Use Interpret or Transfer as Windows services

Use this procedure to enable and start or stop the use of Interpret or Transfer as Windows services as one of the steps to automate Interpret and Transfer.

Note that to use INVOICES services, in addition to the procedure below, Interpret and Transfer instances need to be created and enabled for use as services, and service jobs must be configured and enabled for each instance.

Two Windows services are created for INVOICES when it is installed:

Configure the INVOICES PM services user account with sufficient privileges to run INVOICES services

By default, the Local System account is used for Interpret and Transfer services. However, this account does not have the necessary privileges to connect to the other computers in your INVOICES installation (such as the one where your scanned images are stored).

Before INVOICES services can be enabled, they must be configured with an administrator account that has domain administrative privileges on all of the computers in the system where services are configured and run.

To start the use of Interpret or Transfer instances as Windows services:

  1. On the computer where the INVOICES services are to be configured, open the Control Panel, click System & Security > Administrative Tools, and double-click Services to change the Windows account for the service (network installations only).

  2. In the Services dialog, navigate to and right-click INVOICES PMService, and click Properties.

  3. On the Log On tab, click This account and enter the relevant administrator account information.

  4. If you set the service up to start automatically, be sure to use Automatic (Delayed start) as the Startup type on the General tab of the service's properties dialog to ensure there is enough time for Windows to provide access to necessary files and folders before the service starts.

Keep the following in mind when setting up the service:

Configure INVOICES PM Client services

The same domain administrative account needs to be configured for INVOICES PM Client services, in the same way as is described above for INVOICES PM service, on each computer where Interpret or Transfer instances are to be used as services.

Start or stop INVOICES services

To start or stop INVOICES services, in Manager, click Administration > Services > Start service or Stop service.

It is not enough to start the service to be able to use Interpret and Transfer as services. Instances of Interpret and Transfer need to be configured and enabled for use as services, and service jobs need to be configured and enabled for each instance.

Note that it may be necessary to run the Manager module using Run as administrator.

Troubleshooting Windows services

Automate Interpret and Transfer: Overview

View the services log

View all services configured in the system

Export and import service configurations

INVOICES Services web dashboard: Overview

Multi-processor support for Interpret