Dynamics 365 Business Central: Copilot and agents - Improve purchase order matching in Payables Agent
Summary
This feature improves PO matching quality in Payables Agent and aligns draft finalization behavior with existing posting controls.
The agent uses an enriched PO Lines list page during matching that includes these fields:
Line Amount — enables matching on value, not just description and quantity. This field is especially valuable for service lines where quantity (often just 1) isn't a meaningful discriminator.
Expected Receipt Date — helps the agent factor in timing when multiple PO lines could match.
By using these fields, the agent can more reliably distinguish between similar-looking PO lines, which improves accuracy in first-pass matches.
The agent now respects the app's Never block draft finalization setting in the Receipt on Invoice field on purchase orders. This change means the agent doesn't block draft finalization because a matched PO line isn't yet marked as received. Whether goods are received is a posting time control, not a draft time control. The "Receipt on Invoice" setting on the order governs this behavior at posting.
The "Receipt on Invoice" field is already available on purchase orders. With this release, we're expanding this setting to more entities:
A new vend…
- Status
- Launched
- General availability target
- Oct 2026
- Preview target
- Not published
- Products
- Dynamics 365 Business Central
- Clouds
- Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
- Release phases
- General Availability
- Platforms
- Web
- Added to the roadmap
- 30 Sep 2026
- Last changed
- 30 Sep 2026 · 1d ago