what's new

Product updates

Week of Sep 22

2026
Reports

A clearer Tax report

See output tax and input tax side by side, grouped by tax rate or by month, with your net Tax Payable or Tax Credit at the top.

Reports

Balance Sheet snapshot

A simple, always-balancing view of what your business owns and owes, exportable to PDF.

Reports

Expenses, grouped your way

Group spend by supplier, category or client, drill into any group, and export the report.

Expenses

Suppliers are now a real list

Add a supplier once and reuse it on every expense, and see how much you spend with each one.

Invoicing

Recurring invoices you can trust

If a scheduled invoice does not send, it now retries and alerts you, so nothing quietly slips.

Week of Sep 15

2026
Integrations

QuickBooks Online

Connect QuickBooks and push your invoices and expenses straight to your books, on the Professional plan.

Integrations

Report a sync issue in one click

Flag an accounting sync problem directly from the Xero or QuickBooks page, screenshot and all.

Week of Sep 8

2026
Invoicing

Scan a paper invoice

Turn a photo or PDF of an invoice or estimate into a Billbooks document, paid with prepaid scan credits.

Week of Sep 1

2026
Integrations

Xero

Connect Xero and push your invoices and expenses to your accounting, so your books stay in step.

Integrations

A new Integrations page

Clear connector cards make it obvious what you can connect and where you already have.

Week of Aug 25

2026
Documents

Redesigned customer emails

Your invoices, estimates and proformas send a cleaner, mobile-first email, now in five languages.

Documents

A cleaner document for your customer

The web view your customer opens was rebuilt across invoices, estimates, proformas and packing slips.

Invoicing

Focus mode for editing

A full-screen editor for creating and editing invoices and estimates, with fewer distractions.

Documents

Friendlier email templates

A formatting helper and clearer placeholders when you customise the emails your customers receive.

Week of Aug 18

2026
Invoicing

Credit notes

Create, view and download credit notes, with lock and transmitted controls for clean records.

Integrations

Public API and Zapier

A REST API for invoices, estimates, clients, items and expenses, plus a Zapier app to wire it up.

Reports

Richer tax details on documents

Tax category codes, separate VAT and legal ID fields, and units of measure on your line items.

Week of Aug 11

2026
Expenses

Reconcile, refined

Statement parsing from PDF as well as CSV, with a cleaner screen for matching payments to invoices.

Week of Aug 4

2026
Scheduler

A rebuilt Scheduler

Set up recurring work with Google Calendar sync and a calendar feed, and generate the invoices automatically.

Expenses

Bank reconciliation

Import a statement as CSV, OFX, QFX or PDF and match the payments to your invoices.

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