FreshBooks is constantly being updated and improved to make running your business even easier so you have more time to focus on what you love. Release notes, also known as a changelog, are below for all of the new features and improvements that have been added in 2026.
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Last updated: April 20, 2026
Coming Soon
View some upcoming improvements coming out this year, as well as current features and improvements that may be available to some users for now:
| Category | Coming Soon | Details |
- | - | - |
In Beta - This feature is being tested on some accounts before it will be available to everyone else
Upcoming - This feature is not available in any accounts but will be in the near future
April
| Category | Changes and Updates | Details |
| Financial Services | Financing | A new Financing section is now available for eligible users looking to apply for flexible funding with YouLend. |
| Invoices, Estimates, and Proposals | Create a Client Update | New users that have not created a client yet can now select the Create a Client button on an invoice, estimate, or proposal. |
| Dashboard | Revenue by Client Graph | Quickly review which clients are generating the most revenue, populated from the Revenue by Client report. This replaces the Revenue Streams graph. |
| Accounting | Drag and Drop CSV File for Manual Bank Accounts | If you're importing transactions for the first time in bank rec for a manually connected account, you can now drag and drop a CSV file. |
March
| Category | Changes and Updates | Details |
| Accounting and Reports | Updated Trial Balance Report | The updated Trial Balance report now displays account balances as of a specific date and follows standard accounting treatment for fiscal-year closing and retained earnings. |
| Payroll | Change Employee Address or Work Location in Payroll | FreshBooks Payroll users can now update employees' home or office addresses with an effective date for the change. |
| Payments | Buy Now, Pay Later with Afterpay | For FreshBooks Payments powered by Stripe, you can now enable Buy Now, Pay Later with Afterpay to offer your clients flexible payment options. |
February
| Category | Changes and Updates | Details |
| Dashboard and Bank Connections | Bank Connections Widget for Plaid | Monitor your bank connections via Plaid with the new dashboard widget. |
| Invoices, Expenses, Accounting, Items and Services | Export Chart of Accounts, Expenses, Invoices, Items, and Services | You can now export the Chart of Accounts, expenses, invoices, items, and services as CSV files. |
January
| Category | Changes and Updates | Details |
| Navigation | Alert for Unsaved Changes | A confirmation dialog will now appear when attempting to close or refresh new and edit pages in FreshBooks with unsaved progress. |
| Payroll | Off-Cycle Payroll | FreshBooks Payroll users can now run off-cycle payroll including an off-cycle correction to fix a prior mistake, or an off-cycle bonus for one-time extra pay. |
| Accounting and Reports | Updated Reports | Additional filters and collapsible headers have been added for easier viewing of financial data to the Updated Balance Sheet, Updated General Ledger, Updated Profit and Loss, and Updated Revenue by Client reports. |
| Payroll | Import Time Tracking for Payroll Runs | FreshBooks Payroll users can now import time entries for hourly employees within the pay period when running regular payroll. |
