Simple Communication
Comments, messages, and notifications around documents, settlements, and accounting work without searching for context in email.
Communication where context is created
In companies, finance decisions often spread across email, phone calls, and private messages. Someone approves a cost, someone asks the accountant a question, someone sends a corrected invoice, but a few weeks later it is hard to reconstruct what actually happened.
Altera keeps communication where the context is created: next to documents, processes, notifications, and settlements. A conversation is no longer detached from the invoice, export, or task it belongs to.
<PHOTO: comments and messages in expense invoice details>
Context attached to documents
Comments, approvals, and change history stay with the document. When someone returns to an invoice later, they see not only accounting data, but also decisions, questions, and answers related to it.
This prevents the common situation where invoice data is in one email, the decision is in another, and the final agreement lives in a conversation with someone who is currently unavailable.
Notification center
The bell in the app groups system notifications, new messages, ready exports, settlement updates, news, and FAQ access. Users do not have to check several places to see what needs attention.
<PHOTO: notification center with messages, exports, and system notifications>
Notification preferences
Each user can decide which notification types should arrive in the app and which should also be sent by email. This reduces noise while keeping important items visible.
The owner, manager, person describing costs, and accountant can work in the same system with different notification intensity.
For teams and accounting
The value is highest when owners, finance teams, managers, cost owners, and accountants all participate in the process. Everyone works with the same context instead of rebuilding decisions from correspondence.
Communication in Altera does not replace the whole mailbox. It removes from email what belongs in the finance process: document questions, decisions, confirmations, and information about completed actions.
Want to see this feature on your workflow?
In a demo, we will walk through your documents, roles, and edge cases to show where automation can help first.