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- Document Capture
- Document Capture version overview
Highlights in Document Capture 2024 R2 (25.00)
- Unified cross-company approvals: Simplify your approvals in the Web Approval Portal with a unified dashboard view—no more switching between companies or approval types.
- Integrated purchase contract approvals: Streamline your purchase contract reviews with a process that’s now fully integrated into your existing approval workflow. Save time by managing your contract approvals from the cross-company dashboard in the Web Approval Portal and easily link purchase invoices to purchase contracts.
- AI-assisted sales document processing: Speed up your sales document processing with AI-driven data capture that auto-fills the correct fields for you. You can also easily create customers from sales documents, just like creating vendors from purchase documents.
- Advanced eOrdering flow: Increase your efficiency with Continia eDocuments' advanced ordering flow. With support for two new document types, eOrder Cancelation and eOrder Change, you can quickly approve, reject, or modify orders, ensuring smoother communication between sellers and buyers.
- Check partner e-document capabilities: Automatically identify your customers' and vendors' e-document capabilities so you can switch to a faster, more accurate communication process.
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Highlights in Document Capture 2024 R1 (24.00)
- Continia eDocuments: Effortlessly manage and exchange your electronic documents according to European and national legislation within your existing workflow with this all-in-one, flexible module.
- Automatic creation of digital vouchers: Effortlessly meet the digital voucher requirement. Document Capture automatically generates digital vouchers for your transactions, enhancing the Business Central feature.
- Enforced digital voucher verification: Ensure you’ve entered the digital age by automatically verifying your digital voucher's presence right before invoice posting, streamlining document management, and compliance.
- AI-enhanced line recognition: Experience unmatched accuracy with AI-enhanced line recognition, ensuring detailed recognition on your purchase documents. To extend the AI functionality, you can easily shape the solution to your needs.
- New data maintenance functionality: Simplify your data management and comply with GDPR by automating your cleanup processes with cleanup job queues. Automatically delete captured words, generated values, and entire documents based on the status and age of each document.
- Document integrity with Secure Archive: Maintain your document’s integrity with automatic flagging of post-approval document changes. Easily identify and address any discrepancies from a centralized overview of documents you need to review.
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Highlights in Document Capture 2023 R2 (12.00)
- Purchase Contract Intelligence: Boost your contract management efficiency. The Purchase Contract module detects patterns in incoming and previously posted invoices, suggesting contract creation for recurring invoices and streamlining the process.
- Secure Archive: This feature ensures that your original digital bookkeeping documents are stored securely, preserving their integrity, traceability, and compliance with secure periods defined by local legislation. It includes a built-in logging feature to track each document's journey from receipt to final bookkeeping entry.
- Try out Purchase Contracts: Experience the power of Purchase Contracts in your production environment - without commitment. Just activate the module in trial mode and receive expert guidance through the setup process, ensuring you can fully explore its benefits and see the impact on your operations at no additional cost for the first 30 days.
- Dynamic columns in the document journal: Enhance your document journal list with the ability to configure dynamic columns. Enjoy personalized views, the flexibility to include specific data, and sorting and filtering options for enhanced organization.
- Notifications for admins about open documents: Stay ahead of delays and enhance workflow efficiency. Ensure unprocessed documents receive immediate attention by automatically notifying designated admins via email.
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Highlights in Document Capture 2023 R1 (11.00)
- Support for purchase and return orders in approval workflows: Approve your purchase and return orders using Document Capture's outstanding approval workflow functionality. You can approve them quickly with all existing Continia workflow features, including the Web Approval Portal.
- New category for creating and updating purchase orders: Reduce manual typing and eliminate errors by automatically creating and updating your purchase orders based on order confirmations sent by your vendor.
- Support for prepayments: Easily manage advanced payments required by vendors for goods and services. Document Capture automatically posts documents as prepayment invoices when identified or marked as prepayments, linking them to an associated purchase order.
- Create general journal lines without a vendor balancing account: Increase flexibility with small purchases by selecting a bank or G/L balancing account instead of the default vendor account.
- Support for Business Central Universal Code initiative: Keep compliant with Microsoft's Universal Code initiative so you can continue to use all the powerful Document Capture on-premises features as usual.
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Highlights in Document Capture 2022 R2 (10.00)
- New add-on module: Purchase Contracts: Managing contracts has never been easier. Handle purchase contracts efficiently and effectively directly from Document Capture.
- Resize the document viewer: The possibility to adjust the size of the page part showing the document image, giving you a better overview of the entire document page.
- Caption suggestions for master template fields: Suggest captions for the master template fields based on captions already used for vendor template fields which will improve the recognition accuracy of future templates.
- Assisted setup guide for creating new template fields: Create new template fields without the risk of deleting mandatory existing fields or otherwise breaking the template, making it easier and faster to create new ones.
- Auto-register option on the template: The template option Register Documents Automatically enables you to auto-register documents that are 100% OK. The feature can be activated on individual templates to speed up document handling for selected vendors.
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Highlights in Document Capture 2022 R1 (9.00)
- Registration of documents directly to General Journal Lines: Useful in situations where no document approval or detailed posting information is necessary, for example, one-time vendors that are unnecessary to register in full.
- Amount limits for approval flow codes and four-eye approval: Introduced for a faster approval flow by ensuring that only the necessary number of people are involved in the approval processes and applying amount limits to trigger four-eye approval.
- Inclusion of purchase reason codes when exporting the Document Capture setup: Easier and faster implementation upon setting up multiple companies.
- Attaching files from the Approval Entries page: Speeds up the approval process by making it significantly easier to attach additional files without opening individual records.
- More drag-and-drop possibilities: Include several additional standard Business Central pages, making it easier for you to attach files to posted documents in Business Central.
- More teaching tips
- Support for Finnish and Polish localizations (including translations)
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Highlights in Document Capture 2021 R2 (8.00)
- Export vendor document attachments: Export all documents in bulk simply by running a report. Useful if, for example, auditors ask for all invoices received within a certain period from a particular vendor.
- Teaching tour and tips: Teaching tips make it easier for new users to start using Continia Document Capture.
- New ready-to-use OCR categories: New categories have been added for attaching files to purchase receipts, customers, vendors, and employees. Having all relevant documents readily available in one place saves valuable time looking for them.
- Fraud detection: To minimize fraud, additional checks will be added for any captured bank account number and VAT number.
- Calculate date values: Use formulas in template date fields to combine recognized values and add/subtract a date value from a recognized value.
- New possibilities for electronic invoicing with OIOUTS and ZUGFeRD
- Configurable messages: Further comments are configurable, enabling you to assign documents in additional scenarios automatically. You can configure the comments individually on each template or as a global setting.
Dive a little deeper into the features with these video walkthroughs:
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Highlights in Document Capture 2021 R1 (7.00)
- Force registration: Force register invoices or credit notes with a minimum of recognized information (vendor and amounts).
- Copy master template field: Make desired changes in a master template and automatically push these changes to all related templates. Add an entirely new field to the master template and push it to all associated templates.
- Out of office: Apply your Out of Office settings to a single or all companies in your organization.
- Drag and drop in the document journal card: Include additional attachments before registering the document.
- Intercompany posting in the Web Approval Portal: Enables approvers to fully specify Intercompany-related information in purchase documents during the approval process.
- Continia Delivery Network: Integrates with the PEPPOL eDelivery Network, enabling you to receive electronic purchase invoices and credit memos directly in Business Central.
- Notification and links to incomplete setup: You're notified when the assisted setup is unfinished in the role center. You have direct access to the list of assisted and manual setup areas from the Document Capture Setup page.
Dive a little deeper into the features with these video walkthroughs:
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Highlights in Document Capture 2020 R2 (6.50)
- Extended texts for items: For items configured with extended texts, the detailed text is added to the invoice line when registering the document.
- Manual and automatic delegation: Delegate a specific document to a selected colleague on demand, either manually or set up automatically.
- Order match: add and split order lines: Add new lines or split existing order lines directly from the matching page during the purchase order matching process.
- Order match: line variance: Configure the purchase order/receipt match to allow unit price variance on the invoice line.
- Order match: serial lot number: Assign the invoice lines to the lot/serial numbers during matching.
- Automatic line calculation: Automatically delegate documents whenever certain conditions apply.
Dive a little deeper into the features with these video walkthroughs:
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Highlights in version 6.00
This version of Document Capture introduced a new module for handling electronic purchase invoices and credit memos while still using Continia Document Capture's functionality, XML Import.
The module can show an HTML view created from standard stylesheets and the raw electronic document (XML) in a user-friendly presentation on a standard NAV/BC page. The XML module can be fully customized to allow handling other types of electronic documents (e.g., catalogs, price lists, etc.).
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Highlights in versions 5.00 and 5.50
Version 5.00 and 5.50 introduced several technological improvements, including the ABBYY FineReader version 12, which contains a wide range of OCR data recognition enhancements. Some of the significant news in this version includes;
- Improved activation process: Ensures a fast and easy setup.
- Simplified layout on multiple pages: Optimize the user experience with a better overview and show/hide options.
- Continia Web Portal: Office 365 logins are supported.
- Document categories
- Enhanced purchase approval