Release notes
Blue10

New functionalities

Blue10 API

• Unit4 Web API now in use
  Unit4 API customers are now using the newest method of connecting Unit4 to Blue10: the Unit4 Web API.  The Unit4 API customers who currently work with sales invoices will be transferred to the Unit4 Web API at a later time.

Bug fixes

General

• Notification e-mails are sent again
  Due to a bug, notification e-mails to groups were temporarily not sent. There was also a short interruption in sending notification e-mails to users. At the end of November, the bug was fixed for both groups and users.

Exact Online 

•  Synchronization in payment date improved
  Since August 15th, Blue10 uses a new endpoint in the API of Exact Online. However, the payment date was no longer synchronized in case the last known date was set in the future. This has been resolved. The payment date will be synchronized again from now on. As a result, the information in the step Payable in Blue10, is up-to-date again.

AFAS

• Confronting receipt lines from different orders with a purchase invoice now possible again
  Due to a bug, it was not possible to confront receipt lines from different orders with a purchase invoice. This has been resolved.

New functionalities

AFAS

• Optimization implemented in foreign currency postings
  Exchange rate differences could occur while posting in a foreign currency. Therefore the posting was shown as inconclusive.  From now on, any exchange rate differences will be automatically posted on the invoice lines, making the posting conclusive again.

Microsoft Account users

• Direct login from the notification e-mail
  Users who have linked their Blue10 user account to a Microsoft Account are now automatically logged in from the notification e-mail via the Open Blue10 button. It is no longer necessary to log in via login.blue10.com first.

Business Central 19

• New version available of the Blue10 Extension
  Do you want to upgrade to Business Central 19? Then you need to install the latest version of our Blue10 extension first. This version is compatible with Business Central 19. Click here to download the latest version of the Blue10 extension. Does Business Central run locally? Please ask your Business Central partner to install the extension for you.

Bug fixes

General

• Misrepresentation of image in specific scenario
  In the specific scenario where the first page of a PDF document was moved in the splitter,  the image of the first page of the invoice was also shown on page 2 in the Validation screen. This has now been resolved.
• Processing files consisting of more than 100 pages again possible
  It was not possible to save or delete documents with more than 100 pages in the Validation screen. An adjustment has been made so that it is again possible to save or delete these files in the Validation screen in Blue10.

Netsuite

• Booking on a alternative period is possible again
  Due to a bug, invoices were posted by default on the invoice date, regardless of whether you entered a value in the field Period. From now on, Blue10 checks the value stated in the Period field. To book in a different period, you as a customer must make an adjustment in Netsuite in the user rights. Step 1: In Netsuite, under Permissions, add > Transactions > Posting Period on Transactions. Step 2: Under Permissions > Setup, add > Enable Features.

iMuis

• Posting on multiple invoice lines made possible for customers not liable to VAT
  It was temporarily not possible for non-VAT-registered customers to book on multiple coding lines. You received the message  Journal entry is incomplete, see field VAT in the Validation screen. It is possible to enter multiple invoice lines again.

New functionalities

Twinfield

• Display change in the field Payment condition
  We’ve made a change to the display of preferred expiration dates. The preferred expiration days are visible in the Payment condition field in the validation screen. Where previously only a # sign was shown, the set preferred expiration days are now visible in numbers. The functionality remains the same.

AFAS

• Addition of the field Period in the Validation screen
  In the validation screen in Blue10, in addition to the field Posting Date, the Period field is now also visible. This helps users with the role Post to post an invoice in the correct time period. In addition, the Period field now becomes red if the book date is in the past and the book date is in a closed period.

NAVISION SQL

• Link Multi-Company administration now possible with Blue10
  Blue10 is now able to sync the Company Code to Navision. This makes it possible for the NAV Solution center to provide a custom solution to link Multi-Company administrations with Blue10.

Exact Online

• Possibility to retrieve a set of exchange rates from one administration to all administrations
  Do you use an approval limit and work with foreign currency bookings? From now on you can enter the division code of the relevant administration from Exact Online in which you keep track of these exchange rates in your administration. The exchange rates therefore are applied to any other administrations. The approval limit will be calculated and can be approved on basis of the exchange prices set in Exact Online. Go to Settings  >  Companies  >  Properties and enter the division code in the field: Retrieve exchange rates from division.

General

• Clarification in the field History for the IBAN check
  In the Document detail page: Purchase you will now see the validated IBAN number in the History.  Previously a reference was made to ‘the IBAN number’ but the relevant IBAN number was not shown.

• Adjustment made in the date period filter on the page Received Emails
  The overview on the page Received Emails is now filtered by the date from today to one month ago. This way you have insight into the received e-mails of the past month. The date field can be adjusted to any desired date to check the received e-mails of a longer period.

• Adjustment in login link from the notification e-mail
  When invoices are ready for you in Blue10 to check, you will receive a notification e-mail. We made a change to this email under the Open Blue10 button. When you use the authentication methods Google or Exact, you will now be directly on the login page of the relevant authentication method via the Open Blue10 button. This saves you a few clicks to log in to Blue10.This functionality is not yet available for the Microsoft and AzureAD authentication methods.

Bug fixes

NAVISION SQL

• Currency is shown in Validation screen
  The moment you add a new currency to your accounting system the new currency is also visible in the Validation screen and can be selected after synchronization with Blue10.

Exact Online

• Posting in a different currency is possible again
  While processing purchase invoices with different currencies compared to the standard currency from your administration, an error message was shown in a specific scenario. From now on you can book invoices with a different currency without any problems.

• Improved payment date synchronization
  Since August 15th, Blue10 uses a new endpoint in the API of Exact Online. In the previous endpoint, an incorrect Paid on date was sporadically shown to a small number of customers. The  Paid On date in Blue10 did not correspond to the actual date of payment. We consciously communicate this bug at a later time due to a test period. The test period is completed.

New functionalities

• Blue10 now also available in Spanish
  Go to My Settings to customize the user language or do it via  Manage  >   Would you like to take
  the translations to a higher level together with us? Then we are happy to call on your help! Send an email to  customersuccess@blue10.com and we will contact you.
  Good to know: All management pages of Blue10, the support website and the support of Blue10 employees are currently only available in Dutch and English.

AFAS

• Improved way to determine purchase invoice period
  We made a change to determine the period of the invoice. Previously, Blue10 used the Invoice and Book Date fields to determine the Blue10 now synchronizes all open periods and fills them automatically in the new  Periodfield based on the invoicedate. This new field replaces the  Book Datefield, but the behavior remains the same.

Blue10 API

• Purchase order matching added to logistics adapter API
  In the validation screen in Blue10 it is possible to provide a purchase order number to match it with a purchase order in the logistics package. The logistics package can use the purchase order number and other information from the purchase invoice to verify that the amounts of the purchase invoice match the amounts of the order. If these amounts match (successful match), the cost lines will be transferred to Blue10. Blue10 can then post the purchase invoice with the cost lines in the (financial) accounting system.
• Easily send purchase invoice without a match with purchase order to the responsible purchaser
  It is no longer necessary to manually look up the buyer’s e-mail address in the logistics package if the purchase invoice does not match the purchase order. Blue10 can now synchronize the buyer’s e-mail address from the logistics package. This allows you to send the purchase invoice directly to the responsible buyer on the Document detail page, in the event of a non-match.

Unit4 Web API

• New method of approval in Unit4
  In the new unit4 web API link, Unit4 has made a new method of approval available. With this new method, the (un)blocking works via a payment condition. This also makes it possible to make invoices payable in a closed period.

Bug fixes

• Possible to remove attachments with an apostrophe in the title
  Previously, it was not possible to delete an attachment with an apostrophe in the title. That is now possible.
• Filtering in the purchase order dialog is now applied
  The filters ‘Show only order lines with receipts’ and ‘Show only non-invoiced order lines’ were automatically checked in the purchase order dialog box, but not applied to the list. When opening the purchase dialog, the filters on the order lines are now checked and applied.

Visma.net

• Purchase invoice with payment condition is processed correctly
  When performing the action ‘Unblock for payment’, a purchase invoice with the payment condition direct debit was undone. Blue10 now performs this action well, so that a purchase invoice with the payment condition direct debit is processed without any problems.

Netsuite

• Create a supplier in Blue10 without entering a standard ledger
  It is no longer mandatory to fill in a standard general ledger when creating a new supplier in Blue10.

Manual coupling

• It is now possible to enter a paper number in advance
  When the action ‘Post invoice’ or ‘Post and block’ was performed on an invoice with the status ‘Treatment’, the Blue10 number was reset so that the previously manually filled in coin number disappeared. From now on, Blue10 will remember the completed coin number and will no longer be changed.

Twinfield

• Blue10 shows on posted invoice lines whether it is a positive or negative amount
  The difference between a negative or positive amount was previously not visible at a glance within Blue10. This has been adjusted, so that the plus and / or minus amounts are immediately visible on the posted invoice lines.

No update available

New functionalities

Unit 4

• New Unit4 Web API linking method
  Unit4, now on the market under the names “Bookkeeping convenience” and “Accountancy convenience”, will phase out the current linking methods (Unit4 Business Connector and the Unit4 Native API) and will offer a new linking method that is suitable for both local and online installations: the Unit4 Web API. Unit4 customers are being phased over to the Web API link. Within Blue10 you will see a notification when we also want to replace your link to the Web API link.

Fixed bugs

• Optimization in nightly synchronization Exact Online – Blue10
  We have optimized the nightly synchronization of master data and bookings from Exact Online to Blue10 with immediate effect. In environments that are set up as Scan – Book – Archive, and therefore do not use the Blue10 approval flow, the payment date of a booking is no longer synchronized from Exact Online to Blue10. Read more about this change here.
• Deletion of documents on Document detail page by users with the language ‘German’
  For users who have their personal language setting set to ‘German’, it was not possible to delete an invoice on the Document detail page. This has been solved so that every user, with the correct rights, can delete an invoice in the workflow.

No update available.

New functionalities

• Changes to our notification e-mails
  Blue10 sends several e-mails to its users. For example, the notification e-mail when documents are waiting for them to be processed. Or an e-mail to reset their password when needed. We’ve made some improvements to these e-mails. Would you like to know more? Read more.
• Minor change on the login page (login.blue10.com)
  Users who have access to multiple Blue10 environments will enter a page where they can choose which Blue10 environment to enter after they’ve logged in on login.blue10.com. We’ve added a search bar underneath the heading ‘Choose a customer’ to simplify the process of finding the right environment.
• Prolonged session time from 15 to 30 minutes
  Due to security reasons, we chose to limit a session time in Blue10 to fifteen minutes at the start of 2021. Whenever a user wouldn’t be active in Blue10, this meant he or she would have to log in again. Based on some feedback we’ve received from our customers, we decided to prolong this timeframe to thirty minutes. Note: we could be shortening this session time again in the future since proper security measures are essential to us. In case we decide to do so, we’ll let you know in advance.

 AFAS

• Added matching axis 4 and 5
  We’ve added three specification axes to our connection, allowing you to work with five axes in total. Go to Settings > Companies > specific company > Properties to activate additional specification axes in your Validation step in Blue10.
• Link Blue10 to various endpoints
  From now on, it’s possible to establish a connection with multiple endpoints in combination with AFAS. This means you can add a link to your test environment as well as a link to your production environment. To do so, please go to Settings > Companies in Blue10 and add various endpoints in the OTAP street.
• Create transit booking
  With an accrual entry, costs are spread over several periods to which these costs relate.

Visma.net

• Sync payment date from Visma.net
  Blue10 now also synchronizes the payment date from Visma.net. This transfers the payment date after paying an invoice. You can see this date on the document detail page at the top left of all invoice header data.

 Exact Online

• Use of exchange rates from other administrations
  Previously, we were only able to use exchange rates from the selected administration when posting an invoice. This meant all exchange rates had to be up-to-date in every administration. Exact Online has made it possible to use exchange rates from a different administration as well. As a result, you won’t have to keep track of all exchange rates in every administration in Exact Online.
• Automatically linking articles to a supplier
  Previously, we were unable to post an invoice on a particular article if this article wasn’t linked to the relevant supplier in Exact Online. Instead, the last action on the invoice was cancelled in Blue10, and you had to manually connect the article to the supplier in Exact Online first.We’ve found a solution to this issue. Whenever an article is not linked to a particular supplier yet, Blue10 will automatically connect the article to the specific supplier on which the invoice is posted. You will no longer have change anything manually.

Fixed bugs

• Routes based on type: credit or debit
  If you’ve ever tried to create a route based on the invoice type (debit or credit), you might’ve noticed this setting was ignored. This issue has been resolved; invoice type can now be used as a valid characteristic for a route.
• Spam mail in Blue10
  Whenever an e-mail with attachments enters Blue10, we’ll check its spam score. If the score is high, the e-mail will not enter Blue10 directly. Instead, we’ll perform an extra check-up on the e-mail. For the past three weeks, these e-mails were stuck instead of checked. After fixing this problem, all of these e-mails were checked and are now available as documents in Blue10.

New functionalities

• Taking foreign currency into account when using an approval limit
  From now on, we’re synchronizing exchange rates from Visma.net to Blue10. As a result, we’re able to take foreign currency into account when using an approval limit for your users in Blue10. For example, an approval limit set at €1000,- means Blue10 will now calculate back to €1000,- when you’re processing invoices in foreign currency.

Business Central

• Invoice registration available
  Previously, after Validation in Blue10 were only registered as a header in Business Central. This meant the VAT would not be included. Purchase invoices had to be posted to reclaim the VAT successfully.
  Now, invoice registration allows you to register the VAT entry at a VAT group level. Note: Blue10 will not change the supplier entry. You’ll be able to do this during the coding and posting step.

Fixed bugs

• Using the ‘Reply’ action
  Between April 2 and April 14, our users were unable to select the action ‘Reply’ to the previous user. Instead, they would see their own name, and they were unable to change this. We’ve solved this issue for all invoices users received after April 14.
  Workaround: all invoices where you still see your own name when you select ‘Reply’ can be processed by taking the following steps. Select ‘Send’ and the user to whom you’d like to send the invoice. This way, the invoice will still end up at the desired user.

• Temporarily impossible to process e-mails with over 50 attachments
  We were temporarily unable to process e-mails with over 50 attachments. The sender would receive an empty reply e-mail, which made it unclear if the e-mail was received successfully. We’ve taken two measures to resolve this issue:
  1. We’ve increased the number of attachments Blue10 can receive in one e-mail from 50 to 150.
  2. Whenever someone sends an e-mail with more than 150 attachments, the sender will receive an automatically generated e-mail containing an error message and additional information.

Exact Globe

• Document type when posting in Exact Globe
  Before, we were unable to select the appropriate document type when you tried to post a credit invoice through Blue10 into Exact Globe. This issue has been fixed. All postings in Exact Globe now include the appropriate document type: purchase invoice, sales invoice, purchase credit invoice, or sales credit invoice.

New functionalities

Unit4 Multivers (Web API)

• Using deferred costs
  Deferred costs allow you to divide costs over several accounting periods. Read more? Click here .

New functionalities

• Blue10 redesigned interface available
  Initially, we’ll migrate users with the roles ‘Check’ and ‘Approve for payment’ to our new interface. In the following months, we’ll migrate users with the role ‘Post’ as well. Curious to find out more about our new interface? Read more here .

Exact Online

• Activate settings (such as code on ..) per company
  Blue10 and Exact Online need to communicate in order to process and post invoices. The ‘Connect Exact Online’ button activates this connection. Blue10 will automatically read all settings in Exact Online and activate certain features in Blue10. Coding on cost centres or quantity, for example.

New functionalities

• Blue10 now also available in Spanish
  Go to My Settings to change the user language or do it via Administration > Users.
  Would you like to take translations to a higher level with us? Then we would like to enlist your help! Send an email to customersuccess@blue10.com and we will contact you.
  Good to know:
  All Blue10 management pages, the support website and the support of Blue10 employees are currently only available in Dutch and English.

Fixed bugs

New functionalities

• Blue10 now also available in Spanish
  Go to My Settings to change the user language or do it via Administration > Users.
  Would you like to take translations to a higher level with us? Then we would like to enlist your help! Send an email to customersuccess@blue10.com and we will contact you.
  Good to know:
  All Blue10 management pages, the support website and the support of Blue10 employees are currently only available in Dutch and English.

Fixed bugs

New functionalities

Unit 4

• New Unit4 Web API linking method
  Unit4, now on the market under the names “Bookkeeping convenience” and “Accountancy convenience”, will phase out the current linking methods (Unit4 Business Connector and the Unit4 Native API) and will offer a new linking method that is suitable for both local and online installations: the Unit4 Web API. Unit4 customers are being phased over to the Web API link. Within Blue10 you will see a notification when we also want to replace your link to the Web API link.

Fixed bugs

• Optimization in nightly synchronization Exact Online – Blue10
  We have optimized the nightly synchronization of master data and bookings from Exact Online to Blue10 with immediate effect. In environments that are set up as Scan – Book – Archive, and therefore do not use the Blue10 approval flow, the payment date of a booking is no longer synchronized from Exact Online to Blue10. Read more about this change here.
• Deletion of documents on Document detail page by users with the language ‘German’
  For users who have their personal language setting set to ‘German’, it was not possible to delete an invoice on the Document detail page. This has been solved so that every user, with the correct rights, can delete an invoice in the workflow.

No update available.

New functionalities

• Changes to our notification e-mails
  Blue10 sends several e-mails to its users. For example, the notification e-mail when documents are waiting for them to be processed. Or an e-mail to reset their password when needed. We’ve made some improvements to these e-mails. Would you like to know more? Read more.
• Minor change on the login page (login.blue10.com)
  Users who have access to multiple Blue10 environments will enter a page where they can choose which Blue10 environment to enter after they’ve logged in on login.blue10.com. We’ve added a search bar underneath the heading ‘Choose a customer’ to simplify the process of finding the right environment.
• Prolonged session time from 15 to 30 minutes
  Due to security reasons, we chose to limit a session time in Blue10 to fifteen minutes at the start of 2021. Whenever a user wouldn’t be active in Blue10, this meant he or she would have to log in again. Based on some feedback we’ve received from our customers, we decided to prolong this timeframe to thirty minutes. Note: we could be shortening this session time again in the future since proper security measures are essential to us. In case we decide to do so, we’ll let you know in advance.

 AFAS

• Added matching axis 4 and 5
  We’ve added three specification axes to our connection, allowing you to work with five axes in total. Go to Settings > Companies > specific company > Properties to activate additional specification axes in your Validation step in Blue10.
• Link Blue10 to various endpoints
  From now on, it’s possible to establish a connection with multiple endpoints in combination with AFAS. This means you can add a link to your test environment as well as a link to your production environment. To do so, please go to Settings > Companies in Blue10 and add various endpoints in the OTAP street.
• Create transit booking
  With an accrual entry, costs are spread over several periods to which these costs relate.

Visma.net

• Sync payment date from Visma.net
  Blue10 now also synchronizes the payment date from Visma.net. This transfers the payment date after paying an invoice. You can see this date on the document detail page at the top left of all invoice header data.

 Exact Online

• Use of exchange rates from other administrations
  Previously, we were only able to use exchange rates from the selected administration when posting an invoice. This meant all exchange rates had to be up-to-date in every administration. Exact Online has made it possible to use exchange rates from a different administration as well. As a result, you won’t have to keep track of all exchange rates in every administration in Exact Online.
• Automatically linking articles to a supplier
  Previously, we were unable to post an invoice on a particular article if this article wasn’t linked to the relevant supplier in Exact Online. Instead, the last action on the invoice was cancelled in Blue10, and you had to manually connect the article to the supplier in Exact Online first.We’ve found a solution to this issue. Whenever an article is not linked to a particular supplier yet, Blue10 will automatically connect the article to the specific supplier on which the invoice is posted. You will no longer have change anything manually.

Fixed bugs

• Routes based on type: credit or debit
  If you’ve ever tried to create a route based on the invoice type (debit or credit), you might’ve noticed this setting was ignored. This issue has been resolved; invoice type can now be used as a valid characteristic for a route.
• Spam mail in Blue10
  Whenever an e-mail with attachments enters Blue10, we’ll check its spam score. If the score is high, the e-mail will not enter Blue10 directly. Instead, we’ll perform an extra check-up on the e-mail. For the past three weeks, these e-mails were stuck instead of checked. After fixing this problem, all of these e-mails were checked and are now available as documents in Blue10.

New functionalities

• Taking foreign currency into account when using an approval limit
  From now on, we’re synchronizing exchange rates from Visma.net to Blue10. As a result, we’re able to take foreign currency into account when using an approval limit for your users in Blue10. For example, an approval limit set at €1000,- means Blue10 will now calculate back to €1000,- when you’re processing invoices in foreign currency.

Business Central

• Invoice registration available
  Previously, after Validation in Blue10 were only registered as a header in Business Central. This meant the VAT would not be included. Purchase invoices had to be posted to reclaim the VAT successfully.
  Now, invoice registration allows you to register the VAT entry at a VAT group level. Note: Blue10 will not change the supplier entry. You’ll be able to do this during the coding and posting step.

Fixed bugs

• Using the ‘Reply’ action
  Between April 2 and April 14, our users were unable to select the action ‘Reply’ to the previous user. Instead, they would see their own name, and they were unable to change this. We’ve solved this issue for all invoices users received after April 14.
  Workaround: all invoices where you still see your own name when you select ‘Reply’ can be processed by taking the following steps. Select ‘Send’ and the user to whom you’d like to send the invoice. This way, the invoice will still end up at the desired user.

• Temporarily impossible to process e-mails with over 50 attachments
  We were temporarily unable to process e-mails with over 50 attachments. The sender would receive an empty reply e-mail, which made it unclear if the e-mail was received successfully. We’ve taken two measures to resolve this issue:
  1. We’ve increased the number of attachments Blue10 can receive in one e-mail from 50 to 150.
  2. Whenever someone sends an e-mail with more than 150 attachments, the sender will receive an automatically generated e-mail containing an error message and additional information.

Exact Globe

• Document type when posting in Exact Globe
  Before, we were unable to select the appropriate document type when you tried to post a credit invoice through Blue10 into Exact Globe. This issue has been fixed. All postings in Exact Globe now include the appropriate document type: purchase invoice, sales invoice, purchase credit invoice, or sales credit invoice.

New functionalities

Unit4 Multivers (Web API)

• Using deferred costs
  Deferred costs allow you to divide costs over several accounting periods. Read more? Click here .

New functionalities

• Blue10 redesigned interface available
  Initially, we’ll migrate users with the roles ‘Check’ and ‘Approve for payment’ to our new interface. In the following months, we’ll migrate users with the role ‘Post’ as well. Curious to find out more about our new interface? Read more here .

Exact Online

• Activate settings (such as code on ..) per company
  Blue10 and Exact Online need to communicate in order to process and post invoices. The ‘Connect Exact Online’ button activates this connection. Blue10 will automatically read all settings in Exact Online and activate certain features in Blue10. Coding on cost centres or quantity, for example.