Accounts Payable Operations properties
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Summary of Accounts Payable Operations Properties
The Accounts Payable Operations properties form allows administrators to configure parameters that influence invoice line mapping, API ingestion, and exception management. Proper configuration of these properties enhances invoice processing efficiency and accuracy within ServiceNow's Accounts Payable module.
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Key Features
- Invoice Line-Mapping Properties: Control the use of a rules-based engine for mapping invoice lines to purchase orders, and enable manual review of mappings by AP specialists.
- Invoice Ingestion API Properties: Manage the maximum number of invoices processed in a batch via the accounts payable invoice create API, set to a default of 100.
- Exception Management Properties: Define settings for the number of parallel threads used by the exception engine and the wait time before rechecking invoices for exceptions.
- Tax Management Properties: Configure fields that trigger tax recalculation and manage integration with external tax systems, including maximum wait times and batch processing limits.
Key Outcomes
By effectively managing these properties, ServiceNow customers can:
- Streamline the mapping of invoices to purchase orders, leading to fewer errors and improved processing times.
- Enhance the handling of invoice exceptions through efficient scheduling and processing capabilities.
- Ensure compliance and accuracy in tax calculations via robust management of tax-related properties and integration with external systems.
On the Accounts Payable Operations properties form, you can set the parameters that control the invoice line mapping, invoice ingestion for API and exception management.
| Property | Description | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Invoice line-mapping properties | Admin | |
| Enable rules-based engine for invoice line mapping? (Default:Yes) [sn_ap_apm.mapping.enable_rule_based_mapping] | Select the property if you want the rule-based engine to perform the mapping of invoice line with the purchase order lines. Deselect the property, if you don’t want the rules-based engine to perform the invoice line mapping. For more information on invoice line mapping with purchase order line, see Rules based engine. | |
| Review invoice line mappings predicted by rules-based engine? (Default:No) [sn_ap_apm.mapping.review_rule_based_mapping_suggestions] | By default, the property is deselected, and does not allow the AP specialist to review the mapping results generated by rules based engine. Select the property if you want the AP specialist to manually review the mapping results generated by rules based engine, confirm the mapping and change the state to mapping complete. | |
| Review invoice line mappings predicted by Now Assist? (Default:Yes) | By default, the property is selected and allows the AP specialist to review the mapping results generated by Now Assist. After reviewing the mapping results, AP specialist confirms the mapping and changes the state to mapping complete. Deselect the property if you don't want the AP specialist to review the invoice line-mapping results generated by Now Assist. | |
| Invoice ingestion API Properties | ||
| Maximum number of invoices according to batch in accounts payable invoice create API [sn_spend_intg.ap.invoice.create.api.record_limit] | Maximum number of invoices that can be processed in a batch using accounts payable invoice create API. Default value is 100. | |
| Exception management properties | ||
| Number of parallel worker threads for exception engine scheduler? [sn_ap_apm.exception.engine.max_parallel_thread_count] | Defines the number of parallel threads used by the exception engine scheduler to process invoice exceptions. Default value is 4. | |
| Wait time (minutes) before exception engine scheduler rechecks an invoice for exceptions [sn_ap_apm.exception.engine.scheduler_cool_off_period] | Defines the time interval in minutes after which the invoice is picked for processing. Default value is 240. | |
| Formatter fields for invoice exception activity [glide.ui.sn_ap_apm_exception_activity.fields] | Filter that lets you select which of the available fields to show in the invoice exceptions. | |
| Formatter fields for invoice exception line activity [glide.ui.sn_ap_apm_line_exception_activity.fields] | Filter that lets you select which of the available fields to show in the invoice line exceptions. | |
| Formatter fields for invoice tolerance rule activity [glide.ui.sn_ap_apm_invoice_tolerance_rule_activity.fields] | Filter that lets you select which of the available fields to show in the tolerance rules. | |
| Formatter fields for invoice tolerance type activity [glide.ui.sn_ap_apm_invoice_tolerance_type_activity.fields] | Filter that lets you select which of the available fields to show in the tolerance type. | |
| Property | Description | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Invoice line-mapping properties | AP admin | |
| Enable rules-based engine for invoice line mapping? (Default:Yes) [sn_ap_apm.mapping.enable_rule_based_mapping] | Select the property if you want the rule-based engine to perform the mapping of invoice line with the purchase order lines. Deselect the property, if you don’t want the rules-based engine to perform the invoice line mapping. For more information on invoice line mapping with purchase order line, see Rules based engine. | |
| Review invoice line mappings predicted by rules-based engine? (Default:No) [sn_ap_apm.mapping.review_rule_based_mapping_suggestions] | By default, the property is deselected, and does not allow the AP specialist to review the mapping results generated by rules based engine. Select the property if you want the AP specialist to manually review the mapping results generated by rules based engine, confirm the mapping and change the state to mapping complete. | |
| Review invoice line mappings predicted by Now Assist? (Default:Yes) | By default, the property is selected and allows the AP specialist to review the mapping results generated by Now Assist. After reviewing the mapping results, AP specialist confirms the mapping and changes the state to mapping complete. Deselect the property if you don't want the AP specialist to review the invoice line-mapping results generated by Now Assist. | |
| Exception management properties | ||
| Number of parallel worker threads for exception engine scheduler? [sn_ap_apm.exception.engine.max_parallel_thread_count] | Defines the number of parallel threads used by the exception engine scheduler to process invoice exceptions. Default value is 4. | |
| Wait time (minutes) before exception engine scheduler rechecks an invoice for exceptions [sn_ap_apm.exception.engine.scheduler_cool_off_period] | Defines the time interval in minutes after which the invoice is picked for processing. Default value is 240. | |
| Property | Description | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Invoice ingestion API Properties | Integrator | |
| Maximum number of invoices according to batch in accounts payable invoice create API [sn_spend_intg.ap.invoice.create.api.record_limit] | Maximum number of invoices that can be processed in a batch using accounts payable invoice create API. Default value is 100. | |
| Property | Description |
|---|---|
| Tax management properties | |
| List of Invoice fields that, when modified, are eligible for triggering tax recalculation. (Ensure all fields provided are comma-separated and do not have spaces)
[sn_ap_apm.invoice_attributes_for_tax_revalidation] supplier_invoice_number,invoice_date,supplier,legal_entity,subtotal,amount_invoiced_without_tax_transaction_currency,ship_to_street,ship_to_city,ship_to_state_or_province,ship_to_country,ship_to_zip_or_postal_code,ship_from_street,ship_from_city,ship_from_state_or_province,ship_from_country,ship_from_zip_or_postal_code |
The mandatory invoice fields needed for tax engine to automatically trigger re-calculation when invoice data is modified. |
| Maximum time to wait for tax validation from the external tax integration (minutes) [sn_ap_apm.maximum_wait_time_for_tax_validation] | The maximum time in seconds that Accounts Payable Operations will wait for a response from tax engine while performing tax validation on an invoice. |
| Enable integration with external tax system[sn_ap_apm.enable_integration_with_external_tax_system] | Controls whether invoices are sent to external tax engine for automated tax validation. Default value is Yes. |
| List of Invoice line fields that, when modified, are eligible for triggering tax recalculation. (Ensure all fields provided are comma-separated and do not have spaces)
[sn_ap_apm.invoice_line_attributes-for-tax-revalidation] sub_total,line_description |
Determines which line-level field changes are significant enough to require re-sending the invoice line data to tax engine for fresh tax calculation. |
| Number of invoices processed in parallel [sn_ap_apm.external_tax.scheduler.parallel_worker_threads] | Defines the number of parallel worker threads that the tax validation scheduler uses to process invoice tax validations concurrently when sending requests to the external tax engine. |
| Time to wait before revalidating tax on an invoice (minutes) [sn_ap_apm.external_tax.scheduler_cool_off_period] | Defines the waiting period (in seconds) between consecutive executions of the tax validation scheduler job. Default value is 60. |
| Maximum number of invoices sent per batch [sn_ap_apm.external_tax_max_invoices_per_batch] | Maximum number of invoices that can be sent to the external tax engine in a single batch request during tax validation processing. Default value is 1000. |