrectly filtered out during configuration. For example, a location being hidden because of an unrelated supplier or currency filter.
  • Dependency filters continue to apply on form fields where they're genuinely needed.

Resolutions

We're constantly working to refine Zudello's functionality and address any issues as soon as possible. As part of this release, we've made the following resolutions:

  • We've fixed an issue where inactive inventory items could be added to transactions by typing a SKU directly, even though they were correctly excluded from the drop-down.
  • We've fixed an issue where a $0 tax value was being stored as blank rather than zero on some documents.
  • We've fixed an issue where contract documents were not populating field data correctly despite the values being present.
  • We've fixed an issue where selecting a default document type on a supplier record would appear to save but didn't.
  • We've fixed a Document Studio issue where newly created workflows were not added to the run order, causing unpredictable extraction behaviour.
  • We've fixed an issue where two near-simultaneous API calls for the same record could overwrite each other's data and return incorrect results.
  • We've fixed an issue where ABN lookup was reflecting ABN validity instead of GST registration status. The lookup now correctly shows GST registration status.
  • We've fixed an issue where the related expenses section on expense claims appeared blank when opened from a direct approval link.
  • We've fixed an error that occurred when sorting by the approver column in table view.

Have an idea?

Do you have an idea for a new feature or how we can improve our current features? Let us know at support@zudello.com.

Your ideas and feedback are an important part of our product planning process to make Zudello better for everyone.

Release notes edition 3.7.6

Release date: Monday 11 May 2026
Version: v3

Here's the latest summary of what's new and improved in Zudello, as well as what we resolved in the latest release.

In this release:

  • New People Submodule
  • Document Studio support for email body extraction testing
  • Three-way matching improvements and more

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New and improved

People submodule

The new People submodule sits alongside Suppliers and Customers in the Relationships module, and provides a central place to record and manage contacts across your supplier and customer network. This means your team can record and access the contact information they need without needing to switch between systems.

  • A person represents a named individual associated with one or more suppliers or customers.

  • People are independent records that can be linked to multiple suppliers or customers, with a different contact role assigned at each.
    • For example, the same person can be recorded as the AP manager at one supplier and a general enquiry contact at another.
  • Contact roles are stored on the relationship between the person and the supplier or customer, so the person's record stays clean and reusable across your network.

Document Studio email body extraction testing

Document Studio lets you fine-tune how Zudello extracts information from your documents. You could already use Document Studio to adjust the extraction of email bodies, but there was no way to test your configuration before applying it.

We have now added the ability to download an email body and test it within Document Studio.

  • When an email is processed in Zudello, the raw email body is now saved as a text file and attached to the email in the inbox.

  • You can download this file directly from the inbox by clicking the email-body.txt attachment on the original email.
  • The downloaded file can then be uploaded into Document Studio to test and refine your extraction configuration before applying any changes.

This puts more power in your teams hands, ensuring you can customise the extraction of any documents you receive. For more information on using Document Studio, see our Document Studio guide.

Three-way matching improvements

Three-way matching in Zudello links your invoices, purchase orders, and goods receipts to ensure you only pay for what you ordered and received. We've made an improvement to how currency changes are handled during matching.

Accurate exchange rates when changing currency

  • Previously, changing the currency on a transaction could result in the original exchange rate being retained, causing incorrect local currency totals and throwing validation errors that blocked the document from progressing.
  • The exchange rate is now refreshed automatically whenever the currency on a transaction is changed, and allocation values are updated accordingly. This keeps variance calculations and purchase order allocation percentages accurate, and ensures you can continue processing the document without delay.

Other improvements

  • Additional support for related attachments
    • Related attachments now support drag-and-drop upload of .msg and .eml email files, ensuring you can upload a greater variety of supporting documentation.
  • Interface improvement for Task approvals
    • The task action button has been renamed from Approve to Complete for consistency with how tasks work.

  • Expenses performance improvement
    • We've improved how expenses are processed for teams that don't use expense consolidation.
    • Zudello now skips unnecessary steps during employee and expense lookups, resulting in faster processing for teams that don't require expense consolidation.
  • Reliability improvements
    • We've improved inbound email reliability, including better handling of email bounces or temporary outages.

Resolutions

We're constantly working to refine Zudello functionality and ensure that we address any issues as soon as possible. As part of this release, we've made the following resolutions and improvements:

  • We've fixed an issue where email images, logos, and signatures were not displaying correctly in inboxes.
  • We've fixed an issue where the exchange rate on expenses only refreshed after the first currency change. The rate now refreshes correctly on every currency change.

Have an idea?

Do you have an idea for a new feature or how we can improve our current features? Let us know at support@zudello.com.

Your ideas and feedback are an important part of our product planning process to make Zudello better for everyone.

Release notes edition 3.7.4

Release date: Wednesday 9 April 2026
Version: v3

Here's the latest summary of what's new and improved in Zudello, as well as what we resolved in the latest release.

In this release:

  • Contracts improvements
  • More flexibility for data export permissions
  • Bug fixes and more

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New and improved

Contracts improvements

Contracts let you store and manage your supplier and customer agreements in Zudello, with automatic extraction to pull key details directly from your documents. We've made two improvements to give you more control over how contracts are processed and enriched.

  • Rescan contracts from the interface
    • You can now trigger a rescan of a contract directly from the interface to re-run extraction and enrichment against the latest document content.
    • This makes it easy to refresh contract data without needing to re-upload or recreate the record.
  • Automatic supplier and customer matching on contracts
    • Contracts can now be configured to automatically link to a supplier or customer record.
    • Once matched, Zudello applies any relevant defaults from that record — such as default coding, payment terms, and addresses — so your contracts stay consistent with the rest of your data.
    • Admin users can configure the matching direction (supplier or customer) from the document type settings.

Export permission improvements

Zudello's export tools let you extract data from the platform for reporting, reconciliation, and integration purposes. We've added a new permission level to give you more control over who can access export data.

  • View own exports permission
    • A new permission level lets you grant users access to view only their own exported data, without giving them access to exports run by other users.
    • This makes it easier to align export access with your organisation's security policies, without restricting users from getting the data they need.
    • When an export is ready, the notification email now includes a direct link to the exports page so users can access their data straight away.

For more information on exports, see Exporting records.

Other improvements

Infrastructure and performance improvements

  • We've made a number of backend improvements to improve the stability and reliability of the Zudello app.

Resolutions

We're constantly working to refine Zudello functionality and ensure that we address any issues as soon as possible. As part of this release, we've made the following resolutions and improvements:

  • We've fixed an issue where users were sometimes redirected back to the login screen when selecting a team, requiring them to log in a second time.

Have an idea?

Do you have an idea for a new feature or how we can improve our current features? Let us know at support@zudello.com.

Your ideas and feedback are an important part of our product planning process to make Zudello better for everyone.

Release notes edition 3.7.3

Release date: Wednesday 25 March 2026
Version: v3

Here's the latest summary of what's new and improved in Zudello, as well as what we resolved in the latest release.

In this release:

  • New customer and supplier address validation
  • Enhanced email body extraction
  • Bug fixes and more

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New and improved

Address validation

Zudello's validation extensions let you configure rules that check documents for errors or missing information before they progress through your workflow. We've added two new address validation extensions to help you catch address issues early.

  • Verified customer address (Supplier and Customer submodules)
    • This extension checks that the customer or supplier being has at least one address that can be verified through Google Maps.
    • You can apply this extension to supplier and customer records.

  • Delivery address on file (all Purchasing and Sales Submodules)
    • This extension checks that the delivery address on a document matches one of the addresses saved against the customer or supplier.
    • You can apply this extension to purchasing and sales documents.

Both extensions can be configured as a note, warning, or error-level validation, giving you control over how strictly each check is enforced.

Other improvements

  • Allocation values update when line amounts change
    • Allocations are the driving force behind Zudello's two and three-way matching
    • Allocation values are now automatically recalculated when line amounts change on a transaction, so your allocations stay accurate even after any manual edits.
  • Improved email body extraction
    • We've improved how Zudello recognises and categorises email body extractions, making the process more reliable when extracting transaction information directly from email content rather than attachments.

Resolutions

We're constantly working to refine Zudello functionality and ensure that we address any issues as soon as possible. As part of this release, we've made the following resolutions and improvements:

  • We've fixed an issue where duplicate records were sometimes created during purchasing invoice creation.
  • We've resolved an issue where quantities were not allocated correctly to purchase orders when a unit of measure conversion was involved.
  • We've fixed an issue where some users were unable to bypass or resolve a validation error.

Have an idea?

Do you have an idea for a new feature or how we can improve our current features? Let us know at support@zudello.com.

Your ideas and feedback are an important part of our product planning process to make Zudello better for everyone.

Release notes edition 3.6.11

Release date: 29 October 2025
Version: v3

Here's the latest summary of what's new and improved in Zudello, as well as what we resolved in the latest release.

In this release:

  • New inline calculator for faster data entry
  • Enhanced Excel extraction and document matching capabilities
  • Budget improvements, interface enhancements and more

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New and improved

Inline calculator

Data entry often requires quick calculations to determine correct amounts or verify totals. We've introduced an inline calculator that allows you to perform calculations directly within fields, speeding up data entry and reducing errors.

The inline calculator provides:

  • Common calculation operations
    • Access frequently used calculations by hovering over the calculator icon

  • Real-time calculation preview
    • See the result of your calculation as you type

  • Clear error feedback
    • Invalid calculation expressions display an error message, helping you avoid mistakes

This feature streamlines data entry for tasks like calculating totals, adjusting amounts, or verifying discounts, allowing you to work more efficiently within Zudello.

Enhanced Excel extraction

Document extraction converts your uploaded files into structured transaction data. We've improved how Zudello extracts data from Excel files to make the process more predictable and reliable.

Previously, Zudello converted Excel files to PDF before extraction. Now, Zudello extracts data directly from Excel files:

  • Direct Excel processing
    • Data is extracted from the first sheet of your Excel file without conversion
    • Maintains Excel formatting and structure during extraction
    • Provides more accurate and consistent extraction results

This improvement simplifies data extraction and ensures your Excel-based transactions are processed reliably.

Document matching improvements

Document matching helps you link related transactions together, such as matching invoices to purchase orders or receipts to payments. We've made several enhancements to improve matching accuracy and provide better information when matching documents.

Negative line matching

We've added support for matching document lines with negative amounts when using amount-based allocations. This is particularly useful when dealing with negative lines that exist on both matched documents, such as promised discounts that are recorded as negative line items.

The system now correctly matches these negative lines when using amount-based allocation methods, ensuring accurate document linkage across all transaction types.

Enhanced matching information

The document matching modal now displays the reference field, providing more context when you're matching and checking documents. This additional information helps you quickly verify you're matching the correct documents together.

Improved extraction accuracy for similar item codes

Item code matching is a critical part of accurate data extraction. We've enhanced how Zudello matches item codes to improve accuracy when dealing with codes that differ only by hyphens or spaces.

Previously, if you had similar item codes like 7T5412 and 7T-5412, the system might extract one code as the other due to how it handled special characters. The system now:

  • Prioritises exact matches, looking for exact item code matches first before considering alternatives
  • Only searches for similar codes if an exact match doesn't exist
  • Reduces matching errors between codes that differ only by hyphens or spaces

This enhancement ensures that similar-looking item codes are distinguished correctly, reducing manual corrections and improving data quality.

Budget management improvements

Budget management helps you control spending across projects, departments, and other business dimensions. We've refined budget functionality to improve clarity and accuracy.

  • Clearer budget visibility
    • Budgets are now only displayed for modules and submodules where budget functionality is supported
    • Reduces confusion by showing only relevant budget information
  • Cleaner budget communications
    • Budget amounts are now always rounded to two decimal places in approval and notification emails
    • Provides cleaner, more readable budget information in communications

Budget management is currently available for selected teams only. To discuss enabling this feature for your team, reach out to support@zudello.com.

Contract management improvements

Contract management helps you track and enforce contractual obligations across your transactions. We've made the following improvements to enhance reliability and data integrity:

  • Enhanced contract linking
    • Improved reliability when associating contracts with suppliers and customers
    • Better handling of contract-to-transaction associations
  • Improved notification visibility
    • Sales contracts now display notifications after relinking operations
    • Enhanced transparency when contract information is updated
  • Better data integrity
    • Improved processes to prevent accidental data loss when saving contracts
    • More reliable contract information updates without requiring page reloads

Contracts are currently available for selected teams only. To discuss enabling this feature for your team, reach out to support@zudello.com.

Interface improvements

We've made several enhancements to improve visual clarity and navigation efficiency across the system.

  • Improved visibility for line-level validation issues
    • Lines now show the colour of the highest validation level, ensuring you can quickly distinguish between the types of issue

  • Streamlined dependency navigation for faster workflows
    • When coding or editing documents, you can now view field dependencies without needing to save the document first
    • This reduces the time required to process documents with field dependencies
  • Alphabetical sorting of all drop down lists
    • System-wide drop down lists for document types, dimensions, and advanced filters are now sorted alphabetically
    • This applies across all areas of the system and all dimensions, and does not require any action from users

Performance improvements

We've made system optimisations to improve overall responsiveness and reliability:

  • Enhanced data fetching and refresh operations for faster document loading
  • Improved system performance when processing large volumes of documents
  • Better handling of concurrent operations to ensure consistent response times

Resolutions

We're constantly working to refine Zudello functionality and ensure that we address any issues as soon as possible. As part of this release, we've made the following resolutions and improvements:

  • We've enhanced automation reliability to ensure workflows process documents consistently
  • We've resolved an issue where supplier information was removed from the document matching modal
  • We've fixed currency exchange rate calculation issues to ensure accurate foreign currency conversions
  • We've resolved several interface issues, including those introduced by new features
  • We've improved the stability and reliability of calculator functionality
  • We've fixed an issue where expense amortisation fields weren't displaying during the import process
  • We've made mileage rate data permissions accessible to end users
  • We've resolved an issue where negative line amounts resulted in approval errors
  • We've improved email processing by trimming excessively long email subject lines during ingestion

Have an idea?

Do you have an idea for a new feature or how we can improve our current features? Let us know at support@zudello.com.

Your ideas and feedback are an important part of our product planning process to make Zudello better for everyone.

Release notes edition 3.6.10

Release date: 22 October 2025
Version: v3

Here's the latest summary of what's new and improved in Zudello, as well as what we resolved in the latest release.

In this release:

  • New price books feature for advanced pricing management
  • Enhanced automation workflows with improved supplier assignee functionality
  • Reporting functionality for approvals, budgets, and more

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New and improved

Price books

Price books allow you to manage item pricing based on specific customers, suppliers, projects, or other business dimensions. This feature automatically applies appropriate pricing and validates special rates across your transactions.

Price books provide comprehensive pricing management:

  • Automatic price application
    • Correct pricing is automatically filled when creating requisitions or purchase orders
    • Special pricing is validated when receiving customer orders or supplier invoices
  • Flexible routing options
    • Transactions with pricing discrepancies can be routed through custom approval workflows
    • Configure routing based on your specific business requirements

Price book functionality includes full integration with requisitions, purchase orders, customer orders, and supplier documents. See Price books for more.

Advanced document validation

Document validation checks your transactions for accuracy and completeness before you open them. This allows you to focus only on those documents that need your attention, and automate those that don't.

In this release, we've made validation errors clearer, more flexible, and more automated.

Automated validation

Document validation is now performed automatically when a document is uploaded, without a user needing to open the document. This provides additional automation capabilities, and allows your team to focus only on those documents that require your attention.

Automated validation is now enabled by default for all existing and new teams.

Enhanced validation feedback

Understanding why documents have validation errors is now easier and clearer:

  • Fixed validation column
    • A dedicated error column in the lines table shows all validation issues at a glance
    • Click on error indicators to see detailed explanations for each line
  • Detailed calculation information
    • For validation errors involving calculations, we now show the applied formulas and discrepancies
    • This helps you quickly understand and resolve issues to continue processing

Expanded validation flexibility

We've added new Required if validation options:

  • Support for Any of value rules
    • You can now use Any of conditions when setting up field requirements, which make one field required if another field is set to one of a number of values.
    • E.g. Cost centre is required if account is any of Equipment, Staff Costs, or Entertainment

Automation enhancements

Automations help streamline your document workflows by automatically performing actions based on predefined rules. We've now improved supplier assignee functionality and validation condition options.

  • Supplier assignee actions

    • We've restored full functionality for automation workflows that use supplier assignees
  • Enhanced condition options

    • When setting up conditions for assignees, use the "is not empty" option instead of "is set" for better reliability
    • We're working on improving the interface to prevent configuration mistakes in future releases

Reporting launch

Comprehensive reporting capabilities are now available to help you analyse approval workflows, budget performance, and other key business metrics.

Reporting includes:

  • Approval dashboard
    • Get an instant overview of all pending approvals, including information on any escalations and exceptions
    • Find the bottlenecks in your approval process with reporting on average time to approve, number of escalations, and number of rejections per user
  • Accrual reports
    • See the combined impact of outstanding orders and invoices that are yet to be processed
  • Budget dashboard
    • A dedicated dashboard for budget reporting and analysis

Detailed documentation on the reporting feature will be available soon. In the meantime, if you have any questions about reporting please reach out to support@zudello.com.

Email sales order extraction

We've restored and enhanced the ability to extract sales orders directly from email content, making it easier to process orders received in email format. Improvements include:

  • Enhanced rescanning capability
    • Documents ingested from email bodies can now be rescanned if needed
    • Improved processing reliability for email-based transactions
  • Bug fixes and optimisations
    • Resolved issues affecting email extraction accuracy and performance

Contracts beta launch

Say hello to Zudello's advanced contract management capabilities directly. We're launching our brand new contracts feature to selected customers only.

Comprehensive contract management

The new contracts feature includes:

  • Flexible contract types
    • Fixed price contracts with transaction impact visibility
    • Threshold contracts with usage tracking and impact reporting
  • Contract lifecycle management
    • Navigation and permissions for contracts, contract groups, and contract categories
    • Contract owner approvals integrated with existing approval workflows
  • Advanced notifications
    • Automated reminders for contract milestones, renewals, and expiry dates
    • Configurable notification preferences for different contract events

Exception handling and compliance

  • Breach management
    • Clear visibility of contract impacts against transactions
    • Required reason collection when submitting transactions with contract breaches
    • Contract owner approval workflows for transactions exceeding contract terms
  • Sales module integration
    • Limited support for sales transactions with planned expansion

Contracts are currently available for very limited teams only. To discuss enabling this feature for your team, reach out to support@zudello.com.

Detailed documentation on the contracts feature will be available soon.

Enhanced features

Budget management improvements

Budget management helps you control spending across projects, departments, and other business dimensions. We've improved performance and enhanced the linking process between budgets and transactions.

Intelligent budget linking

The system now evaluates when budget lines need to be relinked to transactions:

  • Selective relinking triggers
    • Relinking occurs when dimensions change on budget lines
    • Date modifications trigger relinking for better accuracy
    • Amount changes prompt transaction reassessment
  • Performance optimisations
    • Relinking runs as a background process to prevent timeouts
    • Only necessary changes trigger relinking to improve system performance

Budget dashboard

A dedicated Budget dashboard has been added as part of the new reporting feature.

The budget dashboard:

  • Provides dedicated budget reporting and analysis
  • Allows you to track spending patterns and budget utilisation across your organisation

Budget management and reporting are currently available for selected teams only. To discuss enabling these features for your team, reach out to support@zudello.com.

Document studio enhancements

Document studio empowers you to customise data extraction for your specific document types and formats. We've resolved mapping issues and improved field handling for better extraction accuracy.

Key improvements include:

  • Enhanced unit of measure mapping
    • Resolved field mapping issues for units of measure extraction
    • Improved integration between extraction and enrichment processes
    • Updated prompt requirements for optimal performance

Document studio is currently available for selected teams only. To discuss enabling document studio for your team, reach out to support@zudello.com.

Resolutions

We're constantly working to refine Zudello functionality and ensure that we address any issues as soon as possible. As part of this release, we've made the following resolutions and improvements:

  • We've enhanced system performance through infrastructure updates and optimised backend validation processing
  • We've improved communication between system components to resolve purchase order number generation issues
  • We've enhanced search functionality within list views to prevent system slowdowns when processing large document volumes
  • We've added comprehensive logging to identify and resolve automation interaction issues
  • We've optimised resource usage for teams with extensive document libraries to ensure consistent system responsiveness

Have an idea?

Do you have an idea for a new feature or how we can improve our current features? Let us know at support@zudello.com.

Your ideas and feedback are an important part of our product planning process to make Zudello better for everyone.