Group of Companies (or GOC) is an Organization configuration, an ideal way of organizing your companies so that you can work from a single unified view instead of needing to switch between individual entities. Group of Companies requires all companies underneath it to have some uniform settings, such as:

One of the most important distinguishing features of Group of Companies, is that the AI will predict which Company an invoice belongs to. A variety of factors determine this prediction, which will improve with additional invoices processed.

There will be a confidence icon, with up to three different predictions made. If the Company predicted is incorrect, you can update it to the correct one if known, or the Group Leader if not. If you don't have access to the Company an invoice is changed to, you will not be able to further modify any values and it will disappear from your view upon a page refresh.

There is a shell company called the Group Leader. This company should not be used for posting, but instead used as a placeholder. For example, if a Company Prediction is incorrect, if the user is not able to identify the correct company, then switching it to the Group Leader is recommended so that exception handling can easily occur.
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Company Tags are ways to look at specific subsets of companies. This is done by attaching a Tag to a specific Company, or selection of them.
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This is commonly used to group together similar properties, allowing the creation of Custom Views, to power your workflow. The two most seen versions are:

For Group of Companies, Duplicate Detection requires an exact match on each of the following:

There is one additional Sort option:

There are some minor differences as well as additions.

Addition:

Differences:
All of these switch from searching for an exact match to an open-ended search. Very useful if you have multiple vendors with a similar name or a common prefix, search for all of them by using the common word.
Example: AT&T would return AT&T Atlanta, AT&T California, AT&T Chicago, etc.

Open-ended searches by the respective values added in.

If you’d like to search multiple terms, put a comma in between your queries to search “XXX or YYY”.

Splitting an invoice in Group Of Companies configuration will simply keep the invoice under the same company instead of making new predictions for a company.

Example: If you upload a PDF that is predicted for XYZFinancials, and then split it into 10 invoices, the AI will keep the original company prediction of XYZFinancials for these 10 invoices.

In order to Merge invoices, they must belong to the same Company. Additionally, the "view last 10 invoices" feature is not available.

Emailed invoices will flow into the email inbox set up for the Group Leader, and a Company prediction will be made.

To bypass Company predictions, an email inbox can be generated for a specific Company. If that Company Email Address is used, then that Company will be set as the Prediction.

Autonomous Approval Workflows (AAF) are still set at the individual Company level.
As an admin, switch between the company by using the dropdown just over Approval Flows in the left navigation.