1. Enhanced 'OrderFlip' Functionality: We’ve optimized the OrderFlip feature to automatically generate invoices from received orders, making your invoicing process even more seamless and efficient.
   
2. Upgraded Collection App: For customers using our Collection App as part of their subscription, we’ve expanded its capabilities to streamline the creation of mandates and invoices for automatic payment collection.
   
3. Multi-Party Email Receiver for XML Invoices: The multi-party email receiver feature, which identifies the correct organization within your account or partnership—even if the email doesn’t match the organization owner—is now extended to support XML invoices, in addition to PDFs.
   
4. Improved Support for DICO (SALES005) Invoices: We’ve enhanced our existing support for DICO (SALES005) invoices, ensuring even better compatibility with this industry standard.
   

1. Automatic Monitoring for Subscription Changes: We’re improving our ability to track subscription changes and keep your account in sync more efficiently.
   
2. Automatic Account Recharges via Mandate: No more manual recharges! With our new mandate feature, your account will stay topped up automatically, so you can continue receiving invoices without interruption.
   

A new version will be available in production on Saturday August 31th, 2024 around 3:00 AM CEST. During the deployment, there will be a downtime of up to 2 hours.

The following changes and improvements are part of this release:

• Enhanced Company Search: We’ve updated our company search functionality to make it easier and more efficient to find the company you want to send a document to.
• Updated UI Grid for Order Transactions: The user interface grid for order transactions has been refreshed for a more intuitive and streamlined experience.
• Improved Mandate Process UI: The user interface for the mandate process has been improved, providing a more user-friendly and seamless experience.
• Status Message of Rejection for Custom Connections: Suppliers who send invoices via a custom connection will now receive an email if their invoices are rejected in your account. You can opt-out of this feature on account level.
• Subscription Model Enhancements: We’ve made further improvements to our subscription model, making it easier and more transparent for you to manage your subscription.
• New Option for “Booking Failed” Invoices: You can now mark invoices with the status “Booking Failed” as “Handled” if no further processing is required.
• Unified Processing of PDF and XML for Non-UBL Invoices: We have enabled the combined processing of both PDF and XML versions of non-UBL invoices received via email. For example, invoices like Dico’s SALES500 can now be processed more efficiently.
  

A new version will be available in production on Tuesday August 6th, 2024 around 2:00 AM CEST. This deployment will be without downtime.

The following changes and improvements are part of this release:

• We have fixed several minor bugs.
• We have made significant preparations for a simplified subscription system. This change provides you with greater flexibility in the future, allowing you to easily upgrade or downgrade your subscription based on your needs.
• We have improved the user management for administrators. When administrators deactivate a user account, it will now disappear from the list of users, making it easier to manage and maintain a clean user list. If needed, deactivated users can be reactivated by our customer support.
  

A new version is available in production since Saturday June 22nd, 2024 from around 6:00 AM. There was a downtime of 4,5 hours. Along with the new versions we also had our quarterly security updates to maintain a secure service.

The following changes and improvements are part of this release:

• We have improved the company search when creating a new expense, invoice or order. From the pop-up you can select the trade name, address and identifier of the selected company;
• When a new document is received and you have notification enabled, you will receive an email about the new document, this email also contains a link to the document, when not logged you were directed to the homepage after logging in, now you will be directed to the document.
  

A new version is available in production since Friday May 17th, 2024 from around 4:30 AM. This release has been deployed without downtime.

The following changes and improvements are part of this release:

• We have fixed several minor bugs.
• We have made several small UI updates to enhance ease of use and removed elements related to deprecated options.
• We addressed an issue where emails were not being sent because the recipient was on our blocked email list due to invalid addresses, previous bounces, or being manually blocked. Emails containing an invoice or order will now bypass recipient blocking. The outbox status will update to ‘Delivery Failed’ when a bounce occurs.
• The new Document Journal UI now includes Dutch translations for better usability for our Dutch-speaking clients.
  

A new version is available in production since Tuesday April 8th, 2024 from around 4:30 AM. This release has been deployed without downtime.

The following changes and improvements are part of this release:

• When a new user is added to the account an email will be sent with an activation link that expires within 24 hours, when the link is expired, the account admin can now resend the invitation from the user menu in our platform, a new email will be sent with a new link that still expires within 24 hours;
  
• We have added European country specific VAT codes for other countries then NL, BE and DE which have been added in a previous release;
• We have added generic identifiers for countries that did not had any identifiers;
• The UI of the Document Journal has been updated, we have removed the purple bars, added sender and receiver names (Dutch translation will follow) and extended the log section across the whole page;
• The bug which caused an issue in searching in the Datalist has been resolved, it is now possible to search in Data lists which are used in the Workflow;
• An account uses a subscription plan which uses a feature pack and a pricing plan, in the feature pack we have more options to disable menu items. This can be the Feeds, Groups, Tasks, Dashboards etc. which will make the menu a lot smaller for items you do not use.
  

• The XSL (validation) files for SI-UBL-2.0, Peppol Bis Billing 3.0 and Peppol Bis Order Only have been updated to the latest version which was mandatory from February 26th onwards, these files were already available in our PSB which is connected to Peppol;
• An improvement in the PDF generation which sometimes caused the PDF to not be generated because amounts in the XML could have whitespaces before/after it.
• We have solved a bug created in the previous version where the amounts in the grid were not correct when compared to the XML, this was also stated at our status page;
• We have solved a bug created in the previous version where we would update Inbox document statuses to ‘Delivery failed’ and send ‘Delivery failed’ emails to email addresses available in the XML. The ‘Delivery failed’ was send because an inbox notification email which was being sent to one of the users in the organization, couldn’t be delivered. We will now only send emails for outbox documents;
  

• We have reduced the amount decimals back to 2 except in the transactions, we have also aligned the amounts to the right side in the inbox, outbox and concept documents grid;
• We will update the outbox document status to Delivery failed when the document is send via email, but the email has bounced/could not be delivered;
• When an invoice or order cannot be delivered the status of the outbox item was just updated to Delivery failed, now it is also possible to receive an email when a document cannot be delivered, the email will be send to the email address available in the organization details, when left empty we will not send an email;
• An improvement for the inbox and outbox search and sorting which will stay when returned from opening a document;
• An improvement in the user selection of conversion task rejections which caused a bug to not send an email when a conversion task was rejected;
• Some text adjustments in the email receiver on rejection and summary report;
• An improvement in the ‘Administration selection’ mentioned in version 5.0.2, before it was only possible to use this for a maximum of 50 companies, now there is no limit.
  

I hope this message finds you well. We wanted to provide you with an important update regarding our platform. In our ongoing commitment to deliver a robust and high-performing service, we will be conducting a significant update to our platform, which includes upgrading backend libraries. This update is aimed at improving platform stability and enhancing overall performance.

Key details of this update:

Downtime: Approximately 13 hours
Schedule: Saturday November 4th 2023 – 02:00AM Dutch time

During this downtime, the platform will be temporarily unavailable for regular use. We understand the inconvenience this may cause and want to assure you that we have taken steps to minimize disruption:

Data Safety: No data will be lost during this update. All user data, including emails, will be preserved, and you can continue to send emails as usual.

Email Handling: During the migration needed for the platform update, email receiver processing will be temporarily disabled, starting on Friday November 3rd at 18:00 Dutch time. This means that any emails sent to the platform after this time will not trigger immediate notifications or processing.

Rest assured, all emails received during the downtime will be securely stored and queued for processing. Once the platform update is complete, we will prioritize the processing of these queued emails. This delayed processing ensures that no email data is lost, and all your communications will be processed as soon as the platform is back online.

Please be aware that, due to the volume of emails in the queue, there might be a delay in processing time. While we will work diligently to expedite the processing, it may take more than 24 hours for all emails to be fully processed. We understand the importance of timely communication and will make every effort to minimize any potential delays.

We appreciate your understanding and patience during this scheduled update. Our team is working diligently to complete this process as swiftly as possible while maintaining the highest standards of quality and security. The improvements gained from this update will significantly benefit our users, providing a more stable and faster platform for your business needs.

If you have any questions or concerns about this update, please do not hesitate to contact our support team at support@econnect.eu. We will be happy to assist you with any inquiries you may have.

A new version will be available in production on Monday July 31st, 2023. We are deploying this release without downtime.

The following changes and improvements are part of this release:

• Our support can now disable duplicate detection on received or sent documents per account. If we disable the duplicate detection, all documents are released for download;
• Our support can now enable a new option for PDF conversions, this new option enables the option to have 1 trusted sender for all your companies (with a maximum of 50) and we place the document in the inbox of the organization which is recognized. This does not apply to XML attachments and additional charges are applied per document;
• In the last release we have added the Message field in the SetInboxDocument API. This message will now be used in the Note when an InvoiceResponse is sent via Peppol. If this field is empty we will fill a default value;
• Some new fields are now available on our generated PDF for out- and inbound invoices, also some small cosmetic changes have been done;
• An improvement in the emailreceiver where we would send a bounce email when the summary was disabled and 1 of the attachments in the email was attached to the invoice.
  

A new version will be available in production on June 17th, 2023. We are expecting a downtime of maximum 2 hours from 3:30 AM CEST which fits within the scheduled time frame.

The following changes and improvements are part of this release:

• Our https://platform.econnect.eu along with the email templates from this platform will have our brand colors, soon https://platform.everbinding.nl will be redirected to our new platform where you can login using the same credentials;
• An issue has been fixed for customers with their own IDP configuration where the SSO URL was not working;
• We have removed the Conversion task menu item from the Expense-, Sales invoice- and Purchase invoice App;
• In the Invoice- and Order app we have updated the unitcode for Box to the correct unitcode;
• A new Message field is available in the API for the SetInboxDocumentStatus where you can clarify the new status, for example Rejected because of wrong Order number;
• When the status of a document has been changed to Accepted, Rejected or Paid, we will sent an email to the supplier email address if this is available in the XML and no status back (InvoiceMessageResponse) can be sent via Peppol. The status from the new API field will be used in the email template;
• If we generate a PDF from the XML, new fields will be available;
• The ‘Workflow Timeline’ has been changed to ‘Timeline’, this will now also show the status history of the consignment instead of in the current status dropdown.
  

A new version will be available in production on May 13th, 2023. We are expecting a downtime of maximum 2 hours from 3:30 AM CEST which fits within the scheduled time frame.

The following changes and improvements are part of this release:

• The most important improvement is that we have updated  our front-end libraries which will make our platform more secure;
• A new feature is added in the email receiver to make it possible to send notification emails to the sender of the email;
• 2 new email templates will be used by the platform by fallback to email for Orders, a next change will be that we are putting some field from the XML to the email body;
• A new option to do transformations for specific XML files to Peppol accepted formats, this way we can handle even more documenttypes which are received via the email.
  

A new version will be available in production on March 4th, 2023. We are expecting a downtime of maximum 3.5 hours from 2:00 AM CET which fits within the scheduled time frame.

The following changes and improvements are part of this release:

• The login page has been renewed. For a better security we advice customers to login using an IDP, this can be used straight away if you already have an account with the email address you normally use to sign in;
• A received document can be downloaded from the UI in the desired format if we have the transformation available. When you click on download XML, a pop-up will appear and shows you the current format and the possible target format;
• For new accounts, we will disable the capability to receive documents by default. When they login a second time, a pop-up will appear if they want to enable receiving documents;
• A workflow for outbound invoices will now default show the PDF instead of the Sales invoice UI;
• Some small improvements for transformations in specific flows.
  

A new version will be available in production on December 31th, 2022. We are expecting a downtime of maximum 3 hours from 2:00 AM which fits within the scheduled time frame.

The following changes and improvements are part of this release:

• A new VAT type is added to the Invoice and Order app, the new VAT type is ‘Services outside scope of tax’, a Code specifying that taxes are not applicable to the services and a seller VAT number is not allowed;
• An improvement in the emailreceiver where a bounce was sent, saying we could not process a PDF, while it was getting processed;
• Improved error messages for the notifications from the email receiver;
• An improvement where we will only send 1 email for a blocked account because of negative balance, every 24 hours;
• A bug has been solved where a specific type of invoice, created via the emailreceiver, would throw multiple errors;
• It is now possible to add colors to statuses in the Workflow, this will make is easier to see which document is at which step;
• The organization activation has been changed a bit, companies can be activated via an iDeal transaction of €0.01 instead of €0.30, we stopped sending an invoice and adding bonus balance for this type of activation;
• A new feature that makes it possible to add a payment service to your account, which allows your customers to pay invoices via iDeal. When the payment has succeeded or failed, the status of the document will be updated accordingly.
  The first user will be eConnect and new invoices can be paid via iDeal on our platform. When the invoice has been received, you can open the invoice and pay via iDeal.

A new version will be available in production on November 26th, 2022. We are expecting a downtime of maximum 3 hours from 2:00 AM which fits within the scheduled time frame.

The following changes and improvements are part of this release:

• The Workflow has a new actor for intermediate steps, all those who have access to the document can now be chosen as an actor;
• In the Workflow, we now have the functionality to update the name of the document;
• Themes has been removed from the user profile settings;
• The following apps have some updates in their theme:
  • Invoice App, Purchase and Sales invoice;
  • Order App, Purchase and Sales order;
  • Conversion task App;
  • Declaratie/Expense App;
  • Email receiver App;
  • Autopilot App, Document Journal page only;
• We have added a color to the duplicate mark, so it will be better visible which documents are duplicates;
• We also have added colors to conversion task, Invoice and Order statuses, for example a red color for documents which have been rejected;
• The chatbot has been removed from the platform.

A new version will be available in production on October 29th, 2022. We are expecting a downtime of maximum 4 hours from 3:00 AM which fits within the scheduled time frame. The update also has an impact on the Procurement Service Bus.

The following changes and improvements are part of this release:

• A pop-up will appear for the administrator when there is no company present in the account;
• When an OINO number is verified in the organization, this number will be used for sending invoices instead of the KVK number;
• A check for sending an invoice is changed from Organization name to Organization ID, this makes it possible to upload an XML and send invoices from other names then your business name;
• The fields Project number, Contract number, Note and Payment note are added to the Sales invoice UI;
• A flip for Order to Invoice which allows you to create an invoice from a received order with 1 click;
• We will also create a PDF from the Order XML when there is no PDF available;
• Adding the possibility to Re-offer Orders for download to connected software;
• Adding a new default value for autonumbering, the Company ID will be added as prefix when the autonumbering is being configured;
• Some bug fixes where the VAT % in the Purchase invoice UI is not filled in some cases;
• Adding icons to Orders that have been sent or received;
• A check is added for identifiers to see if they are matching with the expected input, for example numbers only for KVK numbers with a maximum length of 8th;
• Solved an issue where the link to a created concept invoice via mail was not working.

There will be a new version available in production on September 3th, 2022. We expect downtime for about 2 hours from 3:30 AM within the scheduled time frame. The update also has an impact on the Procurement Service Bus.

The following changes and improvements are part of this release:

• A fix for the sales invoice app where creating an invoice with VAT Verlegd/Reverse Charge could throw an error.
• It is now possible to send 1 invoice to multiple email addresses, the first email address is the To address, the other ones are added as Carbon Copy (CC). This can be done in the UI or via the API by separating the email addresses with a comma (,) or semicolon (;);
• It is now possible to attach an XML and PDF to an invoice being sent to an email from our platform. This can be managed via our supportteam;
• It is now possible to add fields from the XML invoice to the emails being sent from our platform, we may update our email templates in generic for everyone;
• For our workflow we can add an email template to a workflow step in case the invoice has to be send via mail. This option makes it possible to send emails in specific templates for different organizations;
• It is also possible to process up to 50 workflow tasks at once by selecting all or up to 50 separate tasks.

There will be a new version available in production on July 31th, 2022. We expect downtime for about 3 hours from 2:30 AM within the scheduled time frame. The update also has an impact on the Procurement Service Bus.

The following changes and improvements are part of this release:

• This release and maintenance is focused on performance improvement.

A new version will be available in production on June 11th, 2022. There will be downtime within the scheduled time frame. The update also has an impact on the Procurement Service Bus.

The following changes and improvements are part of this release:

• Emailreceivers with an @trust.econnect.eu email, will now send bounced emails and failures to the contact email address instead of the sender of the email;
• When a GLN is verified and enabled for sending in the organization details, the GLN will be added to AccountingSupplierParty/PartyIdentification/Id for invoices created on our platform;
• We have removed some functionalities to simplify the platform, this includes:
  • Removing the completion status in account and user profile;
  • Removing the option to receive update emails for functions and tips;
  • Removing the option Templates and Files in organizations. Now the other option are always shown in the menu including company details and users instead of these being hidden below a ‘More’ button;
  • Removing the account Logo, Location and Contact since these are used from organization;
  • Removing the counter for unread items in the Inbox;
  • Removing the Tutorial app which was not used.
• Some changes in the Workflow on reading, creating and overwriting fields. Based on information in the XML, we can create a new field with the desired data to improve the automatic processing of your invoice. For example adding an Accounting Cost based on specific supplier data;
• We also made it possible to automatically send a valid XML delivered via mail to Peppol. It is also possible to let us overwrite the EndpointID the invoice should be sent to. Keep an eye out on our supportpage which will be updated shortly how to manage this.

A new version will be available in production on May 7th, 2022. There will be downtime within the scheduled time frame. The update also has an impact on the Procurement Service Bus.

The following changes and improvements are part of this release:

• We’ve removed the check on ID’s for concept invoices. You can use 1 trusted sender for all your XML’s that needs to be created as concept invoice. The invoice will be stored in the organization of the ID in de XML;
• It is now possible to find duplicate invoices, via the View Duplicate button, for invoices that contain special character in the invoice ID;
• When a user is added to the account, the activation mail is automatically send and the activation link is valid for 7 days. The user will have the status Invited and is visible in the default filter for Active users;
• Some small changes which will improve the speed and reliability of our platform.

On April 23th, 2022 all the production data will migrated to a new cluster. Due to the migration we expect a downtime for about 6 hours from 2:30 AM within the scheduled time frame, there is a chance it will exceed the scheduled time frame, we will do our best to have the platform up and running before 8:30 AM. The downtime also has an impact on the Procurement Service Bus.

A new version will be available in production on March 26th, 2022. We expect downtime for about 90 minutes from about 2:30 AM within the scheduled time frame. The update also has an impact on the Procurement Service Bus.

The following changes and improvements are part of this release:

• The workflow has had a few improvements in processing steps and the mapping functionality;
• The keys that are in use by the autopilot are now hidden to prevent interruption in the connection when edited;
• When an invoice is received and merging the pdf attachments is enabled and it fails to merge, it won’t interrupt the process but skip the merging.

We will apply an update to the platform on februari 26th, 2022. We expect a downtime for about 4 hours from 2:30AM which fits our service level reserved time slot for maintenance.

The following changes and improvements are part of this release:

• Quarterly security updates of our servers;
• Due to a bug duplicate invoices were downloaded via the API, this has been fixed and duplicate invoices will not be downloaded automatically;
• An XSL update for the SI1.2;
• Invoices sent via API or received from Peppol will now have a generated name with template name, Invoice or Order, with the Invoice or Order ID.

We will apply an update to the platform on Juli 31th, 2021. We expect a downtime for about 2 hour from 4:30AM which fits our service level reserved time slot for maintenance. This has some impact on the Procurement Service Bus.

The following changes and improvements are part of this release:

• A new option is available in the organization details. In the e-Documents section you can enable and disable sending and receiving for the Invoice and Expense templates. In the future we will also add the option Orders.
• We’re now supporting Invoice Message Responses. When sending an invoice, you are now able to see the status of the invoice that is set by the buyer, if they also support the Invoice Message Responses. It is required to enable receiving for template Invoice and the ID you sent the invoice with.
• You can filter the inbox and outbox based on Received and Send type, like Peppol, Platform, E-mail and after conversion.
• We can now register your company in the Peppol directory based on the organization details.
• There are also some back-end improvements for a better performance.

We will apply an update to the platform on June 26th, 2021. We expect a downtime for about 3 hour from 2:30AM which fits our service level reserved time slot for maintenance. This has some impact on the Procurement Service Bus.

The following changes and improvements are part of this release:

• We improved the receiving XML via mail feature, when you send in a XML via mail we will place the PDF with the same name as PrimaryImage in the XML, for the other attachments in the mail we will detect if it is an invoice or attachments. For the invoices a conversiontask is created, when no invoices are found but only attachments, these will be placed in the XML as secondary attachments.
• Back-end changes for a better performance.