We provide many additional features covering a wide range of topics, and we are continually adding to this list. You can access these features free of charge in the form of config sets. Simply import them as XML files at the push of a button. For further information, see Key information about additional features.
Below, you can see the list of available features, including a short description and the key requirements. Clicking on a name of an additional feature brings you to the relevant page containing a detailed description and the download link to the relevant config set.
| Additional feature | Brief description | Version | Industries | Module |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Absence approvals |
As soon as a user enters an absence or changes an existing absence, the teamleader receives a notification and the absence is shown in the |
6.7.0.17 | All | HR |
| Absences overview |
In the HR root folder, this feature creates a folder called |
6.7.0.17 | All | HR |
| Activity notifications |
A notification with the title of the activity is created if certain prerequisites are met. If the person responsible for the activity is changed, the new person receives a notification and the notification for the former responsible person is deleted. |
6.7.0.7 | All | CRM |
| Address check (Germany) |
Enables you to query account addresses via an external service provider. This is useful for updating existing addresses, to automatically enter new addresses, or to check for duplicates and accounts without identification. |
6.8.0.20 | All | CRM |
| Audit Trail object history | This additional feature makes it possible to view the history of Vertec objects—from their creation through changes to their deletion—with a single click. It allows you to filter by classes and members and to narrow the view to a specific time period. | 6.8.0.20 | All | All |
| AML check | This additional feature assists you in the implementation of the requirements of the revised Anti-Money Laundering Act (AMLA) and serves as a guide to systematically and comprehensibly comply with the due diligence obligations. | 6.8.0.20 | Fiduciaries Law firms |
Project and Case Management |
| Basic scripts | This additional feature creates the following scripts in Vertec:
|
6.7.0.7 |
All |
All |
| BI measures for opportunities | Enables you to analyze and display the amount of the opportunities in chronological order. | 6.8.0.1 | All | Controlling & BI |
| BI Consultant KPIs | This additional feature is particularly useful for companies in the consulting industry. It allows the evaluation of fees and outlays from the perspective of the team and the customer. Additionally, comparisons between budgeted and actual values are drawn up for projects and phases. | 6.8.0.12 | Consultants |
Controlling & BI |
| BI Engineer KPIs | This additional feature is particularly useful for engineering companies. It allows the evaluation of fees and costs from the perspective of projects and project managers as well as working time analyses of employees. Additionally, comparisons between budgeted and actual values are drawn up for projects and phases. | 6.8.0.12 | Engineers | Controlling & BI |
| BI Fiduciary KPIs | This additional feature is particularly useful for fiduciary companies. It allows the evaluation of turnover, costs and workload in hours from the perspective of projects, employees according to their user role, and customers. Additionally, comparisons between budgeted and actual values are drawn up for projects and phases. | 6.8.0.12 | Fiduciaries | Controlling & BI |
| BI Financial KPIs | This additional feature is aimed at different user groups and supports the evaluation of basic financial indicators. It provides an overview of the company’s orders, turnover and costs. | 6.8.0.12 | All | Controlling & BI |
| BI Lawyer KPIs |
This additional feature is particularly useful for law firms that work with cases. It enables the evaluation and presentation of internal/external hours, productivity, billed services as well as sales and depreciation from the perspective of the employees. |
6.8.0.20 |
Law firms |
Controlling & BI |
| BI revenue share | Imports two BI measures for analyzing and displaying the revenue share of employees on their charged services. | 6.8.0.1 | All |
HR |
| BI turnover forecast from phase budgets |
Implements the two BI measures |
6.7.0.7 | Consultants Engineers IT Service Providers Software Vendors |
Sales Project and Case Management Controlling & BI |
| BI turnover forecast from Resource Planning | Implements the two BI measures planning difference and turnover forecast from Resource Planning, which creates a forecast of the expected turnover. |
6.7.0.7 | All | Controlling & BI Resource Planning |
| Case management CH |
Implements a standardized |
6.7.0.15 | Fiduciaries | Project and Case Management |
| Case participants | With this additional feature, case participations with different roles can be mapped, and additionally be evaluated in the conflict check. | 6.8.0.20 | Law firms | Project and Case Management |
| Charge internal entries |
Charges services on internal projects without the need to create a pro forma invoice. |
6.8.0.1 | All | Services & Expenses |
| Check presence time rules |
Implements configurable presence time rules for employees. Rule checks and any differences entered are directly shown by notifications and in evaluation lists. |
6.7.0.17 | All | HR |
| Conflict check |
Basic question in the day-to-day work of lawyers: Can a case be accepted or not? |
6.8.0.20 | Fiduciaries Law firms |
Project and Case Management |
| Controlling and BI root folder | Creates a starter set of subfolders composed of standardized BI views and measures from Vertec. The root folder helps users to get started with BI. | 6.8.0.20 | All | Controlling & BI |
| Compliance screening |
In addition to the person check in the KYC checks, this additional feature implements a compliance screening via the external platform |
6.8.0.1 | Consultants Fiduciaries Law firms |
CRM |
| Create invoice cancellations |
Simplifies |
6.8.0.1 | All | Invoicing |
| Creditor approvals | Implements a process for the approval of creditors. | 6.8.0.20 | All | Procurement & Purchases |
| CRM root folder |
Creates a set of |
6.8.0.20 | All | CRM |
| Deadline calculator | With this additional feature, due dates can be calculated taking into account statutory or judicial deadlines – both for Switzerland and Germany. | 6.8.0.1 | Fiduciaries Law firms |
CRM |
| Deadline monitor |
Creates Thanks to clearly arranged folders and calendar views, you can always keep an eye on them. |
6.8.0.1 | Law firms | Project and Case Management |
| DeepL translations | This additional feature enables the translation of service texts of open project entries (services, expenses, outlays) into the available languages of Vertec using DeepL. | 6.8.0.20 | All | Services & Expenses |
| Dunning |
Enables you to reproduce and manage the dunning process directly into Vertec. |
6.8.0.1 | All | Invoicing |
| E-invoice templates | Implements templates for e-invoices. | 6.8.0.20 | All | Invoicing |
| Event management |
Plans corporate events, simple management of leads, participants and cancellations, analysis and billing of events. |
6.8.0.20 | All | CRM |
| Freelancer management | Simplifies the management and billing of freelancers. | 6.8.0.20 | Consultants Engineers IT Service Providers Software Vendors |
HR Procurement & Purchases |
| Gender-neutral Vertec terms |
Displays German terms in Vertec in gender-neutral form (variant with gender asterix or colon). |
6.6.0.1 | All | HR |
| GetYourLawyer extension |
Adds the extension GetYourLawyer to Vertec. Services and expenses entered in Vertec are transferred to GetYourLawyer at the push of a button. |
6.6.0.1 | Law firms | Services & Expenses |
| HOAI |
Enables you to calculate, provides and bill |
6.8.0.1 | Engineers | Project and Case Management |
| HR root folder |
Creates a set of folders for |
6.8.0.20 | All | HR |
| iManage DMS Extension | This additional feature enables to manage documents in integration with iManage. | 6.8.0.20 | All | CRM |
| Import public holidays |
Registers the |
6.7.0.7 | All | HR |
| Invoice approvals | Enables you to track the invoice approval process. You can see who commented on, charged or approved an invoice, and on what date. | 6.8.0.20 | All | Invoicing |
| Invoice number DE |
Use this to |
6.7.0.7 | All | Invoicing |
| Invoicing root folder |
Creates a set of folders relating to |
6.7.0.17 | All | Invoicing |
| Invoice splitting |
Gives you the option to define |
6.8.0.20 | All | Invoicing |
| KYC (Know Your Customer) | Checks affiliated companies and persons when case is opened. | 6.8.0.20 | Consultants Fiduciaries Law firms |
CRM Project and Case Management |
| LEDES export |
Creates customer-specific LEDES templates and exports invoices in LEDES format. |
6.8.0.17 | Fiduciaries Law firms |
Invoicing |
| Legal fee schedule Austria | This additional feature provides access to the tariff positions of the Lawyers’ fee schedule act (RATG), which legally govern the compensation for legal services in Austria. These tariff positions can be assigned to services or saved as service types. This allows the services rendered to be fully recorded using either method. | 6.8.0.20 | Law firms | Project and Case Management |
| Licence Sales and Service Contracts |
This additional feature makes it possible to manage and charge the sale of software licenses and of service contracts, such as maintenance and support contracts, and to record their development. |
6.8.0.20 | Engineers IT Service Providers Software Vendors |
Procurement & Purchases |
| Monthly approvals | Implements a workflow for monthly approval of services, expenses, outlays and absences by users and their teamleaders. |
6.7.0.17 |
All |
Services & Expenses For outlays also Procurement & Purchases |
| Opportunities |
Activates the required link types and creates the folders needed to work with the Opportunities feature, which was introduced with Vertec 6.5. |
6.7.0.17 | All | Sales |
| Outlay approvals | Creates the Procurement root folder, including the folder structure, for the approval of outlays. | 6.8.0.1 | All |
Procurement & Purchases |
| Payment plans |
Creates and charges |
6.7.0.17 | All | Invoicing |
| Premium time allowances | This additional feature allows companies to easily define premium time allowances for work performed outside regular working hours. Special working times, such as shift, night, weekend, or holiday work, can be considered, and the premium time allowance is calculated automatically. | 6.8.0.20 |
All |
Services & Expenses |
| Procurement |
Additional feature for the procurement process with the Purchases module. Enables you to define procurement processes. |
6.7.0.17 |
All |
Procurement & Purchases |
| Project management root folder |
Creates a set of folders for |
6.7.0.17 | All | Project and Case Management |
| Project templates |
Creates a |
6.7.0.7 | All | Project and Case Management |
| Reimburseable expenses with attachments report |
Creates the report template |
6.7.0.7 | All | Services & Expenses HR |
| Rename Honorarnote to Rechnung | Additional feature for the use of the German term Rechnung instead of Honorarnote in the program jargon for cases. |
6.7.0.7 | All | Invoicing |
| Report dispatch |
Attach documents directly from Vertec to Outlook emails and create your own custom templates. |
6.7.0.15 | All | CRM |
| Repost downpayments | Enables you to transfer individual downpayments or all the downpayments of a project to other projects. | 6.8.0.20 | All | Invoicing |
| Resource Planning with user phase links |
Enables Resource Planning based on the allocation of users to phases (user-phase links). |
6.7.0.16 | All | Project and Case Management Resource Planning |
| RVG |
Enables you to import RVG files and to create RVG invoices. |
6.7.0.15 | Law firms | Invoicing Project and Case Management |
| Sales probabilities in Resource Planning |
Provides three utilization graphs for Resource Planning that factor in the |
6.7.0.16 | All | Sales Project and Case Management Resource Planning |
| Sales root folder |
Creates a set of folders for |
6.8.0.20 | All | Sales Project and Case Management |
| SIA 108 |
Provides an example of how to implement fee calculation for engineering services in the field of heating, ventilation, cooling and plumbing in accordance with SIA Standard 108. |
6.8.0.1 | Engineers | Project and Case Management |
| Settings folder structure |
Offers you the possibility to create the grouped folder structure in the Settings root folder, which was introduced with version 6.6. |
6.8.0.1 | All | All |
| Setting up invoice data |
For correct invoicing , various information is required in different places in Vertec. To facilitate this process, this additional feature implements a dialog, in which you can enter all the necessary informationand save it automatically in the correct location in Vertec. |
6.7.0.7 | All | Invoicing |
| Third-party money management |
Implements a folder structure for managing third-party money (incoming third-party monies which are not to be assigned to the assets of the respective law firm or lawyer). |
6.8.0.20 | Law firms | Project and Case Management |
| Travel expenses DE |
Enables companies in Germany to enter |
6.8.0.20 | All | HR |
| Vacation balance in days | In addition to the standard display in hours, this additional feature shows the values of the vacation credit and vacation balance according to the employment level in days. | 6.8.0.20 | All | HR |
| Vertec Health Check | This additional feature allows you to check your Vertec installation for security, performance and functionality. | 6.8.0.1 | All | All |
| ZIP code import |
Registers a script, which enables you to import the |
6.7.0.7 | All | CRM |