FreeAgent Update - Better Banking

Posted on 03 March 2009 by Comments (6)

Bank Balance Graph

On the Banking page of your account you will now see a new graph displaying your bank balance over time. A draggable scroller beneath the graph lets you change the date range and there are also buttons to view the last 3 months, 6 months and 1 year of transactions. If you really want to get specific you can select a custom date range as well.

Bank Balance Chart

A mini version of this is also displayed on your Overview screen.

It's amazing that more online banks don't do this, as it's an invaluable way to analyse your account. We'll be adding more graphs to allow you to better understand and analyse your data in the coming releases, so stay tuned.

Upload any Attachments

Excel Icon We've improved the way that attachment uploads work so you can now upload files of any type, instead of just images and PDFs. This means if you need to attach a word document or excel spreadsheet to your expenses or bank account entires, you can now do this.

When you upload a file you won't see a preview but you will see an icon displaying the file type if it's a TXT, Word or Excel file. A 2MB size limit does apply to these files.

Auto-Complete Invoice Items

If you tend to create invoices with similar content, you've probably wished there was an easier way to reuse old invoice items. Well, wish no more because invoice items now support an auto-complete feature. This remembers your previous invoice items and suggests these as you begin typing a new one.

Invoice auto-complete If you often reuse the same item description, it should save you a heap of time.

But there's more

Also in this release:

  • We've relaxed the rules regarding Contacts so you can now add more than one Contact with the same Organisation name
  • We've added support for Rabobank CSV statement files
  • You can now use macros within the subject of an outgoing invoice email as well as the body
  • Improved support for company logo upload which now includes logos with transparency

Over to you...

Richard Frost, Tue March 03, 2009
Nice updates, only been using it a month or so but find it invaluable, taken so much pressure off day to day business "stuff". Keep up the good work!
Ben Bishop, Tue March 03, 2009
Great, more incremental updates, improving on an already excellent product.

Any news on the ability to quote and ultimately turn these into invoices? It would be the final piece in the jigsaw for me.
Anon, Tue March 03, 2009
The feature I need is being able to track client's subscriptions to our service. eg those about to expire.
Marc Bijl, Tue March 03, 2009
Simply brilliant!

Signed up only two days ago and knew immediately FreeAgent was the piece of software I was looking for. Then found out the import of Rabobank statements was not supported. Yet.

Sent the guys @ FreeAgent an enquiry and voilá, here it is: the import of Rabobank statements!

Works like a charm...
roan, Tue March 03, 2009
@Ben We're working on estimates as we speak. There's a discussion going on over on Get Satisfaction if you'd like to see our ideas so far:

http://getsatisfaction.com/freeagentcentral/topics/how_estimates_will_work

@Marc Glad it worked for you!
Last Edit: March 03, 2009, 21:29:43 by roan  
David Watson, Wed March 04, 2009
I have been installing and supporting ERP systems for years and have never found a product that is so feature rich and yet easy to use.

Great work

Regards

David
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