Configure validation rule severity
You cannot create new system validation rules, but you can override the severity of the rules that ship with Mod AI. This lets you match the rules to your company's tolerance for each kind of issue.
Who can do this
Administrators on the entity. The company:settings:manage permission is required.
What you can change
For each rule, you can set the severity to:
- error. The rule blocks the invoice. The invoice goes to Pending Validation until someone fixes it.
- warning. The rule still runs and surfaces as a notice on the invoice, but does not block it from continuing.
- info. The rule still runs and surfaces as informational. Useful for tracking patterns without acting on every result.
- disabled. The rule does not run.
The default severities are listed in the Validation Rules reference.
Override a rule's severity
A self-serve Validation rules settings page is not yet exposed in the in-app Settings nav (the current Company tier shows General, People, Groups, Roles & permissions, Approval policies — no validation entry). Today, your Mod AI implementation manager adjusts rule severity for you. Email support@usemod.ai or your implementation manager with the entity, the rule name (or the notice it produces), and the severity you want it set to (Error / Warning / Info / Disabled). When the self-serve page ships, this article will be updated with the in-app steps.
The change applies to new validation runs going forward. Existing invoices that already passed or failed under the old severity are not retroactively re-evaluated.
Examples of when to change severity
Loosen line-item three-way match
Three-way match defaults to warning. If your team relies heavily on three-way matching and wants every match failure to block the invoice, set the severity to error.
Disable duplicate detection on a specific entity
Most entities benefit from duplicate detection at error severity. If a specific entity (for example, a subsidiary that reuses invoice numbers across periods) generates many false-positive duplicates, set the severity to warning or info to keep the invoices flowing while still surfacing the matches.
Track price changes without acting
If you want to see how often price variance fires on a vendor without blocking invoices on it, set price-related rules to info. The notices still appear, you can audit them, and you can tighten later if you see real issues.
Re-evaluating after a severity change
Changes apply to new validation runs. To re-evaluate an existing invoice with the new severity, click Validate on the invoice. The current rule severity applies on the new run.
Audit
Severity changes are recorded in the entity's activity log: who changed which rule, when, from what severity, to what severity. Useful for audit when a downstream issue traces back to a configuration change.