New Releases
April 2025
17th April Bug Fix: Tagging in My Tasks We fixed an issue where users with the Permission Task Approver or Task Approver & Archive can once again use @ to tag users in Notes within Lightyear. 10th April Smart Extract+ When Auto Smart Extract is ...
March 2025
25th March Rounding Rows - Smallest Number of Lines We previously released an enhancement that allows users to double click either of the rounding bells to automatically add both the Tax and Total Rounding Rows at the same time. This further ...
February 2025
27th February Rounding Bells If you have used the Rounding Bell on the Tax or Total lines, you will be familiar with needing to add these separately, e.g., adding the Tax Rounding which will give you up to 2 lines, and then adding the Total Rounding ...
January 2025
Happy New Year from the Lightyear Team! ??? January 31st Smart Extract+ - Credit Notes Since the launch of our Smart Extract feature, we've been listening to your feedback to make it better. The first of these enhancements is a way to identify and ...
December 2024
18th December ? Smart Extract+ ? We're excited to announce the release of our enhanced Smart Extract feature which includes: Line Item Details: Extract product codes, descriptions, and multi-line details in real-time. Advanced Tax Handling: ...
November 2024
27th November Accountancy Software: Sage 300 - Tax Type on Export Sage 300 users can now select whether they want to export values to their CSV as Tax Exclusive or Tax Inclusive. Now, you will no longer need to manually edit the CSV file to make ...
October 2024
28th October Uploading Documents Crashing Browsers Due to a release with Google Chrome/Edge, users were experiencing issues uploading documents to Lightyear. We have made a slight adjustment on our side to allow these to upload successfully until a ...
September 2024
24th September Enhancement - Dashboards Our Dashboards have had a visual update! Check the before and after below to see the new style we're moving forward with. No data will have changed with this release, it is purely visual. 20th September ...
August 2024
29th August Purchase Orders: Create PO from Bill We have made two enhancements to the Create PO button when copying the data from a Bill/Credit Note to a Purchase Order If you only have one Delivery Address in your Company, this will default If you ...
July 2024
31st July Copy Email from Activity Within the Activity > Activity area, users will see an icon against the Name of the user. Clicking this icon will copy the address of the user doing an action, making it easier to contact them outside of Lightyear ...
June 2024
27th June Accountancy Software: Sage 300 - Decimal Place Calculations To reduce the number of discrepancies between Lightyear and the CSV file on export due to rounding logic, Lightyear will now display in 2 decimal places on the Line Amount and Tax ...
May 2024
21st May Accountancy Software: Sage Business Cloud - Quantity on Export To prevent rounding issues, we will now export the Quantity on a Bill/Credit Note - Line Item always as 1. The Unit Price and Line Amount will export the correct values in ...
April 2024
23rd April Bug Fixes: Accountancy Software Fixes Sage 300 - Scientific Notation on 0 Value Fields CSVs with '0' populating in fields will no longer populate with the scientific notation of 0E-8. They will instead show the correct value of 0 iplicit - ...
March 2024
28th March Bug Fixes: Purchase Orders The below issues within POs have now been resolved: Auto Order sending duplicate PDFs as email attachments to Suppliers POs being imported and mapped without using default coding on Suppliers - e.g. Accounts or ...
February 2024
15th February Australian Suppliers with Registered Company Names Moving forward, any Suppliers created that are automatically populating the Registered Company Name will truncate this field to 100 characters if the name is longer.
January 2024
23rd January Accountancy Software: iplicit - Rounding Accounts connected to iplicit will see their Unit Price, Amount and Tax Amount fields rounded to 2 decimal places to match the rounding logic that iplicit uses. This has been done in an attempt to ...
December 2023
21st December Accountancy Software: Netsuite - Supplier Names Users connected to Netsuite now have the option to choose how their Supplier Names are displayed in the Accountancy Supplier/Netsuite Supplier fields throughout Lightyear. By default, the ...
November 2023
24th November Additional Terms on Suppliers In your Suppliers, users will now see two new Terms to select. Once set, this will update the Due Date on any Bills put through Lightyear. If you need to set the Due Date to the last day of the month you ...
October 2023
26th October Accountancy Software: Sage Intacct - Partly Exempt If you use the Partly Exempt feature within Sage Intacct, you can now enable this within Lightyear! Head on over to your Accountancy Software Settings and enable the Do you use Partial ...
September 2023
29th September Accountancy Software: iplicit - Updates Following on from our recent API partnership with iplicit, we’ve made some updates and added some new functionality: Grouped Data - click here to find out how to Grouped Data works Auto Publish - ...
August 2023
17th August Accountancy Software: Other - Set Lightyear to 2 Decimal Places If your accountancy software requires bills and credit notes to be imported as 2 decimal places, Lightyear can now be customised to match. Head over to Accountancy Software ...
July 2023
27th July Accountancy/Inventory Software: Other - Templates If you have multiple Lightyear accounts, all using the same software under 'Other', reach out to our support team and ask them to Create a Template for you. Once created, you can select the ...
June 2023
29th June Product List Upload via CSV Enhancements have been made to the Product List upload to allow users to bulk upload some additional fields and their Inventory data via CSV. These are as follows: Never Populate Account - if you would like the ...
May 2023
25th May Suppliers Export CSV File Within the Manage Suppliers area, we have added some extra columns to the Export CSV File: Grouped Data: Y for Yes and N for No Auto Export: Y for Yes and N for No PO Supplier: Y for Yes and N for No Lightyear ...
April 2023
27th April Accountancy Software Enhancements We have reworded some naming conventions within Lightyear to better align the experience across Accountancy Softwares. GL Codes, Nominal Codes, Categories (on US Accounts) has been renamed to Chart of ...
March 2023
29th March Purchase Orders: Bulk Un-Match Users can now Unmatch PO/Bill lines in bulk from within the Matching modal. Using the checkboxes on the right-hand side of the screen, select the lines to be unmatched, and click the Bulk UnMatch button. For ...
February 2023
27th February Accountancy Software: Categories Some users were seeing the incorrect list of Categories from their Accountancy Software, whereas others were experiencing an issue where Tracking Categories were not exporting to Xero correctly. Both ...
January 2023
30th January Bug Fix: Accountancy Software - Sage Intacct: Attachments Some Sage Intacct users were seeing issues where they were unable to view the Attachment Folder list in their Accountancy Software Settings, which was then causing some attachment ...
December 2022
22nd December Accountancy Software: Supplier Cards - Character Limit Increase Users can now Create and Import Supplier Cards with up to 300 characters. Anything Imported that is longer than this will be truncated at 300 characters. Bug Fix: Archive ...
November 2022
30th November Accountancy Software: WCBS/PASS - Add URL to Export CSV Accounts connected to WCBS will see a new Accountancy Software Setting to add the Lightyear Doc URL to their export CSV, allowing them to import this into PASS. If you would like ...
October 2022
27th October Date Validation Within the Date fields in Lightyear, users will no longer be able to save a non-date. For example, in a Delivery Date, Invoice Date, Due Date, etc. field, the Date can only be saved when a valid date has been entered. ...
September 2022
23rd September Purchase Orders: Unvoid We have added the ability to Unvoid a PO that was previously Voided. To do so, head into Archive and find the PO you're looking for. Click Unvoid in Panel 2: Please Note: Only Admin users will have the ability ...
August 2022
25th August Archive & Reporting: Keyword Rules Reporting keeps getting better! If you run a Document Level report in the Archive that contains results where a keyword rule has been applied, Lightyear will now populate this on the CSV export file. ...
July 2022
29th July Enhancements: Panel 2 Appearance We recently made some changes to how Panel 2 looks in the Approvals Workflow, click here to view those changes. Users will see the following changes: Currency will no longer be displayed on each individual ...
June 2022
30th June Bug Fix: Departments Not Visible Fixes an issue where users, with the correct permissions, were not seeing Departments in Edit Supplier, thus preventing them from adding Suppliers to a department, and were unable to Filter accurately on ...
May 2022
31st May Enhancement: Bulk Actions in Approvals/Review Depending on how your Lightyear account is set up, you will now have the ability to Bulk Sign Off/Delete/Return to Processing in the Approvals/Review tabs. This will depend on if you use a Single ...
April 2022
29th April Accounting Software: Sage Intacct: Dimensions ? We have released the ability to sync Sage Intacct Dimensions into Lightyear. Users can select up to 2 Dimensions to be coded on Bills/Credit Notes and exported into Sage Intacct. For more ...
March 2022
30th March Bug Fix: Uploading Documents to Processing Some users were experiencing issues that prevented them from uploading documents directly into Processing. This was related to the file name, as some were not correctly named and were ...
February 2022
28th February Enhancement: Approval by Value Users can now add up to 8 Conditional Approval conditions in both the Bill Approvals Workflow and PO Workflow. This functions in the same way as 2 Conditional Approval conditions, but allows more users to ...
January 2022
26th January View Misc Ref in Panel 1 in Approvals Workflow/Archive While in the Approvals Workflow and Archive, users can now view the Misc Ref column by selecting this via the 3 dots in the top right. Similar to the other columns, click the header ...
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