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We recently released several new features and improvements:
  • Client Organizers now available!
  • Free E-Signatures in Client Tasks
  • Window envelope-ready invoices
Client Organizers
Client Organizers are out of beta and available for all accounts! 🎉 A big thank you to everyone who helped us test.
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If you missed our beta announcement, organizers help you collect the answers and documents you need for tax prep without chasing clients. Build a reusable template with conditional logic so clients only see what applies to them, add it to any project, and let
Auto Reminders
do the follow-up for you. Ready to get started? Check out our help article!
Free E-Signatures in Client Tasks
Getting documents signed is now free and unlimited on every plan. 🙌
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Add a signature request to any
Client Task
, place the signature fields on your PDF, and send it along with the rest of the task list. Your client signs right in their portal, and the task completes itself once everyone has signed.
Additionally, we also offer Knowledge-Based Authentication (KBA) as an optional paid add-on to verify a signer's identity before they sign (available for US-based contacts). For more information, read our help article here!
Window Envelope-Ready Invoices
We redesigned the invoice PDF so your firm's address and your client's address show through a standard #10 double-window envelope.
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Just print, fold in thirds, and drop it in your envelope. We also made the amount due, due date, and
Pay online
link the most prominent part of the invoice, so your clients know exactly what they owe and how to pay.
We released a couple of new updates this past week:
  • Client Organizers, now available for beta testing
  • Links between invoices and proposals
Client Organizers [🧪Beta]
Our highly anticipated organizer feature is now available for beta testing access!
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With this feature, you'll be able to build reusable
Organizer
templates with conditional logic, add an organizer to any project, send it with automatic reminders, and get notified when your client submits it and when your team marks it verified.
Want to help us beta test?
Reach out to our support team by chat or email, and we'll enable the feature on your account. Run into a bug or have feedback? Let support know, we'd love to hear it!
Linked Invoices and Proposals
Now you can see exactly where an invoice came from.
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Invoices generated from a proposal now link back to that proposal right from the
Invoice Details
page. On the flip side, accepted proposals show links to the invoices they generated on the
Proposal Details
page, including every invoice created from a recurring schedule.
This makes it easier to understand which invoice is created from which proposal so that it's easier to locate related proposals + invoices.
We released several updates this past week:
  • Billing tools in the Financial Cents MCP
  • Bulk edit tasks on project templates
  • In-out times in
    Team Activity
Billing Tools in the Financial Cents MCP
Your AI assistant can access billing tools in Financial Cents!
Ask it to create, send, and follow up on proposals, or build invoices and then finalize, send, charge, or void them. It can also set up credit memos, discounts, tax codes, and service items, so you never have to leave the conversation. You can even have it upload files to your clients, projects, and
Client Tasks
.
The Financial Cents MCP is available on the Scale plan. Check out our MCP guide to get started.
Bulk Edit Tasks on Project Templates
You can now use bulk edit mode inside your
Project Templates
, just like you do in live projects!
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Select multiple tasks and update their
Budgeted Time
,
Role
, or
Due Date Constraints
all at once, instead of editing them one by one.
In-Out Times in
Team Activity
See exactly when your team was working today, right from
Team Activity
!
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When you click
View Details
for a team member in the
Team Activity
report, the
Today's Activity
window now shows an
IN-OUT TIME
column with each entry's start and end time. Running timers show when they started, followed by "Now" so that you can see exactly when your team member started the clock.
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FC MCP, Proposals Without a Payment Method, and More!

We released several new features and improvements this past week:
  • Financial Cents MCP - Initial Release
  • Send proposals without requesting a payment method
  • Failed payments in your
    Daily Payments Summary
    email
  • Add unbilled time to a paid invoice
  • Rename files from the file preview
  • Preview files from the
    Recent Documents
    widget
Financial Cents MCP
Bring your firm's data right into your favorite AI assistant! 🎉
Our new MCP (available to all Scale Plans) connects Financial Cents to Claude, ChatGPT, and other AI tools, so you can ask questions like "What's overdue this week?" or "Which invoices are still unpaid?" You can also take action, like logging time or creating tasks.
This is our first version, and we're actively adding more. If you don't see something you need yet, stay tuned! Check out our setup guide here to get connected.
Send Proposals Without Requesting a Payment Method
In the
Payments
step of a proposal, you can now choose whether to request a payment method.
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Selecting "Don't request a payment method" allows your clients to skip the payment step entirely, and also allows firms without an active merchant account to send proposals. This gives your firm more control over how your proposals are presented to clients!
Failed Payments in Your
Daily Payments Summary
Your
Daily Payments Summary
email now includes a section listing any payments that failed in the last 24 hours.
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That way, you can follow up with clients in a timely manner and avoid doing work you haven't yet been paid for. We only include payments that are still failed when the email sends, so successful retries won't show up as false alarms.
Add Unbilled Time to a Paid Invoice
You now have another tool to efficiently clean up your
Unbilled Report
.
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You can now select time entries on the
Unbilled Report
, click
Add to paid invoice
, and choose the invoice they belong to. The entries are linked to that invoice at $0.00 and removed from the report, so your records stay accurate without re-billing your client.
This makes it more efficient to clean up the report as you can clear time entries out all from one screen vs. having to navigate to each individual invoice.
Rename Files from the File Preview
As a small, polish improvement, you can now rename a file right from the file preview.
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Just hover over the file name at the top, click the pencil icon, and type the new name. This makes it easier to both see and then immediately rename your files.
Preview Files from
Recent Documents
Clicking a file in the
Recent Documents
widget on a client's
Dashboard
now opens the file previewer (whereas before, it downloaded the file).
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This makes it easy to quickly review, move, and manage tags on recent documents without having to download the file.
We released a new billing feature this past week: save variable billing rates by client! 🙌
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In the new
Roles and Services
section on a client's
Billing
tab, you can now save a role with a specific team member, service item, and rate, with the option to override the service item's rate for that client.
When that team member starts a timer for the client, we fill in the service item and rate automatically, meaning that your staff no longer needs to remember what service item or billing rate to choose for each client.
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If your team member has multiple roles on the same client, they'll have the option to choose
which
role they're currently tracking time as.
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As a heads up, you'll need both the
Manage Billing & Invoicing
and
Manage Billing Rate
permissions to view and manage
Roles and Services
.
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AI File Routing

This week, we released an AI tool to help with managing client files. Introducing: the AI File Routing agent! ✨
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When a client uploads a file to a
Client Task
, AI reads the file and that client's existing
Client Files
folders, then suggests the best folder for a copy. You can accept, edit, or reject each suggestion. If you'd prefer the tool to just automatically make the copy, you can swap to
Just Do It
on the
Settings > Manage AI Agents
page.
AI File Routing is available on all plans and is on by default in
Always Ask
for accounts with AI Agents enabled. If needed, you can adjust your AI settings anytime in
Settings > Manage AI Agents
.
This last week, we release the SharePoint integration, meaning you can now connect Financial Cents directly to your SharePoint!
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Once linked, files and folders in your
Client Files
sync automatically in both directions, so changes made in FC appear in SharePoint and changes made in SharePoint appear in FC. When you choose a folder, your SharePoint
Sites
are listed right alongside your drives, so you can drill into a site and pick exactly where a client's files live. Learn how it works here!
One thing to know before you start: someone with admin access to your SharePoint instance will need to grant consent on behalf of your organization.
We released several new features this past week:
  • Classes on Invoices
  • Bulk Sync to QuickBooks Online
  • Time Entry API
Classes on Invoices
You can now organize your invoices by Class, the same way you do in QuickBooks Online!
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Head to
Billing > Settings > Classes
to create and manage your Classes. From there, assign a Class to any invoice from the invoice slide-out, and that Class carries over when the invoice syncs to QuickBooks Online.
You can filter by Class on your
Invoices
list, the
Revenue Insights
report, and the
Payments
report, which now includes a Class column.
Please note:
Classes
won't appear unless you have that feature enabled via QuickBooks Online.
Bulk Sync to QuickBooks Online
Syncing invoices to QuickBooks Online can now be done in bulk!
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Select any number of invoices on your
Invoices
list, click
Sync to QuickBooks
, and we'll queue them all up at once. A confirmation message in the bottom right corner lets you know how many went through so you can spot anything that needs a second look. One note: draft invoices in your selection are skipped, since those sync automatically once they're sent.
Time Entry API
We also expanded our API so that you can now create, update, and delete time entries in Financial Cents. For more information, see our API documentation here!
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OneDrive Two-Way Sync, Credit Memos Report, and More!

We released several new features and improvements this past week:
  • Introducing: OneDrive Two-Way Sync 🎉
  • Credit Memos Report
  • Status Badges and Auto-Reminders in "Incomplete Client Tasks"
  • Calendar Pill Layout Update
  • Bringing Back Special Characters in File and Folder Names
OneDrive Two-Way Sync🎉
You can now connect Financial Cents directly to your OneDrive!
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Once linked, files and folders in your
Client Files
sync automatically in both directions, meaning changes made in FC appear in OneDrive, and changes made in OneDrive appear in FC. Learn how it works here!
Credit Memos Report
See every client who's holding unused credit with you, all in one place.
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The new
Credit Memos
report under
Reports
lists each client with at least one credit memo alongside their total unused credit, largest balances first. Click on
View details
to go straight to the client's
Invoices
tab for the full breakdown. Additionally, you can issue new credit right from the report using the
+ Create credit memo
button, making it easy to quickly add credit memos to a client.
Status Badges and Auto-Reminders in Incomplete Client Tasks
We added some additional information to the popover on the
Workflow > Projects
dashboard on the
Client Tasks
column!
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Now each section in the popover shows a
Sent
,
Scheduled
, or
Not Sent
badge, along with a bell icon indicating whether Auto-Reminders are on or off for that request. If a project has several client task requests, each section reflects its own status, so you can spot the one that never got sent without leaving the projects view.
Calendar Pill Layout Update
We've updated the layout on the project pills in the
Calendar View
of the
Workflow > Projects
page.
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Each pill shows the project name on the first line in bold with the client name below it in smaller text, so a long client name no longer pushes the project name out of view. Hovering over a pill expands it to reveal the full project and client names whenever either one is cut off so that you can quickly see the full text without having to click.
Bringing Back Special Characters in File and Folder Names
The
$
,
,
,
#
, and
&
characters are welcome in your file and folder names again. 🎉
We originally restricted them to meet the requirements of the OneDrive and Google Drive integrations. Now that those are built, we went back and did the work to reintroduce them, so you can name your files the way you actually want to. This applies to every firm, whether or not you use a cloud storage integration.
We released a couple of improvements this past week:
  • Control whether clients can create new chat topics
  • Item counts on MEC report links from the
    Tasks
    page
  • New attachments API
Client Portal "Create Topic" Controls
You can now control whether clients can start their own chat topics!
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Under
Settings > Company > Automations & Settings
, you have a new option to turn off
Allow clients to create new topics
. By disabling the option, client chat topics can
only
be created by your team members, giving your firm more control over topic creation (and thus which team members are assigned to each topic).
MEC Report Item Counts on the Tasks Page
We've extended the easy-access feature to Month End Close reports on the
Workflow > Tasks
page!
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All tasks with a linked Month End Close report now show the "View report (N)" link, like how they appear in the project itself. This makes it easy to act on the MEC reports and also know how much work is left on each task with a quick glance.
Attachments API
We also released a new API so that you can retrieve and download the files attached to your projects, team tasks, and client tasks, including files your clients uploaded through the portal. For more information, see our API documentation here!
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