We’re excited to announce two important enhancements to buyWays that will improve communication, collaboration, and efficiency for users handling procurement requests and approvals.
Discussion Threads Now Available on Direct Expenditure Form
As part of our continued effort to enhance collaboration within the procurement process, Discussion Threads have now been added to all Payment Request Forms, including Direct Expenditure, Enterprise Payment, Non-Supplier Payment Request and Existing Lease Payment Forms.
Why It Matters:
Internal conversations often happen outside the system, creating confusion or missed information. With this update, you can now hold threaded discussions directly on the form.
Key Features:
- Track message history and recipient notifications easily
- Start or reply to message threads within the form
- Tag and notify any active user
Simplified Approval Actions for Approvers
We’ve also enabled a new setting designed to reduce confusion for approvers.
What’s Changed:
Many users have found it unclear how to take action on documents – especially when needing to approve, edit, return, or reject. To streamline this process, we’ve turned on a permission that sets the default action in approval queues to “Approve”, making it easier and faster to act.
Highlights:
- Default action now pre-selects Approve/Complete Step and Show Next
- Action button “Assign to Myself” has been renamed to “Assign & Further Actions”
- This change simplifies the experience and minimizes missteps for approvers
Please reach out to cubuyWays@clemson.edu if you have any questions.
