We have introduced a new Update an organization price plan (PATCH /v3/partner/organizations/{organization_id}/price-plan) endpoint.

When you onboard as a BILL partner, BILL works with you to set up price plans for the organizations you create. Your organizations can have up to 5 price plans. Each price plan is named in the PricePlanN format (PricePlan1 up to PricePlan5). Use this new endpoint to update the price plan for an existing organization.

See PATCH /v3/partner/organizations/{organizationId}/price-plan in the API reference for more information.

Features

  • We have added block spinners across all the widget screens wherever applicable. This ensures that the user is blocked from performing any UI actions while a widget screen is loading.
  • We have blocked all users from trying to access the BILL widgets in OFAC sanctioned countries. See Understand US Economic Sanctions in the BILL Help Center to learn more about OFAC sanctioned countries.

Use BILL webhooks to subscribe to and receive real time notifications for events, such as create a vendor, update a bill, or create a payment. When you get the events catalog and create subscriptions, set the required header values based on the events you want to subscribe to.

EventHeader values
Organization-level AP & AR eventsdevKey and sessionId
Partner-level AP & AR eventsappKey and sessionId
Spend & Expense eventsapiToken

Idempotency key and notification URL for creating subscriptions

In your Create a subscription (POST /v3/spend/subscriptions) request, the X-Idempotent-Key header value must be in the UUID4 format. In addition, you can use an online service for generating a test notificationUrl value. For example, webhook.site.

Helpful links

Features

Billing improvements

  • In the Add funding, Manage funding, and User verification widgets, the user can now set a default funding and billing account method right when the bank account is eligible.
  • In the Manage funding widget, we have added clarity by explaining that the default funding account method will be used for their monthly account billing and as the default payables account for vendor payments.
  • In the Add funding widget, the fundingAddSuccess event is emitted when the user successfully adds a new funding payment method. We have added the defaultBilling field to the bankData payload. This field is set as true if the bank account is set a default for billing and payments.
{
  bankData: {
    status: string;
    accountNumber: string;
    userVerificationRequired: boolean;
    id: string;
    nameOnAccount: string;
    defaultBilling: boolean;
  }
}

Miscellaneous

We have replaced overlay spinners with loading buttons across all the widget screens. This is a user experience improvement.

We have introduced a new feature for accepting or rejecting a Spend & Expense transaction in response to a 3D Secure challenge triggered to verify the identity of the cardholder.

New webhook for 3D Secure challenges

We have updated the webhooks events catalog to include the spend.three-ds-challenge.created event. Notifications are triggered for this event when a 3D Secure challenge is triggered for a Spend & Expense transaction. You can now set up subscriptions to receive notifications for the new event.

See Spend & Expense 3D Secure challenge notification payload for more information.

New v3 API endpoint for responding to 3D Secure challenges

We have a new API endpoint for responding to 3D Secure challenges for Spend & Expense transactions. With the Accept or reject a transaction (POST /v3/spend/transactions/{acsTransactionId}/3ds-challenge) request, you can respond to a webhook notification you receive when a 3D Secure challenge is generated for a transaction.

See POST /v3/spend/transactions/{acsTransactionId}/3ds-challenge in the API reference for more information.

In the Record AP payment endpoint, we have introduced the capability of adding vendor credits. In the Record AP payment (POST /v3/bills/record-payment) request, you can now add vendor credits in the vendorCredits object.

FieldDescription
idBILL-generated ID of the vendor credit applied to the bill payment. The value begins with vcr.
amountCredit amount

See POST /v3/bills/record-payment in the API reference for more information.

Features

New Add vendor widget

The Add vendor widget enables users to add and manage vendors in the organization. With saved vendor information and vendor bank account information, users can pay vendors and bills. Users can also add and manage international vendors with this widget.

The Add vendor widget provides a set of features.

Feature

Description

Vendor management

Add and manage (edit or delete) vendor information in the organization. This includes international vendors.

When a user enters vendor information, BILL searches the entire BILL network for the vendor and provides the list of vendors that match. When the user selects a vendor from the list of results, BILL saves the selected vendor in the organization. In addition, BILL automatically enables payments from the user to the vendor. Optionally, the user can manually add a vendor.

Vendor bank account management

When the user manually adds a new vendor, a vendor bank account is required for enabling electronic payments from the user to the vendor. The user can add a new vendor bank account information for a new vendor or for an existing vendor.

BILL takes up to 2 business days to verify the added vendor bank account before enabling payments to the vendor bank account.

Vendor search

The user can search for vendors from the list of vendors added in the organization. A set of filters are available in the widget for search.

In the bills API endpoints, we have introduced the purchaseOrderNumber field. You can now set this field as a purchase order number linked with the bill.

See POST /v3/bills in the API reference for more information.

Vendor notifications

The vendor webhook notifications now include the shortName field. This field is the vendor short name. When you receive notifications for the vendor.created, vendor.updated, vendor.archived, or vendor.restored events, the notifications now include the shortName field.

See Vendor notification payloads for more information.

Bill notifications

The bill webhook notifications now include the purchaseOrderNumber field. This field is the purchase order number linked with the bill. When you receive notifications for the bill.created, bill.updated, bill.archived, or bill.restored events, the notifications now include the purchaseOrderNumber field.

See Bill notification payloads for more information.