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New Updates

Jayme — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 23:59:32 +0000

We pushed a few new features this evening I wanted to tell you about:

1) We added support for “Default Terms” to be saved on the invoices screen. It now works the same as “Default Message For Customer” and will save for all future invoices.

2) Added a search in the menu bar on the customers and items page (like it is on the invoice page).

3) Increased the description on items from 75 characters to 120 characters.

Recurring Update and Bug/Usability Changes

Jayme — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 15:02:13 +0000

Recurring Update

Many of our users have requested that recurring invoices have the ability to be sent on a specific day of the month instead of just Every __ Day(s). We are happy to announce we have added this feature!

When you are creating a recurring invoice, you will notice a new text box that you can use instead of the Every __ Day(s) option:

You can enter any value (1-31) in this text box. Keep in mind that some months do not have 30-31 days, so it’s best to choose a day later in the month, such as 28, if you want recurring items to repeat at the end of the month.

The recurring dashboard will show you any recurring invoices you have created and their status:

Bugs and Usability Fixes

Products and Services are now sorted in alphabetical order and invoices are sorted by the date they were created (they were previously sorted by oldest unpaid). This is the new ‘default’ sort, you can always sort however you choose by clicking the column.

There was a bug with international addresses where if the State field was used but not the City field, it caused an unnecessary space on the invoice.

LiteAccounting has a New Look!

Mary — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 07:06:56 +0000

Come take a look at our new design and don’t be surprised when you login and things look a bit different. LiteAccounting is still the same simple and easy to use online invoicing solution, only prettier. Everything is where you left it, just a bit easier on the eyes. If you’re a current customer you may not have seen our homepage in awhile, so why not check out the new look now at liteaccounting.com!

Hope you all enjoy!

We have changes on the way!

Mary — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 23:55:07 +0000

This Saturday night (eastern standard time), February 12th, we will be changing servers. The site may not be accessible for just a few hours, then will be back up and running on our new Amazon EC2 server. Along with the server change, we will also be updating our look. We will be the same easy to use LiteAccounting, just a bit prettier. We apologize there may be downtime at all and hope to make it as fast and painless as possible. Feel free to email us at contact@liteaccounting.com with any questions or concerns.

New Feature: Default Message on Invoices!

Mary — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 20:24:44 +0000

We heard about all those finger cramps due to retyping invoice message after message and we have good news for all those tired hands. Default customer messages on invoices! Now when you type in a message for your customer (when editing or creating a new invoice) you can just select the little checkbox below it to save it as the default message for all future invoices. It will not override any of your messages on previously saved invoices. See the checkbox itself in the screeenshot below:

Your hands may rejoice, they have been reprieved!

New local phone number

Mary — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:22:37 +0000

Most of you use our 800# to contact us (which has stayed the same) so you would probably never notice this change, but for those of you who are local or non-US we have a new local phone number. We have updated our Contact page to show that our new number is 919.675.2988. As always we love hearing from you, so please don’t hesitate to give us a call or send a quick email with any questions or suggestions!

Who did that emailed invoice come from?

Mary — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 20:16:50 +0000

You! To make sure your customers know that, we now have the “From:” field default to your company name. You can also edit it (on the email invoice screen) and then it will default to your latest entry. How did we do it? Well, if you look at your emails closely, you will see a friendly name like “LiteAccounting” then the actual email address it came from like “” next to it.

So what you’re actually changing is the friendly name, the email will still technically be from which helps prevent it getting caught in spam and lets the customers know they can’t reply.

Another PDF Adjustment

Mary — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:13:52 +0000

After our last post, we received more PDF adjustment requests and we listened. We have reduced the size of the item lines so more product/services will fit on a page and they will automatically re-size if the extra space is needed. Check out the screen shots below :)

Small line items:

Large line items:

As you can see, if you have one larger item all the lines will re-size to match keeping them uniform.

Enjoy!

Some Tweaks

Mary — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:00:06 +0000

As you may know by now, we love to hear from our customers on how we can make LiteAccounting better. We may not be able to do everyone’s requests or sometimes they might just a take awhile to complete, but we are listening :) We have made a few tweaks per requests to the sizing of some areas on the invoice. We have extended the Bill To and Ship To boxes to allow longer Company names and we have also adjusted how the invoice pdf prints. The invoice now fits both letter and A4 paper without any printer adjustments like scaling or fit to page.

Please enjoy and keep up the feedback!

Security is Job #1 – SSL for All

Jayme — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:59:13 +0000

While building LiteAccounting we have worked to create the most safe and secure system possible. We take great care to make sure our database and servers are protected and secure, and we have always provided an SSL connection on all of our paid accounts. SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is a web technology that establishes an encrypted connection between your browser and our web server. It ensures that no-one can read or tamper with the data as it travels across the internet.

During a recent review we decided that security is so important to us that we are going to make SSL available to every account, even the free ones. What that means is that even if you only use the free account you can now be sure that your data is not only safe on our secure servers and databases, but that it is tamper proof as it goes over the wire.

As a business it normally isn’t in our interest to give away more features for free, but the idea that someone could read or tamper with any of our customers data was enough to make this an easy decision.

-James