We've recently introduced the ability to make the External Reference field in the GTM Request Wizard a mandatory field. This can be very handy if you're needing your buyers to enter in a particular reference against their requests.
This is controlled Local Group by Local Group. Please contact Support if you wish to have this turned on for your enterprise.
Hey everyone!
New Unimarket Updates Are Here!
We've just dropped hotly-requested enhancements to Supplier Documents and RFQ Communications.
Next week: 1099 Reporting details for US customers! And exciting news, AI Invoice Extraction is right around the corner!
Supplier Documents
Communities have had the ability to load documents onto their Suppliers for a long time. However this is only available in the main Documents tab, not the Business Classification or Insurance Certificate tabs.
It’s important that Communities are able to load a complete view of compliances without relying on Suppliers updating data, and our new functionality will allow you to upload all document types:
The Show to Buyers checkbox can be used to display these documents in the Supplier Store in the Marketplace. This can help ensure Buyers have visibility of all required documents to make an informed purchasing decision.
You can find more information about this feature here.
RFQ Email Template
Communities now have the option to save an email template to be prepopulated in the Request Quote process. This is important to ensure consistent messaging and that suppliers receive all critical information.
This email builder can be found in a new tab in Community Admin → Modules → Procurement → Management → called RFQ Email
For more details on this and all our other Procurement settings, see here.
Expenses Professional enhancements
We've been seeing some great feedback from customers adopting Expenses Pro. Recently we've added:
- The ability to Archive any Credit Card Transactions or Receipts that aren't required, helping ensure Disputed payments don't stay stuck in the system!
- New filtering options, such as filtering by state.
- Better handling of Declined expenses, so that Credit Card Transactions & Receipts can be assigned to a new Expense Claim and submitted successfully.
What's Coming
Stay tuned for more news on 1099 Reporting in the coming week!
New Supplier Filtering Experience for ESG Credentials
We’re excited to announce an impactful new way to discover and engage with suppliers that hold the ESG credentials that we provide all our customers as part of our standard Supplier Intelligence offer.
Previously, finding suppliers with specific credentials required careful inspection of individual profiles as the credential was nestled under a high level theme that linked up to the 12 UN Sustainable Goals.
Now, that’s changed.
With our latest update, you can filter suppliers directly by verified social and sustainability credentials. Whether you’re looking to support Indigenous-owned businesses, environmentally certified suppliers, or suppliers that have a current modern slavery statement, you’ll find them clearly identified and easy to engage with.
Free ESG Credentials available following 30-Apr-2025 evening release:
This improvement also unlocks meaningful reporting on your engagement with credentialed suppliers, helping you track and communicate your impact with confidence!
Get ready for some exciting upgrades to how you and your Suppliers connect on our platform! In the coming weeks we're rolling out key improvements to how suppliers access public tenders.
What's New?
We are thrilled about these changes, designed to boost your experience by helping Suppliers connect with the right opportunities. And, as always, if you have any questions, our support team is here to help.
To address feedback, we'd received on our approvals screens we've made some updates to separate in system approvals and DocuSign approvals, the functionality is unchanged, but the updated UI makes it clearer where an approval is up to and what type of approval it is
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Previously Procurement Numbers were generated automatically in the background, now the Procurement Number is a step in the process and based on your system settings the number can also be manually entered or automatically generated
Custom Reporting Fields can now be included in documents generated from the system for the Contracts and Procurement module. Examples of how to use this are in our merge codes and default templates or reach out to support for further assistance
Other Enhancements
Hi there
We recently released a number of changes in our Invoicing module to make life easier for your Accounts Payable teams, especially when working in the Invoice Inbox.
We'll have more updates later this month with additional enhancements to both the Invoice Inbox & Create Invoice screen, as well as an update on our upcoming Invoice Extraction features.
Tags Filter
We know a lot of customers utilise tags to help manage which team member is assigned to an Invoice, whether an item is currently on Hold or all sorts of other states.
We've just introduced a new filter option, which will let you see any items without tags. Just select the "No Tag Assigned" option at the top to filter down to these!
Attachment Handling
We have now improved our attachment filtering within the Invoice Inbox. There are two key highlights:
- Any suspicious files are automatically removed without blocking the whole Invoice Item. You can still process the message within the Invoice Inbox, but feel safe that the file has been removed!
- Any files under a 30KB limit will be automatically removed. This limit has been set to filter out any email signature images and other small files that might be attached. This excludes any PDFs and any Email Subject files if you're using that feature.
For more information on this filtering, please refer to our help documentation here.
Expenses - Sortable Columns
One more feature to highlight for our users in the expenses module. In the View Expenses menu we now allowing sorting on certain columns. This will help you quickly identify expenses as per your rules and get them reimbursed quickly!
What's Coming
Stay tuned for more news in the coming week!
Supplier Intelligence (SI) is a powerful solution designed to provide organizations with verified, meaningful, real-time information on their suppliers. By aggregating and displaying validated credentials against the Supplier profile and enabling users to filter to find suppliers with specific credentials, Supplier Intelligence supports better decision-making in procurement.
Supplier Intelligence is a structured framework that aggregates and organizes verified supplier data into Credentials, which represent specific, validated attributes about a supplier. Each Credential is formed through a combination of a Source and an Indicator:
For example:
✅ Credential: Compliance
🔗 Source: Rapid Global
📊 Indicator: Non-compliant
Supplier Intelligence Credentials are consumed by Go to Market with Credentials appearing (in full detail) on the supplier profile and icons can be filtered on in Supplier Discovery making it super easy for buyers to find best-fit suppliers.
Managing Custom SI Credentials
Custom SI Credentials allow organization's to collate their own internally managed information on suppliers and neatly present it on the supplier profile in Go to Market. The new Supplier Intelligence Editor Console supports effortless management of supplier data and ensures it's presented where ever relevant or necessary.
📞 Contact your Customer Success Manager to discuss how Supplier Intelligence can support your procurement strategy.
We are excited to share the latest updates and improvements we've made to enhance your experience. Based on valuable feedback from our clients, we've focused on refining key integrations and the first parts of a broader improvement to our DocuSign integration.
We have enhanced our existing Civica Integration to include Civica Altitude. Please note, this change only affects the authentication workflow with Civica; the processes for creating contracts and pulling contract spend remain unchanged.
We have improved the error handling for the DocuSign integration as part of a larger update to the DocuSign integration. This enhancement aims to reduce the number of issues where DocuSign integrations fail. Instead of needing to contact support, the system will now prompt you with the necessary steps to resolve any issues.
We have updated the email content from DocuSign to include a title with the record type (e.g., Contract) and the reference (e.g., Contract Number). This improvement is designed to help you quickly identify the purpose of the DocuSign approval.
Hi again,
We're excited to announce that our suite of Expense Pro features are now available and ready for use!
If you haven't looked at our Expenses Management suite in the past, the module allows buyers to easily submit their expenses for reimbursement. It utilizes a great range of familiar Unimarket features:
With Expenses Pro, our key new features will help you Reconcile your Credit Card Transactions and simplify loading Receipts and other Attachments onto Expenses.
Full details of our Expenses offering are available here. Please reach out to our team if you're interested in exploring these more!
What's Changed?
If you currently issue credit cards to your buyers and allow them to make purchases with these, we have new automated support to bring those transactions into Unimarket.
This can be done regularly via SFTP, or imported via our new menu:
The user can take these Credit Card transactions as the base to build out their Expense Claims & ensure they are costed to the right Account Codes and all other supporting information is present.
Any outstanding transactions also form part of the emailed Tasks Digest. You'll notice the red icon in the top right of the image above, reminding the user to action these!
To help speed up the reconciliation, users will be able to email in their receipt attachments to our new Receipt Inbox.
If the email address matches the email on their user profile, we'll automatically assign that to their User account.
If you're familiar with our Invoice Inbox, this screen has been designed to work in a similar way, with great features like Notes and an expanded view of the Email contents.
Together, these new screens will help you speed up the Expense Claim creation:
We've also taken this time to address key pieces of feedback in Expenses
What's Next
More change is coming to help with the Team Management of card transactions, and to give additional options in reporting and exporting.
There's a lot of work underway in our Invoicing module too, including AI data extraction, new options to help streamline 1099 reporting, and further enhancements to our Peppol e-Invoicing. We'll share details of these soon!
Hello and Happy New Year!
It's hard to believe we're almost in February.
Our team have been hard at work on several important features this month. We're also very close to sharing details of our brand new Professional Edition of the Expenses module. Look forward to more details next month!
Invoice Import
An exciting new feature in the Invoicing module allows you to import a csv file of Invoices, against standard or blanket orders.
This feature speeds up invoice processing, and we've even seen some customers co-ordinate the file creation with their suppliers, saving even more time!
To access this import, make sure you're using the Create Invoices role and navigate to the View Invoices menu. You'll need to select the Import option on the right:
Unimarket will validate that the Invoice details are all complete, and then pass this through your standard Invoice Matching rules.
You can find more details on the file format and upload process in our help documentation here.
Other Enhancements this month
- We've simplified commenting on Contracts. If you can see the Contract, you can add a comment.
- In addition to this, Contract Workflow tasks are now included in the Tasks Digest email.
- Expenses now gives a proper email notification when a mixture of Expense lines are Approved & Declined.
- Users submitting Supplier Requests must fill out all details of the Supplier, rather than searching for one that exists in Unimarket. Thanks to everyone who shared feedback in this area!
- Another suite of improvements to our new Create Invoice screen has been released. The highlights are improving our Preview component and ensuring all Invoice Administration settings are compatible with the screen.
What's Coming
Speaking of Create Invoice, we know that many customers are eagerly awaiting news on Invoice Data Extraction! This will be a big focus for our team in February, and we can't wait to have this up and running for you to try!
Outside of this and Expenses, look forward to enhancements to Scheduled Exports and further rollout of the ability to Mention Users in Comments.