Hi there,

We're really excited to announce enhancements to our Supplier Request process will be available this coming Monday, 23rd Sept, in our demo and production environments.

If you haven't tried our Supplier Request process in the past, the feature allows buyers to ask to trade with a Supplier that they can't currently access. Each Community has flexibility with our Forms to determine what questions must be completed, and your Supplier Enablement teams have the ability to approve or decline each request. In some cases, the Supplier may already be available in your Community, but the specific Buyer does not belong to the right Buyer Group - you can update this as part of approving the request.

What's Changed?

Supplier Requests no longer need to be assigned to an individual user! Buyers don't need to struggle figuring out which Supplier Enablement team member to select.

Any user that you give the 'Supplier Request Administrator' role will have the ability to:

- Approve or decline any Supplier Request task. No more delays if a specific admin is away on leave!

- Review tasks in the regular Task Digest. If you haven't set this up, check out details here.

- Update Buyer Groups in case a Buyer needs different access.

- Review the history of who approved/declined each request and any comments they added.

When you onboard a new member of your Supplier Enablement team, we'll automatically assign any open Supplier Requests to them.

For end users, the process couldn't be simpler, just select Supplier Request from the Marketplace Dashboard and fill out the details in the form:

Supplier Requests can be enabled in the Administration module, so we encourage you to revisit this feature in Demo or reach out to our team with any questions!

What's Next

We've heard a lot of great feedback on the new Create Invoice screen and are making some further improvements to this screen! Our first version of AI data extraction is now working, and we're consistently scanning Invoice Dates and Invoice Numbers. We will have more to share soon on how to get your community using this scanning! 

Outside of invoicing, a large range of improvements are underway in our Expenses module, stay tuned for more details.

Hi There! 

The Unimarket Marketplace just got a supercharge: smarter catalogs, supplier numbers at your fingertips and streamlined non-catalog ordering! 

Marketplace Dashboard

One of our goals with the marketplace dashboard is to get users to the right suppliers and catalogs as quickly as possible! 

One way we approached this was remembering the last catalog a user purchased from and promoting this ahead of any others from a specific supplier. 

Your feedback told us that this can be misleading, and we will now showing a shortcut to the full list of each suppliers catalogs instead. 

If they only have one catalog, that’s easy, we’ll show you that one 🙂

As part of this change, the Dashboard's supplier count will help keep track of how many you have available. 

This count works with any search terms or filters you have currently applied!

Create a Non-Catalog Item

Often catalog purchasing is not an option and users need to use the non-catalog process. 

To help ensure compliance with your community’s requirements, you can now select a Default Form for use in the Admin section for Procurement. Details of our complete range of Procurement Administration settings can be found here.

This form will be the default Item Type when creating a non-catalog item. This will speed up the creation process and ensure users complete all required information the first time!

Your feedback makes all the difference in improving Unimarket, please keep sharing any suggestions you have.

More exciting features are coming later this month!

With ever increasing compliance requirements, supplier registration is a critical step for customers and suppliers alike. Customers need suppliers to register and provide their company information, and suppliers just want to get registered quickly and painlessly so they can start transacting with customers. 

To streamline this process, we've completely rebuilt our supplier Invitation email and the registration page to ensure the process is simple, suppliers understand what you need, and ultimately more suppliers register! 

We also happen to think it looks a lot nicer… and people like nice things 🙂

These changes are now available in Demo & will be released to Production before the end of February.

Here's an example of the new Invitation email, including our new header banner which you can customize: 

This is an example of our new Registration screen:

If you're using our recently released Multiple Inboxes feature in Demo, we've added an "All Inboxes" option. This should help senior AP users or administrators who need to review different inboxes & want a high-level view.

The dropdown will look similar to this, with each organization listed first then the "All Inboxes" option:

We've also had a lot of feedback recently from confused users receiving the Cancelled Requisition email when an item is Moved. They would take this as a prompt to create another duplicate Requisition! 

For simplicity, we will only send this email where every line item has been canceled now.

8th July

15th July

Hi there, we wanted to highlight some recent enhancements to the Unimarket application that will make your life easier!

Task Digest

Our Task Digest now includes any Approval Tasks, such as Requisition, Invoice or Expense approvals. This should make it easier for busy approvers to stay on top of these.

Contracts

It's now possible to edit expired contracts & make changes to the details, including uploading new documents! 

Tags

It's now possible to delete tags of any type, including Catalog, Invoice Inbox, Product or Supplier tags. When deleting these, they will be automatically removed from any records that currently have them (eg: a Supplier tag would be removed from all Suppliers).

View Requisitions & UI enhancements

We've added sorting to this screen! This was a hotly requested feature at our recent Unimarket Now conference. We're also continuing our work to make the screens consistent and recently changed our Popup style & the filters on the View Users page.

This latest update includes further improvements to the Invoice Inbox including bulk delete options for tags and emails. Plus, your email sorting options are now automatically saved for when you return.

Based on your feedback, we have also updated the supplier page in Marketplace to make it easier to view a supplier’s information. There is now a separate Shop tab for catalogues and an About tab with the supplier’s company details.

Other small improvements include a scheduled User export and the ability to manage approval groups via the User API.

15th April

22nd April

We're coming in hot with another suite of new features! Behind the scenes we're working on a brand new Budgets module, along with a revamped Spend dashboard.

Pack Quantity

The product page in our Marketplace now shows this field, unless it's been set to 1.

Ship To Addresses

We have a new setting which suppliers can enable to receive the user's Ship To addess within their Roundtrip catalogs. This allows suppliers to configure pricing based on different locations or customer accounts. In case the user doesn't have a default, we use the organization default, or keep this blank.

Invoice Inbox

We've had great uptake of our new Invoice Inbox and are working hard to make it the best it can be. This release includes Pagination instead of the "Show More Results" style along with sorting for the Assignee column.

18th February

25th February

Our latest release includes improvements to the Terms and Conditions which accompany all Purchase Orders. With the changes, you'll be able to format your T&Cs with different headings and sub-heading styles, insert links and add in an Image. 

Your organisation might choose to add an authorised signature image, help information, or perhaps a time-specific image highlighting Christmas/New Year shutdown dates. Here is a simple example:

18th February

25th February

Today Guided Buying is all about providing a quick way to access a filtered list of suppliers so you can easily find and buy the things you need directly from the home screen. 

In this latest update we've completely redesigned how Guided Buying is configured so that administrators can define 'Collections' which provide more control over the suppliers that display, and a content editor to specify accompanying information such as purchasing instructions. We have more enhancements coming shortly, including the ability to add links (URLs) and upload images. 

We're excited about the possible uses for Collections as it will allow Guided Buying to be configured with all sorts of potential selection criteria such as categories, catalogs, or product tags. We would love to hear any feedback or suggestions for where we should take it next.

Available 19th September 2022

Available 3rd October 2022

Our new Invoice Inbox is now available in Demo. This features a refreshed user interface, making it quicker and easier to receive and process emailed invoices. We also have new sorting options and the ability to add notes at any time.

Further updates are coming, including making tags more prominent, filtering out small attachment files, and a revamped review screen. Longer term we will add support for multiple inboxes, improved inbox assignment and the ability to save draft invoices into the inbox.

The new Inbox will remain in Demo for the next few weeks to give customers a chance to experience the changes and provide feedback. If you're not currently using the Inbox, please reach out to your Account Manager and they can assist getting this enabled.

Available 19th September 2022

TBD