Currently it is possible to press on "simulate posting" on the overview of the pending vendor invoices. This will validate the posting of the invoice against accounting policies and the accounting structure of the company even before the final posting is performed. This way the AP accountant knows what he/she needs to adapt.

However, as a consultant I see that this is often forgotten at my customers and thus the invoices go through the entire vendor invoice workflow. Only then to notice that the invoice cannot be posted as there are some fields missing. This means that the workflow is stopped and also creates confussion for approvers as this means that the invoice has to be recalled, adjusted and then resubmitted into the workflow.

So a great solution would be if a parameter can be enabled in the AP parameters, allowing that vendor invoices only can be submitted into a workflow if the "simulate posting" validation is without errors. The system should do this validation immediately and automatically at the moment a user presses on "submit".