Consolidated page of all release notes for Customer self-service for Sales Customer Relationship Management from Yokohama to Australia.
How to use this page
To help you prepare for your upgrade, we have combined the cross-family Customer self-service for Sales Customer Relationship Management release notes onto one page. Read this summary of the new features, changes, and updated information for your product from Yokohama to Australia.
Tip: If there were no updates for a release notes section in a certain family release, we included a short note for your reference. For example, if a product did not have any updates in Tokyo, the row says "No updates for this release."
Important information for upgrading Customer self-service for Sales Customer Relationship Management to Australia
Before you upgrade to Australia, review these pre- and post-upgrade tasks and complete the tasks as needed.
| Release |
Release notes |
Yokohama |
No updates for this release. |
Zurich |
The new order checkout experience and improved cart capabilities are delivered through a new Sales Cart plugin (sn_sales_cart). As an admin, you must perform the Post-upgrade order migration to continue providing a seamless experience for your customers. Failing to perform the upgrade steps can result in your customers losing products added to their carts.
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Australia |
No updates for this release. |
New features
Between your current release family and Australia, new features were introduced for Customer self-service for Sales Customer Relationship Management.
| Release |
Release notes |
Yokohama |
No updates for this release. |
Zurich |
- Delivery note upload for quantity dispute validation
- Provide customers an option to upload a delivery note during invoice case creation so that the invoice dispute intake assistant AI agent can instantly validate quantity disputes and resolve the issue without human
intervention.
- Automated email notifications for order cases
- Keep your customers informed by sending automated emails when the manage order operations AI agent opens an order case from a Business Portal chat conversation and when the case is closed with a successful resolution. The
closure email includes the resolution details, and the quote details when a quote was generated for the case. Order cases that are created through the voice channel don't trigger email notifications.
- Customer-initiated RFQs
- Request quotes for products and services without relying on manual outreach. The RFQ feature in the Business Portal streamlines the quoting process by enabling customers to:
- Submit quote requests from within their portal experience
- Specify the overall budget and cumulative target price for each top-level product
- Track RFQ status and quotes in real time
- Accelerate sales response time with seamless quote-to-order conversion
- Generate quotes from RFQs
- View all RFQs submitted through the Business Portal in the CSM/FSM Configurable Workspace, eliminating the need for managing and tracking them offline. Convert RFQs into quotes with a single action, accelerating the
quote-to-order process, improving turnaround times, and enabling scalable quote management.
- Create orders from the Business Portal
- Deploying the Sales Cart plugin provides the following advantages to your B2B customers when they order products using the Business Portal:
- Preserve products and configurations added to the cart across sessions and devices so customers can review or update their selections without placing an order. They don't have to start their shopping process all over
again if they get interrupted, leave the site, or decide to come back later.
- Enable better collaboration and decision making by downloading a cart summary in PDF format and reviewing products to be purchased and terms and conditions with business stakeholders.
- Sign the acknowledgment section and share the cart summary PDF with the seller to place an offline order.
- Provide the flexibility to select or modify billing and shipping addresses during the checkout process.
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Australia |
Australia Patch 3
- Delivery note upload for quantity dispute validation
- Provide customers an option to upload a delivery note during invoice case creation so that the invoice dispute intake assistant AI agent can instantly validate quantity disputes and resolve the issue without human
intervention.
- Automated email notifications for order cases
- Keep your customers informed by sending automated emails when the manage order operations AI agent opens an order case from a Business Portal chat conversation and when the case is closed with a successful resolution. The
closure email includes the resolution details, and the quote details when a quote was generated for the case. Order cases that are created through the voice channel don't trigger email notifications.
Australia Patch 2
- Resume and submit invoice cases in draft state
- Enable customers to resume working on an invoice case that they couldn't finish submitting in a previous session. They can use the Process tab on the Standard Ticket page to continue editing invoice case and invoice case
line disputes, then submit for further processing.
- Context-aware invoice case line list view
- Enable customers to review invoice case line details that are relevant to how their case was created. The Business Portal displays request source-aware columns in the invoice case line list view, showing specific details
when a case is raised for a single invoice or when it spans multiple invoices.
Australia Patch 1
- AI-powered invoice case management for customers
- Enable customers to report invoice disputes through an AI-powered virtual assistant on the Business Portal. Customers can describe quantity-related discrepancies through natural conversation. The assistant validates details,
creates cases, and autonomously resolves eligible disputes by issuing credit notes or replacement orders or connecting customers with a human agent when needed. Interaction channels include chat and voice options.
- Invoice dispute intake with voice assistant
- Enable customers to report quantity-related invoice disputes using voice commands through an AI-powered voice assistant on the Business Portal. Customers can describe discrepancies through natural speech and the assistant
captures dispute details to create invoice cases or connects customers with a human agent.
- Human agent handoff with context transfer
- Help customers to escalate complex disputes seamlessly to a live agent. The full conversation context, including invoice details, dispute reason, and prior AI actions are transferred to the CSM/FSM Configurable Workspace,
enabling live agents to continue without asking customers to repeat information.
- Now Assist for invoice case resolution
- Help accelerate invoice dispute resolution by surfacing similar cases and common resolution patterns in the Now Assist panel. Agents can request help with an invoice case to view how similar disputes were resolved, reducing research time and improving consistency.
- Automated email notifications for invoice cases
- Keep customers informed with automated email notifications at key points in the invoice case life cycle, including case creation confirmation, resolution details with credit note or replacement order information, and the
next steps for cases requiring human review.
Australia Early Availability
- Invoice management on Business Portal
- Enable your customers to view invoices and invoice line details directly on the Business Portal, providing transparency into quantity, billing location, shipping location, and sold product information.
- Invoice case creation through playbook experience
- Provide self-service capability to your customers to create invoice dispute cases directly from the Business Portal for quantity, pricing, or date discrepancies using a guided self-service experience, supporting both single
invoice and multiple invoice scenarios.
- Invoice case management on Business Portal
- Enable your customers to view and track invoice cases on the Business Portal, reducing support inquiries and keeping them informed on dispute resolution progress.
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Changes
Between your current release family and Australia, some changes were made to existing Customer self-service for Sales Customer Relationship Management features.
| Release |
Release notes |
Yokohama |
No updates for this release. |
Zurich |
- Order exception support for quantity and shipping location requests
- Enable customers to request quantity changes and shipping location updates for existing orders, in addition to expedited delivery, through the chat assistant on the Business Portal.
- Voice assistant intake for order exception requests
- Enable customers to submit expedite, quantity, and shipping location requests through the voice assistant. The voice assistant captures the request and creates an order case for the order case agent to resolve it in the CSM Configurable Workspace.
- Scripted extension points for order exception checks and quote thresholds
- Provide administrators pluggable scripted extension points so they can integrate the chat assistant with their inventory, ERP, and quote systems for delivery availability, quantity validation, shipping location validation,
and quote threshold evaluation.
- Consolidated extension point for order exception feasibility checks
- Provide a single scripted extension point (sn_ord_ops_aias.orderExceptionCheckEP) for the manage order operations chat assistant to validate delivery availability, quantity, and shipping location feasibility for
order exception requests. This extension point replaces sn_ord_ops_aias.orderExpeditionCheckEP, which previously handled only available-to-promise (ATP) checks for expedited delivery.
- Account and contact populated on interaction records for order exception chats
- Provide live agents with the customer's account and contact details on the interaction record when an order exception chat is handed off from the Business Portal. The Account and Contact fields are auto-populated on the
interaction record during the virtual assistant conversation, so the live agent immediately sees the customer context, and the chat summarization feature can summarize the conversation by using those details.
- AI-generated chat summary for live agent handoff
- Provide human agents with an AI-generated summary of the customer's prior virtual assistant conversation at the point of live agent handoff, replacing the full conversation history to accelerate context understanding and
improve agent productivity.
- Order line quantity validation for invoice disputes
- Provide the invoice dispute support assistant AI with an additional validation source for quantity disputes by checking order line quantities when sold product records are unavailable, supporting scenarios such as new
orders, non-serialized products, and consumable services. The assistant auto-approves eligible disputes and escalates to a human agent only when order data is ambiguous or missing.
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Australia |
Australia Patch 3
- Order exception support for quantity and shipping location requests
- Enable customers to request quantity changes and shipping location updates for existing orders, in addition to expedited delivery, through the chat assistant on the Business Portal.
- Voice assistant intake for order exception requests
- Enable customers to submit expedite, quantity, and shipping location requests through the voice assistant. The voice assistant captures the request and creates an order case for the order case agent to resolve it in the CSM Configurable Workspace.
- Scripted extension points for order exception checks and quote thresholds
- Provide administrators pluggable scripted extension points so they can integrate the chat assistant with their inventory, ERP, and quote systems for delivery availability, quantity validation, shipping location validation,
and quote threshold evaluation.
- Consolidated extension point for order exception feasibility checks
- Provide a single scripted extension point (sn_ord_ops_aias.orderExceptionCheckEP) for the manage order operations chat assistant to validate delivery availability, quantity, and shipping location feasibility for
order exception requests. This extension point replaces sn_ord_ops_aias.orderExpeditionCheckEP, which previously handled only available-to-promise (ATP) checks for expedited delivery.
- Account and contact populated on interaction records for order exception chats
- Provide live agents with the customer's account and contact details on the interaction record when an order exception chat is handed off from the Business Portal. The Account and Contact fields are auto-populated on the
interaction record during the virtual assistant conversation, so the live agent immediately sees the customer context, and the chat summarization feature can summarize the conversation by using those details.
- AI-generated chat summary for live agent handoff
- Provide human agents with an AI-generated summary of the customer's prior virtual assistant conversation at the point of live agent handoff, replacing the full conversation history to accelerate context understanding and
improve agent productivity.
- Order line quantity validation for invoice disputes
- Provide the invoice dispute support assistant AI with an additional validation source for quantity disputes by checking order line quantities when sold product records are unavailable, supporting scenarios such as new
orders, non-serialized products, and consumable services. The assistant auto-approves eligible disputes and escalates to a human agent only when order data is ambiguous or missing.
Australia Patch 2
- Chat recommendations and quick actions in Active Chat
- Enable live agents to generate AI-recommended responses in Active Chat within the CSM/FSM Configurable Workspace, then review, optionally edit, and insert the response into the conversation. Agents can also use quick actions
to perform common tasks such as creating cases, searching knowledge articles, summarizing chat conversations, and transferring chats directly from the Active Chat interface.
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Removed
Between your current release family and Australia, some Customer self-service for Sales Customer Relationship Management features or functionality were removed.
| Release |
Release notes |
Yokohama |
No updates for this release. |
Zurich |
No updates for this release. |
Australia |
No updates for this release. |
Deprecations
Between your current release family and Australia, some Customer self-service for Sales Customer Relationship Management features or functionality were deprecated.
| Release |
Release notes |
Yokohama |
No updates for this release. |
Zurich |
No updates for this release. |
Australia |
No updates for this release. |
Activation information
Review information on how to activate Customer self-service for Sales Customer Relationship Management.
| Release |
Release notes |
Yokohama |
No updates for this release. |
Zurich |
Install the following applications by requesting them from the ServiceNow Store:
- Customer Request for Quote plugin (sn_cust_rfq)
- Sales Cart plugin (sn_sales_cart)
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Australia |
The Business Portal application (sn_b2b_portal) is automatically installed when you install the Customer Service Portal (sn_csm_portal). Install the Customer
Service Portal by requesting it from the ServiceNow Store. Visit the ServiceNow Store to view all the available apps, and for information about submitting requests to the store. For cumulative release notes information for all released apps, see the ServiceNow Store version history release notes.
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Additional requirements
If any additional requirements were introduced or changed for Customer self-service for Sales Customer Relationship Management we have noted them here.
| Release |
Release notes |
Yokohama |
No updates for this release. |
Zurich |
No updates for this release. |
Australia |
No updates for this release. |
Browser requirements
If any specific browser requirements were introduced or changed for Customer self-service for Sales Customer Relationship Management we have noted them here.
| Release |
Release notes |
Yokohama |
No updates for this release. |
Zurich |
No updates for this release. |
Australia |
No updates for this release. |
Accessibility information
Review details on accessibility information for Customer self-service for Sales Customer Relationship Management, such as specific requirements or compliance levels.
| Release |
Release notes |
Yokohama |
No updates for this release. |
Zurich |
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Australia |
No updates for this release. |
Localization information
If there are specific localization considerations for Customer self-service for Sales Customer Relationship Management we have noted them here.
| Release |
Release notes |
Yokohama |
No updates for this release. |
Zurich |
No updates for this release. |
Australia |
No updates for this release. |
Highlight information
If there are specific highlight considerations for Customer self-service for Sales Customer Relationship Management we have noted them here.
| Release |
Release notes |
Yokohama |
No updates for this release. |
Zurich |
- Enable business-to-business (B2B) customers to request quantity changes and shipping location updates for their existing orders, in addition to expedited delivery, through AI-powered chat and voice assistants.
- Provide customers with an automatically generated quote when a quantity-change request exceeds the configured price threshold.
- Provide customers an option to upload a delivery note during invoice case creation so that the invoice dispute intake assistant AI agent can instantly validate quantity disputes.
- Enable customers to request for quotes (RFQ) from the Business Portal, improving customer autonomy and reducing sales cycle time.
- Provide a persistent shopping cart experience to your B2B customers.
- Enable your customers to download and share their cart summary with other stakeholders.
- Provide seamless order checkout and an easy order creation process to your customers.
See Self-Service for Sales and Order Management for more information.
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Australia |
Australia Patch 3
- Enable business-to-business (B2B) customers to request quantity changes and shipping location updates for their existing orders, in addition to expedited delivery, through AI-powered chat and voice assistants.
- Provide customers with an automatically generated quote when a quantity-change request exceeds the configured price threshold.
- Provide customers an option to upload a delivery note during invoice case creation so that the invoice dispute intake assistant AI agent can instantly validate quantity disputes.
Australia Patch 2
- Enable customers to resume and submit invoice cases in draft state.
- Review invoice case line details that are relevant to how your case was created.
Australia Patch 1
- Enable customers to create invoice dispute cases through AI-powered chat and voice assistants that guide them through conversational dispute intake on the Business Portal.
- Provide uninterrupted handoff to human agents to support complex use cases, with full conversation context transferred to the CSM/FSM Configurable Workspace.
Australia Early Availability
- Enable customers to create invoice dispute cases for quantity, pricing, or date discrepancies through an intuitive playbook experience.
- Enable customers to view invoices and invoice details directly from the Business Portal, providing transparency into billing information.
- Provide customers with visibility into invoice case status, resolution steps, and associated invoice lines to track dispute progress.
See Self-service using Business Portal for more information.
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