New Releases
July 2021
Grouping GL Data When exporting to your selected Accountancy Software, users now have the option to export the Grouped GL data used on the line items of an invoice. Rather than 500 line items split across 3 GL Codes, users can now group this ...
June 2021
Other: Transaction Type Identifier For accounts connected to 'Other' under Accountancy Software, you can now add a Transaction Type Identifier to your export mappings. Navigate to the Export Mappings page as normal, and on the right hand side of the ...
May 2021
Approval by Value Users now have the ability to set up conditional approval by amount i.e. if a bill is over a certain amount, User A needs to approve it. If a bill is over another amount, User A and B need to approve it. To switch this on, simply go ...
April 2021
Purchase Orders: Terms and Conditions Users can now upload a Terms and Conditions page to Lightyear. This will be added to each PO as an additional page. To upload this, go to your Company Settings > Purchase Orders > Form Customisation. You can ...
March 2021
Purchase Order Notifications for Approval Requests We have added the ability to approve Purchase Orders from the notifications panel in your profile. If you have been sent a PO task approval, you can now action this from your notifications. Here, I ...
February 2021
Purchase Order Approval Task Requests Introducing our latest feature update. Purchase Order Approval Tasks. Much like our invoice Approvals workflow, you can now send an approval task request directly to a specific user in your Lightyear profile for ...
December 2020
Purchase Orders - Pre-Populated Products We have now added the ability to populate the product code when creating a Purchase Order. This function will work according to the product codes that have been saved under the selected supplier. Here,s how it ...
November 2020
November 2020 releases November 27th Fuelsoft Export Enhancements Now, when exporting to Fuelsoft from Lightyear, you can choose one of two ways to have you description field populate in Fuelsoft. The GL line from the top of the invoice will auto ...
October 2020
October 2020 We have been extremely busy this month with updates and improvements. We are very proud to offer you Lightyears new PO feature. This feature is an excellent addition to the Lightyear system. You asked and we listened. Feel free to read ...
September 2020
25.09.2020 - Improved mapping capabilities Our mapping technology is constantly developing to allow us to provide you with the extracted data that you need. Previously we have been limited to extracting line item data that was presented across one ...
August 2020
28.8.20 - Introducing - Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) You can now choose to enable two-factor authentication for logging into your account by switching the setting on under your profile settings. This method uses your mobile phone as a secondary ...
July 2020
Negative lines resolved (for Xero users only) For those on Xero, there was an issue on bills with negative lines that were going in to Xero as positive values. This has now been resolved and negative lines are appearing as negative values again as ...
June 2020
The following are the releases, updates and new features added to Lightyear in June 2020 User Avatar in the Activity Section If a user has a Profile Picture uploaded on their Lightyear User Profile, we will now display the profile picture in the ...
May 2020
Release 21.5.2020 Billing Release We have released a large re-factor to our Billing mechanism. You will notice a slight change to the layout and content of your transaction log. This new layout will give us more flexibility when reporting your use ...
April 2020
Features and Updates April 2020 Release 30.4.2020 New First Time User Experience We have introduced a brand new experience for new customers. New Admin users will now be presented with an in-product setup walkthrough to help them quickly learn the ...
Important Security Update - February 2020
What's happening? We are upgrading our user-authentication mechanism - the part of our software that verifies your email address and password, and prevents unauthorised access to your account. As part of this process, we are also increasing the ...
February 2020
February Feature Releases 1st February Release Items New Map4Me experience Lightyear's data extraction technology offers a lot of flexibility. We can extract line items with product codes and quantities, Line items with just descriptions or just ...
January 2020
January Feature Releases New Year, New beginnings. We are delighted to roll into 2020 with another major feature release focused around further speed and performance enhancements for larger documents. Enhanced Image Viewer & Download Function We ...
December 2019
December Feature Releases The Holiday season is here and to kick it off we'd like to introduce our new Releases Notes format. Let us know what you think of our new look! We have some great new features for you with this release. Check them out right ...
November 2019
November Feature Releases Set accounting rules based on a unique keyword. We have expanded our Rules Automation engine to now allow users to set GL code and or Tracking categories based on a unique Keyword for the same supplier. This has been a much ...
October 2019
October Feature Releases Approve bills through the Mobile App You can now receive and action any bill tasks sent to you directly through the mobile app in the new Tasks section. Leave notes and approve/decline bill tasks at ease from your mobile ...
September 2019
September 10th Feature Releases Parent Dashboard Hot on the heels of our Single Company Dashboard (Released 6th September), we have today released our Parent Dashboard. If you're a user of more than one company, the Parent Dashboard will be your new ...
August 2019
August 22nd Feature Releases Auto Mapper - Map new suppliers in seconds! A few weeks ago we made some big improvements to the Find Map process which drastically reduced the time needed to find and apply a map that correctly extracts all your juicy ...
July 2019
July 18th Feature Release! Automatic Map Filtering Over the coming months we have a series of feature releases designed to make the process of extracting data from bills, receipts and statements even quicker and easier. Our first feature update is ...
June 2019
June 20th Feature Releases The ability to send Bill Tasks has existed for a while in Lightyear, and is one of our more popular features, allowing you to get approval to process a bill from another Lightyear user or someone externally. We've now ...
May 2019
May 23rd Feature Releases We'll now notify you of feature releases within the Lightyear app! Click the bell icon in the top right of the screen to get up to date information on the latest feature releases May 2nd Improvements We've brought back the ...
Changes to navigation within the app
We've made some big changes to the app to make the approval workflow, and overall site navigation, cleaner and easier. All the functionality you're used to is still there, but let's look at what's changed. Approval workflow tabs have been renamed ...
April 2019
April 11th Improvements Changes to how credit lines export for Sage 50 and Sage 200, making it easier to upload invoices with credit lines Minor improvements to how case quantities export when using the 'Other' Inventory export When connected to MYOB ...
March 2019
March 28th Improvements SAGE 50 Export Enhancements: You can now select to populate the 'details' field of the Sage 50 export with the Description of the Nominal Code applicable for that line. Added a free text 'Details' field to the Sage 50 ...
February 2019
February 27th Feature Releases Style changes across various forms within the app Improvements Improvements to the Sage 50 export. Lightyear will now split lines by GL and Tax Code as necessary upon export. February 22nd Improvements Bills for your ...
January 29th 2019 Style Changes
Lightyear has had a makeover! We've been working hard to implement some visual changes as well as some quality of life improvements to our 3 Panel Layout, guided by your feedback, to help improve how you view and manage your bills within ...
January 2019
January 31st Feature Releases ! Price Checker functionality has been added to the Disputed tab! You can now quickly see which products you have been overcharged from the Disputed Tab. Lightyear Gets personal! Users can now upload a photo to their ...
December 2018
December 24th Feature Releases Improved search functionality across the app. Users can now search by GL Codes, Jobs, Categories and Supplier Cards by code or description The Create Supplier modal can now be dragged around the window, making it easier ...
November 2018
November 29th Feature Releases Bulk Upload: For any users using an accounting software for which Lightyear creates an export, you can now easily upload your GL Codes, Supplier Cards, Tax Rates and Tracking Categories in bulk using a simple CSV file. ...
October 2018
October 25th - Statements ! Feature Releases Statements: This has been our number one requested feature over the past few months and we are delighted to announce the Statements Module is now live. Statements sent into Lightyear can now be cross ...