Now Assist for Accounts Payable Operations release notes

  • Release version: Store
  • Updated June 11, 2026
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    Summary of Now Assist for Accounts Payable Operations Release Notes

    Now Assist for Accounts Payable Operations (APO) is a ServiceNow application designed to streamline and enhance accounts payable processes using AI-driven capabilities. It helps AP teams handle invoice inquiries, case resolutions, and supplier communications more efficiently by automating workflows, improving data accuracy, and enabling natural language interactions.

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    Key Features

    • AI-Powered Invoice Inquiry Handling: Intelligent parsing and categorizing of emails to automatically create invoice inquiry cases, reducing manual effort.
    • Resolve Supplier Questions Workflow: AI agents autonomously analyze and propose resolutions for invoice inquiries, which AP users can review and accept, saving significant time for strategic tasks.
    • Sentiment Analysis: Added to invoice cases to detect the emotional tone of inquiries, aiding better case management.
    • GenAI Email Response Generation: Enables AP specialists to quickly compose context-aware email replies leveraging relevant invoice, approval, and payment data.
    • Text-to-Analytics Capability: Allows AP users to generate reports and visual analytics using natural language prompts, eliminating the need for technical reporting skills.
    • Multi-Record Summarization: Generative AI condenses multiple supplier records into a single, coherent summary for faster, confident decision-making.
    • Unified AI Search: Surfaces the most relevant records across multiple tables instantly, enhancing productivity.
    • AI-Recommended Invoice Owner: Automatically identifies and suggests the correct business owner for non-PO invoices, accelerating invoice processing.
    • Conversational Supplier Intake Flows: Provides automated, user-friendly query handling and request status updates via conversational interfaces.
    • Multi-Language Support: Invoice case summarization is available in multiple languages, facilitating global collaboration.
    • Flexible Large Language Model (LLM) Support: Customers can select preferred LLMs including Now LLM, Azure OpenAI, Google Gemini, and Anthropic Claude to align with their enterprise AI strategies.
    • Now Assist Panel Integration: Allows AP users to summarize invoice cases and interact with Now Assist without leaving their current workspace, enhancing workflow efficiency.
    • Security and Role Enhancements: Introduction of new requester roles for controlled access to GenAI-powered APO features, along with security improvements for invoice case summarization.

    Practical Benefits for ServiceNow Customers

    • Significantly reduces manual workload in handling invoice inquiries and supplier questions.
    • Improves accuracy and speed in invoice processing through AI-driven owner recommendations and automated field extraction.
    • Enhances user productivity by providing AI-assisted email responses, consolidated case views, and intuitive search capabilities.
    • Supports data-driven decision-making with easy-to-use analytics generated from natural language prompts.
    • Enables global teams to collaborate effectively with multi-language support and accessible AI features.
    • Offers flexibility to integrate preferred AI models, aligning with organizational AI governance and strategy.

    Version history for the Now Assist for Accounts Payable Operations (APO) application on the ServiceNow Store.

    Important:
    For details on system requirements and family compatibility, view the application listing on the ServiceNow Store website.

    Version history

    Version 8.0.0 - June 2026
    • New:
      • Leveraging Intent to Action Agentic Workflow for emails to be parsed and categorized as the correct intent to create a invoice inquiry case record.
      • Enhanced workflow to enable requesters to accept/reject the case resolution.
    Version 7.2.1 - May 2026
    Minor defect fixes
    Version 7.1.0 - April 2026
    Enhanced to support APO foundation and Prime apps
    Version 7.0.0 - March 2026
    • Sentiment analysis capability has been added to invoice cases to surface the emotional tone of the inquiry based on available case communication
    • Email response generation capability enables AP specialists and agents to quickly compose context‑aware emails from invoice cases using GenAI, leveraging relevant invoice, approval, and payment information to improve productivity.
    • Text‑to‑Analytics capability allows AP users to create reports, insights, and visual analytics on demand by using natural language prompts. This removes the need for technical reporting skills and speeds up data-driven decision-making.
    • New 3p model offering enablement
      • Small model track
        • OpenAI GPT-5 mini
        • Claude Haiku 4.5
        • Gemini 3.0 Flash
      • Large model track:
        • OpenAI GPT-5.2
        • Claude Sonnet 4.5
        • Gemini 3.0 Pro
    Version 6.0.1 - December 2025
    • New: "Recommend invoice owner" AI agent is created to automatically identify and recommend the right business owner for non-PO invoices, reducing manual effort and speeding up invoice processing.
    • Changed:
      • Enhanced "Resolve supplier questions" to auto-classify invoice inquiries and to enable AP help desk agents to view and accept resolution recommendation using the Now Assist Panel.
      • Summary Skill Migration to Now Assist Skill Kit (NASK)
    Version 5.5.0 - October 2025

    Optimized the Resolve Supplier Questions workflow by consolidating multiple AI agents and tools into a single agent with one unified tool, improving performance and reducing operational costs.

    Version 4.5.0 - October 2025
    Optimised the Resolve Supplier Questions workflow by consolidating multiple AI agents and tools into a single agent with one unified tool, improving performance and reducing operational costs.
    Version 1.5.0 - October 2025
    • Security-related changes implemented for invoice case summarization on Release Xanadu.
    • Apriel model capabilities adopted for invoice case summarization.
    Version 5.0.0 - September 2025
    • Resolve Supplier Questions:
      • Expanded Scope: The agent now includes payment-related information, enabling broader case coverage and more comprehensive responses.
      • Faster Activation: The trigger condition has been updated to assigned', ensuring the workflow activates immediately when a case is assigned no delays.
      • 3P Model Support: Compatibility has been extended to include the 3P model, offering greater flexibility across supplier engagement scenarios.
      • Field Extractor Skill: A new skill automatically extracts the invoice number from the email description and updates the reference field minimising manual effort and improving data accuracy.
    • GenAI-Powered Multi-Record Summarisation for SuppliersGet a complete supplier view at a glance. This feature uses generative AI to summarise multiple records into a single, coherent snapshot saving time, enabling confident decision-making, and reducing the risk of missing critical details. Compatibility has been extended to include the 3P model.
    • Unified AI Search with Genius ResultsSay goodbye to tedious searches. Unified AI search intelligently surfaces the most relevant records across multiple tables, helping users instantly find what they need and focus on higher-value work.
    Version 4.1.0 - September 2025 (Yokohama)
    • GenAI-Powered Multi-Record Summarisation for SuppliersGet a complete supplier view at a glance. This feature uses generative AI to summarise multiple records into a single, coherent snapshot saving time, enabling confident decision-making, and reducing the risk of missing critical details. Compatibility has been extended to include the 3P model.
    • Unified AI Search with Genius ResultsSay goodbye to tedious searches. Unified AI search intelligently surfaces the most relevant records across multiple tables, helping users instantly find what they need and focus on higher-value work.
    Version 4.0.0 - August 2025
    • Customers can now choose their preferred LLM for GenAI skills and agents, enabling better accuracy and alignment with enterprise AI strategies.
      • Supported LLMs: Now LLM, Azure OpenAI, Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude
      • Supported Skills: PO line mapping, Invoice case summarisation
    Version 3.0.1 - May 2025
    1. In additional to processing invoices and paying suppliers on time, Accounts payable teams are bogged down by loads of invoice inquiries. In this release, we are introducing an AI agent-powered workflow "Resolve supplier questions" designed to reduce manual effort in answering basic invoice inquiries. Once after invoice inquiry is received and assigned to a user, AI agents will work autonomously to understand the context of the inquiry and will propose a resolution, which can be reviewed and accepted by AP user. As a result, accounts payable team will be able to save significant amount of time that can be used to handle strategic initiatives.
    2. Now Assist Panel for summarization will allow fulfillers to summarize invoice cases and converse with Now Assist without needing to navigate away from their current work. The Now Assist Panel can be activated within in the navigation bar in the Platform experience. System administrators can enable this experience simply within the Now Assist Admin Console.
    3. Enhanced invoice case summarization feature with multi-language support powered by Now Assist. Summaries are now available in multiple languages beyond English, enabling broader accessibility and improved global collaboration.
    4. A new requester role is added to access Now Assist Accounts Payable Operations features powered by generative AI. Customers need to explicitly grant these roles to users for access to GenAI features and capabilities.
    5. Added new skill to allow AP users generate and view purchase order summary using Now Assist.
    Version 2.0.0 - February 2025
    New: Conversational intake flows for suppliers provide an easy, automated and faster way to get queries answered and request status updates.
    Version 1.0.1 - November 2024
    Now Assist for Accounts Payable Operations (APO) leverages the platform's Now Assist record summarization skill and enables the Accounts Payable team to view the summary of amount of work done and next steps that are needed to be performed on complex cases like invoice processing and invoice inquiry. Users can gain this insight without needing to navigate multiple screens or perform extra actions.