AccountRight 2019.1 is now available

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Need more options for saving time and getting paid faster? This release includes:

• Fully customisable invoice reminders.
  Now you have more choice and flexibility in how you remind your customers about their unpaid invoices. This update lets you change the text and frequency of the automated emails you send to customers.
• Let customers pay multiple invoices at once (coming soon).
  You can already send your customers a full list of their open invoices, but soon those customers will be able to pay multiple invoices at once.
• Automatically save invoices to your In Tray when you work with other MYOB users.
  If the business you’re working with also uses MYOB software, AccountRight can upload your invoices directly to both of your In Trays and auto-code them for you.
• Record sales in foreign currencies.
  We now support foreign sales, so the majority of businesses who work with foreign currencies can move online.
• Finding transactions is quicker and easier.
  The new filter row in the Find Transactions window makes transactions a snap by letting you narrow your search with powerful filters.

Plus speed enhancements, bug fixes, and other helpful improvements.

Get paid faster with more invoicing options
Customise the text and timing of your overdue invoice reminders 

Chasing customers for invoices can be a delicate and time-consuming task. Email reminders lets you send automatic reminders when an invoice is due, saving you time and helping you get paid faster.

This release gives you more control over when you want to send a reminder, and what that reminder says.
Want your reminders to be casual and friendly? Formal and serious? Or just the facts? You can edit the content to match your business style,

Maybe you want to give your customer a gentle reminder two days early, or a stern talking to when payment is a week late? The choice is yours.

Learn more about invoice reminders.

Keep customers accountable with unpaid invoice summaries

You can now email your customers a monthly summary of their unpaid invoices. From this email your customers can open a full list of their unpaid invoices and check when they’re due.

Coming soon - Let customers pay multiple invoices at once

Soon your customers will be able to open a list of their unpaid invoices and pay some or all of them at once.

If you have suppliers who use MYOB software, you’ll be able to do the same with your own unpaid invoices.

The list of unpaid invoices can be opened from either invoice reminder emails or unpaid invoice summaries, and customers will be able to be pay with Visa, Mastercard, AMEX or BPAY.

Save invoices to your In Tray when you work with other MYOB users.

If the business you’re working with also uses MYOB software, AccountRight can upload your invoices directly to both of your In Trays and auto-code them for you. Just open the invoice and click Link to MYOB. That invoice and all future invoices from the same business will be uploaded directly into your In Tray.

Powerful filtering in the Find Transactions window
Find transactions quickly and easily with the new filter row in the Account, Bill, and Invoice tabs of the Find Transactions window. Just click the filter row and start typing, and the rows will filter automatically.

Can’t remember the precise payee in the memo field? Use a keyword with an asterisk in front of it like *filter to find transactions from all businesses with that word in their name.

Know how much the transaction was worth? Specify a value or range. For example, type >25 to find transactions over $25, or hover over a column header and click the filter icon to set a range.

Looking for a transaction in a specific currency? Specify one or more currencies with the filter on the currency column.

Still too many results? Narrow your results by combining multiple filters at once.

Foreign sales and more multi-currency updates
Exporters can upgrade from AccountRight Classic (v19) If you have a business that exports items and services, we have big news! In 2019.1 you can record foreign sales and take foreign payments, so exporters who are still using AccountRight Classic (v19) can upgrade.

There are still a few unsupported features that could prevent you from being able to upgrade. This version doesn’t include support for GST on foreign transactions, foreign general journals, foreign credit cards and loans or foreign transactions with unsupported layouts (miscellaneous, time billing, or professional).

Learn more about upgrading from AccountRight Classic (v19) to 2019.1

Learn more about multi-currency and unsupported features

Multi-currency updates

Here’s what we’ve improved for foreign currency transactions:

Reporting

The Bank Reconciliation Report now displays the balances of foreign bank accounts and individual transactions in their specified foreign currency.

Rounding

We’ve improved the way AccountRight handles rounding differences due to exchange rate fluctuations. Any rounding offsets from foreign currency transaction payments or debit/credit note settlements will be automatically allocated to the currency gain/loss account.

Find Transactions

The Find Transactions window now shows foreign currency values in the Bill, Account and Invoice tabs.
Plus, we’ve added the filter row to all three tabs, so searching for foreign transactions is quicker and easier. See the Filtering in the Find Transactions window section above for more details.

Multi-currency limitations

With this release, you can show foreign values on quotes, orders, and invoices. But for now there are some important limitations to be aware of:

No online payments on foreign invoices

You can share foreign sales quotes, orders, and invoices online with your customers in their designated currency, but you can’t take online payments on these yet.

Invoices app only shows values in your local currency

Monetary values on foreign quotes, orders and invoices are only displayed in your local currency (AUD or NZD), not in your customer’s designated currency.

Emails from the MYOB Invoices app show the total in your local currency

When you email a foreign quote, order or invoice from the MYOB Invoices App, the body of the email will show the total local currency value (AUD or NZD), rather than the total foreign currency value. You’ll need to remove this manually before you send the email. This doesn’t happen when you send an email directly from AccountRight.

Invoice reminders show the total in your local currency

Emailed reminders will include the total local currency value (AUD or NZD) in the body of the email, rather than the foreign currency value.

Foreign invoices can’t be paid from the unpaid invoices list

The Pay now button is disabled for foreign invoices, and the values are shown in your local currency (AUD or NZD) rather than the customer’s designated foreign currency.

Statements show values in your local currency

Emailed and printed statements only show values in your local currency (AUD or NZD) rather than the customer’s designated foreign currency.

Buckle up - AccountRight just got faster
Summer days are long but your work days shouldn’t be. Our engineers have been hard at work sifting through the AccountRight code and speeding up the parts that need it most. If you work with large company files or transactions with a lot of lines, these fixes could take minutes off tasks that you do every day, multiple times a day. The numbers add up!

Here’s what we’ve sped up:

• Opening a company file
• Loading the Sales, Purchase, and Bank Registers
• Switching tabs in the Find Transactions window
• Converting a purchase order to a bill and creating a purchase order from a sales order •
• Importing received payments using the Import and Export assistant
• Refreshing the Reconcile Accounts window
• Recording invoices or bills when the preference to check for duplicate invoices or bills is enabled
• Recording a sale or order from a recurring transaction

Workflow improvements and bug fixes

As always, this release includes some smaller changes and improvements to keep AccountRight running smoothly.

Columns in the bank register are now sortable

Improvement: Click any column headaer in the Bank Register to sort by that column.

Tax Inclusive checkbox

Improvement: When you click the Split button in the Bank Register to open the Receive Money or Spend Money windows, the Tax Inclusive checkbox will remember the setting last you used.

Updating AccountRight for Server Edition users

Improvement: When AccountRight needs to be updated, the message includes a link to the different version installers. The Server Edition is now included in the list .

Printing and previewing purchase forms

Fix: In 2018.4 there was an issue that caused the Sales Amount fields on purchase forms to be blank when printed or print previewed. We’ve fixed this.

Price column printing incorrectly on sales and purchase forms

Fix: In the 2018.3 release a bug caused prices to only show 2 decimal places when printed on a sales or purchase form. Now prices will print up to 6 decimal places.

How to update

You'll be prompted to update when you open your company file over the next few days, or you can download the AccountRight PC Edition now (subscription required).

If you need a different version (Server Edition, MSI, or older versions), you can find it on our AccountRight downloads page.

Installation tips

• When installation is complete, you won’t see a confirmation message. You can restart AccountRight immediately after installing the update.
• Your company file won’t need upgrading, which means computers using 2018.4.1 can open your file (but you should still install this update on all computers).
• If you need the MSI installer (for example you have terminal server or roaming profile network setup), download it here (subscription required).
• If you need the Server Edition you can download it here (subscription required).
• If you have issues updating, see our troubleshooting guide.