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Last updated Apr 18, 2024

Building a better P2P solution at breakneck speed.

Written by Sonduren Fanarredha
5 minute read
what's New!

It’s been just seven months since we launched our groundbreaking Guided Procurement module, which represents a new milestone for spend management. Guided Procurement closes the loop on the multi-stakeholder compliance requirements that must be met in the procurement process. The result is being able to offer a full procure-pay-close platform that has earned rave reviews. 

Since the launch of Guided Procurement, this year has seen a rapid-fire release of additional features that we love telling accountants about because, well, you’re unique in your ability to fully appreciate the value of our improvements. 

We can break out our recent product advancements into three categories:

  • The big changes that let you expand into other areas with Airbase, like travel booking. 
  • The magical upgrades that we introduce to improve the lives of accountants. 
  • Enhancements that make it easier for all stakeholders to do their jobs. (As an added bonus, these improvements also make life easier for finance teams by eliminating the need to explain policies or chase down information.)

It’s been an era of great productivity, and it’s hard to keep up with everything — even for me! Here’s an overview of what’s new in Airbase, organized by three categories.

Changes that extend the reach of Airbase, so you can do more.

Guided Procurement. This intuitive, guided purchasing experience simplifies purchasing and ensures compliance across your organization. Loop in all stakeholders before purchases are made to collect required compliance or security documentation using integrations with the business systems already used by stakeholders, like Jira for IT and Ironclad for the legal team. Configure workflows to reflect company policies and respond dynamically when things change with an easily configured drag-and-drop interface. 

Expense Management. Take the pain out of expense management with easier reporting, faster reimbursements, and quick approvals. Our comprehensive expense management module includes: 

  • Expense reports. Streamline expense reporting with automated expense report creation powered by OCR and generative AI. Take a picture of a receipt, and have Airbase auto-fill all the details, so you simply review and submit for approval and payment. Automatic approval chains ensure full visibility is given to all stakeholders and compliance with policies.
  • Book travel with TravelPerk. Book travel in TravelPerk within your pre-set policies, and receipts will automatically sync between TravelPerk and Airbase. 

Guided Procurement Ironclad, Jira, and Asana integrations. Improve oversight without adding extra steps with integrations with business systems used by stakeholders.

API and webhooks with Guided Procurement. Integrate Airbase with other business systems to extend its reach and simplify your procurement processes.

Changes that make life easier for accountants.

Vendor questionnaire. Build vendor questionnaires into your workflows to capture information such as payment and tax details, and documents such as W-9s, right from your vendors.

Add comments to an invoice. No more chasing down information about an invoice — you can now ask for clarification before you create a bill, in an invoice. 

Manage approval policy permissions. Unlock enhanced control by granting non-admin users the power to create, edit, and delete approval policies for all spend types. For example, your procurement manager could customize approval policies without having access to the entire platform. 

Guided Procurement reports. Gain valuable insight into purchasing requests with consolidated reports, so you can track valuable KPIs like spend under management. 

“View in Airbase” button on NetSuite transactions. View Airbase transactions right in NetSuite, with one-click access to the entire audit trail in Airbase. 

Expanded Intacct dimensions — employee and customer. Gain even more granular reporting with added support for customer and employee dimensions in Sage Intacct.

Enhancements to Bill Export. Reconciliation is even faster with additional details for unpaid bills. You’ll get a clear view of the outstanding balance, including vendor credits for unpaid bills. 

Line-level amortization (NetSuite). Gain better control by recording amortization expenses at the individual line-item level. 

Sync to next open period setting. Control whether Airbase should automatically sync card, bill, and reimbursement entries to the next open period. 

Merchant category restrictions for cards. Get better control over card spend by restricting the use of a card to a specific category. 

Card details export. Gain visibility into card activity with detailed exports. 

Collection of W-9 details from vendors. You can now select which vendors must submit their W-9s, depending on 1099 status

Multi-currency support for vendor credits. Reconciliation is easier when you can create vendor credits in any currency. 

New physical card shipping method. Express shipping methods will speed up card delivery.

Change spend owners on purchase orders. Stay compliant and keep teams accountable — even when teams or responsibilities change. 

Approval for international vendor detail changes. Enforce stronger controls for international vendors by reviewing and approving changes to international vendor details. 

Approval for vendor detail changes. Improve security and auditability by reviewing any requests to change vendor information made by your team.

Custom PO number. It’s easier for auditors and vendors to identify POs by using a customizable alphanumeric pattern. 

NetSuite custom segments. Save time by syncing your NetSuite custom segments to Airbase. 

GL tag policy. Reduce sync errors by configuring your tag policy in Airbase to match the tag policy in your GL.

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Changes that make employees love Airbase even more.

Automated expense reporting. One study found that the majority of people prefer doing their taxes to completing expense reports. Airbase’s automated expense report creation takes this burdensome task off their plates to free up their time for other things. 

International Reimbursements. Employees in other countries can be reimbursed in their local currencies. Available in 14 currencies and 44 currencies for NetSuite users.

Multi-step request submission. Employees can submit requests with partial information and enter the remaining information after the first step is approved. This will help to further speed up and simplify requests. Admins and workflow managers determine which steps are mandatory and which can be completed at a later date. 

Submit requests for others. Keep things moving when executive assistants, project managers, and other designated team members can submit requests on behalf of others. 

Vacation Mode for approvers. Ensure nobody is waiting for your approval while you’re out of the office. 

You can see why it’s hard to keep up! We have many more exciting enhancements coming soon and we hope you’ll stay tuned. You can always learn more in our product update videos.

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