Setting up Accounts Payable Automation

To set up Accounts Payable Automation, you must complete the following tasks:

Prerequisites

The Scanned Document Configuration Settings is a protected custom setting and must be configured by Certinia Support.

This setting controls access to Accounts Payable Automation and your environments.

Remote Site Settings - Accounts Payable Automation

You must register a new remote site setting before it can be configured for Accounts Payable Automation.

The remote site setting must be configured with the OCR provider’s URL. Set the URL - https://custom-ocr.klippa.com as the default value.

For more information, see the Salesforce Help.

Setting up Email Service for Scanned Payable Documents

Note: This feature is part of the Certinia Early Adopter Program. This program is only available to a limited number of customers. For more information, contact your Customer Success Manager.

Configure the email service to receive invoice attachments before sending the invoices to the designated email address.

To set up an email service:

  1. Navigate to Email Services and click New Email Service.
  2. Create the email service using the FDN Managed “ScannedPayableDocumentEmailService” global apex class for Accounts Payable Automation. Ensure that the Accept Attachments field is set to Binary attachments only while creating the email service.
  3. An email address can be used as a generic email address for all companies.
Note: Depending on the requirement, you can choose to specify the company's specific email address on the Scanned Payable Document Email of the Foundations Company object.

For more information on Defining an Email Address, see the Salesforce Help.

For more information on Email Services, see the Salesforce Help.

Additional Considerations for Sandbox or Production Environments

If you want to configure a sandbox or production environment for testing, you must ensure that the following are correctly configured:

  • Protected Custom Settings
  • Remote Site Settings

Protected Custom Settings

The Scanned Document Configuration Settings must be configured by Certinia Support for your sandbox or production environment.

Remote Site Settings

The remote site settings must be configured with the OCR provider’s URL. Set the URL - https://custom-ocr.klippa.com as the default value.

Permission Sets

Ensure that the following permission sets are assigned to the context user of the email service, when setting up the Accounts Payable Automation.

  • FDN - Manage Scanned Payable Invoice
  • Accounting - Payable Invoice