Lightyear Product Updates
Keep up to date with our latest releases 

Communication
Integrations
Inventory
Admin
App Enhancements
Purchase Orders
Coming Soon
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Learn about all our new feature enhancements and get an exciting sneak peak of Lightyear's upcoming Reimbursable Expenses.

APAC Webinar
Date: 8th August  |  Time: 10 am AEST
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EMEA Webinar
Date: 10th August  |  Time: 10 am BST

Product Update July 2023

Communication


Email Multiple Users

Send emails to up to 10 recipients at once and experience. This is useful when sending orders to suppliers, asking for missing bills when reconciling your statements or disputing a bill. It's 1 click communications for easier, quicker supplier management.

Integrations


iplicit Integration - Beta

Our API has released in a live beta, enabling you to connect Lightyear with iplicits' powerful accounting and reporting engine. Full details of this exciting new integration can be found here.

Inventory


Product List Enhancements

Now you can upload your POS Codes, Case Qtys and Case/Unit Types via CSV onto your Product Lists, both to create new or update existing information. Learn more

Admin


Bulk Delete Keyword Rules 

Say goodbye to spending hours manually deleting hundreds of keywords, now you can bulk select the keywords that need to be deleted within your keyword rules on each supplier. Learn more


Open Documents In A New Tab 

Get more information on your bills and purchase orders without being taken out of the archive- experience easier navigation within Lightyear. From the archive, you can now quickly open bills and purchase orders in a new tab or window by right clicking the bill # or PO number. Learn More

Panel 1 Page Totals 

Signed Off has a new page total! See the total value of documents in your Signed Off tab prior to exporting.

Single Sign On - Azure  & OKTA

Once added to your directory, sign in to Lightyear with one click via a dedicated URL. 
Please note: this is in Beta, and will soon become available to all users as a chargeable service. Learn more

Admin


Bulk Delete Keyword Rules 

Say goodbye to spending hours manually deleting hundreds of keywords, now you can bulk select the keywords that need to be deleted within your keyword rules on each supplier. Learn more


Open Documents In A New Tab 

Get more information on your bills and purchase orders without being taken out of the archive- experience easier navigation within Lightyear. From the archive, you can now quickly open bills and purchase orders in a new tab or window by right clicking the bill # or PO number. Learn More

Panel 1 Page Totals 

Signed Off has a new page total! See the total value of documents in your Signed Off tab prior to exporting.

Single Sign On - Azure  & OKTA

Once added to your directory, sign in to Lightyear with one click via a dedicated URL. 
Please note: this is in Beta, and will soon become available to all users as a chargeable service. Learn more

App Enhancements


Accessibility

We’re gradually making Lightyear more accessible- you may notice changes to fonts, text sizes, colours, button placement and more.

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Refresh Prompt For New Product Updates

Have you noticed an alert popping up with each new release? Refreshing Lightyear ensures you are always using the latest version. 

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Performance 

We’ve taken steps to improve overall performance including offloading traffic to a read replica database and introducing infinite scrolling to our filters within the approvals workflow. Learn more

Purchase Orders


Auto-Order PO's

Keep your purchase orders moving along smoothly by automatically sending your POs from the approved tab into the ordered tab, ready for 3-way matching. Learn more

Coming Soon


Reimbursable Expenses

We are excited to announce that we are developing Lightyear's Reimbursable Feature. From upload, to approval and export, your expenses will be flawlessly automated and streamlined within Lightyear. Take the survey to help make this feature the best it can be. We are still developing the feature and would to hear your valuable insights to help us shape this upcoming feature - Click here to submit your feedback


MYOB Advanced API

We’re excited to announce our upcoming API integration between MYOB Advanced. This will allow users to seamlessly feed their Lightyear data directly into MYOB Advanced.

Enhanced Notifications 

Get an update on the status of your PO and know that your order is en route! Bulk select notifications and mark as unread for ease of use.

Unread Notes

Clearly see when a document has a new note to read.


Copy text from PDF

Easily update documents by copying text from the PDF in panel 3

Mark As Inactive

Mark Chart of Account Codes, Categories, Tax Codes and Suppliers as inactive, hiding them from view when not neededThese can be unhidden with the click of the button. 


Multi Factor Authentication Enhancements

Users will be authenticated via a mobile app using an existing authenticator such as Google or Microsoft.


Netsuite Automation Enhancement

Sync back customers and jobs from Netsuite to further enhance automation.


Sage Intacct API

We're enhancing our API in a variety of ways due to your feedback. This includes partial exempt flag and additional supplier information


Customisable Inventory Checks

We've improved our inventory module by adding more automation, including auto-add line item bills and customisable validation checks.