In 2018, we've added more new features and improvements to FreshBooks so you can focus on running your business successfully. Release notes, also known as a changelog, are below for 2018.
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December
| Category | Changes and Updates | Details |
| Accounting | 🎉 Bank Reconciliation | Matching up your accounts with FreshBooks entries is now possible with bank reconciliation. |
| Invoices, Estimates, and Proposals | 🎉 Estonian Language | You can now select Estonian as an option for invoices, estimates and proposals. |
November
| Category | Changes and Updates | Details |
| Navigation | Reports, Accounting, and Other Income Navigation | Reports have been moved to its own section, Other Income is now under the Invoices section, and Chart of Accounts is now under a new section called Accounting, all to improve the navigation experience. |
| Accounting and My Team | 🎉 Accountants | You can now invite up to ten accountants to your business to help review your financial reports, manage your invoices, payments, expenses and more. |
| Accounting and Reports | 🎉 Balance Sheet Report | View your assets, liabilities and equities in the new Balance Sheet report. |
October
| Category | Changes and Updates | Details |
| Payments and Clients | Add Credit Cards on Client Profiles | You can now add credit cards directly into a client's profile with Advanced Payments. |
September
| Category | Changes and Updates | Details |
| Expenses and Bank Connections | Bank Connections Last Successful Import | A notification at the top of your list of expenses will display your last imported expenses from your bank connection. |
| Invoices and Expenses | Rebilling Expenses in Different Currencies | A pop-up will let you know if you are trying to rebill expenses on an invoice with a different currency. |
| Payments and Clients | Advanced Payments Saved Credit Cards on Client Profiles | With Advanced Payments, saved credit cards are now visible on the client's profile. |
| Payments and Invoices | Removing Credit Cards from Recurring Templates for Owners | Owners can now remove saved credit cards from recurring templates that are processing recurring payments. |
| Expenses and Bank Connections | Uncategorized Expenses Filter |
You can now use the search box in the Expenses section to filter by uncategorized expenses while organizing your expenses.
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August
| Category | Changes and Updates | Details |
| Invoices and Payments |
Bulk Add Payment Apply to All
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When adding payments in bulk, you can choose to apply the same information to all payments if needed.
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| Businesses | Business Deletion | If you've created additional businesses that you no longer need, you can now delete it after cancelling it. |
| Invoices and Payments | Bulk Add Date to all Payments | You can now apply the same date to all payments if needed when adding payments in bulk. |
| Accounting and Reports | Chart of Accounts Amounts Selectable | All amounts on the Chart of Accounts are now selectable so you can view where the totals come from. |
| Invoices, Estimates, and Proposals | 🎉 Norwegian Language | You can now select Norwegian as an option for invoices, estimates and proposals. |
| Other Income | 🎉 Other Income | Non-invoice income like online sales and ads can now be tracked by logging them as Other Income. |
July
| Category | Changes and Updates | Details |
| Accounting and Reports | 🎉 Accounting Reports | The Trial Balance report, General Ledger report and Chart of Accounts is now available on Plus and Premium plans. |
| Invoices | Bulk Download as PDFs | Multiple invoices can now be downloaded as separate PDF files. |
| Payments | 🎉 Advanced Payments | With Advanced Payments, you can now process credit card payments over phone or in person, as well as save credit card information for future invoices and recurring templates. |
| Mobile | Bulk Actions and Reference Field on Android and iOS | You can now add and view the Reference field on all invoices, as well as bulk delete, archive and mark as paid in the FreshBooks Mobile App for both Android and iOS. |
| Projects | Remove Employees and Contractors from Projects | You can now remove employees and contractors from projects they no longer need to work on. |
| Invoices and Payments | Bulk Add Payments | Adding payments to multiple invoices in one go is now possible with the Bulk Action button on a list of invoices. |
| Clients and Payments |
🎉 Client Saved Credit Cards
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Clients now have the option to save their credit card information while paying invoices.
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| Mobile |
Rebill Time Entries on Android
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Time entries can now be rebilled onto invoices in the FreshBooks Mobile App for Android. When making an invoice and adding items, the option to add unbilled time, if there are any, will appear.
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| Mobile |
Rebill Expenses on iOS
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Expenses can now be rebilled onto invoices on the FreshBooks Mobile App for iOS.
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June
| Category | Changes and Updates | Details |
| Invoices | View Deleted and Undelete Recurring Templates |
A deleted section is now available for any deleted recurring templates, and you can also undelete any recurring templates.
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| Estimates and Proposals | Email Notification for Accepted Estimate or Proposal | You'll now receive an email whenever a client accepts an estimate or proposal. |
| Dashboard | Unbilled Time Graph | An Unbilled Time graph has been added to the dashboard so you can easily view how much unbilled time you have per client, and quickly generate invoices for the time. |
| Invoices | Bulk Send By Email | You can now send multiple invoices by email at once. |
| Mobile | Archive Invoices and Add Tax Name and Tax Number on iOS | Invoices can now be archived, and you can add or view the Tax Name and Tax Number in business settings, if applicable, on the FreshBooks Mobile App for iOS. |
| Referrals | 🎉 Referral Program | Referring FreshBooks to others is now possible by sending an email, a FaceBook Message, a FaceBook post, or by copying your unique referral link. |
May
| Category | Changes and Updates | Details |
| Mobile | Late Fees and Reminders on iOS |
Enabling late fees and payment reminders is now possible on any invoice on the FreshBooks Mobile App for iOS.
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| Clients | 🎉 Import Clients from CSV | You can now add new clients in bulk by importing in with a CSV file. |
| Invoices | Modifying Items and Services on Invoices | Editing items and services on line items on invoices will no longer affect the original item or service. |
| Invoices, Estimates, and Proposals | Greek and Romanian Languages | Greek and Romanian are now options for invoices, estimates and proposals. |
| Navigation | Redesigned Apps and Integrations | The Apps and Integrations page in your account now displays featured apps alongside with any connected apps you have. |
| Mobile | Update Business on iOS | Update business details directly on the FreshBooks Mobile App for iOS. |
| Other Income | Other Income Autofill | The category now will autofill based on the source you enter, if it has been categorized previously before, saving you time. |
| Invoices and Projects | Bill for Flat Rate Projects | You can now bill for flat rate projects from an invoice. |
| Time Tracking | Mark Time as Unbilled | Now you can mark time as unbilled if you'd like to bill for it again, or if you've accidentally marked the wrong time as billed. |
| Mobile | Bulk Invoice Actions on iOS | Bulk Mark as Paid and Bulk Mark as Sent is now available on the FreshBooks Mobile App for iOS. |
| Invoices and Time Tracking | Items and Services Management | Items and Services can now be managed in one place, where you're able to update rates, taxes and more. |
| Invoices | Bulk Mark as Sent | You can now select multiple invoices and use the Actions button to mark them as sent in one go. |
| Mobile | Rebill Expenses on Android | Expenses can now be rebilled onto invoices in the FreshBooks Mobile App for Android. When making an invoice and adding items, the option to add unbilled expenses, if there are any, will appear. |
| Mobile | Rebill Time on iOS | You can now rebill your time entries on invoices using the FreshBooks Mobile App for iOS. When making an invoice and adding items, the option to add unbilled time, if there are any, will appear. |
April
| Category | Changes and Updates | Details |
| Expenses | 🎉 Import Expenses from CSV | Expenses can now be imported in bulk with the CSV file import option. |
| Mobile | Mobile Sign Up | You can now sign up for a FreshBooks account on the FreshBooks Mobile App directly. |
| Time Tracking | My Time Entries | Time entries has now been renamed to My Time Entries, and a green + button is now available to quickly log time outside of the timer. |
| Invoices, Estimates, and Proposals |
🎉 Danish and Swedish Languages
| Danish and Swedish are now options for invoices, estimates and proposals. |
| Expenses and Reports | Source Added to Expense List and Expense Report | Now it's easier to view which team member logged the expense under the Source column when viewing a list of expenses or the Expense report. |
| Dashboard |
Revenue Streams Dashboard Graph
| Now you can easily monitor your streams of revenue from both other income and your invoices using the Revenue Streams graph on your dashboard. |
| Other Income |
Sort for Other Income
| You can now select any header when viewing the list of other income entries to sort by that header. |
| Mobile |
Dashboard on iOS
| The FreshBooks Mobile App for iOS now has a dashboard view, making it easy to get a quick look at your business' outstanding invoices, profit and spending while on the go. |
| My Team |
New Team Member Invite Process
| When inviting a new team member, owners now have the option to select multiple projects for the employee to be added to when sending the invite. |
March
| Category | Changes and Updates | Details |
| Invoices, Estimates, and Proposals | 🎉 German, Italian and Portuguese Languages | German, Italian, and Portuguese are now added as options for invoices, estimates and proposals. |
| Expenses and Reports | 🎉 Cost of Goods Sold | Expenses and expense categories can now be marked as COGS, whether you rebill them onto an invoice or not. |
| Proposals | 🎉 E-Signatures | You can now request your clients' e-Signature before they accept a proposal before beginning work. |
| Other Income | 🎉 Other Income | Non-invoice income like online sales and ads can now be tracked by logging them as other income. |
February
| Category | Changes and Updates | Details |
| Mobile | Dashboard on Android |
A dashboard view has been added to the FreshBooks Mobile App for Android, making it easy to get a quick look at your business' outstanding invoices, profit and spending while on the go.
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| Invoices, Estimates, and Proposals | 🎉 Spanish and Dutch Languages | Spanish, Spanish (Latin America) and Dutch languages have now been added as options for invoices, estimates and proposals. |
| My Team | 🎉 Team Permissions | Add new team members as a admin, employee or contractor depending on which permissions you want to grant the team member. |
| Mobile | View Proposal Attachments on iOS |
You can now view attachments on existing proposals on the FreshBooks Mobile App for iOS.
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| Mobile | Payment Schedules on iOS |
Payment Schedules can now be set up from the FreshBooks Mobile App for iOS.
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| Mobile | Additional Push Notifications on iOS |
The FreshBooks Mobile App for iOS now has three additional push notifications. Now you can be notified when a client hasn't viewed an invoice, estimate or proposal in 7 days, when a client comments, and when an invoice becomes overdue.
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| Invoices | Reference Field | A Reference field has been added to the invoices and estimates templates so that you can include a purchase order (PO) number, project code, or any other 25 characters reference on your Invoices. |
| My Team | Billable Rates | Team members' rates can now be managed from the My Team page with the addition of a Billable Rate field. |
January
| Category | Changes and Updates | Details |
| Navigation | Switch Business |
Accounts that have 4 or more businesses now view the Switch Businesses button under My Business. Selecting this will reveal the full list of businesses to switch to.
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| My Team | Switch Team Member Role | You can now switch team member roles between employees and admins or vice versa. |
| Mobile | 🎉 Push Notifications on iOS |
Now you can turn on push notifications on the FreshBooks Mobile App for iOS to be alerted of important activity in your account. This includes unsuccessful payments, declined payments, estimate accepted and proposal accepted.
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