Now Assist for Accounts Payable Operations (APO)

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  • Updated July 31, 2025
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    Summary of Now Assist for Accounts Payable Operations (APO)

    The ServiceNow® Now Assist for Accounts Payable Operations (APO) application enhances productivity and efficiency for fulfillers by leveraging generative AI. This tool facilitates automatic case creation, invoice summarization, and end-to-end invoice processing workflows.

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    Key Features

    • Automatic case creation and invoice ingestion through generative AI.
    • Configuration options available to tailor the application to specific needs.
    • Support resources include the ServiceNow Community and Known Error Portal.

    Key Outcomes

    By utilizing Now Assist for APO, customers can expect streamlined invoice processing, increased operational efficiency, and improved productivity among their Accounts Payable fulfillers. However, customers in certain environments, such as FedRAMP or self-hosted settings, should verify feature availability.

    It is essential to acknowledge the limitations of AI within the application and employ human oversight to ensure accuracy and appropriateness, especially in critical sectors. Additionally, data processed by this application may be transferred to centralized ServiceNow environments and third-party providers, adhering to ServiceNow's internal policies.

    Use the ServiceNow® Now Assist for APO application to help your fulfillers become more productive and efficient as they work. Through generative AI, you can enable your fulfillers to automatically create cases, summarize and ingest the invoices, and then use workflows to perform end-to-end invoice processing.

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    Important:
    Some Now Assist products/features are currently unavailable for customers in the FedRAMP, NSC DOD IL5, or Australia IRAP-Protected data centers, self-hosted customers, or in other restricted environments. For more information, see the KB0743854 article in the Now Support Knowledge Base. Please check for availability updates in future releases.

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    Data collection

    ServiceNow collects and uses the inputs, outputs, and edits to outputs of this application to develop and improve ServiceNow technologies including ServiceNow models and AI products. Accounts Payable fulfillers can opt out of future data collection at any time, as described in the Now Assist Opt-Out page.

    For more information, see the Now Assist documentation.