Create Emburse Professional User Roles in NetSuite for the Emburse NetSuite Integration

As part of the Emburse NetSuite Integration, Employee or Vendor records from NetSuite sync to Emburse Professional to create or modify user records. One of the fields that syncs is the Emburse Professional Role field. Because this field is not native to NetSuite, an Emburse Professional administrator must create a custom role field in NetSuite and assign it to the users who should sync to Emburse Professional.

If your employees are not configured in NetSuite and you plan to export expense reports as Journal Entries, this articles can be skipped.

Step 1: Create a Custom List

Create a custom list in NetSuite that contains the four Emburse Professional user roles: Employee, Manager, Executive, and Accountant.

  1. Select Customization, then Lists, Records, & Fields, then Lists, then New.

NetSuite navigation path for creating a new custom list

  1. In the Name field, enter “Emburse Professional Role.” Enter a brief description, then enter the following values in the Values field:
  • Employee
  • Manager
  • Executive
  • Accountant

Custom list configuration for Emburse Professional Role values

  1. Select Save.

Step 2: Apply the Custom List to a New Entity Field

Create an Entity field to associate the custom role values with employees or vendors in NetSuite.

  1. Select Customization, then Lists, Records, & Fields, then Entity Fields, then New.

NetSuite Entity Fields menu with New option selected

  1. Enter the following information:
  • Label: Emburse Professional Role
  • Description: Enter a brief description
  • Type: Select List/Record
  • List/Record: Search for the “Emburse Professional Role” list created in Step 1
  1. On the Applies To tab, select the objects to which the field should apply.
  • If employees are entered as Employees in NetSuite, check the Employee box.
  • If employees are entered as Vendors in NetSuite, check the Vendor box.
  • If both Employee and Vendor records sync from NetSuite into Emburse Professional, select both options.

Applies To tab with Employee and Vendor options selected

  1. Select Save.

Step 3: Apply an Emburse Professional Role to Employees or Vendors in NetSuite

Assign an Emburse Professional role to each applicable employee or vendor in your NetSuite instance. The selected value syncs to Emburse Professional when the user record is created or updated.

  1. Select Lists, then Employees.

NetSuite Employees menu under Lists

If employees are entered as Vendors in NetSuite, go to Lists, then Relationships, then Vendors.

NetSuite Vendors page under Relationships

  1. Select Edit for the employee record you want to update.

Employee list with Edit option selected

  1. On the employee record, scroll to the Custom section to view the Emburse Professional Role dropdown field.

The selected value syncs to Emburse Professional when the user record is created or updated.

Emburse Professional Role dropdown field on an employee record

To learn more about Emburse Professional user roles and their permissions, see Emburse Professional User Roles .

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