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FreeAgent - Now with added Bills Tracking goodness!


Track Bills


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FreeAgent Update - Do More with Attachments

A few small improvements this week – we’ve also been busy laying the groundwork for some very cool stuff coming soon.

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FreeAgent and New UK Tax Codes

A minor addition overlooked in last week’s release Anjou release announcement was the ability to update an existing payroll with revised tax code.

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FreeAgent Update - Attach Receipts, Lock VAT Returns, and more...

What’s new in Release ‘Anjou’?

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FreeAgent Update - Pouilly-Fume, Ask an Expert, Going Solo Leeds

Here’s what’s new from FreeAgent Central this week:

‘Ask an Expert’ – in conjunction with Quay Accounting


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FreeAgent Update - Release Copertino


Here’s what’s new:


Gye cannie ‘One Accounting’ amang the FreeAgent-Friendly the noo!


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We’re happy to announce

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Timepost integration

FreeAgent now integrates with Timepost, a desktop time tracker available for both Windows and Mac.

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New invoice design from Elliot Jay Stocks

An exciting announcement today for those of you who like to send good-looking invoices: FreeAgent have commissioned Elliot Jay Stocks to create a new invoice design for our template gallery

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FreeAgent Update - Release Gattinara

Back from our Hols!

OK, so probably we should have let you know we we’re planning to take a short break from our normal release schedule.

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FreeAgent Update: Release Taurasi

This week we’ve been busy adding a couple of much-requested features to FreeAgent. Read on to find out more…

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FreeAgent Update: Release Botticino

This week we’ve added some further polish to our time tracking area, introduced some new accounting goodies, and Ed has been packing his bags. For a well-deserved holiday, that is.

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FreeAgent Update - Release Pollino

More industrial-strength accounting goodness this week, with the addition of support for Accounting Journal entries. And more besides. Read on.

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FreeAgent Update - Improved Depreciation and more...



The accounting engine under the hood of FreeAgent took another big step forward this week, with the introduction of a much better model for Depreciation.


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FreeAgent Update - Second Sales Tax! Inline Timeslip Edit! More!


This week brings the post-prandial relaxation of release ‘Vin Santo’.


Cantucci, anyone?


Universal Accounts: Second Sales Tax


We thought it was about time our Canadian cousins got a little attention.


We now support a second sales tax, s

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FreeAgent Update - Mini-P&L, More Friendliness


Yesterday we updated the FreeAgent software to Release ‘Montepulciano’.


Of course, we’d just as soon be relaxing with a glass of red wine by the hillside terrace pool in the rea

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FreeAgent Update - Release Barbaresco


Just few small changes this week, but we thought we’d let you know what’s coming up in the next month or so too.


Read on…



Altering an Invoice Write-off Date


Previously the date that the invoice was considered written-off, for accounting purposes,

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FreeAgent Update - Find a Friendly Accountant!

Getting Friendly

Ever since we launched FreeAgent last year, we’ve been receiving regular requests from users to help them find a better accountant.


We’ve spent a little while getting to know some of the best accounting practices in the UK, especially those who are focussed on freelancers, contractors an

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FreeAgent Update - Release Barolo


This Week


Hi there.

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FreeAgent Update - Release Frascati

This Week

Hi.

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FreeAgent Update - Release Côte de Beaune

What and Why?


It’s been a hive of activity here at FreeAgent Central Towers. Here’s why:


Beta Developers’ API

We’re finally exposing the first part of our beta Application Programming Interface with this release. If you don’t know what that means, relax.

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Creating your own custom invoices

One of the most requested features we’ve had of late is the ability to customise invoice templates. This has always been on our radar, but it’s a pretty busy radar at the minute and new features don’t always get implemented as quickly as we’d like.

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FreeAgent sponsoring the Highland Fling 2008

We’re pleased to announce that FreeAgent will, once again, be sponsoring the upcoming Highland Fling 2008 conference, to be held in Edinburgh on the 3rd of April.

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FreeAgent Update - Release Morgon

What We’re Up To


We’ve been busy building stuff under the covers this week, so just a few tweaks to report.

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FreeAgent Update - Release Fleurie

What’s in Fleurie?

Lots to tell you about this week, and even more great stuff to come.

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FreeAgent Update - Release Chablis

We just released ‘Chablis’, our latest version of FreeAgent.

Firstly, to our new Universal users: welcome! We’ve been
getting some great feedback over the last week since our launch
and we’re working really hard to make FreeAgent even better for you.

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FreeAgent Update - Release Pauillac

Our focus this week has been on getting a solid Universal release out the door.

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On 'The Register'

Last week, we gave a briefing to Dale Vile of analyst group Freeform Dynamics.

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FreeAgent Update - Release St Emilion

Here’s what we’ve improved this week:

Awaiting VAT Registration

We’ve improved the display of ‘Interim VAT’ invoices by adding a
VAT Registration Applied For’ message to the invoice and correcting
the way the items are displayed.

As before, once your VAT Registration details are updated, the

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FreeAgent Update - Release Margaux

Here’s what we’ve improved in this week’s update – ‘Margaux’:

Sensitive Data Encryption

We already take great pains to maintain the security of your data:

  • All data that is passed between your web browser and our FreeAgent servers is encrypted using the same technology as the online banks

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FreeAgent Update - Release Sauternes

A few small changes this week in Release ‘Sauternes’:

VAT on non-UK Invoices

FreeAgent now correctly handles VAT on invoices to non-UK clients.

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FreeAgent Update - Release Pomerol

Happy New Year!

Today we deployed the first of our weekly FreeAgent software updates for this year: Release ‘Pomerol’.

Here’s what we’ve changed:

New Settings Screens, Customizable Date Format

We’ve tidied up the way you setup your company details, dates and preferences – you now ac

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FreeAgent Update - Release 'Venezuelan Beaver Cheese'

Our last software update of 2007. We’ve come a long way, baby.

This is Release ‘Venezuelan Beaver Cheese’.

VAT Fuel Scale Charge

We’ve added support for the VAT Fuel Scale Charge.

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FreeAgent Update - Release Ricotta

Some small but welcome improvements to FreeAgent this week.

This is Release ‘Ricotta’ and, yes, we are finally running out of cheese names.

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FreeAgent Update - Release Dubliner

Here’s a brief update on what’s new with FreeAgent this week…

Handling Partner Discounts

We’re really excited to have our two initial partners on board – the Professional Contractors’ Group and Quay Accounting.

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FreeAgent Update - Release Paneer

Create Invoice from Timeslips by Date

Now you can also build an invoice from timeslips according to date: an invoice item is created for each date that you had timeslips entered, and the relevant task names are listed in each item.

Finding Projects in Lists

It’s now less painful to find the p

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FreeAgent Update - Release Mozzarella

Working out Simple Payroll

We hold our hands up: if you want to run your own payroll for you as a Director or for your employees, and your situation is remotely complex, you’ll need the services of an accountant or payroll service.

For most it’s pretty simple, though, and we’ve now added better support for

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FreeAgent Update - Release Gorgonzola

Lots to tell you about this week:

Totals for Assets and Liabilities on Home Page

By popular request, we now display a total value for the Asset and Liability boxes on the Home Page.

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FreeAgent Update - Release Saint Agur

Yet more improvements from the team at FreeAgent Central:


Waiting for VAT Registration



We now correctly handle the all-too-frequent situation where you're waiting for your VAT Registration to come
through.

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FreeAgent Update - Release Comte

New this week – internal changes and bug fixes, plus much-requested additions to support buying The Big Stuff.

Capital Purchases – New Asset List, Out-of-Pocket Asset Purchases

A little while back we introduced Capital Asset Purchase as an explanation type, and took account of
Depreciation (or at least

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FreeAgent Update - Release Leerdammer

A few small post-launch bug-fixes this week – lots going on under the covers again, though…

Rebilling Mileage with VAT

Previously, the numbers weren’t quite right when you rebilled mileage to a client if you are VAT-registered.

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Hey, FreeAgent Central!

It’s really important to us that we have a real and ongoing conversation with our users, so that we can make FreeAgent even better as time goes by.

For a while we’ve been looking for the best way to do this, and experimented internally with email, blogs, wikis, forums, you name it.

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Blast Off!

Blimey. We’re there.

We’ve been working on FreeAgent, from it’s early prototype days, for over a year now.

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FreeAgent Update - Release Gruyere

Last changes before our official UK launch! Quite a few changes behind the scenes (think of a graceful
swan and all that furious paddling going on under the water…).

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Interview with Ed on Podleaders

Tom Raferty, the brains behins the Thought Leader podcast, recently interviewed our CEO Ed Molyneux on FreeAgent and how we think we can help small businesses manage their finances better.

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FreeAgent Update - Release Dolcelatte

With just two weeks to go before our official launch we’ve been hard at work on the internals of FreeAgent, but we have found the time to make a small change to our vehicle mileage support.

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FreeAgent Launching 18th September

We’ve been super-busy over the last few months and had loads of great feedback from our Beta Testers, and we’re nearly ready to launch our service.

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FreeAgent Update: Release Roquefort

We’re building up the momentum towards our launch date (more on this in another post today) and there’s a lot of improvements in this week’s update. Check it out:

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FreeAgent Update: Release Red Leicester

More updates from the latest release of FreeAgent

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FreeAgent Update - Release Manchego

More new stuff and tweaks of the week.

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FreeAgent Update - Release Cheddar

Some quite large changes this week.

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FreeAgent Update: Double Gloucester

A few small changes this week:

Due Invoices on the Overview Page

Some of our beta testers send lots of invoices, so the list of due and overdue ones on the overview page can be very long.

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FreeAgent Update - Release Brie

This we we introduce our first support for uploading CSV statements from Cater Allen and Abbey Business, plus some small changes to Invoice Items and PAYE/NI calculations…

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FreeAgent Update: Camembert

This week’s updates allow you to send invoices via email from FreeAgent, and provide handling for tracking balances from initial debtors and creditors…

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FreeAgent Update: Cheshire

Here’s what we’ve been up to this week…

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FreeAgent Update: Wensleydale

The latest update to FreeAgent – ‘Wensleydale’ – fixes some bugs as well as adding some features our beta testers have requested in the past few weeks, including support for Director Loan Accounts and Credit Notes.

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FreeAgent Update: As Gouda As Gold

This week’s updates see improvements to Invoices, Timeslips and Mileage VAT Calcs.

Alas, the cheese puns have also started and are forecast to continue for some time.

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FreeAgent Update: Codename 'Edam'

Thanks loads to all of you for your feedback so far. More bug squishing has been going on, and we’re really starting to get a feel for what we need to get done before we launch publicly.

We’re now aiming at producing weekly releases of updates to FreeAgent from now onwards. The first is codenamed ‘Edam’...

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